clippablematt

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by clippablematt 3y ago
I had an email from openai last night saying I now have to credit up front for api usage, rather than paying at the end of the month. Thought it was a bit odd for user paying like $3 a month for embeddings. Then looked at the news. I think
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by clippablematt 3y ago
The Dutch flower markets are still a big tourist attraction, on the top lists of things to do in Amsterdam. People say “bubble” with their mind so focused on what they think is dumb ways of spending money, and they miss the lasting cultural
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by clippablematt 3y ago
The more complete quote from Brand is: “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.” People often only remember the first bit… —— “ On the one hand you have—the point you’re making
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by clippablematt 3y ago
Just get them for free off GitHub https://github.com/search?q=delete+OPENAI_API_KEY%3D&type=co...
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by clippablematt 3y ago
I’ve recently been enjoying using Alive with vscode(and copilot). Everyone suggests emacs+slime but it always felt like too many things to learn at once. Being able to use my usual ide has made it so much more pleasant. Recommend it to newc
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by clippablematt 4y ago
All of your examples, bible etc, have all been repeatedly edited for different cultures and age groups. People act like this is the end of Dahls legacy, yet his stories have probably been discussed more in the past 24 hours than the past fe
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by clippablematt 4y ago
Capitalism. It’s paperclip maximisers all the way down.
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by clippablematt 4y ago
Harberger taxes on ip could be neat
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by clippablematt 4y ago
This is absolute nonsense conspiracy I keep seeing repeated. TikTok/Douyin is just as cringe over here in China too.
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by clippablematt 4y ago
The idea of “official” is intentionally being rejected. There is no official version of anything, just community consensus of the spec, from which anyone can implement a client. In the past the ethereum foundation has made their own wallets
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by clippablematt 4y ago
Ah yes, arrest developers of open source privacy code and blame them for North Korea money laundering rather than going after the people actually committing crimes. Sounds about right. Privacy is not a crime, it’s a human right! Sorry that
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by clippablematt 4y ago
You should understand that this is a very USA centred opinion. There’s a whole big world of different cultures and politics, and it is possible to believe there are other approaches where we reject violence and authority. It’s the usual “yo
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by clippablematt 4y ago
You are posting on hacker news. Hacker. The defining thing of hackers is taking things apart, understanding them, modifying, breaking, rebuilding, improving, dreaming! What a sad ideology of “don’t touch, leave it to the authorities”
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by clippablematt 4y ago
I urge you to go flick through http://pessimistsarchive.org/
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by clippablematt 4y ago
Stablecoins without collateral backing them have repeatedly failed (and they failed when they were tried before crypto too), but dai/rai/usdc are working fine. At this point I’d like to sees US regulation around $ stablecoins so w
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by clippablematt 4y ago
I was surprised too. You have to have secret votes to stop intimidation, and also collusion. If people can prove they voted a certain way then they can be bribed.
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by clippablematt 5y ago
I’m glad to see pushback on the “crypto means cryptography” meme, which is really just an indicator they aren’t interested in the leading cryptographic research.
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by clippablematt 5y ago
I think it really is light client development that will make a big change to being decentralised e2e. Being able to talk with the chain directly from an app or webpage without needing to make api requests to a node (be it local or infura&#x
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by clippablematt 5y ago
Groups like DappNode are doing good work here. You can buy a nuc from them with their os installed and then pick from a list of apps to install (owncloud/ eth nodes/ ipfs pinner/etc) and it handles the messyness of dyndns&#x2
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by clippablematt 5y ago
It requires a change in mindset from “efficiency first” to “robust first”. That’s a tough learning curve for trad web devs, the best web3 dev I know comes from aerospace engineering where resilience and redundancy are part of the process.
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by clippablematt 5y ago
The closest attempt I can think of is status wallets token ranking for dapps. You could burn your tokens to say if you liked something in their listings and that would rank it for others. The issue they hit is when the lists got popular (in
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by clippablematt 5y ago
The idea of light clients is they will be bundled inside of apps/websites/extensions. So yes running a light client will be easy because it’s just happening in the background of the app, replacing the api hopping we do now with di
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by clippablematt 5y ago
fwiw I follow a lot of crypto people on Twitter and 0 of them are following this message app, it has 700 followers and you decide to jump into the discord? To me that’s like getting a random email about a product and saying “yes tell me mor
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by clippablematt 5y ago
I’m not an economist or banker. Other people will have better answers. I’m sure there’s a lot of excellent stuff we can use in existing systems. But I just don’t hold it as a precious untouchable thing. People tell me they are scared crypto
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by clippablematt 5y ago
I’d be willing to bet over the next five years we see the biggest most impactful developments for reforestation/carbon offsets/political lobbying for change/rewilding programs /etc will come from crypto groups, funded an
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by clippablematt 5y ago
I feel like lots of people forgot about 2007/08 and the impact on so many people around the world. It was truly painful and destructive. And very clearly people responsible got off free, with bonuses and some even ended up with jobs in
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by clippablematt 5y ago
Here’s a paper from a few years back with a low end estimate of 11MTCO2e for a year of digital advertising https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019592551... For comparison that one year is about
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by clippablematt 5y ago
NFT content is 99% of the time already available free. You can think of it as one person paying the cost for everyone else to get free access. They are usually stored on ipfs or arweave so you can just follow the content id for the file you
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by clippablematt 5y ago
Uk has this law too. If you freelance to just one company you’ll be classed as an employee of that company instead of self employed. The reason is companies were abusing self employment laws by only recruiting freelancers even for full time
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by clippablematt 5y ago
clr.fund is a good demo of how this sort of thing can be used in online distributed communities to distribute funding across public goods and implements maci (minimal anti collusion infra) https://github.com/clrfund/mon

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