nsotelo's comments

nsotelo | 3 years ago | on: Tech talent is still in demand but outsized salaries may be disappearing

As a European I work hard but do expect labour laws to be respected, if that's what you mean. Minimum of 22 days annual vacation (that I use 100% of), paid sick leave, 14 national holidays per year, etc.

nsotelo | 3 years ago | on: Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage

It's not important because it won't affect the US?

nsotelo | 3 years ago | on: Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

These are not morally equivalent. The office-worker wants others to modify everyone's behaviour to support them, whereas the remote worker just wants to control their own behaviour. The remote worker is completely ambivalent to where others want to work.

nsotelo | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

Future historians will laugh and cry knowing we invested trillions and boiled the oceans for the sake of a useless append-only log.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses

This doesn't make it immune from criticism. What if the United States added "Caucasian state" to the constitution and started discriminating against other ethnicities. Would that be okay for you?

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?

You can use the onion location header[0] to redirect the user, as mentioned in another comment thread.

0: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: The Crypto Backlash Is Booming

Are there any valid use-cases? For any suggestion I've heard, it always seems that a relational database or PKI would be better.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism

He does state that when (not if) we move beyond the current system, distributed ledgers will become a useful tool.

> I consider blockchain, and Ethereum-style mechanisms, as technologies that will prove extremely useful once private property in the means of production ends. But, on their own, these technologies will not liberate us from the extractive power of the few.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

The point remains, maybe as an autistic person they don't like eye contact or sitting still but that's where discipline comes into it.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts

I got an occulus quest 2 (manufactured by meta) recently and it's a lot of fun. VR is not revolutionary but it's definitely going to make money for meta and others.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

maddy

It's a single go binary that supports IMAP and SMTP, with a CLI (maddyctl) to help you set it up. TLS can be added with acme.sh.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1

Solana transactions currently cost $0.00025 and can handle 50,000 transactions per second. For comparison visa handles 1700 TPS and MasterCard 5000.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1

I seem to remember pornhub being hit by this, which is why they removed unverified content. Perhaps it's also why OnlyFans decided to ban explicit content a few months back (before backpedaling).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/20/tech/onlyfans-explicit-co...

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”

I read this as a failure of the state for publishing information that "should not be public".

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)

It is 'avoid "success at all costs"' meaning success is good but must be balanced against other priorities.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager

I use this same setup but with a requirements folder. Inside I have a base.txt, dev.txt and tests.txt where dev.txt starts with '-r tests.txt', etc.

It's very handy for having different environments but doesn't lend itself to a lockfile.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Issues with Cloudflare Images

I direct my hate towards those who make this necessary.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Common Jobs in a Medieval City

I doubt if many enterprises would survive this level of catastrophe.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Isn't keeping up with tech for your career same as “timing the market”?

I'm not sure it really works like this. Suppose you've spent 10 years becoming a master java developer, and now all the investment is going into python. You're going to better than the boot-campers after 1 week and a master developer after 3 months, whereas the others will still need years to catch up.

I think it's worth keeping a loose working knowledge of all the mainstream software in your field, but don't really go deep until you need it.

nsotelo | 4 years ago | on: Would you guys be interested by a Stripe Atlas for the rest of the world?

I would love it for Europe and am sure that a lot of governments would too. France is openly pushing to get the startup scene going in their country, and Estonia is famous for its services to digital nomads.