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Bitcoin, tor, bittorrent are all perfect examples of decentralization simply not working in practice

It’s not massive. It’s extremely tiny. It’s just that the system is very delicate and we are even tinier, so the effects from our perspective are large. (Think getting hit with a little 1/100000000th of earth mass meteor. The earth will barely react on galactic scale/ long term, but the momentary occupants will sure get a shock)

How many times have you used google or gmail or YouTube or android today?

Interesting and surprising comments. Anyone ever heard of AOL? Are they dead?

I think Google will likely go through similar path as Microsoft; such a tech powerhouse and cash cow for so long, innovation became eclipsed by profit optimization.

Microsoft turned it around a decade ago with a successful cloud pivot.

Google would have to fail fabulously for minimum of a decade before we could even begin to start claiming it’s terminal.

Much much happier working remote in a small town. That satisfaction would likely drop with the salary arbitrage dropping. If I could afford privacy in Palo Alto, I’m sure I could be just as happy there.

It's of course a huge improvement. It was close and I'd probably have been happy with either but ultimately the telluride had features i cared about (better towing) and palisade had some i didn't (electified third row seats); and I like the look of the telluride better.

I live in a rural area and got the trim with the 'offroadish' appeal; which didn't really exist in palisade.

I just bought a 23 Kia Telluride (was also looking at palisades) to upgrade my 05 outback; I did extensive research, and ended up zoning in on Hyundai-Kia specifically because their electronics are so 'hackable,' while still containing all the cutting edge sensors.

I think it is going to be a tiny sliver of cars that are allowed to get away with having a vehicle be able to be controlled like a remote control from a completely unencrypted, trivially intercepted-and-changed protocol. In the future I suspect if manufacturers want to put these features on cars, they will have to protect the communication between the different systems.

I’ve never worked at a huge org. I assume though that there is a hypocrisy between what you are asked to do (trivial small things) and what is rewarded (big bold changes).

How do you know if you’re the one calling disruptive ideas “hype?”

Because statistically, you probably are. We all are.

The structure of scientific revolutions (kuhns seminal contribution) has influenced and helped my thinking more than any other prose by a large margin.

The desperation which fully-subscribed adherents of a paradigm cling to said paradigm in spite of shortcomings of its explanatory power is the most powerful signal for detecting big shifts within a domain.

Kuhn only applies it to scientific paradigms, but the exact same patterns emerge within microcosms

I can do voice calls over WiFi, but SMS does not seem to ever go over Wi-Fi. Because I am rural and connection is so valuable, I carry two phones, one on Verizon, one on ATT+TMobile. Both are iPhones, but one of them is about 4 years old.

(If anyone has any hacks to get on FirstNet, I’d love to hear them)

integration with imessage would be the most valuable. where internet is strong, but cell signal is weak, SMS is really brutal. that's my life. any data that can't flow "over the internet" is just ridiculous at this point

You lost me at SMS.