Today I built a service for learning languages via poems. Stores your progress in Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Attic Greek. Also Allows you to add new poems beyond the basic set via a camera / OCR service.
One aspect of Buckminster Fuller that many people don't want you to know is that he had a number of politically incorrect opinions which are in the archives but would tarnish his public reputation if they were easily accessible. I believe this is the main reason that certain aspects of his records are kept behind lock and key as it were.
I'd be curious to know if he ran afoul of the verboten PC topics (race, gender, sexuality); considering the era in which he lived and worked, it seems not-unlikely that he'd be a "product of his time".
At the same time, he clearly held many political positions which were much more controversial in his era, but that the left-libertarian-leaning HN crowd wouldn't find objectionable, whatever their status in the 2021 Overton window: staunchly anti-war, anti-corporate [0], and openly pursuing a post-scarcity utopia [1].
Mine is full of fitness instructors showing of their fitness challenges,dancers showing of their synchronized dance routines, and oddball humour. I had a moment where some BLM stuff trended but on the whole it seemed to show both sides (albeit a bit the extreme versions of both sides).
I have a pretty extensive personal system partially based on OKRs but I find the key element is doing the exercise as a group and having accountability partners.
I’d like to see this added to the system. At my company, every goal has a “POC” – point of contact aka “owner” or “partner”. I think you should add a partner to each goal – a person who will rate you on the objective. The objectives are what matter. e.g. if you hit 6 hrs time with gf, but she still thinks you are rubbish , you haven’t made any progress on the “strengthen relationships with gf” objective.
I started using privacy.com for this reason. You can spin up a separate card number for each transaction type with its own limit (e.g. $100/month or $200). You can also just turn them off at will.
There are other services, though not as advanced. In Europe you could use Revolut to create virtual disposable cards. They are more useful for one-time payments however.
privacy.com looks great. I think the only disadvantage is that you lose all the 2-5% cashback, travel benefits and so on. I wish they could produce card while keeping these benefits but still its good card to have for shady websites.
I use privacy.com and my regular card. I use my privacy.com cards for sites where I think security is bad (like our local water company) and for recurring subscriptions on sites that I don't think will be easy to cancel.
It's a good compromise between protection and credit rewards.
Credit card companies and banks receive 1-3% of commission on all of the transactions made throught he card. Banks normally pass parts of these along to the consumer in the form of cashback or other benefits. Privacy.com just uses these commisions as funding for their service. (I've read it somewhere on their site)
Having a forum where people discuss tech trends with an explicit commitment to reasoning from first principles would be very interesting, especially if it had cross over to physics and other sciences.
There were a few products prior to MakerDAO that failed when their collateralized peg collapsed, most notably BitUSD and NuShares.
MakerDAO is somewhat more sophisticated and holds way more capital but the fundamental problem is that you can't exclusively collateralize a dollar peg from a highly volatile unit of account with elastic demand or black swan events can wipe it out.
BitUSD had a different mechanism as it only allowed its own token as collateral.
The Maker protocol doesn't use MKR as collateral, instead it serves as an efficient debt engine for other liquid assets and its holders collects fees on these debt positions almost like a bank. The interest fees collected stream in real-time from those who take debt(yes, this is possible on a blockchain) and a large portion is sent to depositors who hold on to the dollar stablecoin a savings rate in real time too.
Ether is just the first asset being used to perfect the mechanisms needed for fully autonomous banking. Any real world asset can be tokenized to take advantage of this efficient lending protocol right now.
EA says that if you remove (or refactor!) the dependencies it might work but I don't know if that's high enough confidence to dive in.