Helping the man wearing a sleep mask on the elevator catch some Zs

The trick with those is, if you never acknowledge you received it in any way you don’t have to pay and never get in trouble.

…Probably, I only have one data point.

There’s at least some difference between “have been” and “this is currently likely to happen”, since if it’s known then it would have been fixed. I’ve gotten viruses before from just visiting websites but it was decades ago and there’s no way the same method would work now.

Nice to see someone actually trying it themselves to do their own analysis despite having reservations

I thought that part was great, captured the vibe of that sort of dream and foreshadowed that character later developing a mental model of what was happening to the victims. Seemed like a realistic depiction of how dreams can be involved with how we process things where it seems like mysterious nonsense in the moment but comes together later.

Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.

A bundler, a transpiler, a runtime (designed to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js), test runner, and a package manager - all in one.

Bun’s single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn’t have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.

Sounds like an additional reason to be doing it in a way where participants can’t be debanked by payments middlemen

It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.

I don’t really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn’t be a thing to worry about anymore.

Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I’m told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.

Hell yeah, I didn’t know about Mitra. It sounds like it’s a Patreon esque kind of deal with what the payments part is for.

Not quite as bad as property tax on a home, since that taxes the total value rather than just the difference between what you used to have and have now.

That kind of painting seems more likely to come alive

Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.

“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.

This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.

I think for some people the only way they can think of to help is attempting to bully someone over the internet, and it ends up applying to whoever happens to be around that disagrees with them, even though that makes zero sense as a strategy.

Barely even trying to pretend to be honest

Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has

I think maybe they wouldn’t if they are trying to scale their operations to scanning through millions of sites and your site is just one of them

If there’s one person who knows their applied zk proofs, it’s that guy.

There are some pretty strong arguments that even zk proof is a flawed way of preserving privacy though, in a variety of ways. It prevents pseudonymity by enabling one-user-one-account, and it leaves users vulnerable to being coerced to reveal their full online activities by handing over cryptographic keys.