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by null0pointer 2y ago
That use case still works. You only need one exit node in one jurisdiction where the site you want to visit isn’t blocked. Surely an exit node operator in country A can’t be prosecuted for allowing access to a site on country B’s blacklist.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Yep, investment is an inevitably corrupting force for a company's mission. AI stuff is in a bit of a catch-22 though since doing anything AI related is so expensive you need to raise funds somehow.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Genuine question: How do people on HN reconcile the idea that tech salaries are suppressed with advocating for remote work and opening employment to the global market where employees are often paid much much less than in the US?
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Yeah how am I supposed to raise millions of dollars without a working product by selling yesterday’s tech??
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by null0pointer 2y ago
As far as I’m aware the base layer bitcoin blockchain still doesn’t have the capacity to onboard a significant fraction of the population. Additionally you need to keep your LN node always online otherwise you risk losing your funds, which
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Not to mention using custodial services for cryptocurrencies defeats the entire purpose.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
This use case is the entire point of cryptocurrencies. It’s just a shame that there wasn’t more effort spent on improving the UX rather than running the VC playbook on the ecosystem to seize control over it.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
If you don’t take VC funds someone who will is going to copy your business, expand much much faster than you with all their free money, undercut you and any other competitors for years driving you out of business, before ultimately dominati
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by null0pointer 2y ago
> 1. Information doesn't want anything. The phrase means "want" in the same way water "wants" to flow downhill.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
> Sure many of us also do patreon etc but that’s never really sat right with me personally I'm curious what it is about the Patreon model that doesn't sit right with you? To me it seems like it's both the most respectful m
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by null0pointer 2y ago
It boggles my mind how valuable advertising is. Who is clicking on that shit and presumably buying those products? I just cannot believe that there were actually $100k/day worth of actual ad conversions, no matter the player count. Yet
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by null0pointer 2y ago
This is awesome! I’ve been putting off building the same thing myself.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
It’s fairly easy to search for the user and text of the tweet if you want to verify a tweet that’s still live. But much of the time the original tweet has been deleted so the QR code would be a dead end too. Maybe it would be good on a thir
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by null0pointer 2y ago
I’ve wondered the same thing. How much does a company have to spend on ads just to keep up with their competitors’ ad spend? I don’t know but if I had to guess I’d say most of the ad budget. Not to mention that ads are a cancer that infest
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by null0pointer 2y ago
I really like Affinity, especially their buy it once pricing model, and I use Affinity Photo for all my photo editing. However, I was very disappointed to learn they were recently acquired by Canva, a company that is blatantly following the
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by null0pointer 2y ago
It’s also annoying to use a password manager. It would be much easier to just use the same password on every account.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
The sheer hypocrisy of this article coming from McKinsey & Co. I can only assume pointing that out is the reason this was posted?
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by null0pointer 2y ago
A crypto "company" is fundamentally antithetical to the entire ethos of cryptocurrencies. Yet that didn't stop grifter and greedy "investors" pumping money into them.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Not really. He was into altruism insofar as it acted as moral licensing for him.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
I have also worked in multiple different sized companies, including FAANG, and multiple countries. My assessment is that FAANGs tend to select for generally intelligent people who can learn quickly and adapt to new situations easily but who
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by null0pointer 2y ago
The point is that the probability doesn’t matter because the outcome, total human extinction, is given infinite weight.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
He’s spent all those years conducting field research for his stealth-mode social engineering startup.
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by null0pointer 2y ago
You are completely right. “Not your keys, not your coins” This lesson apparently needs to be learnt the hard way over and over and over. To be clear I’m not trying to victim blame here, it’s just that if people actually understood what they
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by null0pointer 2y ago
Don't worry, they fail to support legitimate crypto too. Legitimate cryptos being XMR, BTC, BCH, and ETH, predominantly.
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by null0pointer 3y ago
Bitcoin’s transaction throughput is artificially limited (hamstrung) and so not a useful denominator for comparisons. In theory it’s possible for a Bitcoin-like blockchain to record all of Visa’s transactions in a single giga-block with onl
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by null0pointer 3y ago
> So split any cryptocurrency network into small segements, then add your machine to that network with a false history, design the network to be small enough, and your machine will out-hash the rest, and so it's history will win. Ri
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by null0pointer 3y ago
I didn't know that. That's good if it does.
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by null0pointer 3y ago
> Either way you need to have a kind of central authority, or at least trusted third parties. Not everyone needs to run a node, and not everyone could, but it is totally feasible for an individual to run their own if they decide they can
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by null0pointer 3y ago
ENS (which is what the GP refers to) has human readable names. But it doesn't have support for A/AAAA records today (does anyone know why? A-record support was in the original spec). Aside from that the only reason you wouldn&#x27
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by null0pointer 3y ago
Now do Discord.

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