Tommaso Sciortino

Environmental storytelling through a series of skills .md files.

Environmental storytelling through a series of skills .md files.

Inflation report: I saw a quarter on the ground and after some thought I decided to take the effort to pick it up.

Doesn’t matter how many times someone says this, I always agree

I need a version of "inshallah" but for BART instead of Allah.

Biden was a much better senile president than Trump is.

If all the companies agreed, they could just agree on a common file format and let users upload their own data.

Yeah. I don't see how this solves any problem that "let players download the skins they buy" doesn't also solve.

To be up front, I don't even think bitcoin is very useful for anything other than crime.

And even if they did contain the data, they can't guarantee that selling the NFT means no one else has the data since the data can easily be copied.

The problem is that NFTs don't contain the data. They just contain a pointer to the data that may or may not go stale.

And even if the NFT contained the actual data instead of the pointer, it's not clear to me how it's any better than just storing the data on your own machines/cloud.

Again, the problem is how is that useful? NFTs don't even solve problem as simple as "can I buy a minecraft skin and own it without having to trust Minecraft Inc.?" You still have to trust that Minecraft Inc will honor it since all the NFT contains is the url pointing to it.

Really, besides the Immutable Ledger which is also used by bitcoin, NFTs don't use any technology that wasn't also used in - like - OpenSSL.

Right. I mean, NFTs basically only use a subset of the techniques used used for bitcoins. They aren't the same as bitcoins. They are simpler.

And also, NFTs aren't really even that interesting. They don't do anything bitcoin didn't do already.

The problem with NFTs is people confusing "technically impressive achievement" with "many people should buy one".

Radioactive bubble chambers are technically pretty interesting. but I don't think it makes sense for many people to buy them.

Waluigi Coates

Sure. But there were many there who *definitely* were saying "We pledge support for Trump".

The real answer Is NIMBYs made it too expensive for anyone else to live there.

I saw a demonstration in front of the Ferry Building today with lots of Iranian flags (the old royal version). The crowd seemed... pro-Trump?

Not clear how representative of the diaspora they are.

Just finished reading Moonraker and not only does it bear absolutely no relation to the movie, but Bond doesn't even get the girl at the end!

Still an enjoyable read!

Edge case: Frankenstein's monster earns a doctorate

Wait, what?

Ok, but this is a mostly bipartite graph. Is a giant component still likely under those conditions?

Still embarrassed I voted for Nader.

So like, it's not a "truth" manifold so much as a "boring" manifold.

BlueSkyers who reply with "it's always been like this", and trot out tame precursors AT BEST and non sequiturs at worst, get blocked because whether they realize it or not, they are a big part of the problem.