timdaub

yeah sure, that's the same argument as "Twitter is a private company so stop being outraged by censorship."

I find it paternalistic that only _certain_ things get moderated in this way while other stuff is "too hard to do anything about it" (dang's words in a DM).

There is tons of bad behavior on HN that is invisible and slightly negative headlines are not a significant part. I had many posts upvoted by HN already. Hundreds of comments were generated from my work (which is btw for free).

I'm a meaningful contributor to this site - quite the opposite to the people calling me names for making an argument they don't like.

People say I haven't picked up on the HN spirit. To them I say, the first rule of PG is to not name call!

everything is clickbait if every headline was entirely milquetoast, nobody would know where to click anymore.

reuters.com: "Adani abandons $2.5 billion share sale in big blow to Indian tycoon"

Do you think it is necessary to mention "2.5 billion" "abandon" and "big blow" "tycoon". It is all clickbait everything. Without a good CTR, nothing gets read.

#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) is a dramatization. It says everyone using the virtual DOM is stupid for not optimizing their code and still using react. As someone with a lot of equity in react, it is shocking because it invokes a feeling of surprise: "Wow, I must be doing something wrong". The adjective "pure" is overhead. It adds drama, nothing else.

this is simply not true

Just exemplary, the #4 on HN right now is "A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?" This is a fairly normal occurrence and nobody would dare to moderate it. But it is clearly super clickbait (of a nothing burger).

Edit:

#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

is a total dramatification and uses the exact same tactics as I, which is making react js devs re-consider their belief belonging behavior.

#19 Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k

Yeah, also "How" and "The" sometimes get automatically removed. But I don't recall seeing such an option after my submission was re-titled.

I spent lots of time to think of the title „The AI Crowd is Mad“ because I wanted to hit all triggers for virality (belief, belonging, behavior). A bit disappointed it was moderated/changed

mhh yeah you might have a point. I didn‘t do it on purpose though. I‘ll go through this again

Things it performed badly for me (our of sample):

- Implement quadratic voting (a concept defined in Radical Markets by Weyl). When trying to explain it, it still invented smth that looked good

- Implement a First in first out calculation to file tax returns where within a 1 year holding period, tax rate is 0%. It calculated some really implausible stuff and it seemed easier to just figure it out myself.

- there were many such cases for me, but also good outcomes too

JUMP! (Mike Solana)

Granted. I didn‘t use Grammarly this time to fix the article‘s numerous mistakes. But frankly, it‘s also a way to prove that my article wasn‘t chatGPT generated hahahahaha

Was he trolling?

:‘(

hopefully they do it. Twillio is an awful paternalistic company and getting SMS numbers in Germany is the actual worst. For a client, I ended up having to buy an RPI and a SIM myself because Twillio restricts service severely for anyone not having a big company.

Coming from Stuttgart, Germany, it is well-known that if you get any position within the local automotive industry, it counts as making it. Doesn‘t matter what level, even if you work on the assembly line. So I interpret this post as follows: HN discovers that building German cars is a very good business.

Call me old fashioned, but an entrepreneur like Browder or Bankman-Fried, the type of guys that don‘t know what a workout is and that fail to clean their rooms when Vice stops by: Why are the top VCs investing in them?

Isn‘t the room or fitness of someone a reflection of their self and their mental health? Sure, messiness is easily solved by hiring someone to clean: But isn‘t it telling about their reflection capabilities and their handling of stress?

- Vice: https://youtu.be/4ywSt641A58

I think trust still exists among individuals and in social groups. But yeah trusting others on the Internet makes no sense. I think we‘ll look back at the web2 era and say it was naive to trust in a www user‘s good faith actions and assume western morals. The Internet is global, heterogen and trust cannot exist among individuals unless one or more parties have a lot of skin in the game e.g. through identity.

What crypto currency did is that it showed everyone how fragile these internationally scaled algorithms are; and it blatantly exposed how bad they are for society.

Take Google Maps for example: There are now many restaurants that have a rating that is far off from reality. This is because there is no or very little cost associated with leaving a review. So click farms have gotten wind of this and hence a restaurant owner may just buy their way to a 4.5 star rating.

This is web2 peaking. The cost to scam everyone and earn a few bucks in the process has become a tenable business opportunity. It‘s not by accident that Elon Musk is now charging an 8 dollar fee on monthly Twitter usage: This is no different than the staking mechanisms invented in the Ethereum community. Since Sybilattacks are virtually unpreventable since no scalable and user friendly identity solution exists, primarily in the web3 space we‘ve started combining submitting information along with stake to fight grifters and spammers who are manipulating the algorithms.

The difference between traditional finance and DeFi is that DeFi is so transparent that a single person (Molly) can run a blog to aggregate all things that went wrong. They can arise at a single number of error that the industry has created. This is an achievement of radical transparency; something that should be celebrated.

we'll see how this "don't repeat prior mistakes' thing will play out with maxed out inflation, raging corruption in western democracies, moral wars in Ukraine, rising distrust in media and a laissez-faire approach to white collar crime after the financial crisis in 2008.

In the end, importing LNG for Germany is essentially crypto currency free market decentralization principles applied to geo politics.

Clearly, and this has become obvious on the global stage, if you have two equally sovereign powers making a deal and having aligned incentives (e.g. to build physical gas pipelines that cost a lot of money and can be blown up), then the more resilient approach that features decentralized and permissionless market access is that of LNG.

It's because LNG tankers are interoperable and they can technically come any moment from any new country. There's no direct platform-dependence on Russia for Germany anymore and with an extension of LNG ingestion capabilities, more diversity of supply will mean that gas now can't be leveraged as a power brokerage tool by a single country anymore.

posters in this thread believe that there are obviously really bad people using and working with crypto currencies.

these same posters, however, don't have an inch of skepticism that there could be equally bad people sitting in powerful western financial institutions.

Considering the amount of damage that the international central banking cartel has done through excessive quantitative easing over the last decade and unreasonable money printing during the global pandemic, the recent inflation numbers and the absolute amount of ordinary people's money it de-valuated out of existence, $4.27B seems like no big deal at all. Also: funding wars.

more details please

Assuming you're right and Satoshi did lose their private key, one thing I find implausible is assuming embarrassment. Satoshi was, for what we know, a pseudonym that has held really well (we still don't know their real name). Personally, I'm embarrassed when somebody can acurately pin a weakness to my character that I feel vulnerable about. For example: Satoshi could have been playing a persona that they aren't in real life, similar to how an actor plays a role in a movie. In that case, if e.g. someone criticizes a personality trait of the movie role, the actor won't personally feel embarrassed since the critique doesn't fall back to their own personality. I believe the same logic is transferable to the case of Satoshi, where even if they lost the key, they wouldn't truly have to feel embarrassed consider that they've acted the online personality from the get go.

he also started a poll asking if people are in favor or against „realtime doxxing of a person“ which soberly isn‘t what the ElonJet incident was about. I don‘t even know what my opinion is. I just think it‘s really lame, like a parent that executes on a principle they don‘t wanna back off from.

this isn‘t totally true. Today I also noticed that we login wall takes more screen space - but you can click it away and it didn‘t return for me anymore on iOS

tldr