I was a crypto skeptic for many years. If you look at crypto purely from an engineering lens, you'll always find it wanting. What I didn't understand was that crypto is as much of an economic and political project, as it is an engineering project. If you think decentralisation and trustlessness are valuable, you should think crypto is important. If you don't care for decentralisation then being negative on crypto is a consistent position.
Interesting, yeah those are good points. I can certainly see it reducing the severity of disputes in theory.
In practice though I'm skeptical. I've read a little about the history of UAW. They really seemed to view workers vs mgmt as an adversarial zero sum game. Meanwhile Toyota were developing their production system using the kaizen principle of bottom up continuous improvement. Unions played a huge role in making US autos uncompetitive against the Japanese brands for a long time.
I want to be pro-union but it's hard when you observe their real world behaviour. All too often they slowly strangle their company, making it less and less competitive and innovative and ultimately dooming it to defeat by new entrants who aren't yet encumbered by unions.
I'm taking it to mean union employees wouldn't get new grants. Which makes sense to me - I have a hard time squaring how you can be in a union with an adversarial relationship to management, whilst at the same time being an owner of the company. It's one or the other.
Whenever I’ve had to build PDF features I’ve found it tedious, and thought it should be easier.
Paperplane is basically an API layer on top of autoscaling servers running headless Chrome.
There are a couple of features that make this a little different to other solutions out there: automatic uploads to S3 and the ability to queue up batches of documents and be notified via webhook when they’ve been converted to PDF.
If you’re looking for a solution like this or are already using something similar, it’d be great to hear any feedback!
Thanks, I wasn't aware of htmldoc or that LibreOffice had a headless mode.
It does seem like htmldoc doesn't support CSS which is going to be a blocker for a lot of people.
Pandoc is definitely worth considering but I didn't include it as I believe it just delegates it's PDF rendering to a configurable engine like LaTeX, weasyprint or wkhtmltopdf.
How about distributing the app for free on the app store.
When the app is opened, prompt the user to enter a secret code that you've distributed only to Kickstarter backers.
And for non-backers, set up an in-app purchase as an alternative method of unlocking the app.
It's possible though that an app that isn't functional without an unlock code or without making an in-app purchase might violate Apples' rules in some way.
I've been wondering - couldn't you just impose a small delay, say one or two seconds, on each order - forcing everyone to wait a moment to get their order on the order book.
Seems like that should eliminate high-frequency trading altogether?
Betting exchanges use this idea to prevent people doing time-based arbitrage on live sporting events. For example, to prevent one guy who's watching a match live in the stadium gaining an advantage against someone else watching on TV, where the pictures are delayed a few seconds.