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Its also about action seeding, for later events. With each strike like this some people leave and its likely they are early(ish) adopters, and also likely that they are opinionated ones (just my theory). So their leaving reduces the quality of the network, for the bulk of passive users. And I know (anecdotally) few passive users. People who just read and never do any comments or likes. So the value of the network goes down for them. And they may then spend lesser time. Or may have lesser satisfaction. So network effects brought it to where it is, and they also work very well in the other direction.

On the other thread on HN today, on WhatsApp founder, I wonder if they wouldn't have sold to Facebook (of all the players), what would have been the social media landscape be like today?

I am just hoping, like I am sure many others on HN, that this event finally seeds an open social network, which works like emails do.

[1] https://brave.com/

[2] https://basicattentiontoken.org/faq/#meaning

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Personally, am fine with moderate success and having my time free to pursue interests - learning, reading, etc. But I am bothered about it, when friends ask me about it. As in general, if someone has chosen an off beat path (i.e. startup or similar or anything other than normal corporate life) people have more questions.

Also, we all wish that we ought to be more successful than we are. Am middle aged (40s), so have some regrets about not investing better. Not that have done bad. But could definitely have done better, if devoted more time on it, than focusing 100% of energy on startup.

Added later: (In the vein of some other comments) Today morning, I did an exercise, of trying to remember, how many people I have helped in life, in a way that their life got better. And also trying to remember how many people who helped me in a similar way. The exercise left me happier. Just stating it here, to say there are several ways of measuring our lives.

Not commenting on other points, but may be you are looking at it from an angle of an expert who has mastered it, so everything looks trivial. As, clearly its much more than that. It is like building extension for machines - the brains and the controls and also pure information management. That's why projects run into millions of lines of code. And the complexity is still growing, as we have new fields like ML emerging on top of it.

Lot of solutions on offer. But IMHO, only one thing will fix it. Forcing it to open its protocol. A mail++ (for social) which will just allow all the products to compete in the open. They can compete on UI, the feed sort algorithm etc, among other things. Nobody will hate on Facebook as much. Its market cap will go down, but Zuck can sleep better.[1]

[1] “I don’t think he sleeps well at night,” from https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-...

I played field hockey in school & college. And once was involved in a head on collision with a friend, who suffered a bloody nose/face and was taken to hospital. And I was shit scared, until I knew he was safe, very luckily for me.

I have come to hate all sports like boxing/wrestling/soccer etc. for this reason. There are plenty of athletics and sports where you display your individual skill at a distance from another person to choose from.

I think, these sports are simply not probability friendly. When many people play, somebody is bound to get seriously injured.

I think this thing is like dot-com crash. And obvious ones have fallen. But some should survive. I am glancing through all the sub reddits, and I like the behavior on /r/ethereum the best. Nonplussed (largely) and just focusing on the tech. /r/bitcoin is the worst, but bitcoin has the most solid people (cause early adopters etc).

The newly wed lady, just wrote a few paragraphs about her. And Polly went on a long rambling trip making lot of assumptions (e.g. her over-achieving family). Psychiatrists need to ask more next level questions. Here looks like she just wanted to write a long one, perhaps coinciding with her long walk on a treadmill.

To be truthful, I did enjoy some pieces, specifically the 'igniting the dynamite' part as she ends her piece.

But If I were the 'sloth', I would be super confused now. Oh My God. I thought I was just lazy and procrastinating type, didn't know I was messed up this bad.

Reading this made me realize the futility of asking for advise from strangers, who would end up stereotyping you, into their known contexts. Better to improve life by reading suitable books. Or if need advise may be ask trusted friends - who don't assume context as they know you. Or psychiatry sessions may be better.

Flipkart was founded in 2007. Ola soon after. This H1B visa issue is more of past 2-3 year issue. Admittedly it will have some impact. But definitely not the narrative you paint.

A better approach by any government could be to declare it as illegal (just like drugs). By doing so, they can't eliminate it, but just curtail demand.

If Satoshi's coins move, all of a sudden, it will be a big downer for Bitcoin, this is no different. Instead it may have helped had he declared something like he won't sell it for next n years. That would have shown real skin in the game.

Please note I'm not doubting his intentions. But saying just what it seems like from the outside.

[1] http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/...

I read the paper about 2 years back, after reading Nathaniel Popper's book 'Digital Gold...' which presents the history of cypherpunks, leading upto Satoshi's white paper. The book was enjoyable to read. And the paper's brilliance was stunning.

That said, when I think of it deeply, it does seem to me similar to pyramid schemes. The early adopters have a unfair advantage.

Also, its better that an alternative to proof-of-work is found. Although the argument is support of that, is that, it perhaps takes more energy to sustain the present financial system, the base of which Bitcoin intends to replace.

So I find myself in a curious position of being in the Blockchain camp, and unwillingly though. Which is because people who typically are in that camp, say the tech is good, but Bitcoin is not. But I believe Bitcoin by itself is a fantastic and disruptive thing. Without that app there is no platform (blockchain) evolution.

But of course Bitcoin has flaws, and we could be in a big bubble. But no half baked Tulip bulbs analogy please+.

Another flaw which I find with Bitcoin is the ownership is very fragile, compared to real world ownership. In these days of phone cameras, all it takes is an accidental photo of my secret 12 words, for my satoshis to get compromised. Or there is no alternative, if I lose my private key. Real world banks have ample ways of addressing the identity and tend to offer more robust possession safety.

+ - I have not seen that analogy on HN, thankfully, but its there every where. Yesterday, I saw a respected VC making it on LinkedIn.

Edit: minor

* - holding but culturally called hodling, perhaps some Grame of Thrones reference(?)...Satoshi did not move their coins and that carries on. So far it has been very resilient. Exchanges hacked and it carried on. But fear remains of some black swan events e.g. Suddenly Satoshi coins on the market etc.

May be search for an Ethereum contract, which allows betting against Bitcoin. Solidity new hack discovery permitting, you can make a small killing. Would be nice way of making a point with some skin in the game.

So definitely my wonderment and awe of it came down by several notches, as I could see how every 1/2 minutes I was exclaiming in wonder of how relevant it was to today's time. But of course when you recreate the past in the future, you can be very selective towards ideas/topics which are relevant in some way.

Ideally, I want to be able to just buy a movie from somewhere, without needing to subscribe to the entire service.

Unfortunately could not find the movie anywhere (YouTube has some bad versions). If anyone has any pointers, to where we can find it online, would be good.

Isn't it applicable to a class of programs only? Best example of which is Computer Vision. Or do you imply your argument to hold for a wider set of programs. I can think of a large set of programs in which direct coding of logic, rather than discovery, is more suited.

For example take sorting. I guess, sorting could also be taught to the machine, by having a training set. But what about the latency of the discovered program. Also what about the proof of such a sorting program, which is discovered by Machine learning?

Must add, that I largely agree to your excellent point regarding discovery of programs. But I am not sure about its wide applicability. In fact, I contend that it applies only to a subset of all programs. Particulary those which have been traditionally difficult to code.

So in that sense, now making a tangential point here, it is good that more complex applications are now possible, by combining both kind of programs. And there will be more programming work in the future.

Edit: minor

This process should happen behind the scenes. And then train a RNN for translating it to the following command, which returns a success code. Perhaps, we need to add a few checks that successful command has the same intent as the one which returned 127 error code to the shell.

Wow! This in a post announcing the 8M USD hack. And what language he speaks.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887061.msg20348125#...

Lucky to have a family, which does help a great deal in this situation. But, I do sometimes worry about it, but as a result compensate for it - exercising to stay fit/lean. Also, always try to be on the cutting edge of tech - HN/similar is great for that.

Edit: Just to add two more points:

1) Social networks: One might think, that they will help in this situation. But again, its different for everyone. I find, in my case their use is detrimental. So after having disconnected from them totally (save a pseudonymous twitter a/c for news/venting), I find it more peaceful, also I found my friendship with good friends has improved. And Facebook friends withered off.

2) Another thing, I learnt a few years ago, some people need social interactions to re-energize where as for some people it is solitude. Are you the type, who if goes for a walk in the park, and when people try to hold a long conversation, do you like it? Or would you rather be left alone after greeting/short-conversations. I definitely, am the second type. (If I am portraying my personality to be totally anti-social, then that's inaccurate. As my social needs are fulfilled well, by family and friends. May be if I had less of that, then would definitely like to have long talks with strangers in the park. Each person has different situation and needs, that's the key point).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-...