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So it's an honest Ponzi scheme?

If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in.

> Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs. The coronavirus is different. “It seems to block only one of those two arms,” tenOever told me. It inhibits the interferon response but does nothing about the cytokines; it evades the local defenses but allows the cells it infects to call for reinforcements. White blood cells are powerful weapons: they arrive on an inflammatory tide, destroying cells on every side, clogging up passages with the wreckage. They are meant to be used selectively, on invaders that have been contained in a small area. With the coronavirus, they are deployed too widely—a carpet bombing, rather than a surgical strike. As they do their work, inflammation distends the lungs, and debris fills them like a fog.

> any examples of any games [...] that let you meaningfully impact the game world?

Dwarf Fortress

> and competing directly with well funded companies like Facebook, Google, Telegram, etc.

As opposed to competing with well funded companies like Sun, IBM, SGI, and Microsoft?

Sometimes producing a better, more open product is more important than funding numbers.

Life isn't a poker game.

You can't take the same rules from Vegas and apply them to health care and human rights.

I think most people would prefer to decide for themselves if that's worth the $40,000/yr that they would have had if wages kept up with productivity.

If you want an asymmetric persistence layer where all writes are documents placed in a Kafka topic, and all reads are via relational queries.

It's a distributed, eventually consistent, highly available ledger that can be queried with SQL.

> I would love is an event store

You know you can put a key with a null value onto a topic. If your backend object store gives you data by key, this should give you exactly what you want.

Later on, you can put a small subset of the data in value to assist with filtering or caching (if you want).

> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders.

It's not inconsistent. Most founders are trying to create companies that provide economic value; one can believe that the creation of economic value is a good thing, while also believing that more of the economic surplus created should directly go to the common good.

Assuming a JWT implementation accepts only a fixed header (all header fields must be present and match, no additional fields can be present), are there any other issues with "just use jwt"?

> There is if the people in the DOJ suffer from identity theft and get their bank accounts cleaned out because some nefarious people exploited the backdoors

People in the DOJ have more options available to them if they choose to try to find or punish an identity thief than the general public.

Also, the direct fear of not being able to do your job because of strong encryption is more focused than a nebulous fear of possible identity theft.

I can't wait to see the flood of posts in 12 months about "why I'm leaving substack"

> Iron particles [...] Find another solution.

Technically, seeding the ocean with iron particles is a suspension, not a solution. Luckily, the common technique is to use Iron(II) sulfate, which mixed with water does create a solution!

While the War on (Americans who use (some)) Drugs is a decades-long tragedy whose human costs dwarf most natural disasters, it's pretty clear the goals of US drug policy aren't to reduce criminal activity, but instead explicitly criminalize what may consider a personal choice.

Given that minimizing criminal activity isn't a concern isn't a goal, what incentive is there to change the policy? Saying that the war on drugs causes more harm than drugs is obvious, but repeatedly pointing that out and expecting policy to change hasn't worked for a long time.

So you're saying that society as a whole would be better off simply using banks? Given that the external costs of banks have already been paid, and we can save a ton of energy by not flooding the etulip market with speculation.