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At some point I realized this is why my girl friends almost never play online games without us queued with them :(

I think iPhone users skewing younger is likely to be the culprit.

There’s more than 25 billion on the line with the merge so it’s not like they’re stalling for fun.

How ironic would programming getting automated before truck driving be?

There's too much talent being wasted by a lot of the "sports" being slight variations of the same core game mode (e.g. 5v5 shooters, MOBAs). Imagine Lebron James and Steph Curry playing in different leagues because one has a 4 point line and the other allows for more contact on drives.

I feel like esports have the potential to be enormous but won't reach that until standard formats are established. I'm thinking some FIFA, FIA, IOC, etc., -type group releasing spec sheets and FOSS client/server implementations that developers then port into their own engines. The idea being that the barrier to entry is so low that anyone can experience the game. It's not a coincidence that the most popular sport in the world is also the most accessible.

This is usually the part of the HN comment where I plug my startup that solves the exact problem, but sadly that's not the case today.

I understand that. But if we have no problem hand waving discrimination away as self-selection when the exact same conclusion is drawn for other groups, I don’t see how this is suddenly different.

Half the top comments on this very thread decry DEI efforts while calling this wrong without the slightest hint of irony.

I’m glad I scrolled far enough to catch one of the few thought-provoking comments in this thread.

> exercising their own agency and choosing different fields.

If we accept this as true, fields dominated by women should receive the same grace.

Until you need funding and find out you don’t fit the profile of a successful founder.

Any claim about the future needs backing. That’s the only thing separating a thesis from a magic 8-ball.

> Blockchain is cold fusion for tech bros.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...

There's no debate to be had most of the time. Something about this particular topic makes people so prone to decide they're right first, then debate as if making the smallest concession means defeat.

Any discussion on the basis of "X will solve Y" or "X will most likely NOT solve Y" predictably spirals on and on because the parties chose hypothetical claims that can't be falsified so it's easier to play with semantics and pretend the other doesn't get it yet.

The Apple Watch can stand alone as a wireless wrist-mounted music player. It almost reminds me of an iPod nano but that’s maybe still too many frills.

Would you say there are people whose financial gains depend on preventing the things “Web3” claims to do?

They did use some of the fake weETH to trade for 430k SOL, valued at a little under $40 million.

https://explorer.solana.com/address/CxegPrfn2ge5dNiQberUrQJk...

This isn’t the quite the scenario he was talking about. The Wormhole exploit is just a bug that could’ve occurred even if the bridge didn’t cross chains.

Despite being large, it was still an isolated incedent compared to the multi-chain heist one could pull off with a 51% attack on a single chain.

Correct.

This is true.

I don’t doubt that they could move the money but their bigger problem is a single misstep between the wallet and a bank account immediately putting an end to the scheme.

Probably a bad time to say blockchain solves this, but spinning up a (very) basic swap contract is trivial. He doesn’t need to trust them.

The future of finance btw.

I do think the exploiter takes the $10M deal. As it stands, attempting to cash any amount out is somewhere between very dumb and life-threatening.

If you count carbon offsets:

https://solana.com/news/solana-foundation-carbon-neutral-202...

Front page of HN yesterday: Facebook/Google/PayPal/Apple/Whatever took down my page/email/account/app and irreparably harmed my business.

Front page of HN today: Why Web3 is a scam and has zero real world use cases beside grifting.

Surely this is getting old? Can we get an article about Ethereum straying from it’s mission of accessibility? About “low-fee” blockchains consistently grinding under load?

If blockchains are low bandwidth by nature how can the DeFi movement claim to be the future of finance? Do large VC allocations of projects purporting to be infrastructure threaten the future legitimacy of Web3? I don’t know, but it seems the only people that care about these questions are the frauds and suckers referred to in the article.

The episode dropped in 1992 (the dub in 2008). I imagine $30 was egregious at that point.

Lucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly unionized and went to $40/cut.

[something something it wasn’t like this under the XYZ administration]

> The solution is selling standardized contracts to small hold farmers that pay out automatically

And how easy do you think that is in Kenya?

You and I being able to take stable banking and government for granted says more about our own position in the world than it does about the efficacy of the technology itself.

Blockchain Climate Risk Crop Insurance: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/project/climate-risk-crop-...

No, the claim is that the schools named colluded to fix financial aid to avoid bidding wars over students that need aid. This is legal so long as their admissions process is need-blind. However, the filing repeatedly mentions that the defendants allegedly give preference to "children of wealthy donors".

So it's save money by colluding on aid calculations or save money by picking wealthy applicants, and explicitly not both.

> Method and apparatus for adjusting volume levels in a multi-zone system - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en

Is this why I can’t change the volume on a Google Home speaker group anymore?

Oh wow that’s actually a better distribution than the stock market [1]. But maybe Wall Street’s a Ponzi scheme too.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...

You would download the game from the same place you’d get updates if you bought a physical copy off a friend. The purpose isn’t decentralized downloads. It’s retaining the ability to virtually press the eject button and put the disc in a different console.

The token would have to be fungible such that an individual license can only be authenticated and not identified (“this is a real copy of the game” vs. “this is the copy we individually banned”)