Underneath that high-level hand-waving there’s still a pretty simple concept. If I buy T—Bonds, I bloody well expect them to be cashed at maturity. Otherwise, who’d buy them? And I am under no obligation to buy goods…
Oh, but dear sir, you forgot about the AI!
Read Nancy Levesons work on system safety and you’ll see things are not necessarily so
A very interesting case where the design of the system stems directly from the design of the team designing and building it.
What Thiel is describing is a feedback loop: more people of x in a region means more people of x in a region simply because they will feel more comfortable among like people. These sorts of mechanisms certainly exist…
Let’s see what the classics say about this. Mr Conway says, that an organization creates a system in its image. Thus, if the system needs to be very distributed, so does the organization. So unless there is a singular…
Ah, the old shaman argument. The dude living in an essentially black-and-white wasteland up north with months of darkness. He strongly believes in the need to go consult the ancestors, moves in a hypnotic fashion, beats…
You did not, in fact, stumble upon information. You stumbled on a person making statements. There’s a difference, especially when lives are at stake.
People consistently fail to properly assess the system architecture aspects of things. Iphone is not a standalone device but part of a complex system including hardware, software, organizational processes working on the…
Architecture is not about technology. It’s about how to structure a system to best aid a given organization to achieve its strategic goals.
And then there’s guys like mr. Rainger (https://www.raingerfx.com/shop/p/minibar) just casually inserting an actual pod of liquid into the signal chain to replace a resistor and drive an eq (via its transparency). Coke…
FSD is not happening in the sense I mean it but it might in the sense you mean it. I mean “single-lane three-dimensionally-twisty-motorcycles-do-40mph roads covered in literal ice in complete darkness”. Because that’s…
I had a really bad chronic headache. Had it for most of my life. Came with bouts of over-eating, sensory overload. In the end there were months with few days below 5 on the pain scale. Nobody could find anything,…
Nope, not at all. Your hardware wallet is useless without the bitcoin trust frameworks and the implicit agreement among many people that these particular bits on your hardware denote anything of value. Both of these are…
This is not what happens. Trust is moved from institutions to code and math. General public has no chance to evaluate the trustworthiness of either while there is a mechanism to certify the first and not the latter.
Ask yourself two questions. Why is it that the things are the way they are? What can I realistically change? Then determine the overlap in these. If there is none, walk away. It makes no sense to go for a rewrite…
Yes, battery life is good on Garmins. But, amazingly, the UX is even better. The Apple watch does many things well while a Fenix does the sports thing very well. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a watch I’m that happy with…
Back in the 90s I enjoyed Nethack and Perl sources, had a hard copy of both. Both looked somehow human, with witty remarks and outright quotations from holy texts in case of Nethack.
Exactly. Anything novel is, by definition, risky. Therefore any and all research has the potential to harm people. What the article says is, that there is an apparently all-knowing group of people, who will decide,…
Managing complexity is the job of an architect. Possibly the only job. Who is the architect of Google? The CEO. Thus, this is a really bad sign: shop-level complexity he is after commonly grows out of organizational…
And this, kids, is why it was possible to do fun things to computers of other people when their os did not tell the modem to stop accepting incoming bytes when the line was dropped and then picked up again. It just…
Your hardware might either leak the private key via a non-internet connection (bluetooth, nfc, physical interface, some non-standard protocol). Also, it might use weak crypto to generate the private key (see ROCA…
Don’t be discouraged. You appear to be a very goal-oriented systematic person, maybe lacking some reflective skills but what do I know. But life is not systemic and goal-oriented. You kinda can’t force it. The…
I’m genuinely curious as to why discussions on identity inevitably also involve claims about that identity. For authentication purposes, all that’s necessary is for a user to prove they are in control of an identifiers…
That is the curse of experience. In any field, I’d imagine. The trick is to be able to share your experience in a way that it get heard, watch people hit the fall when it is not and then help pick up the pieces without…
Underneath that high-level hand-waving there’s still a pretty simple concept. If I buy T—Bonds, I bloody well expect them to be cashed at maturity. Otherwise, who’d buy them? And I am under no obligation to buy goods…
Oh, but dear sir, you forgot about the AI!
Read Nancy Levesons work on system safety and you’ll see things are not necessarily so
A very interesting case where the design of the system stems directly from the design of the team designing and building it.
What Thiel is describing is a feedback loop: more people of x in a region means more people of x in a region simply because they will feel more comfortable among like people. These sorts of mechanisms certainly exist…
Let’s see what the classics say about this. Mr Conway says, that an organization creates a system in its image. Thus, if the system needs to be very distributed, so does the organization. So unless there is a singular…
Ah, the old shaman argument. The dude living in an essentially black-and-white wasteland up north with months of darkness. He strongly believes in the need to go consult the ancestors, moves in a hypnotic fashion, beats…
You did not, in fact, stumble upon information. You stumbled on a person making statements. There’s a difference, especially when lives are at stake.
People consistently fail to properly assess the system architecture aspects of things. Iphone is not a standalone device but part of a complex system including hardware, software, organizational processes working on the…
Architecture is not about technology. It’s about how to structure a system to best aid a given organization to achieve its strategic goals.
And then there’s guys like mr. Rainger (https://www.raingerfx.com/shop/p/minibar) just casually inserting an actual pod of liquid into the signal chain to replace a resistor and drive an eq (via its transparency). Coke…
FSD is not happening in the sense I mean it but it might in the sense you mean it. I mean “single-lane three-dimensionally-twisty-motorcycles-do-40mph roads covered in literal ice in complete darkness”. Because that’s…
I had a really bad chronic headache. Had it for most of my life. Came with bouts of over-eating, sensory overload. In the end there were months with few days below 5 on the pain scale. Nobody could find anything,…
Nope, not at all. Your hardware wallet is useless without the bitcoin trust frameworks and the implicit agreement among many people that these particular bits on your hardware denote anything of value. Both of these are…
This is not what happens. Trust is moved from institutions to code and math. General public has no chance to evaluate the trustworthiness of either while there is a mechanism to certify the first and not the latter.
Ask yourself two questions. Why is it that the things are the way they are? What can I realistically change? Then determine the overlap in these. If there is none, walk away. It makes no sense to go for a rewrite…
Yes, battery life is good on Garmins. But, amazingly, the UX is even better. The Apple watch does many things well while a Fenix does the sports thing very well. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a watch I’m that happy with…
Back in the 90s I enjoyed Nethack and Perl sources, had a hard copy of both. Both looked somehow human, with witty remarks and outright quotations from holy texts in case of Nethack.
Exactly. Anything novel is, by definition, risky. Therefore any and all research has the potential to harm people. What the article says is, that there is an apparently all-knowing group of people, who will decide,…
Managing complexity is the job of an architect. Possibly the only job. Who is the architect of Google? The CEO. Thus, this is a really bad sign: shop-level complexity he is after commonly grows out of organizational…
And this, kids, is why it was possible to do fun things to computers of other people when their os did not tell the modem to stop accepting incoming bytes when the line was dropped and then picked up again. It just…
Your hardware might either leak the private key via a non-internet connection (bluetooth, nfc, physical interface, some non-standard protocol). Also, it might use weak crypto to generate the private key (see ROCA…
Don’t be discouraged. You appear to be a very goal-oriented systematic person, maybe lacking some reflective skills but what do I know. But life is not systemic and goal-oriented. You kinda can’t force it. The…
I’m genuinely curious as to why discussions on identity inevitably also involve claims about that identity. For authentication purposes, all that’s necessary is for a user to prove they are in control of an identifiers…
That is the curse of experience. In any field, I’d imagine. The trick is to be able to share your experience in a way that it get heard, watch people hit the fall when it is not and then help pick up the pieces without…