larrysalibra

I did a road trip that passed through Serbia a few years ago and we couldn’t find any restaurant that wasn’t full of smoke besides McDonald’s so we just skipped eating meals until we got to a neighboring country that didn’t have this problem.

Nostrovia - a podcast about Nostr

https://nostrovia.org

Feel free to use MyBlockchain https://www.myblockchain.xyz/

Back in 2016, my name ended up on the physical menu in a restaurant in Shenzhen as the english translation for the dish 美式杂扒饭 - "American-style assorted grilled meats." https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/728498064877490176

Despite living in Hong Kong and traveling frequently to Shenzhen at the time, I found out from a high school buddy from growing up in Ohio that lived in the USA and had no real connection to China besides this one business trip.

It appears someone who couldn't read english at all had used baidu translate to translate the menu. It turned out baidu translate was translating "扒饭" - assorted grilled meats - to my Twitter (HN, etc) username for YEARS.

https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/959749866036408320

Crazy world.

Lesson: if you can't read the language, blindly trusting translation is always a bit of a gamble!

Apple knows what form of work is best for Apple. If it turns out they are wrong, they'll eventually suffer in the market as the result of making the wrong choice.

That said, being remote or hybrid first seems like it would be a huge competitive advantage for a least some teams in Apple...like the Facetime team.

I tried using their "new" like zoom Facetime meeting with a URL feature for a work-related meeting. The lack of basic functionality like a text chat to share links and other notes in shows that Apple either doesn't actually use Facetime for their own remote meetings or they have no idea how most people use these types of tools to collaborate.

> “Sorry, you have citizenship from the High Risk Country list, accordingly I’m not allowed to open this account for you. This is a commercial decision of the bank and will not be reversed.”

This sounds like what I heard from a lot of non-US financial companies when I used to be American and then didn't want to open accounts. Frustrating but predictable and probably intended outcome from regulator behavior.

Or check out Moxie Marlinspike's old boat he fixed up in Florida with friends and sailed away in: https://vimeo.com/15351476

Carriers can also configure physical SIMs to only work with certain equipment.

Yes, you can usually pay inside. Also, just entering any 5 digit zip code will often work. Had no issues with random 5 digit zip codes and my UK and HK-issued cards at gas pumps in the USA.

Thanks! That's super helpful!

This post made me think about the personal DO droplets I have and how I’m backing them up. I’m currently using the built in back up feature…but that doesn’t protect against DO preventing me from accessing my backups.

What does everyone do to easily and automatically back up their side project droplets offsite?

Because you might want to leverage the reputation, credibility and following you built in one online community to another. Example: I learned about patio11 here on HN and was impressed by him actions in this community which lead me to follow patio11 on Twitter.

I agree that one of the great things about the internet is that you don't have to have the same identity in different communities. It's optional. Facebook's business model gives them a strong incentive to remove that optionality.

Apple updated their release notes to instruct users to download Xcode from their developer website instead of using the Mac App Store version:

> If you’re using Swift packages either standalone or as dependencies in an Xcode project or workspace, the Mac App Store version of Xcode fails during package resolution with the error “Internal error: missingPackageDescriptionModule (86435800)

> Workaround: Download Xcode 13.2 directly from the Apple Developer website.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note...

I’m on the latest version of iOS (15.1.1) and it doesn’t load for me either. Perhaps the server hosting the video file is overloaded?

In fairness to the present, the first post on HN about bitcoin[1] had 3 comments:

1) this is amazing and will save humanity

2) this is dumb no one will ever use it

3) this is confusing

That ratio doesn’t seem that much different than recent posts.

I think you’re right that most people at least on HN have decided what they believe when it comes to bitcoin.

Ultimately money is a belief and not just any belief but one so central to our identities that we often organize our lives around how we can get enough money.

Strong beliefs get tied into our identities so that threats to those beliefs will be viewed as many as attacks on their identities.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

The original DAO “hack” was reversed by censorship: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao

I put “hack” in quotes because at the time the community loudly was proclaiming “code is law” and if you accept that the person accused of hacking didn’t break any “laws” of the DAO…he simply used it according to the code published in the smart contract. The community decided to hard fork, change the rules and censor his transaction.

You could make the same argument that was censorship in bitcoin had a transaction been made that exploited the inflation bug before the fix was pushed out: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/

It's not the UK, but in Hong Kong on iOS 15, Apple Maps now automatically taps you on the wrist (apple watch) right before it's time to get off the public bus at your stop. It is freakishly accurate.

In the El Salvador law, Article 7 goes beyond the typical definition of legal tender - the recognition by courts as payment for debts - and requires everyone to accept Bitcoin.

I think about it time to time. But haven’t come to any conclusions. Some things about Italy are great - the geography and people. And compared to the USA they treat me very well as an Italian abroad - they proactively send me a ballot to vote every year and even give overseas Italians our own representatives in the legislature.

I’ve certainly liked visiting a number of places in the EU - it might be fun to try to live there.

Thanks for reading!

The stay versus go debate in HK is always very interesting and one that has been going on for decades and will no doubt continue for many people.

As a former American who lived abroad for about 11 years before renouncing, “cartoonishly cruel” is a pretty accurate description of the system. It’s even worse an American entrepreneur abroad because that makes things even more complicated.

I gave up jumping through the hoops in 2018 and the self-torture and renounced. I shared my story in case anyone is interested: https://larrysalibra.com/goodbye-usa/

If this Twitter subscription offered freedom from ads and tracking, this would have been an instant buy. A subscription to add an undo button and change the app icon? Hard pass.

Now if only they’d use the macOS native print dialog like every other app. What ever possessed them to roll their own print dialog?

The hamburger menu doesn’t work on iOS Safari either!

Send me your bitcoins and I’ll buy food and have it sent to you.

I’m sure you’ll find many others willing to take your bitcoin in exchange for helping you buy what you need or provide the services you require.

Hi! Larry, Founder of New Internet Labs, building in the Stacks ecosystem here.

Your understanding of smart contracts is correct - whenever smart contracts deal with stuff in the physical world you need to have an oracle.

In my experience over past half decade, there's been a lot of misleading information spread by people about smart contracts with schemes like claim to be a good use for smart contracts that suffer from oracle problems. A lot of this has come from naive people that just didn't other stand, but some has been spread by people looking to make others part with their money.

The way I think about smart contracts, is that if you need to trust someone in the real-world, by default you probably don't want or need a smart contract.

That said, there are a subset of such instances where smart contracts that depend on trust in real world entities have proven to be very useful. Wrapped tokens and stablecoins are an example of this - Tether being the most famous.

And the ever classic: https://hodlroi.com/

I was just looking for something like this the other day when talking with someone about how they should be thinking of their investment returns in terms of BTC and not USD (which has increased in supply > 25%) in the past year.

This website, though a bit barren, nicely illustrates the point.

Another related one is: https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/

According to the article I linked, one that gives max 600 watts costs around US$5000.

The market is very small for hydro generators for sailboats.

Solar is much cheaper because you can buy products that are targeted at mass market instead of only at sailboats.

Source: I was recently purchased by a sailboat.

Hydro generators exist! They are relatively expensive for the small amount of power they generate: https://www.sailmagazine.com/diy/know-how-hydro-generators