jbpetersen

Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen.

Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt.

There's a lot of people who understand the larger vision around the decentralization crowd if you can find them in the haystack of hypesters.

You could always move to where things are booming and see your salary double overnight.

Spamming at least one private telegram channel for upvotes without contributing anything.

You might try looking here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/

There does need to be some sort of sane standard for determining whether something counts as a threat/incitement if they're not going to be permitted.

Say I'm very popular on twitter, and say I don't like somebody for whatever reason. If there's a reasonable expectation that this will result in them being mobbed by my less personable followers, does that count as incitement?

Or at what point does aggressive banter in good faith become an actual threat in [favorite multiplayer video game]?

On the other hand, targeted subsidies can push economies of scale to tipping points of self-sustainability.

If there's lots of low hanging fruit then a broad tax/subsidy makes sense, but if you need high levels of investment into specific things to make a difference, then use the tool for the job.

Which end of the spectrum incentivizing green behavior/tech mainly lies towards is left as an exercise for the reader.

Having played around with building exactly that, the conclusion I came to is that REST is nice for not having the additional setup step of establishing a websocket connection as well as having the considerably better support for simultaneous http requests over rebuilding that part of the networking stack once again and layering it on top of everything else.

For real-time subscriptions though, websockets (pardon my grammar) are wonderful. Hence why all the above will probably be ignored as they become a trend and people at large learn the sensible limits of what to use them for.

Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.

Tried this on coinmarketcap.com and it broke horribly.

You've got some bugs to work out but this is a very fun and useful idea.

Now you've got me curious how much people have experimented with making AIs play "incremental" games where there's literally nothing but build order planning.

Unapproved third-party APIs.

A journal made up of both digital logs and a physical notepad, a graph of associations between things, and a wiki for deeper details on specific topics.

If you dig into the origins of a buzzword, it's highly likely there's a very valuable concept hiding underneath the accumulated cruft.

Had I known this sooner it would've sped me along considerably towards finding a lot of cool things that give me more motivation to program.

What were each of them in a nutshell?

So what's preventing market saturation from everyone lobbying until the ROI drops to something sane?

Network effects of people who held one that skyrocketed then diversifying into others and news around any given one skyrocketing drawing people to the space in general.

Not to mention that every single one is an experiment that feeds back into the collective knowledge of what makes a good cryptocurrency, even as any individual one can only choose a single set of all the known tradeoffs.

I believe Animats was referring specifically to disruption of industry incumbents and failed to clarify that.

Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.

I'm trying to get an online community together over the next few months for some of the same stuff. More generally for learning through collaborative experimentation. My email's in my profile if you're interested.

You might try setting up a simple blog and chatroom combo specifically for what you're learning and trying to get a few others to join in on some parts for the mutual support. Half your list is stuff I'd love to join in on if the timing worked out and I doubt I'm the only one if you do decide to get small groups together for at least some parts of your adventures.

Worth mentioning is also the typical advice of teaching others being one of the most effective learning methods.

Seen https://blankslate.io/?

I'm really just curious what everyone's using for any given situation.

I don't move much around myself, but I anticipate that changing and it's nice to have a broader picture of what's out there.

"Of course, the Internet doesn’t remember that he worked on cryptocurrency almost 20 years ago (with Zooko of ZCash) before he started BitTorrent."

Citation needed.

And then there's Urbit, the unusual suspect.

Abstract:

According to one common view, information security comes down to technical measures. Given better access control policy models, formal proofs of cryptographic protocols, approved firewalls, better ways of detecting intrusions and malicious code, and better tools for system evaluation and assurance, the problems can be solved. In this note, I put forward a contrary view: information insecurity is at least as much due to perverse incentives. Many of the problems can be explained more clearly and convincingly using the language of microeconomics: network externalities, asymmetric information, moral hazard, adverse selection, liability dumping and the tragedy of the commons.

Thank you for this. I wish there were more people (or bots) like you who made thoughtful highlights.

Unfortunately having a flashy website seems to beat out good UX when it comes to attracting the 8 digit sums regularly being thrown at ICOs.

Better yet: Short their stock, then write a scary blog post about the problem.

To clarify I mean cases where someone who didn't vote in one election may change their mind in the next if the right candidate shows up.

If you're slicing a higher-dimensional space and can only slice so far from a point you start slicing from, then the problem gets even more interesting.

Already there if you count inferring things people would prefer to keep private by looking at probabilities given their visible activity.

What is it about the US political system that forces things back towards a evenly split equilibrium?

I don't agree with the typical "vendors on a beach" (move towards the center until you each grab the half that's closer to you) metaphor since it seems to discount the possibility of being so far away from people that they're alienated to the point of non-participation. I could see it being cyclic though between that and periods of recapturing alienated demographics.