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by ique 2y ago
That’s actually pretty cheap, especially if it delivers on the promises. I spent about $6k on my current setup.
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by ique 4y ago
There are essentially no applications that require email. We should just stop doing email verification altogether. If you need to have a separate communication channel with your user just establish that separately after signup.
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by ique 5y ago
TCP/IP doesn’t care about your privacy.
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by ique 5y ago
I think a large part of the problem is that so much software (like Office) is turning into a service when it doesn’t need to be.
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by ique 5y ago
Then we're all doomed. Regulation has proven they have neither the interest nor capability to do anything about it, GDPR being the perfect example which have achieved nothing more than make Web2 more annoying to use.
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by ique 5y ago
> If the answer to killing the ad funding business model was individuals pay directly it’s going to face a steep uphill Indeed, we tried that and it failed, so we need something else. Blockchain will probably fail because the narrative h
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by ique 5y ago
Good luck! I hope you succeed, it’s certainly a goal worth pursuing!
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by ique 5y ago
Data will never be stored on blockchains, its not what they’re for. It’s amusing that you’re so vehemently against something you know nothing about.
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by ique 5y ago
Monopolies like Google and Facebook exist because of advertising. Remove advertising and they don't exist. The fact that they're processing a lot of data is in large part because they need to for advertising. Still, your understan
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by ique 5y ago
If it has dependency on capital investment, it's not blockchain tech. Like almost by definition. Unless you adopt a super dumb idea of "blockchain = linked list". If you're talking about more than the data structure then
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by ique 5y ago
You are using a very different meaning of centralisation and decentralisation than blockchain people do. That's neither here nor there though. The way you kill Facebook, Google and any Web2 company is to kill their business model. Thes
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by ique 5y ago
What makes a problem worth solving exactly? How many SaaS businesses do we need? How many todo apps do we need? How many game engines do we need?
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by ique 5y ago
Most people don't care about X, so clearly anyone trying to build a product to address X is just a scam.
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by ique 5y ago
The idea that blockchain tech is somehow invented out of nothing and then we search for a problem to match couldn't be further from the truth. Talk to anyone who works in the industry and they're trying to solve a problem. I used
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by ique 5y ago
> The parts of it being uploaded to iCloud, not the whole thing, yes? If you leave your phone on default settings, that’s all of them. In fact you need to turn off a lot of things. Turn off backups, Photo Stream, Files, Mail Drop, album
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by ique 5y ago
Apple has caved to china many many times, a quick googling of it will give you a list. The difference between the "old" content scanning and the new is indeed that they are now willing to "use" the results of that. Facia
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by ique 5y ago
To all the people suggesting ad blockers, read the post and look at the image. There is no adblocker in the world that would block this. It’s a suggested video, a feature built specifically by youtube to push ”premium” content. The full pag
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by ique 5y ago
Trusting facebook as the central clearing house for all of our personal data doesn’t seem to have worked out very well.
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by ique 5y ago
Why did they stop working?
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by ique 5y ago
I’ve been using Matrix with Riot, now Element, for 5 years and it’s only ever gotten worse. You really shouldn’t expect to see improvements.
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by ique 5y ago
They sold 10%, so they expect to be in for a few more rounds. Pump and dumpers rarely just aim for one single big cycle, you go in waves for max profit.
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by ique 6y ago
Just another reason to have content-adressable storage everywhere, then at least if it changed you’ll know it changed, and if you can’t get the original content anymore then the change is probably malicious.
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by ique 8y ago
So basically they re-invented light clients and checkpointing?
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by ique 8y ago
Hahaha really HN? As a Swede this is so ridiculous, I don't think the author has any idea what they're talking about and have done no fact-checking at all. They even contradict themselves. > drop in homicides has been, however,
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by ique 9y ago
This is just a trusted RPC connection right? You're not embedding any sort of light (or otherwise) client? Are you running the nodes on the backend, as opposed to outsourcing to someone like infura? What are you running if so (geth, pa
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by ique 9y ago
What you're saying is just "trusting any system is insane", which sure, it might be (depending on the criticalness of said system). But that's not very insightful or informative, how does that drive any sort of decision-
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by ique 9y ago
Roughly 1 per month
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by ique 10y ago
So you're saying it's perfectly feasible to become an expert C++ programmer over a weekend, but it's completely impossible to learn Haskell?
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by ique 10y ago
Its interesting to see a lot of alternative implementations of credstash pop up, there was one written in Haskell recently called "credentials". https://github.com/brendanhay/credentials
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How to Focus – The Startup Focus Matrix(medium.com)
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