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by dcposch 4mo ago
It's because Venmo is owned by PayPal
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by dcposch 5mo ago
The AI part of this is a red herring. This is above all a big devops failure. Three takeaways: 1. TEST YOUR BACKUPS. If you have not confirmed that you can restore, then you don’t have backup. If the backups are in the same place as your pr
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by dcposch 8mo ago
> You don't want to fine, jail or otherwise ruin the lives of thousands of kids to get them to stop. > You just want them to stop spraypainting shit. https://i.imgur.com/qaFgSm7.png You have it backwards. It&#x27
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by dcposch 9mo ago
The article is completely self-defeating and unintentionally funny. "Look at this remarkably fugly downgrade. Here's why The Science says it's superior."
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by dcposch 1y ago
> If my account tries to send someone $3 million, I'd prefer that it's intermediated by a confused bank employee staring at a screen This is a nice lens for looking at when stablecoins make sense. If you're an American usi
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by dcposch 1y ago
> Once again - this is a feature not a bug Are you really "once again"ing Patrick Collison on the issue of how payments work ?
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by dcposch 1y ago
Many skeptics assume that stablecoins are just about regulatory arbitrage. That's part of it, but: 1. Progress often depends on evolving obsolete regulation. Uber works much better than taxis (once upon a time, people could "call
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by dcposch 1y ago
> The problem with all that, is the fact it remains possible to create a protocol with N big institutions [...] This maintains many benefits of the blockchain and lacks many issues (fast, simple, near zero cost) That's more or less
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by dcposch 2y ago
WhatsApp is end-to-end-to-server encryption. They have a nicely implemented E2E protocol. This is operationally convenient: Meta can accurately say that they don't store WhatsApp messages, so fewer access requests go to them. And I&#
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by dcposch 2y ago
I bet this correlation goes away if you separate the data by ethnicity.
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by dcposch 3y ago
The EFF said it best: > Just because there’s a serious problem doesn’t mean that every response is a good one Problem: a forum full of misanthropes dedicated to saying the worst things allowed under the first amendment. Bad solution: ero
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by dcposch 3y ago
And speaking of user-hostile, locked-down phones... a galactic irony that Ben Wiser, the Googler who posted this proposal, has a blog where his most recent post is a rant about how he's being unfairly restricted and can't freely
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by dcposch 3y ago
One simple reason - separate from the less fun possibilities involving defense procurement politics - is that the F117 was a transition technology. It proved that super low radar signatures were possible. The design used those big low poly
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by dcposch 4y ago
It's an exceptionally flexible and convenient method of control. Earlier this year, donors to the truck convey protest in Canada had their bank accounts frozen. This wasn't a targeted list of "these 37 people have broken a la
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by dcposch 4y ago
One of the things I love about Palladium (and closely related, Samo Burja's newsletter) is the depth of research. Like the detail that one of the most egregious episodes from California HSR involved a Spanish company that performed exc
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Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser(whist.com)
111 points by dcposch 4y ago|69 comments
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Zombocom.xyz(zombocom.xyz)
4 points by dcposch 4y ago|0 comments
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by dcposch 4y ago
Speaking of blaming the author. This post is a fantastic example of the poverty trap. We design laws that, on paper, help the poor; and then we blame them for not taking advantage. When in reality, they are poorly implemented, poorly advert
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by dcposch 4y ago
I skipped Aramco on purpose. It's a vanity valuation. The true top five each created valuables businesses based on 0-to-1 products. Aramco didn't create much, certainly nothing worth close to $2T. The Saudi autocrats just list the
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by dcposch 4y ago
Political debate on HN has become unavoidable because tech itself has been politicized. Of course on some level it always was, "everything is political" etc, but a decade ago most participants saw tech as broadly neutral. What was
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by dcposch 4y ago
FWIW this is the same argument once made against human flight. In the late 19th century, there were a lot of debates in the form > Clearly flight is possible, birds do it > Sure but how/why is one of the many mysteries of the uni
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by dcposch 5y ago
After how this one went, it seems very unlikely they'd try again unless Ukraine was somehow disarmed first. (Disarmament was one of the Russian asks during yesterday's negotiations. It was rejected ofc.)
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by dcposch 5y ago
David's post seems pretty confused. > Because the rewards for mining new blocks, and the fees for including transactions in blocks, [...] whatever Gini coefficient the systems starts out with will always increase That doesn't f
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by dcposch 5y ago
Congratulations to the cryptographers and engineers at Mina for shipping this. We are getting palpably close to efficiently provable general computation. (For others interested in the evolution, see TinyRAM and the various zkEVM efforts esp
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by dcposch 5y ago
I've interviewed a lot of software engineer candidates. It's always surprising how often people with impressive resumes, including computer science degrees from good-to-great universities, can't code at all. I'm not talk
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by dcposch 5y ago
Kneejerk dismissals here are sad to see. L2 is, in my view, some of the most interesting research happening in computer science right now. The article above is not a great explanation--in particular, L2s are not off-chain as the article p
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Back to basics: what is the point of decentralization?(paulfrazee.medium.com)
29 points by dcposch 5y ago|3 comments
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by dcposch 5y ago
Author mentions four increasingly obscure C replacements (first I've heard of Odin) without mentioning that the creators of the original C and Unix went on to make Go. Go does not have manual memory management. Despite (actually becaus
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by dcposch 5y ago
This is a good breakdown. Too much web3 thinkpiecing (both pro and anti) comes from people who've never looked under the hood. It's refreshing to see someone try actually try crypto as a developer, not just as a user, and go deep
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by dcposch 5y ago
Exactly the opposite, actually. HN is an exceptionally clean, minimalist website. Instant page loads. No ads, no "accept cookie" banner, no autoplaying media, in fact no media of any kind, no engagement-maximizing algorithm. Quali

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