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iPhone 12 models could only be serviced by Apple. A youtuber bought 2 iPhones and swapped their main boards to have a plethora of issues with the screen, battery and cameras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY7DtKMBxBw

I’m never going to buy another Apple product. The first blow was being unable to install linux to “my” devices.

I'll start from the RSA paper and see how it goes from there. I want to get to the Eth2 papers after 20 or so papers.

It’s 4Gb/s for Gigabit

IMHO, the popularity of Stackoverflow is powered by search engine results rather than their community. If they fail to create such a community, it’s probably hard to establish one around a Q&A app.

In a competition like this where network effects play a huge role, your app must be orders of magnitude better for some niche. It could be about revenue sharing, decentralization or something better.

On the other hand, some other smart people work on such interesting things at the cutting-edge and make profit doing so.

I’d prefer to live with a system where frontrunning is available for anyone rather than exchanges and brokers only. So that we could upgrade the system to be frontrunning resistant for good.

There’re front running resistant decentralized exchange PoCs on Ethereum. It’s only a matter of time (and governance) before we could have this technology on Ethereum.

“Mempool” is a pool of transactions and price offered for each VM instruction rather than a queue.

Frontrunning in this context is detecting transactions that yield in profit and submitting them to the pool with a higher price for each instruction (gas price).

Good point but it won’t stop DeFi’s growth. In my opinion, such risks shouldn’t stop DeFi’s growth neither. Similar risks have been present in conventional finance and economy too. Relevant: https://youtu.be/ed2FWNWwE3I

Instead of fearing from the risks we should quantify and analyze them.

Kickstarter, 2013: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backyardbrains/the-robo...

This post is like asking “What makes a painting good?” and answering in respect to realist paintings.

Likewise, photography is a broad discipline ranging from pictorialism to postmodernism and a good photograph is more than opportunity, emotion and execution.

A good argument, but not applicable for people practicing self-harm.

A quotation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm below:

“Those who engage in self-harm face the contradictory reality of harming themselves while at the same time obtaining relief from this act.

It may even be hard for some to actually initiate cutting, but they often do because they know the relief that will follow. For some self-harmers this relief is primarily psychological while for others this feeling of relief comes from the beta endorphins released in the brain. Endorphins are endogenous opioids that are released in response to physical injury, acting as natural painkillers and inducing pleasant feelings, and in response to self-harm would act to reduce tension and emotional distress. Many self-harmers report feeling very little to no pain while self-harming and, for some, deliberate self-harm may become a means of seeking pleasure.”

Proof-of-Work alternatives that could distinguish between a human and spoofing attempts is an important problem.

This patent is about this problem but it does not put forward a solution. It's probably an attempt for patent trolling in the unlikely case that a feasible genius solution would be found.

And then decided to take it off I guess?

I'd add https://pandemicvolunteers.org to coronavirus resources. It could provide the best relief.

I’m building a platform to connect volunteers with those in need during this global pandemic.

It should go live in a few days on https://pandemicvolunteers.org

It will start with “Hospital Support Staff” working under nurses formed from SARS-CoV-2 immune volunteers.

There is a theory on how memories are formed on neural networks through cycles of firings by an artificial intelligence pioneer. I’ve searched for it again to no avail.

Is there such a theory by Minsky?

Exposure to noise degrades hearing and have psychological consequences.

I really liked their methodology. How can I learn more of it?

Let’s see how is this going to influence Australia’s opinion on their coal powered cheap electricity.

This’s an essay on the short relationship between psychedelics and the Western culture.

I used to appreciate the security features of Apple products until it began to interfere with my freedom.

I’m telling this after wasting tens of hours to install a linux, any linux to my iMac Pro without success.

I’d highly recommend Sceptical Essays(1928) by Bertrand Russell to anybody interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144355.Sceptical_Essays

Since I can't edit this post, I've written my thoughts more clearly in a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/hantuzn/status/1202179388571340805

They could help with their money, but if they could help with their visions, social capital and network that would set them apart.

I admire Brian Acton in this respect. He regretted the decision of selling WhatsApp and publicized it. Since then he has taken on the leadership of Signal while donating money into it.

Dear Larry and Sergey,

Thank you for creating Google.

Nobody could prove that without it the web would have been a better place. You couldn’t have known what’s to come when you were raising hundreds of thousands of dollars as two students in 1998. Maybe your leadership has been one of the least evil among the possibilities in the evil world we live in.

However, we know what is it like to lose control of your company, and how it could inspire dystopian novels under your leadership now. There’re many lessons for all the entrepreneurs to take from your story.

I sincerely hope that you would prioritize the greater benefit rather than the Google’s benefit as years pass.

Sincerely, A Non-Googler, one of the 7.7 billion

You might relate with the following article titled:

“Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts Why I Quit a $500K Job at Amazon to Work for Myself“

https://danielvassallo.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts/

I really like this. It provides value as it is. If I were to build this, I’d focus on marketing and not try to monetize or have big expectations for 3+ years.

Flip buttons could have instantaneous fingerprint readers.

This is a container OS with additional security features. While it might be better, making it adopted widely would take a long effort.

In summary, the programmer building their batch email post tool didn’t know about the implications of adding the addresses in the TO field instead of the BCC field. They should have known about this though, as almost anyone that uses email knows.

One shouldn’t program something before learning how to do that thing probably manually.

BitMEX has many issue, I guess, that are downplayed here:

* They underestimated the importance of proper email usage.

* This functionality has been tasked to a programmer without enough knowledge on the subject.

* The code has not been tested / reviewed or reviewed competently

    * ... at the time of merge.

    * ... after it has been used in production.