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I'd bake in micropaynents based on digital currency from the very start.

So in other words I'd invent Bitcoin or eth and make them first class citizens on the web so we have p2p payments for content, and this would then happen before KYC and AML so everyone would be awash in a sea of digital currency and all world be right with the world.

I'd also pass a law in every country that created a Digital World Heritage Fund, making destroying of digital works and sites deemed heritage a crime or offence. Digital preserve for us and the future. And I'd make sure GeoCities was on the Digital Heritage List.

I'd also make search, and a basic news feed based social network first class citizens part of the infrastructure of the internet, free and available to everyone, and supported in the same manner that the network backbone is supported... Or better... I'm not an expert on that part, someone else can nut out the details of how to support it.

In that parallel universe, Zuckerberg would be expelled from Harvard for spinning off Hot or Not into a porn site called Facebook, and trying to blackmail students with sextapes for favors, and Larry would be CS head of dept at Stanford, while Sergei would lose both arms in a wingsuit accident and become a womanizing paralympian. Eric Schmidt would stay at Novell, and Google.com would be owned by a birdwatcher from Nova Scotia with a side hustle in crank conspiracy theories.

YouTube would be the most popular website in the world, where a cat would have its own channel and become the first animal billionaire, then be elected to the US Senate in Delaware, and then removed in a tax scandal.

2001 would never Pop and the founding team at Pets.com would now be there richest people in the world. Jeff Bezos would see no opening for a books retailer, or anything else, and would eventually find his biological father and take over the family bicycle shop and repair business, and would marry a waitress at the local diner who always remembered his order and always flicked him a smile.

Elon and Peter et al would never start X nor PayPal, but instead would move to LA and write scripts and get into Hollywood. Eventually co-directing DCs answer to the MCU and giving the LaRussos a serious run for their endless money.

This is good article. But the second example seems to suffer from the defect of the first. Removing default contracts and representing fixed contracts as intervals leaves it possible that these fixed contracts can overlap....which is probably...undesirable?

In that case, applying the remedy of the first example (a set of dates, and inferring that every 2nd (even zero length, to account for adjacent fixed) interval will be default,) introduces another bug where if you lop off any random date in that set or list, you invert everything.

I love the concept represented here, it is akin to normalization as in...simplify the representation so no redundancy is introduced as this usually leads to better results...but it seems it's no guarantee of better results.

But maybe that's just because the "model" we are simplifying from was not an optimal representation. Perhaps there's a better model of the second example that doesn't end up with the defect of the first example.

I really like this article but am struck by how something that I wanted to be almost a silver bullet trick for modeling, ends up being a mass of compromises mired in tradeoffs that doesn't show any clear way forward in the general case. Still, probably a good rule of thumb, but I guess this rule is not optimal...as it can have so many unworkable misinterpretations/misapplications.

It would be cool to see a list of, like, "Programming Heuristics", ranked by decreasing general applicability, of which this rule was a member somewhere far down the list.

Paul stamets is also the name of the Astromycologist on Star trek discovery.

Yeah I regretted it after posting, haha, but I'll stick to my word, I think I might prefer my prompt and get sick of the color so I'll add some optionality.

This is good but it's a bit too long for me to reply here, plus HN is saying my other account is posting too fast. I'd like to write something longer form addressing what you say because I think it's interesting. do you have a blog or an email that I could post it to you in reply? You can hit me up on WeChat/Gmail: cris7fe :) or just say here

I found this GitHub feature very useful. I love it. In my 30,000 something line repository it gave me eight code scan alerts of which seven were useful and had like specific coded up example workarounds how I could fix them, and I followed all the advice. And one was not relevant because it was a shell script that I don't use anymore, but there's no way the code scan could know that I don't use script.

I don't have experience of the security fatigue and stuff that other people seem to be talking about. Maybe I just write better code, or use fewer, and fewer problematic, dependencies? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway I think this is a really cool feature and I'd love to see more of these sort of value added and free features on top of public repos. Is there a place where like you can create your own like a marketplace or something?

Ok cool. I see you were just commenting about the comment itself and not me... Sometimes it's hard to separate the two, reading what someone says. You know, I take it like they mean it personally, but I'm working on it :)