MichaelBosworth

So does it feel to you guys like your comments, say, here in this Hacker News thread should be considered effectively copyrighted as your personal IP?

If so, do you feel the same way about opinions you share out in a supermarket or on the street?

Out of curiosity, is your point about TOS out of concern for the poster or for Goodreads?

If you try to have another iPhone detect the badge, it appears not to work - unless you use NFCTools on that iPhone, too. I don't have conclusive proof but that's what the evidence seems to indicate.

Are you seeing something different?

Zcash allows an independent observer to verify that a transaction was authorized and completed. It does this without revealing (a) who the recipient was (b) who the sender was or (c) how much Zcash was sent.

Extending this idea to broader use cases: https://aztec.network/

Outside the web3/blockchain world, it probably isn't obvious why the problem Worldcoin aims to solve is important. Because, in traditional apps, it's a problem whose solution one can take for granted. (Often.)

Maybe proof of humanity won't be at all impactful. For that matter, maybe decentralization itself is doomed, whether due to ethical concerns, moral panic, or government hostility. Presumably, the creators of Worldcoin are skeptical that we should treat either of those outcomes as likely.

Without the paywall

In that analogy, I believe, the article's point is that a definition has been masquerading as an explanation.

The bill creates a group of anti-E2E-encryption folks with the power to smack down an online company when it suits them, who won't need congressional approval when deciding what the rules are. We know the rules they want are incompatible with E2E encryption.

It is possible they surprise us with E2E-encryption-friendly rules. Was that your point? Possible, sure.

This sort of thing is why I made phitbone.com

I doubt that's a good thing, net, unless you really truly don't have any options.

If you're an engineer in demand, and your startup exits nicely, your equity is still less than the market rate you would've gotten over the years. Less than your 3rd-best offer, for that matter.

Often you can't even know anything whatsoever about your upside and have to take it on faith. Faith! It is increasingly common that, as an employee, you are intentionally given too little information about the equity to know what you would be getting even if you had a crystal ball telling you the price for which the company was eventually going to be sold.

In 2018, because both the salary and the upside are low, working at a startup is in the same bucket as working pro bono, except that it's pro bono founders instead of pro bono publico. But you'll still get a pitch that the upside is big in the event of a nice exit (you just can't be trusted with specifics), and you'll hear a lot of rhetoric about how being scrappy is better than having 18 cafes and 23 massage rooms.

In 2018, unfortunately, it is, in short, a bit of a scam.

Pros:

Lack of bureaucracy.

Given the cost of data centers, I'm not sure why we should assume it was naive - or less than state-of-the-art, for that matter.

State-of-the-art, that is, until the AI solution :)