clarkmoody

Strength and Honor

I would pay more for an announcement-free flight. I watch the safety briefing ahead of time, and nobody speaks over the insanely-loud PA system the entire time I'm on the airplane.

This is about power of the state over the individual. Full stop.

Start from the assumption of liberty and the freedom of association. Unfortunately, most people don't believe in human liberty and prefer varying degrees of slavery.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

And in modern times, we can't forget the concerned citizen calling the police when seeing young kids out on their own. So childhood has become semi-illegal, depending on the mood of the officers on duty.

Many such cases with crypto. Moderately good idea powered by a token becomes a Ponzi.

Bitcoin Lightning Network solves the routing payment problem via a series of cascading unlocks of value across the route. Nodes can change their fee policy independent of the network, so the bottleneck node could make more money in your scenario. Then those high fees attract additional nodes to provide liquidity along that route, bringing fee competition.

Also maps nicely to the Covid experience.

One thing I've been listening for in the podcasts is a discussion of equity. I'd love to get the company's perspective on equity, options, liquidity, etc. The Silicon Valley Way (tm) of using stock options to "juice" compensation while injecting large amounts of risk and drama into the employee's tax returns is certainly something I'd like to hear Bryan's (and Oxide's) take on.

Here's how a printer company could gain massive market share:

- Open firmware and interfaces to the hardware

- Make a profit on the sale of the printer hardware

- Open spec for any ink manufacturer to create cartridges

Future generations aren't voting in the next election.

Possible, yes. Probable?

The other tradeoff comes with ease of debugging. Compile-time vs runtime errors. Dredging through microservice logs vs stack traces from the monolith.

Plenty of homework assignments in graduate level aerospace engineering courses that are right up the alley of this paper. Star trackers as backup for GNSS would be of great interest to maritime vessels worried about spoofing. So there are plenty of non-military use cases for these algorithms.

Just imagine how fun life will be when the cop at the end of your street has to enforce the politics of Washington, and then someone you don't like gets into office.

Previous civilizations were able to own their cultural myths. Modern civilization's cultural myths are controlled by giant faceless corporations with legions of lawyers. No one can tell a new story about Han, Luke, and Leia without permission from the House of Mouse.

Self driving + conversation monitoring => lock the doors and drive you to the nearest reeducation camp for uttering wrongspeak.

Alternative title idea: "Instead of Reaching for AI, we used Good Old-Fashioned Engineering to Solve a Tough Problem"

Are you responding to an 8 year old?

Rest in peace to a true legend.

> I don’t see how a government elected by the people can be considered a dictatorship.

Have you read any history?

This is completely false.

If you took time to check out the link, you would see that this post is about the Lightning Network, which can support massive transactional volume.

Also from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584237

What's the markup on software?

The term "Geometers" makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, which is just as will, since the article is about advanced orbits.

Fool me once...

How many drugs had FDA approval that was later retracted after much harm was done?

One of my favorite bits of Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky is the use of base-10 time: ksec, Msec, etc. There is a nice time log scale with Earth time to base-10 time conversions.