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So you can look for “Worf” or “wormhole” or whatever, without having to know the title.

Oppressive regimes like North Korea kill people. Crypto is proven to be a major source of funding for them (and sanctions circumvention for Iran and others).

The question is whether these are worth the benefits you perceive in crypto.

Is crypto "Breaking Bad" for nerds? Sounds about right...

If that's the original stipend value, it shows that poets were well appreciated.

1) unregulated gambling (a.k.a. "prediction markets"),

2) funding North Korea.

Heartening to see the beautiful web3 vision come alive.

Instead I’ll go find my old DVD box set of “I, Claudius” where he had a memorable role too.

I guess if users don’t touch it, then you just have to keep trying with something bigger to touch.

In 30 years we’ll be reading these stories about Anthropic.

It’s the nature of the industry.

Something fundamentally switched around 1998-2002 in how interface design was viewed and approached. I started my career in software as a design summer intern at a company that made a Windows “groupware” application in 1997. They took pride in following the platform’s guidelines and actually testing their designs with real users being videotaped trying to use it. The company’s UI design department was tiny, but employed both an industrial designer and a cognitive scientist.

Five years later, everybody I met in UI design was a graphic designer who was drawing glossy website mockups in Photoshop. The elder lore of science-based UI design was completely lost when Web 2.0 happened and app designs became vibes-based. Even Apple couldn’t resist the tide. (Indeed Steve Jobs’s return to Apple in 1997 was a major contributor because he had developed a taste for user-hostile skeuomorphism like the brushed metal QuickTime Player.)

The Pentium III was a superscalar core that scaled up to 1.4 GHz. This microcontroller is max 240 MHz and does less work per cycle.

People like Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison and Elon Musk are actively supporting the administration, including hundreds of millions in donations to MAGA political campaigns in recent months.

Should we hold these people accountable for the damage they're indirectly doing to public health? If not, why?

The point is that they use a lot of electricity, and this is an active concern to many Americans who see electricity prices go up and polluting energy sources being used more as data centers roll into their state.