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I sense incoming downvotes, it would be great if we could get a link to an existing rebuttal, or something. Stomping on someone's dream just so you don't have to risk disappointment holds us all back. What are the limits of the Lightning network?

Are you suggesting that the galaxy revolves around the sun? Heresy!

Yeah, we really need to distinguish between a 2FA app and a dedicated hardware key. My phone is probably the least secure thing I've ever owned, both in terms of technical security, and physical security.

This whole 2FA thing has been really jarring for me, because I always treated my phone like a public space: no password, no private data (that I know of), ready for inspection by foreign authorities. Of all the things the world could ask me to trust, why the phone?

What if you just ban all Americans? /duck

What if you are coding a 3D demoscene program for your thesis, because it illustrates a beautiful mathematical proof?

I am under the impression that refined sugar interferes with the optimal functioning of the brain, in addition to skewing a person's energy level, but I don't have citations or anything. It's a just info that I internalized as a child, from a family member who works with children who have learning disabilities.

Starry-eyed young lovers will fall for a DRM scheme, if they can be convinced that it is for the children.

"Our award winning, holistic, proprietary life-experience program leads to superior outcomes, when compared to competing life experience programs. Doctors know it, children's services favor it. So, what kind of life experience does your future family deserve?" Enter perfect puppies.

I bet banning refined sugar products would have a more significant effect.

I agree with the others that this is a long way off. But just imagine, if 200 years from now, you could grow a space-worthy carapace overnight, with attachments for gear. And organs that transform a dense solid into maneuvering gas and oxygenated blood. In fact, we could just do away with the whole breathing thing, that is so unreliable and unhygienic.

The problem with not editing the germline, is that that could easily be used to implement a DRM scheme. The recipient of this sort of editing might have a very high chance of only producing disabled or dead offspring, as they themselves would have been, without intervention. They, and their descendants, would have to procure this same treatment in order to procreate.

From the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

For the record, I'm not the one who downvoted the parent for an honest question.

Microsoft is composed of people. The people we worry about here, are the ones who might be incentivised to discover exploits before an outsider. They would have an incentive to back-date their work, or their subordinate's work.

I dunno... If you took a few random textbook physics problems, and replaced all of the nouns and units with arbitrary consistent strings, do you think that it would be possible to tell an electromagnetic problem apart from a plumbing problem? What if the subject is an electric pump?

On that note, coffee, sugar and energy drinks should also be included. UV light is also somewhat addictive.

Carrots are not addictive though. I won't do anything for a carrot, no matter how many I've eaten in the past.

That instant-fear reaction to common stimuli is a symptom of PTSD, and is the reason that I flat-out refused pager duty after the first ~6 months. This system should be considered a workplace hazard; it has a measurable detrimental effect on employee health, and not all employees recover afterwards, as you and I are discovering for ourselves.

Systems like pager duty should be reserved for temporary crises, and should only notify people during their work hours. If a company can't afford three emergency-ops people, then they are probably overestimating the cost of downtime. If the company expects more than one incident per year, then they have a QA problem, not an ops problem.

Wow, that is an epic start! IMO, the best thing you could do, is to meticulously document your projects, for a blog / vlog. The shop build would be a great first project to kick off a Youtube channel, for example. This should put you in contact with others who have similar technical-farming projects. Lots of hacker types in the aquaponics field, as well.

If this was happening anywhere near me, I would be all over it. I am in the complementary situation; I have a ton of ideas about how I want to build up an experimental farm/nursery/farm-tech incubator, but inadequate space and funding. Hope we see your work here in the future.

Loss of intelligence / skill is the problem. If that AI understood your goal, and had the ability to modify your account, then we might actually prefer the AI version.

Holey hubris, Batman! I bet there will be large dark zones on the AV's maps, where they dare not go, for reasons they cannot comprehend with their own sensors.

A: A deeply sociopathic mindset. See the requirements section for details.

Git bisect is awesome. Before I discovered it, I was manually bisecting the codebase, and stubbing out the missing half.

Technically, these problems also exist with cloud providers, but we more or less trust them because of their reputation.

Perhaps a digitally signed NDA could be verified by a smart contract? Then, to prove the NDA was breached, a quick court case (standardized NDA) leads to a published ruling that the digital contract can check.

Combine the clear guidelines of a standard NDA with a proper court adjudicating the more complex disputes, and you have the foundation for a strong reputation system for Eth-cloud services. Is reputation already a thing in the Ethereum network?

Which animals has it been tested on, and where are the studies? Chemistry is presumed dangerous until proven safe.

Do these missiles require a working communications network? If this goes on long enough, there might not be any way to launch them.

And humans see patterns in a sample size of two ;)

Stopping a safe, automated vehicle would be trivial. Just dress up as a road worker, and hold up a stop sign. Do it above a manhole cover, and you have easy access to the bottom of the vehicle. A remote human supervisor might not even notice what was going on.

A Lisp might be an easy language to target, because of its consistent syntax and "code is data" philosophy. With Clojure, you could both reuse some of your work on Java, and support Clojure's Java interop. Attempting to support Clojure would drive improvements in the Java support.

Just tested again. Performance is good when idling, but while loading content in a heavy channel, scrolling gets laggy and one CPU plateaus for a while. Maybe the app is inserting DOM nodes individually, in a loop?

I guess it's too early for me to evaluate the performance of Twist, because I am not on any large teams there. But I can see that Slack at least, has room for improvement in rendering performance. Perhaps there is some general optimization they are missing out on, like immutable state + shouldComponentUpdate. That one saved a flailing app of mine in the past.

I'm in Firefox on Linux, i7-4500U, 8GB ram.

Well, the native Slack app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app, as far as I can tell. The performance feels roughly the same for both web and desktop.

The main reason I kept the desktop app, is so that I don't need to "download" the app every time my browser's cached copy is invalidated or expires. But being able to start the app with a couple keystrokes from my OS's quick launch menu is also nice.

He also fired a low shot across the bow at us tab-indenters. Unfortunately for him, I :set sw=8, and am therefore out of range.

Right off the bat, this has much better performance on my laptop than Slack; Slack really spins the fans. Also, that extra layer of organization provided by the thread column was needed badly. I personally was hoping for tags and tag-groups in Slack, but this should also do nicely.

We have been using Slack as a UI for our backend services, for example, and it is a great way to present reports and alerts, and offer basic controls to the relevant person. For me, whether or not I actually adopt Twist will depend on how easily I can interact with it from my own software.

I would suggest making the integrations page easier to find - I had to troll through the Zendesk archive to find it, even though it is a core feature. Also, a link to the API docs on the help page would be nice. (Edit: Didn't realize until now that integrations are at the channel level, not the top level.)

API docs: https://doist.gitbooks.io/twist-api/content/