How are 'dark' donations not afoul of campaign finance laws?? Or is this just another SBF lie?
Yes
My grandfather told me shortly after Kitty Hawk, posters appeared in Manhattan claiming "Soon! New York to Paris in 15 hours by air!" with glamorous people walking toward a Concorde-like airplane. If you are going to…
The tamale or Kennedy?
I'd argue it was actually demolished in 1980[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o
The mall near where I grew up suffered from that problem 50 years ago, and was shut down by the late 1970s...
I like the "wartime like economy" analogy. It took 6 years to defeat the bad guys during the second world war. Most of the guys that defeated them had little to no military training at the onset of the conflict. The…
Or Kennedy Approach on the C64: "United three two six, say heading and altitude" "This is United three two six on one eight zero at four thousand feet"...even though I knew damn well what his heading an altitude was.
> Looking up words is not stupid. That's for the ML algorithms to decide.
This sounds a lot like "an old guy's excuse". If you are 60 years old, you learned how to monitor your spending in the late 1960s. Same skill here.
You might be on to something here...."Who needs TV when I have T-Rex?"
Long ago, computing was about freedom. "I can organize a music collection the way I want...AND take it with me wherever I go?" Somewhere along the line "convenience" displaced "freedom". "Why manage my own collection…
You are a NCIMBY? No crashing in my backyard?
> Are we so fu*d up? "Is the alternative way to express these sentiments?"
Well I heard Mister Young bitch about him Well I heard ol' Neil put him down Well I hope Neil Young will remember Spotify don't need him around anyhow
Holy cow...Bre-X that takes me back. People were actually suicided in that one.
In the spring of 2001, I planned a trip to Disneyworld for that fall, specifically the third week of September. Park was open, but empty. Quite the surreal experience.
Addressed in Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles (1950). In Bradbury's story, the vast majority of residents of the Martian colonies returned back to Earth when (atomic) war was imminent, leaving Mars all but…
Because we tolerate it. It doesn't seem so long ago we didn't have much of an ability to pick what music we listened to. This will seem alien to younger HNers, but it is true. You listened to what was played. Sure,…
<p>age sysop ...original online chat
Would it enable any new use cases?
> They money you put in there is used to acquire assets that are used to produce goods that people will pay to consume Is a decentralized, public ledger not a good people will pay (via cryptocurrency) to consume?
> but there’s a good chance that engineers could lower the boom from 105 decibels to just 70 decibels. At that volume, US lawmakers might revisit the speed limit if it means getting from California to Washington DC in…
> and no precedents were set in this situation. Time will tell.
Whatever the details are, I am interested if it set a precedent or not.
How are 'dark' donations not afoul of campaign finance laws?? Or is this just another SBF lie?
Yes
My grandfather told me shortly after Kitty Hawk, posters appeared in Manhattan claiming "Soon! New York to Paris in 15 hours by air!" with glamorous people walking toward a Concorde-like airplane. If you are going to…
The tamale or Kennedy?
I'd argue it was actually demolished in 1980[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o
The mall near where I grew up suffered from that problem 50 years ago, and was shut down by the late 1970s...
I like the "wartime like economy" analogy. It took 6 years to defeat the bad guys during the second world war. Most of the guys that defeated them had little to no military training at the onset of the conflict. The…
Or Kennedy Approach on the C64: "United three two six, say heading and altitude" "This is United three two six on one eight zero at four thousand feet"...even though I knew damn well what his heading an altitude was.
> Looking up words is not stupid. That's for the ML algorithms to decide.
This sounds a lot like "an old guy's excuse". If you are 60 years old, you learned how to monitor your spending in the late 1960s. Same skill here.
You might be on to something here...."Who needs TV when I have T-Rex?"
Long ago, computing was about freedom. "I can organize a music collection the way I want...AND take it with me wherever I go?" Somewhere along the line "convenience" displaced "freedom". "Why manage my own collection…
You are a NCIMBY? No crashing in my backyard?
> Are we so fu*d up? "Is the alternative way to express these sentiments?"
Well I heard Mister Young bitch about him Well I heard ol' Neil put him down Well I hope Neil Young will remember Spotify don't need him around anyhow
Holy cow...Bre-X that takes me back. People were actually suicided in that one.
In the spring of 2001, I planned a trip to Disneyworld for that fall, specifically the third week of September. Park was open, but empty. Quite the surreal experience.
Addressed in Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles (1950). In Bradbury's story, the vast majority of residents of the Martian colonies returned back to Earth when (atomic) war was imminent, leaving Mars all but…
Because we tolerate it. It doesn't seem so long ago we didn't have much of an ability to pick what music we listened to. This will seem alien to younger HNers, but it is true. You listened to what was played. Sure,…
<p>age sysop ...original online chat
Would it enable any new use cases?
> They money you put in there is used to acquire assets that are used to produce goods that people will pay to consume Is a decentralized, public ledger not a good people will pay (via cryptocurrency) to consume?
> but there’s a good chance that engineers could lower the boom from 105 decibels to just 70 decibels. At that volume, US lawmakers might revisit the speed limit if it means getting from California to Washington DC in…
> and no precedents were set in this situation. Time will tell.
Whatever the details are, I am interested if it set a precedent or not.