MrPatan

Where's the trust in a bitcoin tx?

Steady state thinking. Of course gold would become cheaper, sure. But you will have bought all the actual productive assets first!

This is the same trick economists play when saying "inflation doesn't matter". It doesn't in the steady state, but in the meanwhile, I printed the money and gave it to my friends, who do you think is going to end up owning all the hard assets?

> But the solution to that is fintech and regulation, not crypto

Why? Now we have a trustless, decentralized, tech solution, why do you still want the "guys with guns" solution?

Yes, and I'll do you one better: everybody should have their own company and there should be no "employee" option. Everything should be contracts. Makes it clearer it's not a family relationship, it's business.

That's a success story.

The 2 month version could be sold at all, the 6 month one can't, so it's not worth considering its technical merits.

Then the client/stakeholder buys in, the sunk cost, well, sinks in, and things get fixed. Success!

It is.

The reason is most people can tell red from green and big from small, and most people use graphic designs daily, so will have an opinion on whether a design element should be bigger or redder.

Other professionals with a similar plight could be copywriters, and devs when selling a PR.

Compare to plumbers or lawyers.

What's possible with the medium, whether you like it or not, is a lot.

I understand where you're coming from, but it's not where most users come from. Leaving scrollbars or whatever else unstyled and sticking out like a sore thumb tells those users "they can't be bothered to do it right, but everybody else does".

That's the designer's point.

If you want to go back to '94 websites so your scrollbars and drop-downs don't look out of place, good luck.

Can't upvote more, so will repeat: read impro. It's short.

I wonder if it's more useful to a certain kind of person for whom this stuff may be less readily legible, but I suspect there's a lot of that kind here.

Read impro.

So we're killing crypto again. Okay! This time around just buy some while it's cheap. You may learn a thing or two. About finance, and about yourself.

At 50k you remembered checking it when it was 25k, and regretted not buying. Well, it's 25k again, lucky you!

But wait! Is this me trying to help you? Shill my bags? Or trying to reverse-psyops you into staying a nocoiner? Take your pick!

Custom scrollbars, as in "I'll hijack the scroll events and draw custom stuff on the side of the element" kind of custom, yeah, that's bad and buggy and annoying. Being able to style native scrollbars is a godsend which satisfies designers and brand people and prevents the first kind of custom scrollbars.

Reddit has been doing a great job for my use case. Since I decided to quit it a few years ago they've made so many absurd changes that every time I land on it by chance I can't make head or tails of it, can't find the post, the comments, nothing.

It works great!

The mind that doesn't want to risk entertaining "wrong" truths can't stand being reminded of the fact.

I used to think the inevitable "but the tire pollution!" commenter was just run of the mill hn pedantry, but it's been so consistent over so many years... I hope the pay is good, at least.

Talking about kitchens, what happened to the data Uri kitchen at hixie's?

DCA is about ease of implementation and regret minimisation, not ev optimisation.

Banks don't like to give money back to shareholders, they keep it for the bankers. Why would you buy bank shares?

Aren't those same people now voting directly, with their wallets, to let an industry die? Why do you want to add a middleman politician to the process? Do people not know what's good for them? Why would they then know what's good for them when voting for those politicians?

I came to a similar conclusion about how some people strive to reduce what they call "visual noise" on their programming languages, by removing things like semicolons, parentheses, curly braces, etc. and others, like myself, who like the punctuation.

I think I read code visually. I understand its literal 2D-visual shape first, and use punctuation as visual markers to help me along. Then I backfill the gaps in the structure with the actual "content" of the code.

For the longest time I was baffled by the other camp's attempts to get rid of punctuation. What are they thinking? I now believe what they're thinking is of code as linear text. If you read the code linearly first, as text, and build the structure in your head as you go then yeah, all; of(that) seems {kinda} pointless && annoying.

Now guess which camp is more likely to write blog posts about how theirs is the One True Way? Ah, the humanity.

Why would an industry dying be a problem?

Why would you "regulate" to keep it alive? (which means keep it alive with our money)

Who decides which industry should be kept alive and which should die? Let me guess, you do.

"News deserts" is too close to "Just desserts".

Maybe they need an ubi for marketers and lobbyists as well.

People take pills from known criminals, with high risk of fentanyl OD, just for fun.

Yes, I think people would indeed take pills prescribed by AI, just make it a robot wearing a lab coat.

Also pilots! I mean, pilots kill themselves and a planeload of people more than you think. Of course people would take black box ai that works.

Do you reckon there's pharma people right now wondering how to make LLMs push their drugs?

Take fine-tuning trainers to "conferences", perhaps?

Will they try to make their own?

What a next few years...

Amazing. A collection of "People who don't like his personality", plus his literal political opponent, are your best sources on how to identify the next Hitler.

Let me say that again: If a democrat you like says somebody is Hitler, then all is fair to stop him.

Brilliant! I hope you're getting paid for this.

And how will you tell such a monster appeared? Through your independent research? Or because the TV told you?

Once you bought into "whatever means necessary", what evidence would it take to change your mind?

> The law would also make it illegal for a landlord to refuse tenancies to families with children, or those in receipt of benefits.

What could possibly go wrong?

Here is the problem, and it's not a technical problem, you guessed it, it's a people problem, and it doesn't have a solution, because people suck:

- It's probably more difficult to do great work WFH than F2F. But I mean "great", properly great stuff, novel, hard, high stakes, high pressure, high coordination, moonshot level.

- It's probably not difficult at all to do mid level boring stuff WFH, and everybody saves time and money on top.

- 99% of orgs do the later kind of work

- 99% of orgs don't like to admit they do the later kind of work

This is why we can't have nice things

It'd be nice if it that doc window could just not steal the focus. At least with TypeScript it does.

The first segways were written off... and now you have electric scooters on demand on every city of the planet.

The first NFTs were written off... by you and other writter-offers. If you didn't write them off back then and minted some you'd have made a pretty penny by now.

I don't know, I'm not sure those examples strengthen your case.

Why not: "increased local prices increase density"? People want to build where they can sell for more money.

Supply and demand still apply.