thorgutierrez

If it's too complicated, there is a good chance Elon will ask to simplify it until it can be open sourced.

It's massive right now, yes. Especially because of proof of work. It will get better, but I don't think we can expect it to be as good as everybody hosting their own services in the cloud. That is a big disadvantage of Ethereum, but I still think it is pretty interesting that it essentially handles devops for you forever.

One of my big realization of 2021 is that this is exactly what blockchains can provide. You can have permanent hosting of your website on Arweave[1] and interactions with the website could save your state on Ethereum or similar. You pay once to host the website, and then it's free to browse and users pay whenever they want to change the state (e.g. post something on your website). Ethereum is like this big world computer that anyone can publish to and users pay to interact with it. You don't have to worry about hosting or uptime and it will be up there forever.

[1]: https://www.arweave.org

I'd love to pay handsomely to remove ads from my Twitter feed, but Twitter Blue only remove ads from _other_ websites? please Twitter folks if you see this :pray:

I think some people might use super follows to increase the quality of the conversation in their comments (no more bots/trolls), similar to what Vitalik did today [1] but for a wider audience. I liked that thread so much that I think there is something here. Looking forward to it. With obvious caveat it might keep some folks without the means out of the conversation ...

[1] https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/143319573790756454...

You would still want to slow the spread as much as possible to ease the load on hospitals and make sure you can take care of as many of the serious cases as you can.

I'm curious if anybody knows if there are good reasons why we can't or why it's hard to invent machines that could smell / detect particles in the air as well as dogs?

Don't follow luck or what ends up coming on your path.

Ask yourself what is the most important problem you should be solving, and find companies that do that. Then prepare the hell out to be relevant in that field (follow MOOCs, read books, prepare for interviews, ...). Take a year if needed. And finally, apply.

Yes, Anatol Rapaport's rules are very useful for constructive debate.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapo...

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.

2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).

3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target.

4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.