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You also don't need to go back very far in history to see how white patriarchal empires dominated/shaped most (all?) of these regions and countries for centuries.


I would submit, that white patriarchal opinion is due to the time period you are sampling coupled with,in this case, mobility by boat to allow a more global reach.

There were Mongols, Kush / Egyptian in Africa, Inca, Navajo in North America, etc etc - pulling from large and small groups. Even within a group, the India Caste system did the same within a population



Cool! Thanks for the link.

A 10 kWh flywheel that can charge/discharge at 20 kW (lasts for 20~30 min at this power) costs ~11500 USD + installation and control system.

A Tesla Powerwall has 13.5 kWh capacity, delivers power at ~6 kW and costs ~11500 USD.

That doesn't seem a large difference to me.


That looks very cool. Mechanical energy storage. Any idea what the return efficiency of such a device is? And guesses about its cost?


No idea. But interestingly enough, it looks like someone built a grid scale version in PA with funds from the 2008 Recovery Act. There's a final tech report here https://www.smartgrid.gov/project/hazle_spindle_20mws_flywhe... in the Related Docs


well, if nothing else, that thing looks futuristic as hell

would love to point out in my yard and say "oh, that? that's our mechanical energy storage device"


No one has to take anything down. Babcock Ranch weathered Hurricane Ian (cat5) just fine. Didn’t even lose power. Unlike their neighbors.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florid...


That's the source of this donation to curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35371296


https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This paper seems to have more details on the actual procedure

Patients were treated and monitored according to the schedule described in the appendix (p 17) and as previously reported.16, 17 HSPCs harvested from bone marrow or mobilised peripheral blood (MPB) were transduced with clinical-grade lentiviral vector encoding human ARSA cDNA under the control of the human phosphoglycerate kinase gene promoter.


Definitely agree. I keep seeing sites like this called Brutalist, but they’re more akin to high tech postmodernism. With the closest architectural equivalent probably being the Centre Pompidou. Which is all about exposure of underlying structural and functional elements for purely aesthetic purposes.


Apt comparison!


Love this one. There is a similar one in Charlottesville, Va to cross Water Street, which has a delightful southern accent. Pronounces it Wooter and everything :)


> assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need

I'm not sure you've fully thought through how complex this would be. There are 40 million rental households in the US. Even if only 1% (400,000) decided to be a part of this program and you could close every case in 1 hour (which is probably wildly low) that's 45 man-years of effort.


So, to run with your for-instance, if we wanted to do all of that in a month, then we'd have to put 45 x 12 = 540 people on it. Nationwide. For a month, and then we're done. That doesn't seem particularly difficult.

Of course, it would take three years to roll out the computer application that they would need in order to make and document the decision, but that's somewhat a separate problem...


Well, that's just the time necessary to action the accounts. You'd still need to hire all of those people, get them equipment and software, pay them, etc. IT, HR, management, payroll. Probably double or triple your man-hours. But on top of that, I specifically chose what are probably unrealistically low numbers. It would maybe be closer to 20-30% utilization and 8-20 hours to close a case (totally guessing here :shrug:). So maybe 730 - 2700 man-years, roughly. Plus above-mentioned overhead.

Spinning up a 500 person accounting firm wouldn't be snappy.


I honestly thought this was going to be a joke post because that top image is ridiculous. Maybe I'm just old, but it reads to me as

Web 1.0: Great

Web 2.0: Ugh, ok

Web 3.0: You're serious with this?


It's not Web 3.0, that was the semantic web, which also aimed in some sense to be decentralized data but wasn't about turning the internet itself into a vehicle for ridicules investment ponzi-schemes. The "new" one is Web3


This is what bugs me most about this whole web3 situation, if people want to dump their money into these ponzi-scheme pump and dump bs be my guest, but then naming it web3 isn't very nice.

To then attach all kinds of good qualities to it that are not shown, nor proven, and often demonstrable incorrect just finishes it off.

As you say, a lot of the bigger ideas claimed to be part of this "new" web3 thing aren't new, and are interesting ideas that should be further explored, it would be much better without the ponzi sauce.


web3 = Web 4.0 I guess ?

(Just like IPv5 never got anywhere ??)


Sounds reasonable haha.

We might as well also try the HTML approach, attach some letters (DWeb, XWeb) then once we all regain our sanity continue with web 4.0


Rebrand, clever.


Agreed - the UX mock up there looks awful. If you go look at coinmarketcap.com there are already hundreds of coins out there. Are users going to have to find their wallet from hundreds/thousands on the lists? Or are maybe not all sites going to support every wallet, so therefore you're going to need to have multiple wallets to support multiple sites ... suddenly that "consistent identity" fails as you are actually juggling 20-30+ wallets for logging into different sites.

.... or it ends up that everyone just logs in using an ethereum wallet and you're back to centralisation.


The image amplifies what we already know is a fundamental problem with OAuth; people, instead of forgetting their username/password combo, now are forgetting which provider they use to sign into a service.

That "Web 3.0 login" portion of the slide only makes that problem worse. Decentralization and a variety of choices absolutely fall apart when they meet non-tech users who have no idea what icon means what.


>The image amplifies what we already know is a fundamental problem with OAuth; people, instead of forgetting their username/password combo, now are forgetting which provider they use to sign into a service.

I already have this problem with Matrix/Element all the time. Not only do I forget my username and/or password on networks I've been logged into for months, I also forget homeserver addresses and all these other settings I had to set up at some point. Every time I get logged out of something, it takes a day or two to figure out how to get back in.


I had the same thought. Imagine listing all blockchains in tiny icons you scroll sideways. I suppose that can be done a lot better, but still, who decides which blockchains are included and which are not?


Precisely. Or what if you're some random grandma that has a wallet (since we're living in a make believe world where this is easy to create). Imagine you've forgotten which blockchain your wallet is on. Will there be a search box to find my wallet in this mess of combinatorics that is a login page?


I mined a teeny tiny bit of Dogecoin years ago. One of the times it spiked in price, I decided to convert my teeny tiny bit into Etherium. So I used a wallet on a cryptocurrency trading site.

Do you know what site that was? I don’t. I can’t remember. I think the password may be in my password manager, but I’m not sure. I’d have to go digging.

But I am SURE I’ll remember which of the 1200 common block chains I use for my credentials.


Because that’s insane. Normal users couldn’t deal with that. Highly technical users can’t deal with that. It’s too much of a pain in the ass.

The solution is that there should only be one or two chains that everyone uses. Then there’s only one or two little icons you need.

The people who run the trains could make sure they keep running by having tens of thousands of computers. Of course that cost money. Luckily they get money out of the block chain because they can spend coins.

Of course users don’t really like buying things. Maybe it wouldn’t be too hard to put an ad or two in there to pay for things.

The easiest thing to get users on board is to use brands they trust. No normal person is going to trust everything they have two the Kakarot blockchain with an anime superhero for a logo.

Do you know who people trust? Facebook and Google. If they were to…

Oops. I invented today. Only with much more energy use.


This. But I'd say don't just donate the whole sum. Talk to whatever accountant you find about creating a foundation and building an endowment. At $20k+ per month in seed you'll quickly ramp up to millions of dollars in the endowment and can build a foundaton that runs in perpetuity to enrich the lives of a lot of people less fortunate than you.


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