Donzo

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Show HN: Browser Games That Help Kids Learn Reading Skills(ereadinggames.com)
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by Donzo 7y ago
Lots of people take Ibuprofen when they have a fever.
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by Donzo 7y ago
This is absolutely correct. Not only is an individual's private data nearly worthless, but they can protect it for free simply by using the Brave browser or other adblocking/tracking solutions. People often claim that they would p
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by Donzo 7y ago
We can even still have voting at registered polling places with judges. But, instead of throwing our votes into a magic black box, how about we put them on a blockchain and receive a way to audit our own votes?
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by Donzo 7y ago
I'm not sure what scientific bar of proof you would need to see passed, but Google stalks users and targets them because it makes them more money. The ads perform better. Their systems fall back on context, when they can't do the
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by Donzo 7y ago
Yes. It will make a good investment: https://twitter.com/CL207/status/1142651211310485504?s=20 50-100k a coin by December 2021 is what many are targeting this time.
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by Donzo 7y ago
Transparency.
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by Donzo 8y ago
I must have struck a nerve. I use the Brave browser now. I think other people should too. Downvotes welcome.
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by Donzo 8y ago
They broke my YouTube account a number of years ago in an attempt to force Google+ across their systems and artificially inflate user numbers. Yesterday I got an email from them saying that they are nuking my Google+. I will always remember
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by Donzo 8y ago
Even then, the yearly USD value of a 2-10% return on your ethers will be unknown, but hey... Compounding interest is compounding interest.
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by Donzo 8y ago
The collateral is your stake, in this case ethers. If you engage in provably Byzantine actions, your stake can be slashed, burned, or otherwise sacrificed or redistributed. There are Byzantine actions that one can take that are unprovable a
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by Donzo 8y ago
Has sharding just recreated the double-spend problem by shattering the consensus mechanism that solved it into 100 pieces? Are we now free-floating, hoping to find a new solution to the double-spend problem on a fragmented system?
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by Donzo 8y ago
So the data availability problem renders the fisherman solution useless in a pragmatic sense?
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by Donzo 8y ago
Thanks for expressing these problems clearly and succinctly. Does the Fisherman approach involve validators randomly checking other validators for phony transactions? Will validators be incentivized to do this? Is that why they are called f
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by Donzo 8y ago
I bounced around hosting providers for years until I landed on DO. I have nothing but good things to say about them.
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by Donzo 8y ago
How does Uber burn so much money? Isn't it a fundamentally profitable enterprise? Aren't they just skimming off contractors' wear-and-tear? Won't they eventually hit a point where they promote their product less aggressi
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by Donzo 8y ago
Fortunately, Chicago burned to the ground, which gave them an opportunity to replan. They adopted the Daniel Burnam plan, which reclaimed the lakefront from industrial shipping and attempted to put a park within one mile of every home. The
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by Donzo 8y ago
I'm a small to medium sized publisher and I've had to travel through Google's compliance funnels more than I would have liked. I've never had any compliance issues with any other advertising network. Google works hard to
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by Donzo 8y ago
One issue that is not addressed by the subscription model is the subsidizing effect that the ad-based model has: The finance professional who lives in New York has very valuable page views. The African school girl does not. Yet, through adv
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by Donzo 8y ago
>"None of this points to 'trying to do away with URLs'" Except for that "trying to identify an alternative" part. But let's ignore that, because doing so makes you comfortable.
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by Donzo 8y ago
Did you read the whole article? "The focus right now, they say, is on identifying all the ways people use URLs to try to find an alternative that will enhance security and identity integrity on the web while also adding convenience for
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by Donzo 8y ago
Their dominance has become problematic when they entertain concepts like this seriously. They are really growing into the monolith that we all feared.
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by Donzo 8y ago
"Their complexity makes them a security hazard." GTFOH! HANDS OFF!
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by Donzo 8y ago
From the linked article: "I don’t know what this will look like, because it’s an active discussion in the team right now," says Parisa Tabriz, director of engineering at Chrome. "But I do know that whatever we propose is goin
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by Donzo 8y ago
The reason why Google is doing this is because they are slowly trying to do away with URLs, as direct traffic is probably their greatest untapped segment. Google is trying to get users to go through their doorway pages, which is exactly the
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by Donzo 8y ago
That's fair, but currently being "the best," doesn't ensure that status.
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by Donzo 8y ago
The modern browser is quite good at rendering text, just as it was in 1996. The web is largely still about words. What improvement is so important as to strike the words of those from 1996 off the record?
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by Donzo 8y ago
I guess what we're seeing here is a developer/development-first ideology versus a platform-first ideology. Should the developer/development have to resubmit to the benevolent platform? Or should the platform have to support t
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by Donzo 8y ago
A website from 1996 will look much the same in a modern version of Chrome. Good luck with your SDKs.
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by Donzo 8y ago
I actually just let my membership to their developer program lapse after 4 years. In addition to having to pay money to develop on their platform, the return I get is questionable. The straw was that they're forcing me to republish old

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