victorvosk

Not sure how much you are joking, but all the "apps were better in the 90s" blog posts overlook the absurd flexibility web apps have gained over the years.

VB and its ilk were used to write apps that were used in a very specific way. Many times companies wrote apps not just their business use cases, but literally with the expectation of the hardware their users had in the office, the network they were on and who would be maintaining the machines. Ultra rigid user experiences, but still somehow were bug prone.

Today its like, oh yeah, a user had an issue, they were searching our million record database on their smart toaster, one of the table columns weren't aligned correctly and it was slow to load.

I mean as nice as this sounds, our money is spent on all sorts of things we know nothing about. Should we all be provided with the schematics for F-35s?

"I'm fortunate to be in a financial position where damage to my credit score wouldn't be the end of the world.."

Then why did you bother using a pay later scheme for a few hundred dollars on some sketch retailer?

This is like the person that chose to walk down a dark alley in a large unfamiliar city and can't believe they got mugged.

I am more shocked the 2004 amazon link to file cards still works, but also sad that the 3 dollar pack is now 11 dollars :(

I am not sure why everyone is giving complicated answers. The answer is yes, borrow until you can't. The rich do this all the time.

This has been true for decades now. We are locked into a downward trend where 0% will ultimately be the norm. We will then decide what is more important, preserving sanity or going negative. The price of sanity will be pain like no one has ever experienced since the great depression.

I am sensing a pattern here.. just can't put my finger on it...

Don't you mean MAANG :D

But its Facebook for sure. If it wasn't for buying Instagram they would circling the drain right now.

Google is the king of search and ads. Apple is the premium product company and now chip maker. Netflix is in a saturated market but have proven they can make original content. Amazon runs the vast majority of the internet on its servers, let alone retail sales.

GPU's went up as crypto gained popularity, crypto has gained popularity as governments kept printing more money handouts. We now have high inflation, high demand, chip shortages, supply chain shortages and high crypto popularity because of out of control fiat printing.

This also coincides with the governments sudden desire to regulate the industry despite it existing for nearly a decade now. Its a leak in the their system. You can't print money and hand it out where you want if someone has a hedge against your money printers.

Right, because GPU's are expensive and scarce because of crypto, and all other inflation, demand and supply chain issues are a completely unrelated topic that just happens to be coinciding... /s

Go and Rust compared to vim script is an Apples to Space Shuttle comparison.

So many of these conversations can be broken down to the things you find valuable might not be the thing others find valuable and there is no right or wrong. You either get it or you don't. I have zero desire to collect model trains, but I understand some people do and there is probably value there in that community.

Web3 as a concept is decentralization primarily, though it was invented by people championing crypto. The idea that the web can't be censored or controlled by gov't or large corporations. Everyone should be able to easily contribute and maintain web3. The blockchain is the "logical" place for it to live since a blockchain is just a distributed compute and database platform.

There are several massive hurdles to overcome that non-technical people gloss over or flat out don't understand. Even if you store all the data in a distributed database, store all static files in distributed file systems, a single user would still need a single point of entry to access this network. It seems like a centralized DNS like system would still be needed.

Even if there were multiple providers of this DNS like service, it would put the onus on the user to figure it out. This has never historically worked well for the average user. Also, internet access itself is still typically controlled by a few providers given a users area.

The reality is web3 and crypto is putting too much responsibility on the user. Everyone uses gmail and google because its easy and effective and no one cares its centralized. iPhones are popular because they are easy and the average user doesn't care that Apple controls the ecosystem.

The vast majority of the stuff on this timeline are hacks and user mistakes, not sure that constitutes a "grift". The only difference between this and all of other tech sectors is they can't cover up the fact they got hacked.

I think the biggest hurdle to web3 is user responsibility and tech savviness. There was an assumption that younger generations would become better at advanced tech as time went on but that doesn't seem to be playing out. Using an iPhone effectively and avoiding online scams are two different skillsets. The problem is rampant in all tech, not just crypto.

Centralized organizations protect users from the absurdly dumb stuff they do. You can't have decentralized institutions and an adult nanny service at the same time.

All that being said, most of HN seems hypocritically upset at crypto. Its a distributed encrypted database, with some having distributed remote procedures. Nothing more than fancy tech. Are people scamming with it? Sure, but people have scammed with everything under the sun since the beginning of time, nothing has changed about human nature.

It doesn't seem like they draw any correlation to food intake since the mice were genetically modified to just emit the proteins from their livers.

My guess is healthy diet and exercise go a long way. Don't drink and avoid sugar (diabetes) both of which are damaging to the liver.

I don't even know where to begin. We are at this stage in the crypto bull market that all the smart people who refuse to believe in it are getting upset and are writing angry articles.

You cannot realistically write an article dumping on NFTs and digital assets unless you also go after 95% of game developers which are making exponentially more money on microtransactions than the entire NFT marketspace.

Underground gambling rings formed around CS:GO skins. People are spending thousands of dollars on ships in Start Citizen. Most of League of Legends business model is in-game skins.

These are all digital assets that the users don't even really own if they read the terms of service. They are nothing more than flex pieces in game that can be taken away at any time. Don't even get me started on mobile games targeting kids.

But for some reason the bridge too far is adults putting jpegs in their twitter profile pictures.

This study seems a little weird (crap) in that they started with a hardcore twice a week fast for a month then dialed it back to once a week. Unless I missed it, I don't see an explanation of why this approach was taken in the paper.

Given the subjects were high cholesterol and/or diabetic, it makes me think their life styles sucked already. I couldn't imagine living like then suddenly being told to stop eating for entire days. I would not be shocked if people didn't really adhere to the guidelines. It seems a food diary was the only thing keeping them "honest". Also a staggering 40% of all participants refused to answer how much alcohol they consumed on average.

If you are going crazy with food or lack of exercise for 6 out of 7 days, I don't think taking a break for one day a week is going to make much of a difference.