danielpatrick

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by danielpatrick 9y ago
You're misunderstanding Kin. Kin is not "controlled by Kik" it is an asset that will be exchangeable in and out of the Kik ecosystem. Furthermore, Kin balances will be kept on a public ledger and any other company could build
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
What do you consider the good parts of PoW to be? (serious question)
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Or use PoS to avoid the situation entirely.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
To counter your arbitrary experience with my own, the Boston startup scene seems to be thriving.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
This notation has developed over tens to hundreds of years before we had the capabilities of autocomplete and formal typing where a computer can help us write longer names more quickly. This is why single letters became prominent, they were
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
This problem is every bit as much a political and cultural problem as it is a technological one. So I largely agree. But from a technological perspective, even if 2016 is the high water mark of the "centralized" internet, a new in
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
This is a tactic used by authoritarian governments and is a distinct reason why laws that are poorly enforced are bad laws. A poorly enforced law provides a tool for executives (the law enforcers) to legislate (make their own laws) without
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Those that dig and present quality, fact-supported stories.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Under normal circumstances 80% would begin to get the Antitrust drums beating.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
"You can have two accounts concurrently"... on all the sites that Facebook owns. They tried to buy Snapchat too. Some interesting reading on how we might measure the unusual cost of Facebook's monopoly to society. https:&#x2
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Check out Brave (browser) with built in payments. Of course, this doesn't solve your problem of who's signed up, but Brave has a protocol for that scenario and they reach out to sites and offer them the money before returning it b
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
I'll add some color here. The complexity you're referring to may be the runtime? It is more complex than, say, Bitcoin because it has for most purposes a Turing complete language baked into the protocol. Bitcoin is a blockchain th
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
There was a comic in XKCD recently that asked everyone to preface their inspirational speeches with a disclaimer about Survivorship bias. You should read that.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
lol. What?
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
No. That's why it is very much legal for me to chop up a tree that I find on my property but not a dog.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Source?
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
"unprecedented" ...actually precedented by all the resources we pour into forcing the climate TO change. And, asteroid, seriously? This is the best we can do now? May as well not eat meals anymore because hey I could get hit by a
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
As a matter of fact, this is what Sir Berners Lee is working on right now at MIT. https://solid.mit.edu/ The issue is not storing the data, just like "email" doesn't store data. It's just a protocol and
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
evidently they already are... ;)
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
You've build multi 10k+ line applications in Angular 2? It was released 5 months ago.
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
> The rigid interfaces mean that I need to spend more time researching how to use various modules/libraries (maybe code completion would offset this problem but this is only possible with a heavy IDE that has intellisense or similar
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Yes, good question. I use VS Code (with the Chrome debugger plugin) and that works like a charm. I don't debug javascript in the browser anymore. TS provides source mappings to map the compiled javascript back to the source (similar t
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
Angular 2 is a different framework, plain and simple. You can continue to use AngularJS 1.x if you were on that framework. I understand the frustration of someone who has used AngularJS 1.x. There is not really a straightforward and low ris
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by danielpatrick 9y ago
I've been using Angular 2 for a medium sized application that will be going into production within the next few weeks. I'm not affiliated with the Angular team at all. I started using it when this app was very much a POC last summ
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
You don't understand what happened. The CEO (lol) doesn't just get to choose. The network's hashing power gets to choose. The rules aren't: "the code is the contract". The rules are: "the code that is acce
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
Elaborate?
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
I was thinking about this while I was at the women's march. The only issues I didn't see represented there were the two important tech issues: data privacy net neutrality My plan is to make a sign for the next march that urges act
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
Source? So many hacks in this thread. Why trust any of this?
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
...so use unencrypted email? The point is, some is better than none. More is better than some. So many people here pointing out holes that make it worse than a theoretically perfect system even though it's leagues ahead of where we are
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by danielpatrick 10y ago
The question is whether they will just be able to sit back and take in the billions one day. I have always looked forward to self-driving car networks because of what I perceived to be their ultra-competitive and ultra-low margin nature.

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