twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to Maybe this is just a tumblr thing but it's weird that the primary method of online pro-palestine activism has become donating and reposting gofundmes by neku

I think you're right, and the hostility you mention (wrt suspecting GoFundMe-s) is something (1) youth centric, and (2) weaponized effectively by people running scams.

I want to emphasize "youth centric"-- I think everyone I know (who is mostly 25+) feels the same wariness to Go Fund Me's and whatnot. I think we've all seen our share of scams.

And there's nothing wrong with the basic principle of "effective altruism"! It's the Effective Altruism movement of LessWrong types who'll throw out the vast troves of unquantifiable facts in favor of what they personally have the tools to measure and model. It makes them ignorant to their own insular culture, to the point where they are actually worried about, like, Roko's Basilisk.

But wanting to maximize the good that comes from your time/money/energy is still a good idea. I've donated exclusively to the two you mention (UNRWA and PCRF) for their long track record of making good use of their money, and not to any GoFundMe.

That said, I believe GoFundMe allows you to start a campaign in benefit of another beneficiary, e.g. this GoFundMe with the PCRF as a beneficiary. Who can say if the loss from GoFundMe's 3% cut balances out with a campaign potentially getting more people to donate

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Cryptocurrency expert here! I'd like to dispell some common misconceptions about NFTs. :) Myth: NFTs are good. Truth: NFTs are not good by twovests

been thinking about this and the big problem is (1) i have to place trust in a local trump supporter who's great grandfather's middle name was honestly "wigglesworth" and (2) so does everyone else

that's fine if i'm interacting with a government and we're all pretending government works, but what if i want to notarize something to real people?

well, cryptotrash hasn't gotten usable for anyone to use it

and i think committing the document (or a hash of it) to a public github repo is good enough, for as long as github exists. any site with timestamps people trust

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Reply to comment by wbn in Distributed computing with centralized payments? Does anyone know if such a system exists? by twovests

woah i missed this entire post two years ago!! Jstpst's deep technical knowledge is something I appreciate so I'm reading this now.

I really appreciate this deep-dive and I am sorry it took me literally 2.5 years to read it. I appreciate that you somehow could prognosticate what I did and did not already know (51%, halting problem, etc).

The big thing is that I honestly didn't know that ETH requires every EVM computation to be run on every node. That does seem wildly frustrating.

I can't imagine a use I'd have for Burner Machine, unless I was an especially cool journalist.

I have nothing to add but I really appreciate this post

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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in the year is 1980 and ada is the language that will save you from memory unsafety. the year is 1995 and java is the language that will save you from memory unsafety. the year is 2010 and rust by twovests

Coming back to this... Ada was actually pretty fantastic and I think of it regularly. It brought things way forward, it's a shame it was basically entirely unadopted outside of govt agencies and contractors lol

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Reply to comment by Moonside in "Linux doesn't need ccleaner," I say, by twovests

I missed this, but I agree. The big benefit of the command line is the uniformity. Every interface is its own language, subject to change, laborious to speak, and unrecordable.

But the Linux command line can be stored and every solution recorded for future use. It kicks ass.

Sometime after this post, I broke my bootloader partition because I made it hilariously small. But my "things to do after installing Linux" script was pretty thorough so I just copied my home dir and reinstalled Linux lol

It took ~1h of copying and a bit of attention in between baking cookies, autumn of 2022 :)

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Reply to comment by devtesla in Remember Amazon's videogame, Crucible? They dumped tens of millions into its first real videogame, which was legitimately poised to redefine hero shooters with a lot of interesting features, and then they shut it down a few months later? by twovests

Looks like it's succeeding. Amazon Games needed a win, good for 'em

(jk, but i am glad they didn't kill the game under their tutelage)

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