Krzysztof Jurewicz @KrzysiekJ@capitalism.party

Starting today, http://ercoin.tech is generated using #Zodiac instead of #Hakyll. It therefore depends on #Make and #AWK instead of gigabytes of Haskell binaries. A minimalistic static site generator for a minimalistic site (1 HTML file, 1 CSS file).

#Ercoin #web

Why using #Haskell / #Hakyll to compile a simple static website (1 HTML file, 1 CSS file) hosted on #GitLab Pages may be a bad idea:

• When using Stack, the ~/.stack directory is about 3.5 GB.
• The build fails when running on CI, (apparently due to an old Stack version): https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin.tech/-/jobs/72181366 .
• When fixed, the build times out after one hour of running: https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin.tech/-/jobs/72264358 .
• If cabal sandbox is used instead of Stack, another error occurs: https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/641

#Ercoin

I’ve received an email with a suggestion that #Ercoin should use #proof_of_work to obtain “intrinsic value”.

The problem with such thinking is that the labour theory of value (offen associated with #marxism) has been refuted. The work in general has no value in itself. The fact that work has been performed may provide “psychological value” for some, but there’s no real utility associated with it. More on this topic: https://mises.org/wire/labor-theory-value-refuted-nobody-cares-how-hard-you-work

#cryptocurrencies #economics

The #EU #cookie directive is plainly stupid and it causes big losses to the economy (the cost of programming cookie popups + the cost of wasted screen space + the cost of dismissing cookie popups). Yet there was little resistance from companies and from the society when it was introduced. It is nice to see that one company has stood up to this: http://nocookielaw.com/

#web #fascism

Wczoraj ukazał się ciekawy artykuł doktora Stanisława Wójtowicza na temat finansowania nauki, teorii dóbr publicznych i efektu gapowicza: https://stanislawwojtowicz.pl/2018/05/nauka/

#nauka #dobra_publiczne #efekt_gapowicza #libertarianizm #polityka #ekonomia

Z okazji #3Maja przypominam swój upubliczniony rok temu artykuł pt. „Ordynacja spełniła swoją rolę”, napisany do… „Gazety Wyborczej” (nieopublikowany) i zawierający propozycję zmian ustrojowych:

http://jurewicz.org.pl/pl/blog/2017/05/03/ordynacja-spelnila-swoja-role/

#konstytucja #ordynacja #wybory #secesja #podatki #veto #demokracja

The threat of #superintelligence, described in Nick Bostrom’s book, poses a challenge to capitalistic thought which doesn’t seem to be widely recognized nowadays. What if machines become significantly more productive than humans in the vast majority of activities?

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/12/nick_bostrom_on.html

#AI #capitalism

It is now much easier to run an #Ercoin node for testing purposes, as:

• It doesn’t need #IPFS anymore. IPFS is an interesting technology, but it still seems to have issues with consuming too much resources: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/1482 , which makes running it on a non-dedicated hardware problematic.
• #Docker Compose can be used to start both ABCI server (written in Erlang) and ABCI client (Tendermint): https://gitlab.com/Ercoin/ercoin/blob/b8a31c2fda5b05050b661a288e6b91a331adcb33/README.md#docker-integration

#cryptocurrency #cryptocurrencies

The #GUI wallet for #Ercoin now supports persistence, transaction creation (for two transaction types) and communication with Tendermint, being basically functional.

Working with #ClojureScript + #React is much pleasure, in particular because it allows programmer to not worry about synchronizing UI changes with state changes. I’m not aware of an analogous, well-document toolkit for desktop.

Repo: https://gitlab.com/KrzysiekJ/ercoin-wallet
Compiled: https://krzysiekj.gitlab.io/ercoin-wallet/

#Lisp #cryptocurrency #cryptocurrencies

How #Uber has lost a customer:

I’ve received a renewed debit card and wanted to update it in the application. It hasn’t allowed me to remove the old card (despite it had already expired) because of it being the only payment method. I’ve then tried to add the new card first, but… the application has prohibited this because the new card has the same number as the old one.

For some time I’ve been using #Taxify then (if available in a particular city).

#transport

Wczoraj ukazał się trzeci numer magazynu „Biały Kruk”, a w nim moje opowiadanie pt. „Polityk doskonały”. Zachęcam do lektury.

http://magazyn.bialykruk.org/

#literatura #beletrystyka #fantastyka_naukowa #science_fiction

Remnants of #DRM are being removed from Polish ebook market. The last big bookstore removes all DRM-protected #ebooks from its offer, describing this technology as cumbersome. If a publisher insists on using DRM, then its books will not be sold at all.

Article (in Polish): http://swiatczytnikow.pl/woblink-rowniez-rezygnuje-z-adobe-drm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SwiatCzytnikow+%28%C5%9Awiat+Czytnik%C3%B3w%29

#Poland #optons

If you plan to test #ZFS on a #Linux machine and retain the created pool after installing #BSD, then you may be surprised when you discover that by default #zfsonlinux creates pools that are not compatible with other systems: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/6001