HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

dpiers

no profile record

Submissions

He Was an Online Drug Lord. Now He's a Crypto Entrepreneur

nytimes.com
8 points·by dpiers·2 years ago·1 comments

comments

dpiers
·3 months ago·discuss
We already live in a world where parents decide whether or not a child with Down Syndrome will be born.

60-90% of prenatal diagnoses in the US result in an elective termination. The number is nearly 100% in Iceland and some other Nordic countries. Unlike autism or ADHD, we have a very clear understanding of exactly what causes Down Syndrome and now potentially how to correct it. A treatment like this is no different from correcting a congenital heart defect - it gives a baby a chance at normal, healthy development.
dpiers
·3 months ago·discuss
You’re neglecting the fact that each one of those businesses had a plan, they just pivoted to more successful plans.
dpiers
·5 months ago·discuss
The title is a lie - the original statement was that it was closer to “a small game engine” than a basic text UI.

CC has a complex scene rendering pipeline with a 16ms/frame budget. That is much closer to a game engine than a print statement.
dpiers
·last year·discuss
Languages are thought encodings.

Most people can only encode/decode a single language but an LLM can move between them fluidly.
dpiers
·last year·discuss
Amazon has surpassed Newegg as my online parts provider of choice.

It's not that things can't go wrong, it's just that they are much better at handling it than Newegg these days.
dpiers
·last year·discuss
We are in the process of abandoning ChatGPT Enterprise because Google is now bundling Gemini access for free with Google Workspace.

If OpenAI is not safe from anticompetitive practices then no YC startup is.
dpiers
·last year·discuss
This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.
dpiers
·2 years ago·discuss
Well there was that one time Germany owed everyone a lot of money after the Treaty of Versailles and it kind of directly led to Hitler’s rise to power and another World War… makes sense for them to be a bit more conservative than other countries.
dpiers
·2 years ago·discuss
It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual.

If you can’t get basic facts correct no one is going to take your other claims seriously. A16Z has a diverse portfolio of investments and are as famous as they are because of how successful their companies have been.
dpiers
·2 years ago·discuss
I don’t disagree. Crypto is neat but has no useful (legal) real world applications.
dpiers
·2 years ago·discuss
Oh, please. Bitcoin is a protocol with no more inherent value than SMTP.

Aside from being the Catholic cryptocurrency, it has been surpassed technologically in every way by newer and better designed protocols. Why would anyone who doesn't already own Bitcoin choose to use it for anything over, ex. Ethereum?

Bitcoin maxis aren't technologists; they're grifters trying to convince you their magic beans are the most special magic beans.
dpiers
·3 years ago·discuss
I’m creative but have never been adept at sharing visual ideas in my head with the rest of the world. I’ve found genAI image tools empowering because for the first time I can turn an idea into my head into something other people can see and enjoy. I’ve used it for everything from portaits and memes to recreating scenes from my memories that I don’t have photos of to help me remember.