adamdonahue

So a floppy disk has a disc inside?

This post is pure AI alarmism.

This.

Hammer meet nail.

The same issue plagues the American higher education system, which is wildly overpriced.

Right-o.

There's an opportunity here. Put the video on both YouTube and a blockchain, make it easy to find on the latter via the YouTube URI, then when one discovers a non-working link you YouTube you can pivot to the blockchain-based backup. Once enough people know about this hack it then, with a browser plug-in, censorship be gone!

This is obviously off-the-cuff, undetailed thinking here, but an approach like this might make sense in the future.

It was indeed "diddle," not "twiddle." At BAML, it's a "tweak." Beacon Platform is another implementation by the same team (but with support for the public cloud, and many more advanced features, I believe, including tighter web integration). I think it uses the terminology "bind."

[Disclosure: I was part of the Quartz Core team in 2011/2012.]

Spot on.

But it's only debt if business decisions mean you must change it. I've seen far too many programmers crawl through legacy code that need not be replaced (it does its job) merely because it's using an outdated technology. But if there's no business justification for that, I'd argue it's not debt at all. There is absolutely nothing wrong with some ugly COBOL code doing its job with no current need for modification. That's not debt. Debt is something you have to pay back.

It's only debt if you have to pay it back.

I'm having trouble grokking the results here. If I put in 50 basis points for a seed-funded company it calculates as no return until a $40M exit. I'd like to see the justification for this.

Hacker News is the ultimate waste of time. Correction: Hacker News _comments are the ultimate waste of time.

It's definitely not "zero cost." It may be a low cost, but as with any choice, there is always an opportunity cost.