Hacker News: Igelau

New comment by Igelau in "The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto"

Igelau — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:00:09 +0000

I thought the article did a fairly good job pointing out:

- The only applications anyone is implementing on progcoins are exchanges and/or gambling. So far, dApps are a circular argument.

- Smart contracts aren't so smart. They are ticking time bombs waiting to get exploited DAO-style.

That doesn't leave a whole lot of room for utility.

New comment by Igelau in "The Max Headroom Incident"

Igelau — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:22:23 +0000

The guy just needed an outlet to talk about his piles. Hemorrhoids can be an embarrassing topic, so he wore a mask.

New comment by Igelau in "The World's Deadliest Thing"

Igelau — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:05:44 +0000

Nature's beautiful garbage disposal. Botulism. Anthrax. Vultures don't care.

New comment by Igelau in "Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook"

Igelau — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:20:30 +0000

Mine is Universal Paperclips, except it makes engagement statistics instead of paperclips.

New comment by Igelau in "Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook"

Igelau — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:18:04 +0000

You just don't understand the Metav3rse.

New comment by Igelau in "Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook"

Igelau — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:15:51 +0000

It's sort of weird to have watched the target demographic switch from college kids to everyone's older aunts and uncles. We went from "you should know better than to post that picture" to "you should know better than to engage with that order of operations question".

New comment by Igelau in "Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law"

Igelau — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 03:34:50 +0000

Because we can only wager hazy guesses as to what it means to experience. If a line is to be drawn, than it must be drawn in seemingly inconsistent and arbitrary ways.

There is a mimosa in a garden near me that will close its leaves when you touch it. Is it experiencing the sensation of touch?

(Edit: mimosa pudica, sometimes also called the shameful plant on account of how tenderly it seems to fold itself)

New comment by Igelau in "Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law"

Igelau — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 03:25:48 +0000

Eric Weinstein says some crazy stuff, but I remember hearing him once say that the best debate strategy for Republicans would be to mention the "noo-kyoo-lar" family, and let them correct you to "nuclear". Then you win because the other side looks like pedants and elitists. This "octopi" is definitely such a word.

New comment by Igelau in "Wolves make roadways safer"

Igelau — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:22:55 +0000

Maybe. I'm not sure how you'd measure the benefit otherwise though. If you're going to compare apples to oranges (or deer road collisions to wolf predation of livestock), dollars is one of the ways you can.

New comment by Igelau in "Wolves make roadways safer"

Igelau — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:38:25 +0000

> a wolf wrote it

Don't be silly. That's clearly my grandmother.

New comment by Igelau in "Notes on Web3"

Igelau — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:44:11 +0000

> you don't need an SDK to do this

Does the code for cross-checking who holds what NFT on what platform just materialize out of whole cloth? Does Eth not have an SDK?

> and there is no need to have an agreed between both companies

Yeah, you would. The IP rights don't get thrown out just because there exists a pointer in a ledger that says you paid money to do widgety things with the content on someone's platform.

New comment by Igelau in "A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters"

Igelau — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:12:05 +0000

> tribes around in Polynesia

Please refrain from this sort of imperialist language. Refer to the particular nations and peoples by their real names, not a catch-all concocted by a Frenchman.

New comment by Igelau in "Notes on Web3"

Igelau — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 02:43:37 +0000

Get rich quick by writing get-rich-quick books

New comment by Igelau in "Notes on Web3"

Igelau — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 02:39:36 +0000

> without most of the tulip mania

New comment by Igelau in "Notes on Web3"

Igelau — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 02:30:33 +0000

> Distributed computing ... when there's a code complexity resource you need to optimize for

That's not fun. That's work. From TFA:

> Remember: The DAO — first of its kind, from which all present DAOs take their name — failed so badly it required a fork of the Ethereum blockchain.

You don't want to be stuck holding the bag on something like that.

New comment by Igelau in "Notes on Web3"

Igelau — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:51:58 +0000

> You don't need an integration at all: you just call the other company smart contract to see if the user has a specific type of equipment defined by an NFT.

Uh, yeah... that's integration!

New comment by Igelau in "The Utilitarians"

Igelau — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:34:10 +0000

There's too much confusion of Utility with utility here.

New comment by Igelau in "Daddy isn’t coming back"

Igelau — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:05:17 +0000

> We can glue it back and use other mechanisms but it won't be exactly the same

It will be harder to snap next time since wood glue bonds are usually stronger than the wood itself.

New comment by Igelau in "Daddy isn’t coming back"

Igelau — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:51:46 +0000

It's not a hotline for free therapy, and they only have the script/training for one circumstance. You don't blame your hammer if it doesn't saw very well.

New comment by Igelau in "I hate password rules"

Igelau — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:53:39 +0000

100 Call them again

200 Get another dollar

300 Goto 100