>As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law.
There's some irony his most recent post on this timeline being "there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency" too. That's certainly true for him.
Might their be some need to legislate chip allocation?
What would sink GDP more: one year of no new cars, or one year of no new phones? Which would have the greater domino effect on the economy?
Because auto manufacturers are such low margin, they can't buy chips reserved by monopoly businesses. But what happens when people can't afford a new phone because they can't get to work?
I'm not sure that would help at all; the issue isn't that Apple used up all the capacity, it's that the auto makers scaled down a process that needs months to scale up.
Long ago, the accuracy would decline as scar tissue formed around implanted electrodes. Not sure if that's changed in recent years as techniques improved.
How long ago is long ago? 7 years ago I took a course on the then-current state of the art for neural interfacing, and this was nowhere near a solved problem then. There was research going into emulating sea cucumbers, so the electrode could be stiff enough to penetrate the brain but then soften to avoid the build up of scar tissue. I think that research is still ongoing.
A loose remaining proxy will be the ratio of like count to view count. Perhaps one of those will be axed next. I don't understand why complaining creators don't just turn off voting.
I don't think you can just turn it off. You can hide both likes and dislikes and disable comments e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvidv6RXJY but the buttons still function just without score.
Of course most creator's don't want to do what you say anyways. Like's help them, dislikes don't. Dislike counts are (well were) for users.
Old people will show up and say: "Paid Firefox, I remember that when it failed as Netscape." Although technically that was Netscape Communicator? Maybe times have changed though.
Anyone have stats on how much it costs to run Wikipedia's collection of websites? Do they release itemized expenses (servers, programmers, lawyers, management, etc)?
>As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714963
Did he change his mind?