doorman2

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by doorman2 4y ago
Unfortunately I can't play due to the HN hug of death, but I just want to say that this is a great idea. Chess is a wonderful game on its own, but having a synchronous element to the game and information asymmetry seems like it could a
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by doorman2 4y ago
I find it helpful to think about blockchains as the next step in the fintech ladder. Imagine you want to represent ownership of a company, i.e. stock. You don't need electricity to do that. You can accept orders in person, record owner
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by doorman2 4y ago
Google's first party platforms (Search and YouTube) account for 85% of ad revenue [0]. Search alone accounts for 72%. I'm not really sure how AdSense is relevant to the discussion. Google is clearly a huge competitor to the NYT. [
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by doorman2 4y ago
> The NYT is in the "providing content to lure people to advertisers" business. What does that mean? The NYT sells ads, i.e. you can pay the NYT to have your advertisement shown in the NYT. Google sells ads, i.e. you can pay Go
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by doorman2 4y ago
You use the setsockopt system call. This is an example in C: int sfd = socket(domain, socktype, 0); int optval = 1; setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEPORT, &optval, sizeof(optval)); bind(sfd, (struct sockaddr *) &a
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by doorman2 4y ago
You could solve the resource starvation issue by running multiple instances of your app and binding to a port using the SO_REUSEPORT option. This will allow multiple instances of your app to use the same port. This option is also quite good
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by doorman2 4y ago
Browsers aren't single threaded, so the ST performance isn't the end-all-be-all metric to use. JavaScript is single threaded, but the browser itself uses multiple threads. E.g. there is the main thread, which handles the user inpu
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by doorman2 4y ago
Basically, there is no free will. Think about it like this: where do your thoughts come from? They appear magically in your head. So you can choose between the set of things you think about, but the set of things you think about is out of y
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by doorman2 4y ago
Crypto doesn't pose an existential threat to the NYT business model like social media and search do. I.e. The NYT is in the advertising business. Google, Facebook, et al are direct competitors.
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by doorman2 4y ago
I mean they do that. Companies issue, hold, and buy back stock all the time. The difference is that JPM stock is a thing that people want and has intrinsic value as it confers ownership over the company.
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by doorman2 4y ago
Are there any out-of-the-box non-commercial licenses? I’ve wanted to do this too, but I’m too lazy to find an appropriate license.
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by doorman2 4y ago
Mighty had no hope of succeeding. I’ve built something very similar to Mighty, and the fact is that browsers are hogs, and then adding on video transcoding on top of that makes the situation completely untenable. If someone can’t afford a c
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by doorman2 4y ago
It's not an excuse, just an economic reality. People prescribe value to things. The value of a typical transaction at a centralized exchange isn't worth the on-chain transaction cost. That's a problem with current blockchains
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by doorman2 4y ago
Fees are cheaper on centralized exchanges. Like with everything else in crypto, transaction fees kneecap most of the cool stuff.
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by doorman2 4y ago
I wouldn’t say tether shows that trustless decentralization is irrelevant. Rather, the existence of tether proves the need for stable coins. What was interesting about LUNA is the attempt to create an unbacked stable coin. That would have b
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by doorman2 4y ago
How do you send data to the client without their IP address?
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by doorman2 4y ago
Let's say all the money is in BTC, which is down 74% YoY. If you started with $100, you'd have $26. And then you lost half of it, which brings you to $13. So you'd be down 87%, which is on-par with many tech stocks.
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by doorman2 4y ago
I feel your pain. I've given up on so many projects because I got bored tinkering with build systems. Ultimately, the answer to your question is going to depend on what you want to make. For instance, if you want to make an iOS app, it
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by doorman2 4y ago
One nice thing about submitting forms the "old way" is that they work even when JS is disabled. Not many people care about that, however.
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by doorman2 4y ago
Monero implements sender privacy as well.
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by doorman2 4y ago
You could do that with Monero as well. Ultimately, you would use a taxable system because you’re honest and want to pay taxes. So nothing about using Monero prevents the parties from reporting their transactions to tax authorities. Just as
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by doorman2 4y ago
GNU Taler seems totally obsoleted by something like Monero. Can anyone enlighten me on the advantages of Taler?
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by doorman2 4y ago
This is fascinating analysis. Not just the specific details about SBF and FTX, but the insight into the short seller’s process of company analysis. One thing became apparent to me. Our industry (tech) is rife with so many snake oil salesman
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by doorman2 4y ago
The cell network is property of the carrier. It’s in the user’s best interest that they have access to the cell network, which means playing by the carrier’s rules. The user is free to pick a different cell carrier or find a work around.
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by doorman2 4y ago
Yes, succinctness is almost never in Go's favor.
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by doorman2 4y ago
> In 1945, the psychoanalyst René Spitz published an article in which he explained how deprivation of social interactions can lead to a condition named "hospitalism" in infants. According to Spitz, young children who are cared
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by doorman2 4y ago
Isn't that true of almost everything humans do? When I get a tank of gas, I'm basically paying to have a bigger problem in the future. I do so because it solves a problem I have in the present.
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by doorman2 4y ago
Thanks, that's is interesting background. From my pty experience, though, the answer is a bit unsatisfying. One reason is that I thought ^D generated an EOF in the terminal. For instance, if I use `wc` in the terminal, it reads from ST
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by doorman2 4y ago
Personally, I hate writing Go. It's a very dull and boring language, but it's an amazing language (objectively speaking) for software development. 1) It's performant. The language itself is very fast, the GC is very fast and
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by doorman2 4y ago
This may have been more true during the times of nobility. With modern democracies and market economies, we at least try to have some form of meritocracy. Obviously, we fall short in a lot of ways, but the goal is to bring to best to the fo

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