numtel

If hunting/gathering is play and since that's basically what all animals do, then the blog's title, "play makes us human" is totally incorrect. Of course other animals play, we've all seen it.

It seems the opposite: toil makes us human. Our inability to accept what can be foraged has pushed us into working.

I was wondering about new digestive capabilities recently and wrote this blurb:

https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db496...

If we could eat different things, we could give up agriculture and save a bunch of land and energy.

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Solidity, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Resume: http://latenightsketches.com/resume-benjamin-green.pdf or https://numtel.github.io/

Email: ben@latenightsketches.com

Hello, I'm a full stack developer interested in building EVM dApps. See my portfolio site for links to my previous work. I'm especially interested in projects using Proof of Personhood or Sybil resistance.

> When a user joins a platform, they are given 1,000 points.

The article doesn't go into how they would limit users from creating new accounts, (i.e. sybil resistance) which would be very important if you give out points like this.

> Every 10 minutes, the system slightly reallocates points.

The article author does not make any comparisons of their calculation to a reddit/hackernews style calculation, which already does has this kind of effect. See this article [0] or my Javascript implementation [1]

I made a reddit clone [2] that kind of follows this principal: Anyone can make a board which has its own ERC20 token. Upvoting/downvoting costs 1 token. Upvotes tokens are sent to the message author. Downvotes are burned. Moderators have the ability to mint new tokens. I figured these tokens could become valuable if there were lots of discussions in a board since it would induce a demand to moderate the board.

I also made a different site [3] that changes the decentralized moderation system so that instead of democratic upvotes, the message owner gets absolute discretion over the sorting of the replies they receive. I've put much more work into this one so it works much better.

[0] https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

[1] https://github.com/numtel/piece-chat/blob/main/src/component...

[2] https://glasshalf.chat/ (Optimism) or https://nonphysical.systems/ (Polygon Mumbai)

[3] https://clonk.me/

Right at the top of the list: octocat.

Good thing California is saving us from the sexual nature of GitHub's mascot.

Uh, our money does already expire. It's called inflation.

Again, that's for a validator node. If you're running a mirror that's not taking part in making new blocks, you don't need the speed, just enough space. It may not be always synced to the latest block but it should work.

I believe there's other requirements for BSC validators too, like staking a bunch of BNB.

It's not magic but it is a radically different pricing model: pay once, host forever.

I see it as a massive bet on storage prices continuing to decrease.

Anybody can spin up a mirror node, even on the mostly centralized BSC. This is just a misunderstanding.

Every public blockchain works this way afaik. I've even made a site for hosting webpages on Optimism: https://newgeocities.com

The real discussion imo is that blockchain node operators should be pressured to respond to concerns about unwanted content. There's no reason they can't coordinate on filters in the same way Ethereum validators use Flashbots to ignore Tornado Cash transactions. Although I hope they can find a better solution than blocking entire contracts because it's really nice to write a simple contract for data storage. Remember: a contract is a protocol, not a program. The validators follow the instructions but it's more like a database schema to which people submit conforming messages. As the contract creator, you're just publishing your code on chain. Each user takes responsibility for their own data.

Please tell my why this prompt is blocked by Bing's image creator then: "view from inside a shark's mouth as it hunts fish" but "view from inside a shark's mouth as it looks for fish" is fine.

A shark hunting is over the line but it can look for fish fine?

Exactly. I paid rent during the pandemic then afterwards, California paid landlords for any missed rent money but they did not reimburse renters who did pay. What a scam!

As a car driver without a cabin air filter, (are cabin air filters even effective against exhaust gases?) both diesel trucks and motorcycles require me to close my windows and vents because of the smell.

At least cars have smog equipment to reduce the emissions. Motorcycles mostly don't.

Before I graduated from college, my aunt gave me the book, The Artist's Way, which prescribes this basic task as you've described as the foundational exercise for creativity. The suggestion given was 3 pages a day no matter what.

You're asking about undercollatorized loans on chain? It's not a solved problem but there's progress. See this survey of approaches of loans on chain. [1]

Last year for the ETHOnline hackathon, I made an app that allows anyone to request a loan in any erc20 token with (optional) collateral in any set of erc20s. In addition, the borrower identity is used to increase confidence: a linked Lens profile and/or verified passport using Coinpassport. The principal is then crowdfunded. [2]

While making this, I learned that Aave was originally called ETHLend and followed a similar model of requesting individual loans but this approach makes it difficult to attract liquidity so when they developed over-collateralized pools, the protocol became much more popular.

It's going to take better identity tools than we currently have. Of course, undercollatorized lending is the basis of traditional banking so replicating it on chain is a massive win for the ecosystem.

There's a few projects working on credit scores on chain: Sprectral [3] and Cred protocol. See this article about using Cred protocol [4]

[1] https://jumpcrypto.com/writing/paradigms-for-on-chain-credit...

[2] https://ethglobal.com/showcase/lwned-75x0f

[3] https://www.spectral.finance/

[4] https://medium.com/chelo-finance/chelo-tech-guide-2-uncollat...

> concrete filled pipes

I believe the word you're looking for is 'bollard'.

For these kinds of things that don't take a ton of data, a blockchain is a great place to store them for a long time for one upfront fee.

7th largest?

Apparently at the time, the largest was the organ from the 1904 world's fair in St. louis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ

Wikipedia suggests it's a hydrogenotrophic bacteria.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods

Out of Berkeley, there's also Air Protein

https://www.airprotein.com/

How's it an investment if there's no liquidity? You can't sell your friendship on the market.

And don't reply with a link to that japanese guy who sells his time to hang out.

> In 2005, Congress decided that a new series of dollar coins should be minted to engage the public. These coins would bear the likeness of every former president, starting with George Washington. There would be a new one every quarter. So, far, the Mint has produced coins through the 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant.

Oh no, we're on course to make a coin with Trump's face on it.

> I still don't quite understand his weird obsession with population size

I don't know the author's reasoning since it's not included but IMO, a greater population is valuable because it means more ideas and more chances for diversity. (especially with the vast distances of space)

Of course, this reasoning and I'm pretty sure your views resonate with the famous Stephen J. Gould quote:

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

That is some opaque language to say, "it's too expensive to have kids and this may cause the end of technological progress."

My water heater stopped working a few weeks ago. I told ChatGPT what I was seeing and it told me which part to replace. I had never worked on a water heater before and fixing it was no problem with its instructions.

OTOH, I didn't realize until I got in there that there's only like 3 parts in a water heater so it wasn't as complicated as I imagined but I didn't have its breadth of knowledge.

History is considered to be since the invention of writing. (<10000 years) Anything before that is pre-history.

GOG has sc3k that works on modern hardware. Also, wine runs the original afaik.

Go back to the ancient world and they don't care about your magic steam engine because it uses too much resources? Make one gun and they'll want to get better at extracting resources quickly.

James C Scott chronicles in his various books about how most people do what they can to avoid top-down control. Before such weapons of coercion, it would have been much more difficult to enforce the hierarchies suggested by industrialization.

There's an obvious connection in your two 'random' words: hitting the edge of one's elbow is commonly referred to as the "funny bone."

With the code execution plugin, one could theoretically ask chatgpt to generate a salted hash of their answer at the start that's revealed at the end to prove it was correct.

Without any plugins, chatgpt will happily return sha hashes and salts when I asked it to play rock paper scissors this was. The only trouble was, the hashes were totally wrong.