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by m52go 6y ago
Interesting, thanks. I actually looked into $1 payments for an adjacent project and the costs are still prohibitive even today. Stripe fees cost something like 30-40% for a $1 payment, and PayPal is only slightly better :/
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by m52go 6y ago
Yeah, I figure that's the curse of any community gaining traction. I expect to have to turn off comments at some point...if that fails I'll just restrict registrations. In a worst-case scenario, I think the broader 100 Million Boo
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by m52go 6y ago
I will admit the 5 year timeframe is a bit arbitrary and may need to be adjusted. With that said, the goal is positively not to replicate HN with discussions of cutting-edge technology and science. Even in those topics, I think there&#x27
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by m52go 6y ago
That's the point! But yes the 5 year timeframe is somewhat arbitrary and may need to be adjusted.
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by m52go 6y ago
I always wait to watch TV shows and movies until the hype has blown over and people can actually tell me their honest thoughts...often in relation to other shows they've seen. Time allows for context that simply isn't possible oth
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by m52go 6y ago
Let's see. Not everything interesting I come across on the web is a good fit for HN, but when I see something that is, I post it here. I've found that (at least for me) once a community is strong enough, and my motivation to parti
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by m52go 6y ago
Shoot sorry, I had closed registration while developing. It's open now!
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by m52go 6y ago
Yup, thanks. Actually thanks for mentioning PayPal again...I had discounted them at first because of the 5% fee but didn't realize their lack of a huge flat add-on actually makes them better for smaller payments.
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Ask HN: Least-friction [global] payment method for micropayments?
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by m52go 6y ago
Matrix is a protocol. Riot is the old name of the flagship apps built on the Matrix protocol by the core team. Element is the new name.
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by m52go 6y ago
> Except we have: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix . We have people working on it full time, and hopefully going to evolve into hybrid P2P/Client-Server eventually as pe
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by m52go 6y ago
How is Matrix not the solution it claims to be? What's not /actually/ decentralized about it? Keep in mind software of this kind doesn't just [poof] appear out of nowhere...it's typically built incrementally on meag
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by m52go 6y ago
Even this site seems to use WordPress and some other frameworks. So unnecessary...just need a simple static page. Oh and no HTTPS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by m52go 6y ago
What happens when Glenn fails to conform to Substack's standards? To my knowledge Substack hasn't censored yet, but it's inevitable. Glenn should just start his own site, in my opinion.
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by m52go 6y ago
I see this perspective posted a lot, and while I think it's generally true, it's a bit vague. What do we mean by writing better? If we're referring to an improved ability to articulate thoughts and produce more text, then sur
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by m52go 6y ago
"What we've institutionalized is run to failure: we'll just keep doing more of what's failed spectacularly until the entire status quo collapses in a fetid heap of greed, self-interest and gross incompetence." This
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by m52go 6y ago
Yeah I came here to say the same. I'm about as tin-foil-paranoid-privacy-all-the-things as they come, but the "invasive" data mentioned in the post don't seem particularly invasive to me, and collecting that data seems p
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by m52go 6y ago
The legal entities can move to other jurisdictions, sure, but it doesn't matter because app distribution still occurs primarily through USA-based Google Play and USA-based Apple App Store—both of which can easily geofence apps as they
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by m52go 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying -- I've edited my comment to make that more clear. And thanks for your work on Zulip!
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by m52go 6y ago
I've downloaded Manyverse from F-Droid so many times, hoping to finally use it for real...but I never could. I was particularly excited recently when an iOS app was released. If you have a really close group of techy friends who don&#x
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by m52go 6y ago
Open-core, or fully open-source with paid offerings (e.g. Zulip -- see tabbott's comment below [0]). Let the DIYers host their own instances, but offer support and/or on-premise deployments for a fee. It seems to be what Mattermos
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by m52go 6y ago
All great thoughts -- you sound like a generous guy :) > Those who can't do, teach I'm with you. I'd change that phrase to "Those who have done, should teach". Reminds me of an idea I think I read in one of Nassi
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by m52go 6y ago
It can make sense. It's also better for longevity of the work. I'm surprised Jeff is offering his videos for free too though...that seems like a perfect candidate for a paywall to capture some of the value created from the books h
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by m52go 6y ago
You and parent comment are both right, but it's interesting because I haven't heard this feedback before. Part of what makes these games so playable is that they're quick and don't require a whole lot of thought. It&#x27
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by m52go 6y ago
Awesome, thank you for checking it out! Yes, Dashboard reporting needs to be improved greatly. I'll get to that after courses are launched.
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by m52go 6y ago
For what it's worth, games remain playable after they end...it's just that human scoring isn't available for them anymore. But now that you mention it, that doesn't make sense. Even if human scoring is over, players shou
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by m52go 6y ago
Thank you! Yes -- I send the best responses out in an email after some manual sifting, after live scoring for a game has ended. I wasn't sure if showing the best answers immediately would encourage some people to play again with "
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by m52go 6y ago
I really like this line in the article: "Bad writing is bad thinking." So true. Sometimes I just write when I'm confused about something and it helps clarify things. Since this is HN, I'm going to add a shameless plug. F
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by m52go 6y ago
Thanks! Integrations don't sound perfect, but I guess it would be unrealistic to expect perfection given the nature of the implementations. Identities that could be somehow owned independent of servers would be a game-changer, I think.
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by m52go 6y ago
Can anyone explain, in simple terms, how interoperability and migration works with ActivityPub (or point to resources that do)? If I create an account on a Mastodon instance, and want to move it to another instance, do I lose everything? An

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