johnrichardson's comments

I've had the complete opposite experience. I've tried almost every food delivery app, and what I've found is that Uber Eats is the most reliable, longest open at night and best value for price food delivery service in my area (SF).

A trend I've noticed from lurking and browsing these comments: commenters who have experience taking risk and operating under existential conditions in stressful, budget constrained companies (AKA, startup founders) tend to be critical of the GDPR.

Commenters who work as 9-5 employees or have never started a company (or at least, don't mention as having done so in their profiles) tend to be more supportive of the GDPR.

Funny how that works..

You fundamentally misunderstand PoS. There is no social trust involved. It will work entirely through economic incentivization, including 'group penalization' when enough validators are offline/byzantine at the same time in the case of Casper. Read more here and try to fully understand this document before you make blanket statements like 'PoS won't work': https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

There's no way they raised $660M. Even $66M would be pushing it. I hope TechCrunch edits this article with a more accurate number.

Filecoin and Tezos both raised about $200M and were considered massive ICOs, not to mention they happened in the wealthiest countries on earth and were heavily backed by institutional investors. It's simply impossible that an obviously scammy ICO in a relatively poor country raised $660M.

You're right. Some studies have found it as high as 85%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I don't see the word 'IQ' mentioned anywhere in that article. And yet, it's the single biggest determinant of lifetime success. Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so environmental interventions have a fairly marginal effect on it.

This is in response to the 'medium of exchange' problem, which posits that if your token doesn't have a sink built into it, it will slowly lose value over time.

See this post: https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/10/17/moe.html

In my experience, it's counterproductive to code more than 4-5 hours per day. At a certain point you start introducing bugs/inadvertent complexity whose negatives outweigh any feature contributions you're making. There's lots of research which bears this out. E.g., https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-working-more-than-4...

I'm a big fan of Peter Thiel, and of anyone who's a divergent thinker and has well thought out opinions that run contrary to mainstream ideology (e.g., Noam Chomsky).

If YC ended its relationship with Peter because of his political affiliations, I'd find that extremely unfortunate. Any institution which closes itself off to outside information, challenging viewpoints and diversity of thought risks becoming an ideological echo chamber and ultimately weakening itself in the long run.

Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing.

I also find it ironic that the Chinese Communist Party, an institution which is at least on par with Russia in terms of shadiness and social repression, receives barely an iota of the flak that Russia receives in the American media.

This article's dumb. 8 men control half the world's wealth? All of a sudden the word 'bodega' is racist? Too many white men contributing value is 'problematic'? Articles like this are the reason why Trump won.

It's actually spelled 'raycis.'

And the reason why Kaepernick's kneeling is silly is that black-on-black crime is orders of magnitude more of a problem for the black community than police shootings of young black males. Black males committed 52% of all homicides between 1980-2013, despite comprising only ~6% of the population. That's almost an 8.5x per capita murder multiplier.

There's also evidence that in lethal force situations, police are more likely to shoot whites than blacks (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...). In less-than-lethal situations, it may be the case the minorities are treated more roughly, but that's not what BLM is about. It's a movement which is confused about statistics, and which I suspect is sublimating a more generalized anger about the West and a relatively low position on civilization's status hierarchy into an emotionally charged topic that they think has good optics.

I expect this post will get me banned, because applying logic to identity politics is taboo in 2017. #JamesDamoreMatters

Ethereum's moving to PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) Proof of Stake.

See this FAQ for more details, it has the most up to date details on Ethereum's PoS progress:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

Also see: http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/19/congress-considering-valid...

I've been expecting digital currencies to be co-opted (or at least, try to be co-opted) by centralized authorities for a while now. Looks like we're seeing the first genuine attempt.

Indeed. It seems as though the entire West has lost its collective mind about the importance of free speech and free expression as bedrock principles which ensure peace, stability and prosperity.

Additionally, I view these acts of censorship as a great opportunity for blockchain and other nascent decentralized web technologies to take off. It's a classic case of the innovator's dilemma - when a company or industry seems ascendant, it becomes complacent to new threats, and the seeds of its destruction are sown right underneath it. Sometimes it even assists in the process. (Microsoft's neglect of IE, allowing Mozilla to flourish in the mid-2000s, is one of my favorite examples.) With their suppression of speech, these centralized services are quite possibly hastening their own demise.

Adolf Hitler: ~9 million deaths

Joseph Stalin: Estimates range from 3 million - 60 million deaths.

Mao Zedong: Estimates range from 49 million - 78 million deaths.

All evil men. Why aren't the latter two nearly as reviled as Hitler or 'Nazis'?

Awesome. Thanks!

Can't read this, it's behind a paywall. Anyone got a link to the full article?

Yet another example of what I was referring to.

I happen to be quite grateful for the sacrifices my ancestors (and the human race more broadly) made in building civilization, so that I don't have to live in a Hobbesian world where death by age 30 is the norm.

Jordan Peterson has a great take on the attitude this author (and many others like her) have about America, and the West in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc&t=1s

The modern Left is dripping with hatred for the West - quite ironic given that we live in one the most free, prosperous societies ever created in human history. They are driven almost entirely by resentment, and lack even a shred of gratitude for the vast wealth, comfort and freedom they've been born into.