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realharo
·2 ay önce·discuss
With regards to b), what is the evidence that they actually deliver on this promise?
realharo
·2 ay önce·discuss
Yeah, that's just a copium answer from people who simply want to hand wave away the issue instead of admitting they have no good answers.

Like a politician who's asked about this in a town hall, but thinks that "our plan is to do absolutely nothing" doesn't sound very appealing.
realharo
·2 ay önce·discuss
If that's how you feel, maybe the applications you're making are too simple to need any of your unique contribution.

The answer could be to just push further, and try solving harder problems.
realharo
·2 ay önce·discuss
This depends entirely on your local laws and the kinds of loans banks offer.

In most places, you can only get recourse mortgages. You will be liable for the rest of the mortgage, if the value of the house drops so much that selling it doesn't cover the remaining debt.

House values dropping a lot is something that happens fairly rarely, but it tends to happen exactly during the times when you are most likely to be unable to pay your mortgage (recessions, industry downturns, etc.)
realharo
·3 ay önce·discuss
>working bid/ask spread when factories buy or sell on the market to make pricing dynamic and realistic

Does it deliver on the "realistic" part? My experience with most models is they make something that technically fulfills the ask, but often in a way that doesn't really capture my intent (this is with regular Claude Code though).
realharo
·3 ay önce·discuss
>The point of Bitcoin is to avoid exactly that sort of trust relationship, otherwise use the banking system.

Most participants don't care about this. For almost everyone, the point of Bitcoin is to go up. As long as they can find enough buyers that also believe it will go up, the rest is optional. Especially if it's temporary, for a one-time migration.
realharo
·3 ay önce·discuss
Ah, then yeah, in that case, it'd be basically over.

Maybe large exchanges would try to step in to make a fresh chain based on their combined account data, and just drop the people relying on self-custody. But I doubt the market would go for it - the uncertainty would crash it hard enough that it would never recover.
realharo
·3 ay önce·discuss
In practice, what you really need is consensus. As long as enough of the important participants agree, that's how it will be.

And since there are millions of identical copies of the entire pre-attack ledger out there, this should not be that difficult.

Potential future buyers might reevaluate whether this whole thing has any monetary value, but that's a separate concern. Bitcoin's market value was never about the technical details.
realharo
·4 ay önce·discuss
Yeah, it makes it sound like your attention is given as an act of charity. A lot of online discourse tends to be very "creator-first" framed, rather than "audience-first".
realharo
·4 ay önce·discuss
This has to be intentional, right?
realharo
·4 ay önce·discuss
And yet almost all of the most popular sports leagues in the US have a salary cap rule.
realharo
·4 ay önce·discuss
"Local history" is a very popular feature in the JetBrains IDEs (just search HN comments), and I remember similar tools appearing on HN several times in the past (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784238), so clearly there is demand for such functionality (or at least was in the past, when almost all code edits were manual).
realharo
·5 ay önce·discuss
Yeah, but that's not the same, as most readers will just skip over that. What I said is more similar to HN's monthly "who's hiring" threads or "what are you working on" threads. Like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696. I find those much more interesting.
realharo
·5 ay önce·discuss
I think the problem with such places is, they just become a dump for self-promotion by people who otherwise don't participate at all. The opposite of an actual community. That's why even reddit used to have a 10-to-1 rule of thumb about posts like that (which would be very easily gamed today).
realharo
·5 ay önce·discuss
Usually online communities have dedicated days for such things. Like a "side project Sunday" or such, with one large thread.
realharo
·6 ay önce·discuss
Even if you trust the intentions of whoever you're giving your data to, you may not trust their ability to keep it safe from data breaches. Those happen all the time.
realharo
·6 ay önce·discuss
It's always good to have viable alternatives, if only to prevent vendor lock-in in case they make some drastic changes in policy or pricing.
realharo
·6 ay önce·discuss
Make it port Firefox's engine to iOS, that's something people would actually use (in countries where Apple is forced to allow other browser engines).
realharo
·6 ay önce·discuss
Copilot plan limits are however "per prompt", and prompts that ask the agent to do a lot of stuff with a large context are obviously going to be more expensive to run than prompts that don't.
realharo
·6 ay önce·discuss
Well they are doing the same to website owners who rely on human visitors for their revenue streams.

Both scraping and on-demand agent-driven interactions erode that. So you could look at people doing the same to them as a sort of poetic justice, from a purely moral standpoint at least.