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neals··on Germany has three months to save itself from a winter gas crisis
As always, Russia is waiting for Winter to force their enemies hand.
neals··on I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
Ah yes, a blockchain thread on HN. It doesn't get more black and white than this. As a neutral person, I love these. However, there's so much personal trauma on both sides that I sincerely would like to give all commenter here a hug and tell them it will pass and it will end up OK for everybody. Please don't forget that we're all just people on here and that none of us have all the information and context matters.

Let's all respect that some people work on this and try to come up something good for everybody. And also, some people don't or have had bad experiences. Love <3

neals··on Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
I would have loved Stadia and we've considered Google cloud for our business, but for obvious reasons have chosen differently. Which makes it kinda self-fulfilling.
neals··on Saudi Crown Prince unveils plans for $500bn structure to house 9M people
Make it a circle, get rid of the mirror, fill in the center. Bam! You got yourself a city.
neals··on Log4j: The pain just keeps going
As a small time hobby / small business server administrator (enthusiast) , what's the best practice here?
neals··on Herbert W. Franke has died
... who died in 1986
neals··on An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS
That's another level. CSS for me just means traversing through deeply nested divs looking for the culprit that has an unwanted padding or margin or, more likely, something completely different that makes little sense to me, causing the icon to misalign by 2px. :)
neals··on Unity merges with IronSource
IronSource is pure evil. Godot is starting to look more and more interesting ...
neals··on Monads are a class of hard drugs
So monads are from functional programming, right? 10 years or so ago they were all the hype on here. I tried to follow so many Youtube (and written) tutorials on Monads, but I never understood.

Maybe I should try again not that I'm a bit older and more experienced...

neals··on Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Lender Vauld Suspends Withdrawals
I'm a crypto enthusiast and I don't share the common view here that blockchain is useless, however ... how do you offer 12% interest on a stable coin? Where is that money even supposed to be coming from?
neals··on World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)
Interesting take, I believe you. What is your background on this?
neals··on World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)
When 8B?
neals··on Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
I've been playing around on https://beta.openai.com/playground. It seems very powerful and weird. What are some interesting things to try out?
neals··on Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
Sounds interesting. How does one go about trying GPT3?
neals··on 700M users and Premium
That's actually awesome, does Telegram have an API of some sort?
neals··on 700M users and Premium
So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.
neals··on Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?
Well yes, but you asked about possible monitization and how they seemed scarse, but there's actually lots of value in creating these kinds of systems. You even came up with one of your own now :)
neals··on Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?
I appreciate your interest and I wish that I could. But we're not ready for that yet, sorry.
neals··on Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?
There's lots of ways to make money, actually. You just have to let go of the idea that you need to create value 'on chain' in some kind of fancy economic model, like DeFi, where you are on top of some pyramid.

DLT to us, is about trust. Not about the technical solution. It's an endless discussion between 'it could just as well be a database', yes it could. But to get competing parties to cooperate in a meaningful and productive way, requires either contracts and lawyers or DLT (with still some contract and lawyers, but less so, and only at the start)

The last one is much easier and faster to develop and innovate with.

Making money to us, is about adding value to an ecosystem and extracting a small portion of that to pay the bills.

neals··on Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?
Live by your own values, I'd say.

Crypto is interesting and is not going away. Find a company that does have proper values. Not all of it is about selling coins.

I run a very small DLT operation where we don't even mention crypto or blockchain. We just talk about empowering local communities and restoring biodiversity. We don't associate with Cryptobro's and there's plenty of companies like us.

I guess we're just a little harder to find because we don't scream so hard :)

Don't give up, apply you talent to create the world you do want to be a part of. <3

neals··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
Yes, the East India Company ran a much more efficient crypto exchange, obviously.
neals··on You have only so much time – are you using it right?
I love how you call it 'holding pattern', that really hits home for me. Playing stupid dopamine games, keeping me in a loop...
neals··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
Sound great, let England apply to join Scotland in a few years time.
neals··on SomaFM
Wow, I totally forget about this since Spotify. I used to listen to Groobe Salad all the time :) Thanks, donating and tuning in to some nice ambient beats and grooves!
neals··on Graphene may have found its killer app
Interesting. Anybody know what's being done with all that Graphene?
neals··on Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
Did you know that Pimp My Ride first aired in 2004. That is 18 years ago. A whole generation of now growns ups don't know the show.
neals··on Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
So, what kept us from pointing a camera in that direction and snapping this picture up until now?
neals··on Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?
Hi! Hope this reply is appropriate here, I'll delete it if not. I run a medium-size bootstrapping startup, working on environmental problems and financial equality. What are you looking for? (except 4 days and remote)
neals··on We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it
Well thanks, now I feel old..
neals··on What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?
I wouldn't be suprised if it's just a handcrafted spagetti of condition blocks in PHP .
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