With all the love and respect in the world, who do you think you're talking about? Emmet Shear is not trans to my knowledge, (nor, I suspect, his knowledge). If you think this was about Mira Murati, you should really get up to date before telling people off about pronouns.
We have that in Sweden too. As an expat it's a complete nightmare for me from day one. Getting my bank to successfully issue it was impossible.
First, in the days before mobile bank-id, they sent windows-only hardware as I recall. Then came the days of letters/cards/hardware getting lost in the mail.
I gave up on it in the end. I have multiple things (banking-wise) I no longer have online access to because of it.
If you're going to make one system to rule them all you need to make sure the logistics actually work.
(3 years ago I moved to Norway)
It took me about a month to get into the system, but once I had my national ID it took about a week for my MFA dongle to arrive. After that It has been a great experience.
> I have a third party which returns errors ~20% of the time outside of working hours
Then presumably those errors shouldn't be exceptions. Of course, there's a lot of a lot of assumptions behind this:
1. You have control over the code that interfaces with the third party. Otherwise presumably you'd have to write a shim that catches the exception and turns it into an error value, and that's probably not worth the effort.
2. You're work in a language that doesn't type check exceptions (i.e. not Java with checked exceptions) and your language also doesn't have a nicer way of handling errors as a (discriminated) union.
3. Your co-workers will go complete bananas if you start using some sort of result type or [success, value|error] tuple instead of an exception because that's how they've done it for 20 years.
The reason for this is that exceptions in most languages escape the type system and are in general more awkward to catch.
Of course, I'd also disagree with "do not log" in this context, though I might prefer a logging mechanism that allowed me to write queries on it (like recording values in a database).
Well, unless it's reasonable for your own software to fail the same 20% of the time (well, more, but knowing how much more requires more information) when outside of working hours, you will always need a shim anyway.
It's not unlike the panic buying at the start of the pandemic. The media is driving this hysteria because a) it fits their narrative around brexit, and b) fear & outrage sells.
The media may have made the problem appear a little faster, but they can't be the actual cause of the shortage, the supply strain existed well before the first headline was ever pushed.
What narrative around Brexit? I see a lack of narrative around Brexit. We are always told about “supply chain issues” with barely any reflection on the cause.
Yes, other nations in Europe have supply chain issues, but they’re not seeing the problems we’re seeing in the uk.
This is a Brexit issue, but no major media outfit seems to be holding the government (who are the architects of the exit and the deal) accountable. Especially the serial liar at the top.
I don't disagree with what you said, but for context: when these players do speedruns they typically start from 600 ELO and work their way back up to GM, so they face players at every level as part of that 100-game streak.
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> Investors only care about getting more press releases out so they can pump up the price of their discounted tokens, which have a shortened lockup period relative to something like stocks. It’s almost like a pump-and-dump scheme for investors.
"almost"
If even useful services are being abused for speculation, it's time to realise the entire space is fundamentally broken. We've already seen massive fraud in the space, it's only a matter of time before people who fundamentally don't understand what they are "investing in" are left holding bags. It will necessarily collapse because of how it's being used. (imo)
How is this any different from the "web tech" space at large? Where investors will push towards "data-hoarding", privacy-invasion, dark patterns and/or addictiveness or other psychological "abuse", more often than not?
Because these crypto companies are generally deliberately marketing themselves as the democratic solution to the original problem through this new decentralized technology. Then when their private discord and telegram groups get exposed for pump and dump scams, their go to defense rings of your comment “so what, it’s the way it’s always been”
I think the real issue is that in 2009-2013 it was used by people who understood the risks. Now it is used by retail investors with no clue, who will be hit hardest by it.
I suggested everyone buy it when it was under $500, I said invest with caution up to $1000. Now I can't in good faith suggest to people that they buy it. And I am fortunate, everyone who did buy it on my suggestion made plenty of money.. probably because they had me in their ear saying "don't sell it" when they hit their first bitcoin drop. I get messages often thanking me for introducing them to cryptocurrency. However I and sure that there are many who didn't buy it and now regret it. Same as there are others who bought it, sold at a loss and regret it. It has been repeated as Infinitum, only invest what you can afford to lose and that is most definitely still the case. Bitcoin can still go to zero (or close enough not to matter) but It could also go to $100,000, and right now latter is more likely, but I feel as the price goes up so does the chance it goes to zero.
The thing is your entire post is about investment and making money or losing money...what does that have to do with p2p electronic currency and the democratization of money?
Buy/hodl has converted the concept for electronic currency, if there really ever was one, into a money making endeavor based on your current wealth and ability to risk a loss. That’s the antithesis of democratization, or 1 person 1 vote, but a I was here first so that makes me king now get on your knees and grovel at my supremacy.
The only real way to look at Bitcoin is as if there is an AI operating in the background with the sole intent of taking “investors” money through constant cycles of FOMO pump and dumps. It’s a stock without any assets or profits backing its value, at any point the shareholders could just start a new company and nothing would be lost by abandoning Bitcoin, because it’s just a shell company with nothing inside.
That's why it's the investment space that needs disruption - which is why crypto is met with so much pushback on HN. A year ago, crypto-related stories made front page much less often, if at all.
Because people here try to understand the technology and its usage before riding the hype train. Most people investing in Ether for example have no idea what it even means. But when you ask them they would spit answers like "it's going to revolutionize finance..". When you ask them how, they have no answer. When you ask them for specific applications that they know of outside of the stupid NFT, they send you to Google. Yesterday someone on Youtube gave an example about a fridge that will order you eggs and milk when they run out, and everything will be done on the blockchain.
Not a crypto hater. I even invest for fun and because you cannot deny the opportunity to make money rn. But don't expect people to ride the train blindly. I do think that crypto isn't going anywhere. But the current valuation of these coins is just absurd rn.
IMO these things are basically driven by speculation as well. From what I can tell, they mainly provide liquidity for financial institutions. Financial institutions are interested in crypto so that they can make money trading it. IMO there is very little actual utility here.
I think it's a fair question, but these are not great examples, IMO.
COD skins and Roblox bucks can only be produced and sold by one company, so I don't see why you would need a decentralized protocol for them. CS:GO doesn't use DeFi, and apparently the market was active enough to be used almost entirely for money laundering.
For other financial markets, I can definitely see more of a case to be made, but it remains to be seen whether that will actually take off. From what I've seen, the crypto markets right now are primarily dealing in crypto, as I said.
The difference with COD skins being in-game vs on a blockchain is not only can you associate a universal identity to them (your wallet address), but anyone can see and trade for them anywhere. Maybe not the best example, but if you generalize to artwork/digital content it really makes sense.
Agreed. I think the real use for NFT is tradable identities/roles, which grant access to digital or physical experiences that span organizations. Remains to be seen whether someone builds a killer app/experience around that. So far, people are only interested in mundane simulation of physical scarcity.
I suspect financial institutions are interested in crypto because they don't want a new financial system with a more democratic organizational model to make them obsolete.
Maybe there are some forward thinking people there who want crypto to be the driving factor behind refactoring from COBOL, who knows.
2017 was very different. Crypto type stories frequented the front page with technical marvels. Then a few things happened... 1) we evaluated 2) this scamconomy arose 3) the bubble burst.
I was excited then, when it was new to me, but then I learnt the truth about blockchain
This website is being served to you using cryptography right now (tls).
I took web tech to mean the technology used to serve the web - the differences with cryptocurrencies are manifold, the principal one being that billions of people use the web every day to perform important functions, compared to cryptocurrencies where most users are simply speculating on prices.
1) A depending on B does not mean A is part of B (though I'd dispute cryptocurrencies requires the web to function at all, perhaps you're thinking of the internet?).
2) Cryptographic libraries (many relatively recent, e.g. go or rust libraries) are definitely an important part of the web, they're integral to web tech if you define web tech as the tech that powers the web.
The tokens issued in this case (on of the few) have a purpose which is not speculation. If large amounts of speculation is undermining the business itself then yes I think that might qualify as a form of abuse? Happy to use an alternative term of your choice, ESL etc.
I'm not sure if the price speculation actually undermines the underlying businesses. For example, I participate in a blockchain wiki project. On the telegram there is a lot of people talking about the price but I don't feel like it diminishes the usefulness of the project. I asked questions about editing, the admins helped me out and I was able to use the platform.
The complete lack of sense of scale that is on display when making comparisons between either of those and a one-term clown who will go down as a footnote in history is borderline disturbing.
The Democrats right now are coming off as willing to sacrifice civil liberties wholesale to ensure their own power. This has gone far beyond "a return to sensibility". When you start outsourcing unconstitutional behavior to the private sector, I see issues. Then again, in a twisted sort of way, I'm 100% a large chunk of the population has just given everyone ample evidence they are not to be trusted.
I'm sad it's come to that for us as a nation, but it's galvanized me to work with the handful of people I hold close to start building up Nexii of good business. So there is that.
The American Ideal, and the values we're supposed to stand up for do not look like how people are acting right now. The rest of the world is watching this meltdown, and our wholesale burning ofany high ground we managed to achieve, and well... That's it. Sad to see is all.
> I'm 100% a large chunk of the population has just given everyone ample evidence they are not to be trusted.
I am interested in what makes you think a large chunk of the population can not be trusted?
I think that the news has acted as a wedge to drive people apart as much as possible. The BLM protests have some good points but also have violence surrounding it. Trump supporters may not have the best points but there has been evidence of voter fraud in the past and asking for investigation is not a bad thing, violence is unacceptable.
With all the love and respect in the world, who do you think you're talking about? Emmet Shear is not trans to my knowledge, (nor, I suspect, his knowledge). If you think this was about Mira Murati, you should really get up to date before telling people off about pronouns.