seanyesmunt

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by seanyesmunt 5y ago
Or, they are just looking for people who are comfortable in front of a camera, have some editing skills, and know how to make an interesting <1 minute video - which is a pretty desirable skill depending on who you ask.
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by seanyesmunt 5y ago
Bitcoin's "magic property" is the faith that the miners have. It has been hardforked, but the majority of computing power has chosen to stay on Bitcoin.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
I believe they were talking about Bitcoin wallets, not card providers.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
When I click the cactus.chat link I get an "Ethereum Phishing Detection" message. > This domain is currently on the MetaMask domain warning list. This means that based on information available to us, MetaMask believes this doma
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
This is an official Twitter product.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
That is how r/wallstreetbets users refer to themselves.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
Why do you think it is an April Fools prank?
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
This is being worked on https://www.coindesk.com/gotenna-bitcoin-wallet-mesh-network
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
If they don't want to pass people that aren't wearing masks, shouldn't they stay home?
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
Yes, but I've lived here for 20 years and have never run into one while camping/canoeing. They are more active (but still sparse) in the Upper Peninsula.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
It can be hidden from our official apps (but turned off by commenting out a single line in the UI code[0]). That content is still accessible via the LBRY sdk[1], and it is not possible for the company to remove it from the network. [0]: ht
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
Nice. Checkout https://odysee.com/$/gaming for more curated gaming content. Odysee is another (more centralized) frontend built on top of the LBRY protocol. Here is a good link comparing other sites https://
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
I work for LBRY inc, and am happy to answer any questions people have.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
It is easy. https://lbry.com/youtube
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
I am the UI engineer for lbry.tv/lbry desktop app. This is a really hard problem and we've taken an incremental approach too (mostly because our team is so small). We sorta have an opt-in system since you can use lbry.tv or the ap
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
That one is filed! https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/issues/3134 Just haven't gotten to it yet. We're a pretty small team right now.
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
It uses the blockchain to store pointers to find the data in a p2p network. Anyone can build an app that interacts with the LBRY network through the lbry-sdk ( https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk ). To be fair though, our
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by seanyesmunt 6y ago
Did you check out LBRY? If so what did you not like about it? I work on https://lbry.tv and the desktop app and am just curious.
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by seanyesmunt 7y ago
His videos are great. His whole channel is also on LBRY if you don't like YouTube https://beta.lbry.tv/@3Blue1Brown
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by seanyesmunt 7y ago
Can you share the problem that took a couple of years to figure out?
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by seanyesmunt 7y ago
Using black saves the most energy, but using gray still uses less energy than white. For a gray pixel, OLED devices just lower the power output for that pixel. I'm pretty sure it works a little differently, but that's the idea.
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
We can remove data from our official apps (or at least hide it). We do this for dmca requests. But if someone is hosting it, anyone can access it through the command line, or if they take our app code and remove a couple lines. Another way
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Yep. The lbry urls are handled by the protocol, there is no way for a company to block someone from accessing that channel. I could outbid that person so that the short url is directed to my channel, but that person will always have a url a
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
We employ about 20 people full time - check out our team page at https://lbry.io/team . There are a few folks not listed there, we'll be updating that soon. We aren't all part of the PR team, we have various roles
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Users get censored and demonetized all the time. Recently they also started messing (as a small test) with changing the thumbnails that users chose after they published a video. It is not viable to create a business on YouTube. In one day,
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
All the code for our search engine is open source https://github.com/lbryio/lighthouse You could also run your own search server if you don't want to use that one. But that is only part of discovery. Another is bu
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
They went through a search server we own that runs chainquery. https://github.com/lbryio/chainquery It parses the blockchain and syncs it with a SQL db. Anyone can run their own search server and adjust it as they see
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
You can `abandon` your claim. https://spec.lbry.io/#claim-operations This removes it and gives back your deposit for staking a lbry url.
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Also, as horrible as it is, the post right below this one is titled: On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19209314 It's hard to prevent entirely, even if yo
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Content creators would benefit from lbry if they want to share files other than videos (, don't want to worry about being deplatformed, or want full control of their data. Users may want to use it if they want to support their favorite

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