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I'm impressed with and have been inspired by the work many programmers have produced, but I don't look up to them. As a matter of principle, I think it is unhealthy behaviour to idolise others.

Any BBC Micro emulator would do the trick.

Quite reminiscent of the Teletext 'alpha mosaic' characters, which were 2x3 block graphics characters.

It could be used to make pages like e.g. https://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/c4/1995-08-26-0046.0/4...

Indeed, and I think it's quite telling that the founder of D-Wave, along with some former D-Wave employees, have given up on their vision of quantum computing and are focusing their efforts on making industrial robots instead.

On the other hand, smartphones in cars are very useful for navigation, with real-time feeds of traffic congestion, voice control, and so on. I know you can do this with a dedicated navigation system, but I've never used one as good as what's built into every modern Android device. You just have to be disciplined enough to use it only for that purpose while driving.

I know what you mean though. Yesterday I was stuck behind a car doing 50 on a 70 road, and as I overtook I saw the driver was busy fiddling with their phone while they should have been paying attention to the road. Especially dangerous at that speed of traffic! Thankfully, I've found this sort of behaviour to be a rare occurrence.

There's not as much need for traditional TVs these days, given that you can watch almost anything via a computer and internet connection.

Why promote it now when you have nothing to release? Without any actual software to use and test, this just comes across as the usual overhyped ICO vaporware.

Your experience is not universal, and you are lucky that your work resulted in you becoming considerably richer.

So then, why would I work hard to become rich

Why do you think that working hard will make you rich? For the vast majority of people, this isn't the case at all.

Let's not revere the rich. Most of them acquired their wealth through a mixture of luck, unethical behaviour, and corruption.

You shouldn't blame economics for this. Nor should you blame states, banks, the rich, or anyone. The only things to be blamed for it is thermodynamics. Of course the universe couldn't exist stably without those laws, so maybe math itself should bear the guilt.

Could you elaborate on how you believe thermodynamics is to blame? I don't quite follow your argument.

What does being "queer, trans, disabled, people of color [or] those whose first language is not English" have to do with selling pornography for tips?

Not quite sure why this letter conflates the two.

Anyway, can't they use some service other than Patreon? For example, there are already quite a lot of 'camwhore' sites around that seem to be doing just fine.

Why is it suspicious? I don't see your reasoning here. Having a diverse range of DNS names requested doesn't seem to me to be an indicator of suspiciousness.

On earlier releases of iOS that had a public jailbreak released, I spent quite some time using HttPeek (https://github.com/Yonsm/HttPeek) to examine what various OS processes were sending, and found nothing untoward.

I'd be surprised if this had changed for the worse in more recent iOS releases.

So what makes you feel you deserve to earn more than 99.93% of the world's population?

Looks like you hit a nerve (perhaps a somewhat guilty one) with some users.

But I was wondering similar - why does the OP feel the need to earn this much money? I suspect psychological rather than financial insecurity, given that they're already likely to be a relatively high earner.

if you actually read it. Perhaps you're just repeating what the commentariat told you he said?

No, I did read his memo when it was first released publicly.

If I were him I'd be embarrassed to have published such a paper (rather than deluding himself into having been "fired for truth", as he put it).

A summary of the memo: intellectually weak arguments blaming anti-women bias on female biology, with dull side rants about leftists and communism.

Though Damore didn't say that directly, it is in part an underlying thesis of his essay.

So it's not a complete summary of his paper, but it's also not an inaccurate one.

Blockchain protocols typically aren't designed to be scalable because, based on what they are actually used for, they don't need to be.

Bitcoin was a cryptography research project that became popular outside of the usual circle of people interested in such things mostly due to these three somewhat overlapping groups: get-rich-quick types, criminals, and people who have deluded themselves into believing that Bitcoin will usurp the world's major currencies.

One those three, only the last group have any interest in massively scaling up blockchain technologies. Those looking to speculate on Bitcoin markets have no such concern, and the criminals are just feeding off Bitcoin's popularity for this rather than having an interest in making it scale; besides, they'd prefer a more anonymized cryptocoin to be popular rather than something that makes public the entire transaction history.

The 'true believers' of Bitcoin are outnumbered not only by these other two groups, but also by the general population who have no use case for Bitcoin at all.

This is why scalability is such a fringe issue for Bitcoin and other blockchain protocols - they're all just solutions looking for mass-scale problems.

Unless the chemistry book has a chapter titled "how to make a bomb to kill lots of people" with full instructions on how to assemble and detonate one using readily sourced materials, then I'm sure such books will be entirely unaffected by police investigations.

Indeed, I thought it quite telling that Damore's subreddit, that he actively moderates, is full of posts and comments hating on women.

And also that he's embraced becoming something of a folk hero for alt-right dullards.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but isn't this just an API that draws two letters inside a circle?

Why is this at the top of HN and receiving such accolades? It's neither interesting nor technically challenging.

Am I just missing the satire here?

If you're referring to this proposal by the UK government, you should know that the Tories are a right-wing party. Your rants about "the left" are misguided.

The article is about a proposed change of law in the UK. Your commentary about the US seems rather off-topic.

The real oppression is terrorist attacks that leave people in fear of their safety.

Not oppression: arresting some radicalised extremist for preparing themselves with terrorist training manuals and suchlike.

If someone is repeating watching beheading videos, engaging in terrorism forums, reading bomb-making instructions, and other such material, then I would rather prefer the police and the justice system to get involved. Better that than another terrorist attack that could have been stopped.

It saddens me that a rational move to prevent terrorism in its formative stages leads to such a knee-jerk negative reaction, with commenters ranting about "1984" and "infringing our civil liberties" and "leftist censorship" and other such overreacting nonsense.

Is this just not yet another case of unnecessarily attempting to shoehorn in blockchain technology where it's not really required?

This is basically a freelancing platform that has been overcomplicated by the use of a blockchain and 'smart contracts'.