I can confirm that Justin Sun is every bit the scumbag this article paints him to be theverge.com/21459906/bitto…
As a side note, it's highly unlikely that anyone at Tron actually has the p2p live streaming code I wrote running at this point. Everybody who worked on it before left, and the current product plans take no advantage of it.
P2P isn't about saving money on running a centralized service, it's about enabling anyone who wants to to run their own service with no budget. If you're already pissing away millions on flailing development you don't worry about the bandwidth bill, especially before usage
There's also the persistent phenomenon that anyone running a content tech project who has ever had dreams of getting into movies sooner or later succumbs to the delusion that their product vision is the real secret sauce and the technology doesn't matter. I've seen it repeatedly
Even worse is when biz dev people are doing deals. They'll sell their soul and put their career at risk to have lunch with C-list celebrities in Hollywood. People are starfuckers. It's sad and pathetic.
On a more positive note I made sure that the plans for BitTorrent v2 were in place before I left and am happy that it's now launched. Protocols can develop a lot of cruft after more than a decade. That the big announcement came from Arvid instead of Tron is very telling.
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OpenAI's chatbot doesn't have much experience in the material world
Don't let OpenAI's chatbot take care of your pets
They seem to be updating it in real time so it gives better answers to specific questions than it did just a few hours ago but sometimes small variations can trip it up
Good morning everyone. Today's rant will be about analog audio and some truly maddening myths in that field (thread)
There's a persistent myth that as soon as any step in audio processing is digital the entire thing has been reduced to a lower digital quality and that's what you're stuck with. This is wrong.
The truth is that every step of processing, either analog or digital, reduces quality, and each specific process will have its own effects, but the limits of how little quality can be lost are much better when both the inputs and outputs are digital
There's a myth in the general public that Know Your Customer programs are important for banking. This is incorrect (thread)
KYC has nothing to do with bank auditing and solvency. It is a relatively recent program which is solely for helping law enforcement. To that end it is extremely expensive and ineffective
The thing which really keeps bank together is federal reserve auditing and FDIC insurance. You know, the things which keep them from turning into FTX. KYC didn't start until 1970. It makes up a significant amount of all banking costs with no benefit to bank customers whatsoever
Something which offends me about SBF is that he's a finance bro's notion of a charmingly autistic founder. He plays that role well because he's a finance bro himself (thread)
Here's the chart of SBF's corporate empire. Nobody sets up something like this without damn well knowing that they're up to something shady
Another obnoxious thing is his inability to tie his shoes supposedly being cute. An adult being incapable of tying their shoes is a red flag of someone who doesn't take pride in their work and can't be bothered to do much of anything for themselves
Someone who has not made major charitable contributions, either through money or deeds, can't claim to be an 'effective altruist' any more than they can claim to be a philanthropist
Someone who's starting out their career and plans to do it can claim that they aspire to be an effective altruist some day, or even have direct plans for it, and if they haven't yet made lots of money that's a reasonable claim
If someone had a plan of making lots of money and using it for charity in the end but their investments never panned out I'm even happy to give them the benefit of the doubt that they would have been very generous