jekrb

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by jekrb 10mo ago
...you do know that YC has backed several AI companies, right?
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by jekrb 1y ago
Libra/Diem was told by regulators to not move forward with the project. They were very early days, and trying to "do it right" in which the administration said "not at all". Similar also happened with Visa... check
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by jekrb 1y ago
> What is to stop centralized blockchains from incremently increasing fees to the level of CCs over time? Then users will just go to a different chain that provides a better outcome.
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by jekrb 1y ago
non-potatoe hardware and elbow grease in the software https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave
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by jekrb 1y ago
theres no reason a bank couldn't take a stablecoin deposit and fractionally lend against it thats effectively what already happens with their own internal ledgers anyways
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by jekrb 1y ago
the excuse is actually the other way around i think banks are an excuse to have closed source ledgers that don't operate efficiently for internet capital markets if they wanted to, they could open source their ledgers and let anyone ma
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by jekrb 1y ago
PayPal also has their own stablecoin, PyUSD https://www.paypalobjects.com/devdoc/community/PYUSD-Solana-...
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by jekrb 3y ago
My point is there are thousands of ways to handle your wallets, I don't think there will be one average way. The ETF is probably the equivalent of this "espresso style" k-cup https://www.keurig.com/Beverages&#
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by jekrb 3y ago
What if the work these folks do to increase market efficiency does produce real-world value, as slower verifiable economic information would increase periods of uncertainty and price slippages? Or the HFT engineers producing research and pr
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by jekrb 3y ago
I think everyone will have different behavior sec for their funds, with the options now ranging from simply committing a 12 or 24 word seed phrase to memory and buying ETF shares. There is shamir secret splitting, multisig, MPC, secure encl
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by jekrb 3y ago
This should actually be quicker and easier to prove than something like gold ETFs (e.g. SPDR) or other commodity ETFs. The custody provider (e.g. Coinbase is the custody provider for most of these ETFs) should be able to simply show wallet
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by jekrb 3y ago
Two reasons. 1. Low fees. I think five of the ETF filers even have 0% fees for first 6-12 months. Compare this to Coinbase, where the fees will seem astronomical in comparison (maybe this drives Coinbase fees down.) 2. There is a non-zero n
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The Rideshare Protocol (Trip)(trip.dev)
1 points by jekrb 3y ago|0 comments
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by jekrb 3y ago
One I didn't see the other's mention is that in Line Goes Up, Dan calls secure-scuttlebutt (SSB), a p2p messaging protocol, a blockchain. IIRC Dan was relying on a sentence from an outdated, archived documentation site made by an
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by jekrb 4y ago
This just seems like a weird personal attack on someones ideas and accomplishments.
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by jekrb 4y ago
Well yeah this is how he gets paid. It's not about being informative about a class of technology, its about generating clicks to get more patreon subscriptions and youtube ad payments.
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by jekrb 6y ago
For me it was less the commute time and more planning around traffic. Even if the commute was 30 minutes (a good day), I'd usually need to buffer time to plan for being late due to traffic accidents and construction (frequent). Switchi
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by jekrb 6y ago
This takes me back to how we used to write JavaScript on websites for towns/cities at a company I used to work at. Really a joy to read.
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by jekrb 6y ago
The lack of multi-device support was a constraint that gave me a different perspective of interactions on the web. My ssb keypair was on a work laptop, so when I changed jobs and had to give my laptop back, I lost my keypair. Now, I could
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by jekrb 6y ago
It's been a while, but I used to be an active SSB user. I hosted SSB pubs and used to post on patchwork semi-regularly. I thought it worked pretty well as a social network. I discovered new and interesting ideas from folks that I don&
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by jekrb 7y ago
Brave Browser has WebTorrent built in. Just paste a magnet link into the URL bar and it will start downloading/seeding.
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by jekrb 7y ago
At the agency I used to work for, we used GitLab CI/CD. We were able to do a manual rollback for each deployment from the GitLab UI. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/environments.html#retrying-and... Disclaimer:
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by jekrb 7y ago
> "if your work is complete then you can leave early" What happens if your work is complete before Friday during non-Summer hours?
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by jekrb 7y ago
There have been a few Firefox commercials on cable television that aired during season 3 of Mr. Robot.
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by jekrb 7y ago
Was there any mention about how virtual interactions might add to the quota? I'm curious if daily social video calls with your remote co-workers would be helpful in that regard.
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by jekrb 7y ago
I used to work for a company that rented a WeWork space to meet with clients in NYC. I only opted to work out of it once or twice, for a change of scenery from my typical office. I think the location was the main perk, since I then got to
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by jekrb 7y ago
Digital Surgeons | New Haven, Connecticut | Web Developer | ONSITE Job description: - Your projects will range from architecting and engineering CMS websites, web apps, platform integrations, internal tools, DS branded products, and other t
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by jekrb 7y ago
It would be nice if localstorage worked in a new instance in incognito. This way webapps that require it can still function without affecting non-incognito tabs. What other privacy concerns would there be I'm wondering?
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by jekrb 7y ago
The canary version of Microsoft Edge now works on macOS (but that's because Edge switched to running chromium)
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by jekrb 7y ago
Have you tried Brave browser on mobile? It's quite fast and blocks ads. A couple issues with Safari I've seen since it's slower to adopt web standards: - buggier websites from devs who don't have iPhones. Since there are

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