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OT, but anyone have similar stack traces that show call stacks or abstractions in other layers, down to transistors, up to user?

TL;DR: 'I was surprised to learn how online advertising works, my manager in a big corp made me sad.'

independent of the facts, shall we not start doxing individuals here? this isn't 4chan.

Clicked expecting relationship advice. Stayed to learn about basketball.

Yes.

People (including me) are thinking about and working on personally owned and hosted data. Your forum posts live in _your_ cloud, and in a way that the features as brickcap describes are achievable.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049890

Can you provide a reference to, or a better description of the 'ideas coming out of UK local government' please?

Perhaps I don't have enough karma to message directly, but can't see a way to send messages inside HN. Can you provide a way to contact you?

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At time of writing 2/7ths of respondents own > 0 bitcoin. Are there many other new technologies you'd expect 2/7ths of all respondents to use/own? Especially one that doesn't really have a direct use to most consumers yet and high risk for people investing.

2/7th's is huge.

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omg u r teh next steven job?

What really is the point of this article? Can someone wake me up when we are ready to let go of this passive income bullshit, worshipping the 'entrepreneur' as someone who can pull money out of their ass crack by finding and statistically needling their way into some exploitative niche and start focussing on things which have real social purpose and meaning and value to their creators and users?

Can someone enlighten me as to how this achieves anything, other than a count of people who abstained?

If you want to reform something, it seems like the required action is to reform it. Saying on record 'i want reform', or 'i don't like the old system' does not achieve anything, and in fact wastes everyones' time. The hard part: working out reform and enactioning it, still needs to be done.

Am I missing something?

There is no such thing as procrastination or avoidance.

To 'avoid' something you need to have something to avoid and a motivation to avoid it, avoidance does not exist in and of itself.

My message still applies to whatever these new 'things you really enjoy' are. If you are procrastinating over them, you are avoiding _something_ because of _a reason_, and you'll need to do very hard work to find out what's going on and the real context in which it's happening (option 1), or drop out, clean the slate, and let yourself reinvent you (option 2).

Absolutely agree with this. You're exhibiting the behaviour of someone in a deep conflict because you're not doing what you really want to do, but cultural and societal norms are forcing you to play out this role, and you're getting enough rewards from it (monetary and psychological) to keep you in this stasis of inaction.

There is no quick solution, as you can see from your father who has probably battled with the same thing all his life too and millions of people who do jobs they don't like.

You will not beat it because this situation is deeply and invisibly ingrained in today's society, and you have none of the skills required to make the deep psychological changes required.

If you want to give yourself a chance, you need to take drastic action. There are two real choices:

1) Stay inside the system: Therapy. Understand yourself, understand the real social and psychological landscape in which you're living and learn how to make real changes.

2) Get outside the system: Drop out, reinvent yourself from the ground up. Make a break, go meditate in India for a year, find out what it is you really want and give yourself the space to do it.

I'd suggest that this effect is a somewhat superficial expression of the deeply rooted problem of people in urban situations broadly losing their personal connections with their own expressions of creativity and art, primarily through doing work that they are not engaged with in a deep, meaningful sense.

Perhaps:

- People in certain modern, urban situations crave certain types of creative expression that seem to be very hard to find in these environments.

- Social patterns place a high value on being seen to have had an experience, that provide a reward similar to being the artist.

- People capable of producing these artistic experiences are initially perhaps not so interested in managing the people who are the recipients of their creativity - they are more interested in creation.

- Once money and/or fame becomes involved, the artists are unlikely to widely share the skills that lead to the creativity arising, are motivated to protect methods of production, fetishize the product and create strong brands.

These factors together create this 'hipster' effect where small points of creativity are heavily focussed on and take a long time to replicate.

I'd hypothesize that this situation would go away if people were broadly connecting with meaningful, personal creative pursuits. Or, if the artists flipped their model once they smelled success and were motivated to share everything they were doing, allowing the experience to be rapidly replicated.

DNR

Don't build a business, create something good.

Why would they? There's plenty of downside and not much upside?

Did some of my most enjoyable and productive work in awk and BBC Basic.

Minimise resistance of expressing a translation of a hypothesis from thought into a computing language at all costs: get onto the highway as fast as possible.

> Is there a such thing as a corruption-repellent, paychopath-kryptonite system, and if so, what is it?

Yes. Make the goal of your organisation a social good, and not making money.

> is directly in the hands of the people who have the most interest in using it well

That has no relation to whether or not they know how to use it well.

Improving someone's well being involves improving their well being through hands-on, interactive problem solving.

Throwing a fist full of dollar bills at someone does not directly improve their well being.

If you have, by some measure, 'low well being', there is a reason for that that is likely to be outside your direct control, otherwise you would change it. If it is inside your control, you need help to discover how - application of cash is useless without direction. If it is outside your control the help needs to be applied at a higher level, community, town, borough.. country.

It is demonstrably not the case that cash solves problems unless it is applied in meaningful, sustainable ways, which are not known or understood by many people in difficult situations, unless you are talking about people who are about to starve to death and who will buy food.

Reframing required: give people money only when that is the most efficient option for helping them, given the risks of a no-strings cash donation.

Otherwise, help them in a way that directly affects their wellbeing, causing a direct, measurable change in circumstance with decreased risk.

Interstitial ad != paywall

"I’m not sold anymore on the idea of starting the next big thing that will revolutionize the world."

Gah. Failed already. Get yourself connected with whatever you're actually passionate about - something that you can connect to significant meaning and value in. That _can be_ your big thing.

If you're not connected to something you're strongly passionate about, why not just go back to being employed?

The ability for clients to erroneously or maliciously fork the chain can't be designed out whilst keeping the system open and decentralised. The blockchain is a distributed copy of a shared truth which takes time to propagate and has to be agreed upon by all participants. If the network is open, then me, or me and 500,000 friends, can join the network and attempt to propagate a different truth.

If you compare the way the Bitcoin community responded to this with the response you might have expected from even a very well run company, I think the Bitcoin community comes out ahead.

It would be useful and or interesting to compare the Bitcoin community response with a specific failure and response of a for-profit closed-technology company, but I'm not sure what case to use for comparison.

Maybe the recent cloudflare outage?