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If a recession is bad enough some will panic and pull it all out.

The reality is that crypto is not essential—it’s convenient and has potential but it’s value is backed by what? Other financial assets are backed by stuff like voting rights in a company or a physical asset.

Hence: people will dump crypto first.

I suppose Ethereum is different because it is backed by the functionality provided by the distributed Turing machine and all applications which rely on that. So the folks who wouldn’t pull their money out would be product owners who rely on the blockchain as a revenue stream.

My question would be who holds the price up high? Institutions or the broader public holdings of ETH?

In my opinion if social media is important to society the way it seems there should be a government funded social network for users and businesses. In the USA like NPR and PBS.

The problem is companies selling peoples data and optimizing the algorithms on probability. Instead what if everyone paid some taxes to have a social network which helps people interact and businesses promote themselves, you can get rid of the ads AND the algorithms. Let users customize settings which dictate the algorithm.

Instagram could be use as a “snapshot” of the real thing. If I were a photographer I would use it to hook folks into browsing the full version on my website (and buy prints if they’d like).

The fact is, with huge DPI densities of photos the best way to view something is a very high quality print at scale.

Real life > Flickr > Instagram (in terms of visual quality). The limitations of canvas form factor is a huge damper on visual arts. A square canvas is VERY different than a rectangular one, or a hexagonal one.

But the humble square is perfect for instant grammification.

Why not skip the keywords altogether and use an ACTUAL λ symbol. Funny thing we have UTF8 everywhere but no one uses it… People are still typing ASCII in markdown files, but there’s Unicode symbols to render tables and whatnot directly in a text editor… but here we are :)

Context is important though. For instance, developers applying for management position with no management experience. In other words just because they work at a company does not mean they are qualified for the position there (or elsewhere). Those people would likely quit out of resentment.

I think in many cases people think they deserve a promotion based on seniority—but they don’t show signs of going above-and-beyond. Simply working somewhere longer does NOT warrant any merit increase in my mind. Doing extra things to help the company in ways beyond ones role deserves merit increase/promotion.

I’d argue more times than not, folks consider time-spent on the job a sole factor in guaranteeing that promotion.

For instance, someone new might join a company and have a skill set above and beyond folks who have 2+ years of seniority. That new employee might demonstrate exceeding merit in two months of employment—and in my mind, the new hire should get the promotion.

Granted, that’s comparing two employees who work at a company already. I suppose in the interview process it would be based on fact (existing employee) versus word of reference and how well the new hire sells their abilities.

And that’s why I’m not in management because I’d rather not have to deal with making those decisions!

I personally have language fatigue after playing with various languages over two decades.

The thing I hate about rust is abbreviated keywords like “fn” and “mut” because it sounds like fricken mutt. A function is a function not a fn, and is it really so hard to type “mutable”?

There’s more important things in life to worry about than rewriting codebases in language Z.

Hence the musing… when you muse about something you want to keep it loose exploration no?

I’m not trivializing history just calling out all the pundits who armchair complain about people’s good-natured blog posts.

Well Bitcoin will die anyway because Ethereum actually does something useful and they’re onto Proof of stake.

Honestly folks should pull their money out and invest in something tangible like starting a business that ACTUALLY CREATES VALUE.

I think the article is more of a musing than a mathematical proof…

I mean who has the time to deep dive into 100% historical accuracy of these things.

I thought it was a neat look at a historical context of something mundane like a hyperlink.

Interesting technical problem/solution. Another benefit is saving on millions of server computations when modern iOS devices have neural chips etc.

I suppose folks who don’t like privacy implications can downgrade to an iPhone 4 and maybe it will not support the feature.

I don’t get the naming of said device. Brand identity is important and a Ploopy just doesn’t sound very serious. I mean, ploopy rhymes with poopy. The little mouse plooped a ploppity plop.

I think there is because “rent” and “lease” implies your intent is to stay there short-term. “Buy” says you literally are buying the home whether it’s with your money or someone else’s via some mortgage terms.

With an Apple device it certainly is muddy waters because you purchase hardware while simultaneously in some weird lease agreement for the software.

I guess it’s like buying a house in a gated community with very strict home owners association. You can purchase the house but if you want to put a new door on it you gotta go through the motions to ultimately get denied the color you want, etc.

And if Apple was the association they’d have a neighborhood watch ensuring 8PM curfews.

Whoever named it Comirnaty needs to stop taking Hydroxychloroquine.