Thanks, but several of the posts are password protected. I was wondering what the deal was with that. Googling didn't turn up a Patreon or some other way to get access. I guess they just aren't for the public?
If you think an item is worth posting, you can resubmit it, or ping the mods that something is high quality. They're pretty receptive. (hn@ycombinator.com)
Take a look at the "new" queue when you can. There's a lot of good content, and a ton of dreck. HN's hive mind is pretty good, most of the time.
I find it helpful to poke through particularly good users' submissions to see what they've offered up that hasn't been voted up.
Sadly, no. I quite recommend The Peripheral[1] by William Gibson, and Jean le Flambeur[2] trilogy if you want a modern cyberpunk with the action of a sheer scale. In the second story, the gaming community also contributes a significant part to the plot.
I do not do drugs because of physical and mental health reasons beyond what I am prescribed. But I have heard that the darknet markets are quite advanced in their distribution - to the point that dealing a large amount of drugs is essentially risk-free. Such pharmacists will, say, put a gram of cocaine in a soda can and place it in the woods and save the geo coordinates. Then when they sell the drugs, they give the user the geo coordinates to pick up. Furthermore they can put a piece of paper containing a code in the soda can which will allow verification of retrieval.
The internet, anonymity protocols, and cryptocurrency have made the world an
interesting place...
I'm always reminded of Zoz's awesome talk "Don't Fuck It Up!"[0]. There's a ton of sketchy shit you can unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you are) do online but not getting caught is still a non-trivial task. Successfully hiding is dependent upon the people who you're trying to hide from and your sophistication in hiding.
I actually enjoyed the prose, but his/her understanding of what a blockchain is grossly inaccurate if you actually understand the tech. Its really just buzzword laden non-sense, if I'm honest, which I'm willing to overlook for entertainment reasons.
But that aside, its pretty witty. 'Hikkikomorphically cacooned' is a phrase I long to be able to use in a sentence now.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadIf you think an item is worth posting, you can resubmit it, or ping the mods that something is high quality. They're pretty receptive. (hn@ycombinator.com)
Take a look at the "new" queue when you can. There's a lot of good content, and a ton of dreck. HN's hive mind is pretty good, most of the time.
I find it helpful to poke through particularly good users' submissions to see what they've offered up that hasn't been voted up.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821159-the-peripheral
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/series/57134-jean-le-flambeur
The internet, anonymity protocols, and cryptocurrency have made the world an interesting place...
But for the dealer, it can be quite close to Risk free if they are careful enough.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8
But that aside, its pretty witty. 'Hikkikomorphically cacooned' is a phrase I long to be able to use in a sentence now.