His social media posts are very specifically designed to distract and pack the news cycle full of garbage, drowning out what actually matters. His entire life, his main defense to anything has been to attack and distract.
His posting style is also very typical of facist governments.
His approval rating is the worst of any president since WW2, including his first term, which was the previous 'record holder.' The Iran war is deeply unpopular with the American people, the skyrocketing gas and diesel prices are infuriating many. He's desperate to shift attention.
I don't think they're "very specifically designed" to do that, I think that's just how he is, raw and unfiltered. He was a shitposter on Twitter too, that's why he was banned.
I had this idea / pet project once where I did exactly this for email. Emails would immediately bounce with payment link and explanation. If you paid you get credit on a ledger per email address. Only then the mail goes through.
You can also integrate it in clients by adding payment/reward claim headers.
Bill Gates already had this idea. All efforts to change email were already documented 25 years ago. The biggest changes are it is more centralized these days, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, JMAP innovation, oh... and one more thing! It is HUGE!! HTML email is the default...
And it would even still work for the CEO, they would just have to charge more than $1.
The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy.
> The real problem is we don't have a low-friction digital payment system that allows individuals to automate sending payment requests for small amounts of money to each other without requiring everyone to sign up for a merchant account with a financial bureaucracy.
>First you have to make it low-friction. If I want Joe Average to send me $1 in cryptocurrency, how is he getting $1 in cryptocurrency to send me?
Absolutely. You're 1000% correct. Cryptocurrency is way too high friction for stuff like that. When I wish to spend crypto, I need to:
[If you don't have an exchange account already, you'll need the 0.x steps too!]
0.0 Create an account on an exchange which is legally allowed to operate in your state/country;
0.1 Provide all sorts of KYC/AML info including photos of yourself and your government ID;
0.2 Wait hours/days/weeks for the exchange to "validate" your KYC/AML info and allow you to purchase crypto;
1. Log in to an exchange which is actually allowed to operate in the place where one resides;
2. Purchase Bitcoin or other coin the exchange deems appropriate (leaving aside the hefty fee charged for using fiat currency/traditional credit card);
3. Wait days/weeks until the exchange allows you to transfer the purchased cryptocurrency out of your exchange-hosted wallet;
4. Transfer crypto to a wallet you actually control;
5. Convert the crypto purchased on the exchange to the crypto coin required for whatever your purpose may be;
6. Transmit the crypto to the destination wallet.
Total time (not including setting up the exchange account, which can take anywhere from 1-10 days): 3-10 days.
All the setup is no worse than setting up a bank account
And technically it can be avoided through back channels if you know someone who already has it - can just pay them cash or whatever and they can send crypto to you
Crypto is very easy to transfer once you have a wallet
Its the exchange to/from real world currency where the friction is.
> All the setup is no worse than setting up a bank account
Which is a huge pain in the butt. If someone invented a new lower-spam email ecosystem that required everyone to make a new bank account, very few people would join.
I would say something about a combined account but many countries have already figured out free bank transfers without needing crypto so maybe do that?
However, we weren't talking about using cryptocurrency in general, but in a very specific way: Making micropayments to devs as a mechanism to limit AI slop PRs to open source projects.
Doing that effectively would require broad implementation of some sort of payment scheme.
Given the current (as I documented) hoops one needs to jump through to obtain cryptocurrency if one doesn't have any, especially just for a random user to get crypto to send $1 to a github repo with their PR makes exactly zero sense.
Yes. Buying drugs and other stuff outside of the mainstream economy is definitely worth the effort. To send $1/PR for escrow to limit spam? Not so much.
If your devices are in one network like at home, you have all those things with Wireguard too.
Devices in home LAN all talk to each other, so you have a mesh network.
You need keys for your laptop, phone and remote devices only.
Most nodes are in LAN and don’t need to even run VPN.
With plain Wireguard, you open a single port in a single device. With mesh VPNs you open tons of ports: several ports in coordination, STUN and relay servers, also every device runs a vpn server listening to a port.
You VPN to home and use your home DNS. Your enter ACL rules and DNS server in your router.
I use a mesh VPN but I’m thinking of switching back to Wireguard, my older setup.
I tried searching for similar incidents in the past[1], and I think the problem is that the title munging actually doesn't happen often enough for Hacker News to want to do anything about it. It's unusual that two front page articles were affected on the same day, but that's a small fraction compared to titles that passed through[2].
I don't know if Hacker News will pop up any extra confirmation to the submitter to warn that their submitted title were automatically edited, but I think that would be a better interface than relying on submitters and readers to fix the mistake after the article is already visible and ranked.
Whether any automated editing of titles actually helps with reducing clickbait is a different question.
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