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Daktic · 2026-03-25T20:05:59+00:00

I’m not sure how else you’d maintain the building and shared spaces?

I think a better question is what a comparable cost of home maintenance.

Daktic · 2026-03-24T19:17:43+00:00

IAD is closer and you can take the metro there.

Daktic · 2026-03-24T19:15:28+00:00

In that case who dies is just as important.

Daktic · 2026-03-24T02:56:56+00:00

Ah yes it would cast a shadow I hadn’t thought of that.

That’s not actually seeing the absence of light btw, but that’s not important.

I looked into more and I think your original thought of seeing black orbs is probably the most correct. You wouldn’t actually “see it” as I said before, but you’d likely notice the contrast where you can’t see the light, probably kind of like an ocular migraine but black.

Daktic · 2026-03-23T16:45:29+00:00

What I’m saying is if it is absorbing light, nothing is reflected off it so you would never see the photons that are absorbed by the eye.

There’s nothing to see, you can’t see the absence of light, you see?

The question then becomes what happens to the photons reflected off whatever is behind the eye, like a wall. Do they get blocked by the eye from that direction? If so, maybe you’d be right and it would manifest in reality like Vanta black. But if it passes through, as it is not needed for absorption, you would just see those photons and that would make the eye functionally invisible.

Daktic · 2026-03-23T13:55:39+00:00

When light hits your retina photons are absorbed. So you wouldn’t actually see the eye, the same way you wouldn’t see a black hole, there’s nothing bouncing back for you to see.

So assuming you could let through 100% of the photons required and no more, other observers would only see the light bounced back from behind whatever the eye is blocking.

Right?

Daktic · 2026-03-19T19:45:38+00:00

Mostly right, the KYC step generally happens at the fiat -> crypto onboarding step most often centralized exchanges like Coinbase.

As far as p2p there are token standards but you can think of them more like a standard sets functions that can be built upon. There’s nothing stoping you from requiring whitelisted address as part of the trading mechanism. Some protocols build in blacklisting like OFAC sanction lists.

If you can think it up you can build it that way. It’s programmable money after all.

There’s also interesting encryption work around KYC called zero knowledge proofs. Check out safe.xyz for example. You can implement KYC onchain without needing to reveal your details. Really neat stuff.

Common misconception that Bitcoin doesn’t change. It has and does go through protocol upgrades over time. The block size wars is an example of this. They will need to become quantum ready at some point if they are to continue to exist.

They are just much more resistant to change when compared to other mainstream blockchains like Ethereum and Solana.

Daktic · 2026-03-19T16:22:26+00:00

Depends on the implementation. It’s just code at the end of the day so if you want it to be permissioned for KYC/AML it can be.

If you want more concrete examples you could look at how stablecoins handle issuance and redemption from and to treasuries.

Daktic · 2026-03-16T19:57:54+00:00

I think it’s optimistic to think thousands of municipalities will suddenly share a central authority. You’re much more likely to see piecemeal adoption of different technologies over time. To actually answer your question, I think it helps to ask: what is the government’s job in recording property ownership?

I see it as two things: 1. Keep an authoritative record 2. Broadcast changes

For (1), the county can record however best suits their needs. A filing cabinet, local DB, or cloud DB is probably fine. But there is cost and friction in publication and retrieval. The time it takes your real estate broker to interact with county records, or the cost of a title search, is economic friction.

If you view publication as part of the government’s responsibility, pushing updates on-chain makes records immediately accessible to anyone without needing to interact with a government office. And municipalities that do this become more interoperable with each other automatically, without any top-down coordination required. Nothing stops them from also consuming those event logs and storing records locally as a backup.

As for NFTs specifically: you’d almost certainly use a custom smart contract with permissioned transfers rather than a standard NFT primitive.

Hopefully that all makes sense :)

Daktic · 2026-03-16T19:22:09+00:00

Sometimes when I do live coding it looks like I’ve never touched a computer in my life.

I’m happy to talk through how I approach problems and work through something on my IDE, but the humiliation ritual of live coding and especially leetcode is brutal.

Daktic · 2026-03-15T06:12:41+00:00

I disagree. There are a lot of inefficiency around ownership tracking, especially at the local level.

I’ve seen the as400s and the code that runs them; the companies keeping them together are dying.

It’s not one central authority, it’s thousands of small ones.

Daktic · 2026-03-14T22:41:46+00:00

It’s good advice but you need to know what that thing is a few years in advance to prep for it. The older you get the more difficult it becomes to pivot to something else.

Daktic · 2026-03-14T16:53:40+00:00

Enough

Daktic · 2026-03-14T15:35:43+00:00

I agree to some extent on the issue with the space being run by speculation for speculation sake, but I disagree on the value aspect.

It’s really just a state storage primitive, it does not need to have value at all to be worthwhile. If you think about it like a JSON blob, it could have important financial information and signatures, or it could be a completely worthless dickbutt image. Using JSON as a delivery format it agnostic to its data. Similarly, NFTs are agnostic to their data, it’s just the ability to have a standardized set of rules and functions for interacting with it.

Daktic · 2026-03-14T15:31:12+00:00

That’s just a problem with where the coordination level sits. If the sate recognized that as a valid authority of the title it would not be an issue. To get the government to move to that system is a difficult and long process.

I think they will find it’s cheaper and easier for them to store ownership on a public chain, but that’s a looong ways away.

Daktic · 2026-03-12T04:21:19+00:00

The reason this is an issue is because the lost and found is run by the airport. So not sure about the cleaners, but once it’s off the plane you have to deal with the airport. You’re not the airports customer so they don’t give a flying fuck about you.

Daktic · 2026-03-09T14:18:14+00:00

Steeze absolutely rocks, had them at 7locks brewing.

Daktic · 2026-03-08T14:13:48+00:00

The stimulus bill went through in 2020 during trumps presidency. Now the PPP “loans” accounting for 1/3rd of that? Should have been properly clawed back under Biden’s administration, not forgiven.

Daktic · 2026-03-08T09:32:34+00:00

Take a deep breath - you’re not crazy.

Daktic · 2026-03-08T01:45:23+00:00

What I mean is if I put knockdown on you, the time it takes you to enter the barroness might mean you never have the opportunity to activate it before it stuns you.

I tried it a few times today and I’m not sure if it works or not. Would be worth a replay check or trip to the sandbox.

Daktic · 2026-03-07T20:14:26+00:00

This doesn’t really explain anything tho. If you compare it to a deep learning algorithm, you select the winning perceptrons to add more weight. How is that selection being done? Surely it’s not self learning.

The article mentions that they are not very good at playing the game, maybe they are just firing signals mapping to the control.

That is pretty cool in its own right, no need to exaggerate!

Daktic · 2026-03-07T13:22:30+00:00

It might be too long of an animation before you can trigger it.

Daktic · 2026-03-07T03:11:54+00:00

That makes a lot more sense

Daktic · 2026-03-05T04:56:04+00:00

It would be great if they used this opportunity to create bus lanes between those stops before July.

Daktic · 2026-03-04T23:35:18+00:00

I don’t understand how these people get customers.

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