mhluongo

Many of us want to more time with our children.

The "why" should be in the commit message. That's what it's for

My understanding was that that wasn't proven in the case, or part of the charges? Making it pretty messed up that it's what drove sentencing

Not a fan of over-financialization, but... if trading is propagating market signals to people who otherwise wouldn't have them, it should have some positive externalities?

You have that issue without cryptocurrencies as well, you'd just be relying on the kindness of users rather than crypto incentives.

You always need a way to hold nodes accountable in a system like this, or it'll be rife with manipulation — because there's already a strong, innate incentive to manipulate results. Today, we call that industry "SEO".

There was malware in the Snap store! This could've just as easily been a password manager and wiped out the guy's bank account.

Clearly you didn't RTFA. This mistake was on Canonical / is due to a lack of vetting in the Ubuntu app store.

Not sure anyone in the space believes that.

Rather, a common belief is that over a long time horizon, the debasement of USD will hurt buying power, and that BTC and friends will benefit from that.

Not such an oddball belief if you look at the change in the value of a dollar over the last century.

You're getting down voted for sounding partisan I suspect, but regardless of the politics, you're absolutely right. That bill was a huge change across the US tax system.

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Probably should default to "I don't know why someone would do that, but they probably have a good reason I can't think of" when we're discussing taking away their liberty.

Filecoin, the thing funding IPFS, certainly does :)

> Why do people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut?

FTFY.

Remember many on this site are partially responsible for the ad-ridden web and a proliferation of all sorts of spyware.

OTOH, we wouldn't skewer someone for charging for yet another toy SaaS and posting a Show HN, so... let's be a little more balanced.

Common example of recusal is CEO comp when the CEO is on the board.

Same thing. Parent comment doesn't make much sense though!

Kind of! But that state can also be a proof that a transition function is correct, rather than eg raw application state.

Look into Mina or Zcash to better understand what I mean. Off-chain clients (eg, wallets in Zcash) keep the application state, and the state committed to the chain is just the proof that the application state is following an agreed-upon state transition function.

Relying on hashing, computation proofs, etc are ways to asymmetrically enjoy the benefits of global coordination without requiring all nodes in the network to run the code. Instead, they just verify the receipts of off-chain agents who ran the code.

It's not true on any blockchain — Ethereum requires validators to actually run smart contract code, for example.

On-chain verification is the ideal though. On-chain computation is incredibly expensive and wasteful.

Both Dune [0] and Nansen [1] in the cryptocurrency data analytics space have high monthly price points. Note that Nansen still has a "Contact Sales" button with a $2k / month price — I imagine this follows the "always allow someone to pay you more" advice I've seen across HN over the years.

[0] - https://dune.com/pricing [1] - https://www.nansen.ai/plans

ZK cryptography is still relevant today, regardless of how you feel about cryptocurrencies.

I don't think cryptographers believe it's a "make believe concept", at least not the ones I know.

So is 90/10.

It also says "federated". Assuming that's actually the case, and that servers talk to eachother

Oh, in our case we're talking about local encryption at rest... resilient in case a phone is lost or physically compromised.

> Sure, but when someone says "your data is encrypted" usually that means it's going to a cloud server somewhere

This says a lot about the health of surveillance capitalism today, not gonna lie.

In states like Texas...? Like the article mentions, this data is sensitive and prosecutors are going after it. If your phone is in custody and doesn't have a strong passphrase, or uses touch ID... not great.

I agree open source and local-only are great! Defense in depth is ideal

A few of my tech guy friends have given this knee-jerk response. However...

Flo isn't. Clue isn't. Most apps women actually use aren't. HealthKit is cool, but we need apps that aren't sending data home *and* that solve common menstrual needs, and Apple's stuff barely scratches the surface.

Even worse than Facebook chats... the most popular period tracking apps can be mass surveilled, and at least one has been fined by the FTC for selling menstrual data.

My partner, a menstrual health advocate, decided to do something about it. She's launching a local-first, encrypted period tracking app later this summer [0].

We'd love feedback as the beta goes live!

[0] - https://embody.space

Needs a (2022)

Why? They have a fixed budget after all.

> Presumably the people who are actually any good at this are off running their own businesses etc.

Some of the good coaches are multi-exit former CEOs. They use coaching as a way to angel invest and still be involved in early companies.

I'm sure there are plenty of inexperienced coaches with poor results... but I know at least a handful that are great.

> people who get coaching maybe just don't talk about it openly?

Ding ding ding.

I'm sure there are plenty of scammers and generic self help people, but a good exec coach is invaluable. You can get help and feedback on things as a CEO that are really difficult to get from your own company, leadership team, or investors — because the coach works for you, and the explicit goal is to make you better. Think how to better manage, how to raise, dealing with personality issues, org structure and pivots.

Try doing that with your board or investors (what if they think I'm bad at my job and fire me, or don't invest in my next round?) or your team (what if they lose faith in me?). A confident, experienced leader might not need this sort of help, but I highly recommend it for newly funded startup CEOs past 5 people.

"Buy the rumor, sell the news"

El Salvador is a clear counter example.

I can certainly imagine why a country with a history of poorly managing their own currency (and that for whatever reason doesn't want to be aligned to USD) might choose to use a more "neutral" fixed supply currency.