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Why do you think Hal would have been Satoshi but then also been the first developer using his real name?

Satoshi's email was hacked and that wasn't signed with PGP

I think the consensus is that the statement wasn't real

If that's the case why has Craig continued to gain prominence and have more and more sway over BTC? Bitcion SV is worth $4B now. He's been able to monopolize the mindshare on Satoshi and misdirect the narrative.

This is insane. Mess up with this and you could end up with a serious infection

Procedural generation for plants is actually pretty common already Most trees you see in video games are from middleware like Realtree

Even if Blender can't match any of these point solutions at their respective niches, I have to imagine there would be a ton of value in a team that all mostly works in a common tool they all know well a pipeline of Maya, C4D, Modo, Nuke, Houdini, Zbrush, etc strung together.

I'm just starting to learn Houdini, but with the OpenVDB support in Blender it seems like the most elegant workflow for someone without existing experience is run simulations in Houdini and then just export the volumetric data to Blender and work with it there.

They offer a Crytek derived game engine called Lumberyard used for the long-running Star Citizen scam

Not a valid comparison since those are core products of both companies. Google hasn't and never will open source Search.

PUBG was itself a commercialized version of (arguably better) Arma 3 mods with a bunch of royalty free assets + microtransactions. It still was printing money and top of the Steam charts for many months- I think it ended up being a great outcome

Alphabet has 120K employees right now.

Ex-Google was a meaningful distinction 15 years ago. Today it does not remotely entitle you to being funded.

Many VCs today recognize that Google is an extremely bureaucratic place that does not resemble a startup and I know more than a few who view Google experience as a negative signal.

The reality is that VCs are genuinely inclined to fund black founders since their funds are overwhelmingly old white men.

This is an industry that cares a lot about not generating controversy. VCs got hit hard by Me Too- Lightspeed, Kleiner, Binary, Sherpa, 500 Startups, and others all imploded or let people go due to allegations of sexism.

It's a Partner based business where, in general, they rarely hire a new senior Partner and cut them in on the carry. Investing in black founders and hiring minority junior VCs ends up being the easiest way to brand themselves as racially equitable.

I'm in VC and there are many reasons why I and my peers are not interested in yet another software product selling to gyms. They are extremely fragmented, hard to access, low ACV customers who are already well served by products like MindBody. I've seen a ton of marketplaces for personal trainers as well.

The reality is that the chance a VC responds to a cold outbound email is already near 0. I get these in my LinkedIn inbox almost all the time and they are very rarely good because the founders with great companies are not going out of their way to cold email people. I doubt that most of the VCs she's talking about spent enough time to even realize it was a WoC.

I was a customer at one of their gyms and the app was garbage. It frequently crashed and there were huge bugs with basic stuff like the dates I'd be billed for renewal being wrong. I didn't realize I was still subscribed and they charged me ~$250 for a month where I didn't even go in.

The thing that really allowed DoorDash (and UberEats) to pull ahead was investing in partnerships with chain restaurants vs focusing on independent restaurants. Which hasn't necessarily resulted int he best product

Meal delivery doesn't just exist because people are lazy. It has been around a long time via the much more inefficient process of calling a restaurant that you already knew about, having someone spend time with you on the phone getting your order and credit card # and then dispatching a delivery person they employed directly to deliver the order to you.

For a period of time when Uber was in China, a huge amount of revenue was from fraudulent rides that weren't actually happening.

There were smart investors who saw through the facade and didn't invest and there were smarter ones who saw through it and invested despite that.

CloudKitchens is more the kitchen infrastructure for restaurants who only have a presence on delivery apps. They are trying to facilitate a restaurant model that is optimized for the delivery apps'supply chains rather than starting their own

DoorDash already serves as the back end for a number of other services.

But being a courier company is not near as good of a business model. The aggregation element means that they own the end customer and payment flow, which among other things increases spend since you discover new restaurants via the platform and can transact seamlessly with any restaurant on DoorDash vs giving your card info to each new place

More importantly, as a two-sided marketplace DoorDash enjoys network effects which are the source of its defensibility. If they were just a courier company, restaurants could just switch over when they found the next company that could deliver marginally faster or undercut them with VC funding. As a two-sided marketplace, the restaurants can't turn them off without losing all the demand coming through the platform, demand which is captured by DoorDash is because they have tons of restaurants on the platform, creating a feedback loop.

I suppose you think Olga Tokarczuk or Svetlana Alexievich are more popular with millennials?

David Foster Wallace and Harold Bloom both have called Delillo one of the greatest living authors. I and quite a few other people I know in my age range (mid-20s) have enjoyed him without sensing his work is irrelevant to our demographic. Even his denser works like Underworld read like a 'pageturner' relative to his contemporaries like Pynchon or even Wallace. Let alone other writers in the canon like Dostoyevsky.

My criticism would honestly be that his writing is overly stylized and lacking in nuance. He inherits the hyperbolic, poetic quality of McCarthy but often applies it to the mundane and the result sometimes feels overwrought and overdramatized vs realistic. Zero K specifically felt like a fan fiction version of William Gibson's non sci-fi stuff like Zero History. And most of what he is trying to convey he just says outright in a 3rd person omniscient voice.

I actually think he is very culturally relevant and influential but I sense that if you were to evaluate his writing through the lens of academic comparative literature like the Nobel Prize committee (not the standard literature should be held to imo) it would fall short of most other laureats, Bob Dylan notwithstanding

The fast inverse square root algorithm Carmack invented for Quake 3's lighting is the definition of elegant code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

As I understand it typical occupancy rate is 95%. Looks like there are ~400K housing units in SF (not total bay area).

That would imply there are 20K vacant units just for frictional reasons. I expect the number of these type of vacancies exceeds the number of homeless in almost every city in the US

You're right, you aren't "forced" to pay, you're merely deprived of the right to participate in temple rituals that are central to the community and teachings if you don't.

And also have to tell your bishop, the most important and powerful member of your local community that you aren't going to pay in a private 1:1 meeting.

I've heard many times in the church that you're supposed to pay tithing even if you can't afford it and that "blessings" (often material) will make up the difference. It is patently dangerous financial advice.

The amount of welfare the church distributes via the bishop's storehouse is paltry compared to their overall holdings. It would also be extremely embarrassing to have to go to the leadership in your community and ask them to support you

You don't have to pay tithing to get access to the financial support of the church but you do in order to get a temple recommend and thus participate in basic and fundamental activities such as attending the marriage of a loved one, do all the temple work they always tell you to etc

Add to this the fact that he had been reported as being optimistic about winning his case and had never exhibited suicidal behavior before, even when he was facing a serious sentence

The general prison suicide rate isn't comparable- Epstein was in jail rather than prison, previously already on suicide watch from a supposed attempt and was more importantly possibly the most high profile prisoner of the Millenium.

In terms of total mineral output oversaturating would seem to be disadvantageous since being able to get more workers on the new mineral line is offset by the cost of not expanding sooner and then being able to build from both bases.

I'm interested to understand why Alpha did this since worker production seems like one of the most solved and optimized parts of the games and not where you'd expect innovation

They have demonstrated a consistent commitment to user privacy that their peers have not

Amazing how WC3 maps were responsible for both MOBAs and Tower Defence, two of the most popular genres of all time, both moreso than conventional RTSs at this point

According to this site Phoenix has an F in crime, as does Salt Lake City.

It also has a C+ for cost of living, F for schools, D for employment. Seems off

If you have amassed enough hashpower to be able to do the 51% attack you have far more to gain economically from continuing to mine for the network than to somehow short it (impossible to find a counterparty for a transaction that large) and then have billions of dollars of hardware that is now worthless