I guess it depends on whether people believe cryptocurrencies have a future, and if they're confident Ethereum will still exist 10 years from now. I don't care if the price falls temporarily, it has the potential to make a major impact on the world and I think engineers will be able to surmount the challenges it faces today. It's as simple as that for me.
They have the moral high ground because a large proportion of their population isn't protesting against the monarchy or Queen.
Nobody(except you) deems it concerning that the TV is 'hijacked' once a year, and your concerns can be dismissed because they are motivated out of defending Turkish actions.
Hmm. If Darwinian evolution is based on factors currently present around the species, wouldn't it basically be optimizing for short-term factors? So you could call Darwinian evolution a greedy algorithm, that optimizes for a local maxima. What about the global maxima, how can life evolve to that state?
Yes, I get where you are coming from. I know my comment is somewhat irrational. That is why I examined my own sentiment - why do I want this news to stop? Because it feels like a rehearsed newsreel, a daily television drama. I'm afraid that scrolling HN might soon become like scrolling facebook. Maybe its just personal over-saturation for me, sorry in that case.
I count 4 Uber stories on the front page today. There have been a few every week since the past few months. Will this sordid saga ever end? I feel this is like watching a newsreel about the same topics every few days.
This particularly worries me because if technical skills go out of vogue, then people skills would become conversely more important, and the thing I've optimized for all my life would become useless.
It is fascinating to see in real life, how science-fiction style AI is becoming a reality, where nobody understands how machines produce their answer. Given a few more decades, I'm sure the Asimov short story - The Feeling of Power - will become culturally relevant.
Nice project! I'm especially interested by the possibility of a twitter-style feed per neighbourhood, the big red pins could look a little more varied though.
This is a good link. I particularly liked the ending paragraph about motivation - I think it's all network effect. If my friends and people I look upto were working on environmental engineering then maybe I too would jump into it. Unfortunately, none of my peers work in that area hence I spend time thinking about new buzzwords and technologies instead.
I agree with all of your points, except the last one. I don't think a shared ledger is required for interacting between multiple entities. We basically want a database that is beyond the control of any corporation - seems to me that a government-controlled database would fit the need.
The associated complexities and limitations with blockchain ledgers are a lot. The nodes must be propped up by large amounts of computing power, which only big companies/groups can provide, not individuals. And it's not as if the government can't be trusted, there are so many stock market indices & financial markets that aren't under anybody's control.
Very interesting. At this point, there may be many smaller startups that are more innovative or have higher quality VR apps, but if they are competing against FB's massive hold on all aspects of everyday life, there isn't much doubt who the winner will be.
More experienced peers, who lived in times when IBM or Microsoft seemed to be all-pervasive (like FB/Google are today): Do you think these companies will fade away in the next few decades? Or they will go on to be 100-year old companies, like today's car/oil companies.