numtel

IMO, governments should provide a service for linking identity to cryptocurrency account addresses. Let me present my passport and link my account using a web service or at the post office.

This way, DeFi protocols don't have to worry about anything to be compliant and if the government provides an attribute on-chain, it can be used to build democratic DAOs with "One person, One vote" instead of the plutocratic operation of today's DAOs.

Gist with details about implementation: https://gist.github.com/numtel/c2030ec401959a45825ee3efc6f3b...

The vending machine analogy is exactly how smart contracts were first introduced by Nick Szabo and Vitalik Buterin.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/daos-scary-part-1-self...

I made a Node.js script for Rummikub/Mexican train that when combined with ngrok makes it easy to self-host games.

https://gist.github.com/numtel/576d7fae916b8190dec8dc64ac40f...

Aren't they psychoactive, not intoxicating?

Alcohol is intoxicating because it damages cells but there's very little evidence that classical psychedelics are damaging in this way.

Non-paywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20210521060549/https://www.reute...

Non-paywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20210521150348/https://www.bloom...

Coming from a writer of dystopian science fiction, it's no surprise that his vision of the future is bleak.

Until now, the rules of wealth distribution have been determined by the wealthy.

With currency definable by software, (and with high-level abstractions like Solidity) it becomes possible for anybody to construct monetary policy with power that would make Milton Friedman explode with excitement.

Crude instruments like SafeMoon's 5% redistribution to all holders with each transaction point a light on a path towards socially responsible policies.

The famous Jefferson quote of a new constitution due every twenty years can finally be realized.

The core value of cryptocurrency isn't in any single currency but in the continual ability to find and move to better currencies.

Oh, and that the prevention of counterfeiting need not be ensured by armed force.

Many cattle pastures are cleared forests. In the east bay hills of northern California, there are significantly fewer trees where cows graze because they eat any small shoots, preventing new trees from growing. Forest is not worthless, it supports biodiversity and captures carbon.

A few years ago, I made node.js packages to do this for MySQL (by reading changes from the replication log) and Postgres. (using triggers) Both require specifying cache invalidation functions for each dependent table.

https://github.com/numtel/mysql-live-select

https://github.com/numtel/pg-live-select

I'd say that the simplest answer is to have a no-fault program for anyone involved in an accident like they do in New Zealand.

https://www.acc.co.nz/

In SimCity 3000, the Microwave Power Plant is also first available in the year 2020. Coincidence? I think not :)

How's this different from co?

Joe Rogan gets caricatured for asking people about DMT. Terence McKenna had a line for psychedelic skeptics, "Have you got ten minutes?"

This is already the most common psychedelic found in nature. It's molecularly very similar to psilocybin and very short acting. Why all the hoopla about engineering novel derivatives that don't carry the safety record of DMT?

There's already a signature verification process. What difference does it make if the signature is inked or not?

Even without social distancing, we should all want more access to democracy.

It's not just worms in the wild, there are a range of companies growing and harvesting these same bacteria for feeding fish and livestock. It seems to just be a cultural hurdle keeping them from becoming an ingredient in our own food. See this article from 2016 about Calysta of Menlo Park and Unibio of Denmark:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112298-food-made-from-...

Credit to Stephen Jay Gould for this

Naomi Klein wrote a major book about this years ago called The Shock Doctrine.

This is a major transition we will see over the next decade, and a major hope for reducing humanity's environmental footprint: foods grown from single cells.

https://www.rethinkx.com/press-release/2019/9/16/new-report-...

They had been recently sued for having a monopoly from bundling IE with Windows. The chain of events you describe was in many ways not a choice of Microsoft.

It's not quite as well-supported in NA but there's still a lot of us hosting on https://warmshowers.org

There's a newer technology called a metal organic framework that does this at a reasonable rate for the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crystalline-nets-har...

http://wahainc.com/

This sounds a lot like Robert Monroe's Loosh idea.

I got around the 8000 byte limit by sending multiple notifications in this NPM package:

https://github.com/numtel/pg-live-select/blob/master/lib/tri...

Reading the replication log is probably faster though.

MySQL has row-based replication too and there's clients in most languages if you want to support it on your saas.

Do you have plans to support changes to specific SELECT queries or keep it at the row level?

I've been using a self-built prototype floor-sitting desk for the last month. I can sit cross-legged, on my heels, or with my legs to one side, as well as squatting.

It's 2 shelves: one about a foot off the ground for the mouse and keyboard and another a little more than a foot above the first for the laptop to sit on. I look directly into the screen.

An improvement would be better adjustability and possibly taller supports so that it could be used while standing as well.

Either way, I'm very happy with sitting on the floor. Now, when I sit in chairs I notice misalignments arising quickly.

For your #1 example, there is now the details and summary element that accomplish this too.

Sorry if there was any confusion. I was wondering just in a general sense. I did not mean to imply anything about the moderation of OpenTeams.

As someone working on a crowdfunding platform that I would like to be able to release the source code as an open consumer union implementation, I have concerns about enabling unmoderated crowdfunding.

The power of a collective wallet is not something to be taken lightly. Whether it's environmental destruction or divisive politics, I have yet to decide that setting something like this free is for the best interest.

I would like to see an open source license like the GPL that has enforceable, well-defined provisions for environmental protection and human rights.

It seems like to go all the way, a smart contract would need to be used to ensure the transparency that a standard webserver-based infrastructure cannot provide. But credit cards are the standard for online payments so this would put a project in a further category from the start.

* Pollution: exhaust, noise, brake dust

* Wide right-of-way required for travel, stretching out cities, making walking impossible

* Pedestrian safety: driving successfully requires full concentration

* Both drivers and pedestrians experience stress. Traffic drives even the calmest to madness.

* The industries that support cars are vast and environmentally destructive.

The list goes on and on...

The market doesn't capture the externalities of the car. Its downsides are pushed to the people who don't use them.

Super minor complaint, but when I suspend/lose connection for a while and it restores, I have to restart the CLI to resume receiving events.