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by hacknat 5y ago
Or just disable JS.
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by hacknat 5y ago
It was fun for a moment during the pandemic, but after I could be with people again I deleted the app. There was also a non-scalable factor to being on the inside of some of the clubs. Early clubhouse days you'd get to hear important p
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by hacknat 5y ago
Who wants to follow up to see what this guy gets after 18 months of prison for keeping his mouth shut?
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by hacknat 5y ago
"It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves that take their humors for a warrant"
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by hacknat 5y ago
I meant the battery supply chain, which no one can touch Tesla on. Tesla already owns mining rights on a lot of lithium. Other car companies are going to have to go to Tesla for some of their EV needs. When people make the mistake of analyz
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by hacknat 5y ago
Toyota might be smart enough to realize that Tesla has a supply chain that will be difficult to beat. It's going to be a shit-show among the remaining contenders once all of their hands are forced.
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by hacknat 5y ago
The only thing that can save us from the cataclysm of climate change is technology. It's too late for social engineering and politics.
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by hacknat 5y ago
Like any other area you want to learn you should go in with a goal that gives you some intrinsic motivation. At this point in history, Systems Programming is too broad for one person to ingest. Do you want to work on networking? Filesystems
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by hacknat 5y ago
There are many people expressing anger and outrage at his manipulative tweets. :shrugs:
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by hacknat 5y ago
How long is it going to take Americans to realize that their elites do not play by the same set of rules as everyone else? It’s getting tiresome listening to people talk about current events like we didn’t just all live through the last 4 y
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by hacknat 5y ago
Calling Hannah Arendt an opportunist is too rich for my blood. She went to Israel to report on the Eichmann trial, coined the phrase, "banality of evil", and said she did not like how the trial was being run. As a Jew, she critici
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by hacknat 5y ago
You got it. Thanks for the warning.
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Ask HN: What Is a CTO Org?
5 points by hacknat 5y ago|5 comments
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by hacknat 5y ago
Correction: Since the 1940s "For the first time" is probably not true. This is since Gallup tracked this number. Post WWII church attendance really sky rocketed for reasons that are still not fully understood, but a lot of peopl
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by hacknat 6y ago
I do think Ethereum will overtake Bitcoin eventually in usage. In some ways it already has. Ethereum's transaction fees are set to drop like a rock over the next few years, and so many useful things are built on it already.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Thank you for sharing! The world is a dark place right now, and your story is very uplifting.
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by hacknat 6y ago
I don't disagree with you on some level, but I also think that society should have the right to say, "Okay, you've become a public utility now. Your market power is becoming a black-hole. Consider your market monopoly revoked
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by hacknat 6y ago
I'm really digging all the Visualization/UI/UX stuff that GitHub has been doing. I hope they keep it up.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Google is very aware of this, which is why Google Ventures is a thing. It's much better, ironically, to put yourself in a position to only provide benefits to another company and prevent yourself from extracting any benefit for yoursel
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by hacknat 6y ago
The problem is it's not completely closed. It's open, but they control the only gate into the system. That's a monopolistic practice, very akin to owning all the railroads. Actually it's probably worse than that, because
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by hacknat 6y ago
Sure, from and individual perspective. What if I want to build software for people who use the iPhone and I want to add some web3 functionality and Apple says no? Apple basically does stifle innovation on their device by acting as a regulat
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by hacknat 6y ago
A game console and most peoples' primary computer is definitely an apple and oranges comparison. I don't know where the line is exactly but it's pretty clear where each of your examples lie.
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by hacknat 6y ago
You could continue to not install those 3rd party apps if Apple was forced to open their platform.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Yeah. I doubt it will scale.
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by hacknat 6y ago
That is my suspicion as well.
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by hacknat 6y ago
I agree with you that it's mostly not good. However, I wandered into a conversation with a bunch of DC journalists late at night and they were openly gossiping (probably all slightly inebriated) and saying things that almost assuredly
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by hacknat 6y ago
PoW lacks fairness, most of the rewards go to folks who can allocate capital to very expensive mining operations. I would actually argue that PoS might be more fair/accessible than PoW is now.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Which is where most energy is derived from, so it's ruining the planet.
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by hacknat 6y ago
It's a really complicated transition, but it's already started. The estimate is that there's probably about $1.5B worth of transactions left to mine, but most transactions will be switching over to PoS in the coming year. No
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by hacknat 6y ago
Ethereum has already started transitioning to proof-of-stake which will significantly lower transaction costs in Ethereum.

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