I've had a full shakedown at the airport in Brisbane asking for passwords for phone/laptop and they will confiscate for 2 weeks if you don't comply. I'm an Australian citizen. They also didn't let me call anyone so my wife was left waiting for 3 hours wondering where I was.
They could give all nearby residents free/subsidized solar + battery for their homes.
This empowers people making them feel less beholden to rising energy prices, and gives the data center more energy for its needs as the grid is freed up.
Honestly Linux has been so much easier to use since Claude / codex came out. Now I don't need to remember esoteric commands or scroll old forums to fix issues, Claude does it all for me.
Been using ubuntu + regolith as my daily driver for over a year now and haven't needed to use windows for anything. Almost all games all work well on Linux now too.
I use Obsidian with a "daily-planning" template that has a bunch of typical journaling prompts. I customize it over time, adding new ideas and removing boring bits.
Current sections are:
- Things to remember - List of 10 important quotes/mantras
- What's on my mind
- How am I feeling productivity/mood wise today
- What do I most want to accomplish?
- What would make today horrible?
- Gratitude - Something Mundane, something that happened by chance, something I made happen
I've come across many profitable traders in Crypto who only measure in USD and when you compare their results to just buying and holding ETH/BTC at the start of the cycle they come out behind. Everyone feels like a great trader in a bull market.
I'm going insane reading these replies and seeing not a single mention of DeFi. It's the fastest growing startup sector maybe of all time, going from nothing to half a trillion dollars in 3 years and yet somehow HN has completely missed the boat and still thinks nothing is being built on blockchains.
I guess all the crypto folk got sick of the pessimism on here and went to build with more optimistic open minded communities.
How do you build Alchemix with a hashing / digital signature algorithm? How about Uniswap? Balancer? Curve? Aave?
Don't know these names? Together they hold over $100B in assets. It's crazy how out of touch with what's going on in DeFi HN is. That you can say there is nothing useful meanwhile there are tens of thousands of people using billions of dollars with these apps all of which depend on a Blockchain to function.
I work in decentralized finance and use it every single day, so do thousands of other people. It's already scaling with layer 2's. For anyone willing to learn I'm happy to explain more.
You've seriously never heard of DeFi? There are literally hundreds of apps processing billions of dollars now and new innovative things are launching every day. I work 24/7 in this space and can't even keep up.
Defillama had a list of the biggest apps, just work your way through the list. Or listen to the bankless podcast.
How do I resell my ticket? How can a company give lifetime tickets to all future shows? Do you have an API so I as a new indie startup can find people who have bought tickets to similar shows and give them special offers?
I'm always happy to talk anyone's ear off about Blockchain, it is by far the most interesting space I've ever worked in. Feel free to ask me your hardest questions.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is my favorite aspect. It's honestly outstanding how far behind the curve of DeFi knowledge HN is and so few are willing to debate and learn.
I work at a company called Balancer, we've built an app that allows you to essentially invest in index funds of tokens. You can put money into a pool of say 40% ETH, 30% Bitcoin, 20% LINK, 10% USD. Then instead of you paying fees for someone else to manage this fund, you get paid - often 5% - 20% per year, to have this fund.
How? Traders use your funds as an arbitrage opportunity when the ratios go out of wack. There are a lot of day traders in crypto right now and every time they make a trade through your pool they pay a 0.3% - 1% fee.
These tokens are mostly crypto coins right now but they can be anything, including tokens that track oil, gold, share prices, or even housing index funds. Other companies build these tokens and as they are standardized they can be used in Balancer pools.
Balancer the app is completely decentralized and open access to all. Your money is yours, we have no access to user funds.
This is barely the tip of the iceberg, eventually the entire financial system is going to be overtaken by open, permissionless systems and they will be much bigger than today because there are far fewer rent seekers, and entire world gets to participate.
Caus it's fun? Hacking on DeFi products feels like hacking on websites in the 90s, or I assume hacking on PCs in the 80s.
There's a lot of cool stuff yet to be built and you get the freedom to build and launch anything you like and have it be used by millions of people overnight.
> Anyone in a virtual world would likely never choose scenarios that cause such things. So there'd be no real true joy in this virtual life. Life is fleeting.
Why not? I watch sad and scary movies all the time to experience those emotions.
You can also have virtual struggle and striving to achieve virtual items that are to many people just as rewarding as real world items.