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This is by no means an "edge-case" if you live in a rural area. "Sound policy" within a heavily urbanized area may be unworkable elsewhere.
> Can't base sound policy at scale on the stars aligning
"Failing to scale" here would be to allow urban population centers to dictate policy that would be untenable in other areas of the country.
2. Append "on the blockchain"
3. Launch your ICO
I can't elaborate either on the merits of proof-of-capacity vs. proof-of-capacity plus proof-of-time.
I really wish coins like these would catch on more than they have. Proof-of-work is, to the best of my knowledge, the only system that provably works. If we could just harness that computational power to do useful work, we'd be in a great place.
I wrote this CMS a few years ago after having become dissatisfied with both Wordpress and Jekyll. `wit-cms` is an npm module that attempts to split the difference between both of the former, in that it reads content from markdown files, yet provides Wordpress-like taxonomies.
`wit-cms` does not generate static HTML sites like Jekyll - it is not a "site generator". Rather, it parses page/post markdown files and stores their contents in RAM as properties of a JavaScript object. As such, deployments are less "messy" (in my opinion) than with Jekyll, and page speed times are good even without using any kind of server-side caching.
`wit-cms` has no administrative backend, and thus has a small attack-surface. I personally publish new content using an npm script and `git pull` over SSH.
In my opinion, `wit-cms` is great for technical users (which are comfortable using command-line tools) that maintain small blogs. I have thus decided to share the project here.
I hope some of you find it useful. Feel free to ask questions or share feedback. Thanks.
I assume you're loading ads via JavaScript or something. (I didn't check.) I too saw the notice regarding blocked ads.
It will be a cold day in hell before I disable my ad-blocker, but you can easily manually insert affiliate links as well.
If you sign up for the Amazon affiliate program (which I assume you did), just navigate to the item you're trying to sell, click the "get link" button (or whatever) that Amazon provides for you, and you'll get a nice, shortened affiliate link.
In my opinion, that is a really clean way to do things - you can just create a plain-old HTML list of affiliate links. That gives you a mechanism for monetizing your site, and doesn't require me to disable my ad blocker to support you. Win/win! :)
> "You are less likely to be in an accident in a plane than in a car".
> The above is a true statistic, but more nuance is required.
Regarding the "nuance": something I've never seen before, but would like to see, are these risk numbers adjusted for drivers that are not at-fault.
Example: If I have a reported N% likelihood of being killed in a drunk-driving incident, but never personally drive drunk, is my personal risk-exposure really N%? It seems like it would be lower.
My instinct is that these blanket-statement risk numbers may overstate risk for competent drivers. Not so on an airplane, however, where passengers have zero influence on how an event may play out.
I understand that you didn't write anything professionally about your trip, but did you ever write anything casually about it - blog posts or the like? It sounds like it would make for interesting reading :)
If anything, this idea seems like it would only harm the (already struggling) middle-class, who may have little equity beyond their home/hand.
It would be both a sport and a laboratory for transhumanism. I'd be incredibly interested to see what science came out of it.
There are probably ethical arguments to be made against doing that, but... meh.
It would be great if it ever became profitable to mine this.
Might be network weirdness on my end, I dunno. (Or a HN "hug of death"?) Anyway, wanted to let you know.
Congrats on the project :)
On one hand, this sounds entirely economically reasonable (and even humanitarian).
On the other hand, I fear this would inevitably produce unintended consequences that would shape our society in distopian, sci-fi/horror-flavored ways.
I have no idea how it would actually shake out. Maybe I'm just being anti-intellectual here.
Do you think it would actually possible to quantify this in a way that:
1. Accurately represented "reality"?
2. Couldn't/wouldn't be gamed?
Seems challenging to me.
Unless they have relationships with the banks now, and would be given a heads-up. Perhaps that's the case. It sounds like it may be.
> Second, the lack of a dislike/downvote, particularly an anonymous one.
I don't know. I agree that Facebook's commenting mechanism is ill-suited to deep discussion, but isn't the mechanism you're describing more-or-less exactly what exists on Reddit? And people are certainly able to self-segregate into bubbles on Reddit.
And for that matter, at least anecdotally I'd say that most of the political "discussion" that occurs on Reddit is low-quality, in that it tends to devolve into users shouting "fascist" or "cuck" at each other. (Some subreddits are better than others, admittedly.)
I suppose that Reddit users typically don't know each other in meatspace, though, and that Facebook is (mostly) different in that regard. Maybe that would make a difference. I don't know.
During the peak toxicity of the election cycle, I unfollowed a lot of sites/sources/people on Facebook. For a while, it worked.
Eventually, though, I simply lost that ability. For the last few months, if I click "unlike" or "unfollow" on some source I'd like to be rid of, nothing happens. I'm literally unable to unfollow content on Facebook now.
If you Google around, you'll see that this is a common problem that people have been reporting for years.
This makes me wonder if this is a bug, or if, perhaps, the Facebook algorithm simply refuses to allow me to have fewer than N number of connections to other nodes or something.
I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the unclassified information, all I've heard mentioned is:
1. social media manipulation
2. traditional media manipulation (RT)
3. email spearphishing
None of the above strikes me as particularly sophisticated, even if it's potentially effective. (I don't know if it was effective or not in the case of the election.)
Of course, I have no idea what the classified information says regarding any of this.
I'll concede that I probably use my phone less than a lot of people, but this looks like a "solution in search of a problem" to me. I'm still using a Nexus 5 that's several years old, and my battery rarely drops below 80% over the course of the day. (I only charge my phone when I sleep, and never "top it off" during the day.)
When I do need to charge it, I plug it in, and can get a full charge in about an hour, if I remember correctly.
Even if we were to assume that this product is viable technologically (which is a big "if"), my hunch is that it won't be viable commercially for much longer as advances in battery and phone technology make it irrelevant.
How does cancelling the conference help anybody? The minority of women that may have otherwise met and inspired each other no will no longer meet. Everyone is worse off.
> Once the cycle of people being motivated and seeing others like you starts, you see a diverse set of candidates joining the industry.
Do you think this really applies in the computer industry? I've been doing this for a while, and at no point have I had - or cared to have - any heroes to emulate. I work with computers because I like computers - not because I like people!
It looks like this project might raise well above the $48k, though. (It's at $108k as of now.)
I recognize that this can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to Kickstarters. With regards to NRE, though - hopefully it's straightforwardly a good thing.