The thing I've always appreciated most about the #Ethereum community is that we don't take ourselves too seriously. This is an underrated characteristic and one well worth protecting. Why?
Because it creates openness and makes it easier to enter a community for the first time. Everyone starts at zero, so if each tiny fact you don't know yet is A Big Deal there's no ramp to gradually build skill and acquire knowledge, just a cliff you fall off with one misstep.
Aug 6, 2021 • 77 tweets • 17 min read
There are definitely some important points raised in this article. As a long time critic of the sometimes screamingly blatant ethnocentrism, elitism, and unadulterated hubris within the EA, "rationalist", and x-risk movements, I've repeatedly run into brick walls trying to...
...talk about the dangerous culture that many in this space are fostering and/or borrowing from tech/VC "elites". With that said, I do feel like this piece missed the mark in a couple of important ways, at least one of which I was very surprised about by the end.
Jun 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I want to highlight some extremely underappreciated @gitcoin grant opportunities, starting with the one I've supported most in round 10, the @TrustGraphic Novel project by @chiefnyamweya.
@chiefnyamweya recently did a great podcast with @Kenyanpoet where they discuss the @netflix show Yasuke; representation in media; his leap from law school into comics/animation/graphic novels; and how Trust explores the future of tech+decentralization
A short Twitter thread on the difference between first-run and second-run gas pricing constraints, which are becoming increasingly relevant for things like optimistic rollups.
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Background: gas pricing tackles 3 rough categories of resource bound simultaneously. 1. DoS risks (especially relative worst case risks) 2. Sync times 3. Long term chain size costs
(some of these will change with architecture, I'm just glossing that for now).
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May 2, 2021 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Back of napkin math shows that funding oxygen intervention for India is currently more effective than even top rated interventions from @GiveWell
There's an interesting pattern emerging with takes on the #ethereum#beaconchain launch. People who have been following developments closely are starting to get excited about how close the good stuff is. People who haven't are critical that it isn't here yet. And that's fine.
The whole point of a phased deployment is that the leading edge doesn't carry most of the change. People who say the beacon chain isn't impressive are perfectly welcome to keep ignoring it, while the people who are excited about where we're going keep working.
Here's a thread to explain why millions of dollars of #ETH are being moved into this state of the art gadget, what makes it different from other #PoS systems, and why it was worth the wait!
First things first: even though the #beaconchain is being referred to as an #eth2 or "Ethereum 2.0" technology, it does not exist to replace the current Ethereum Virtual Machine we know and love as "Ethereum 1.0" today. If you're using the EVM, you're fine. It's not going away.
Nov 19, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
It is impossible for me to process the level of #facepalm I have just witnessed from @Bell's #business#fiber#internet alone, so you all have to share in this experience.
The fiber optic box for my #SMB internet service has a power supply with a built in UPS. Handy, right?
Internet is a critical service, and the entire device is under 25 watts, so building even a small UPS into the power supply will let it run for a very long time in the event of an outage! Great idea! Laptops and phones work when the power's out, so should the internet!
Feb 23, 2019 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
@factcheckmypost@liamihorne@ETHGlobal I don't agree with you that anything is being conflated, or that we can't know things beyond simple ranges of possible values here. Formally speaking, every bit (the computer kind) of information in your experience that is more or less likely in worlds where an EF conspiracy 1/n@factcheckmypost@liamihorne@ETHGlobal exists is evidence that tells you *something* about the real world likelihood of that conspiracy existing in fact. That is, there are parts of your experience that have mutual entropy with the part of reality that is or is not an EF conspiracy, and this means you do in fact 2/n
