smokeyj

8 ms·

1.
by smokeyj 7y ago
Come on, you knew facebook was evil. Most people know facebook is evil. We choose to ignore it because otherwise we would feel obligated to change. Change would come at the expense of "likes" and other modes of social validation.
2.
by smokeyj 7y ago
> and siphon only the data they want All of it. If they can't decrypt it now they'll save it until they can.
3.
by smokeyj 7y ago
> or take out the 'threat to national interests'? Isn't that what we did in Iraq, blindly listen to the IC? Ha, that was an A++ operation. All those lives lost - for absolutely nothing. I mean sure there was "Iraqi d
4.
by smokeyj 7y ago
I'm guessing this is more because of google analytics being absolutely everywhere. If G knows your social graph and that your peers looked up movie X on website Y - that's enough to tweak your feed. Pure speculation.
5.
by smokeyj 7y ago
> I don't think anyone is vouching for "big brother" type government control here, but governments always have a principal role in civil rights, inclusion and the moral development of a nation. Lol, what does this even mea
6.
Ask HN: Did Chrome reset your default search engine?
1 points by smokeyj 7y ago|0 comments
7.
by smokeyj 7y ago
> In the case of USDC, Coinbase is handling it. It's handled by CENTRE who's founding members are Circle and Coinbase.. but the network will grow to include any compliant banking institution. > because it can in some ways al
8.
by smokeyj 7y ago
I'm confused what this offers over USDC. Banks can already issue USD backed tokens with this model. USDC is already being traded on several exchanges. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
9.
by smokeyj 7y ago
Then pack your selfie stick and have yourself a time! I'm not saying there's a right way to travel. The tweet suggested there's more economical ways of "expanding your horizons" than being a chronic tourist. Given t
10.
by smokeyj 7y ago
I don't take it that way. In terms of "broadening your horizons" it's easy to travel and not connect with the local culture. You're just a tourist, window shopping into the lives of the local people. Strolling throu
11.
by smokeyj 8y ago
Sorry I did get annoyed. I've had similar ideas for this model and ultimately feel like it would be dismissed out of a sense of moral justice. Would I be okay with a 100K payback? In theory sure, thats the model for elite universities
12.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> Sure, this is less total money Oh, MONEY - who cares about that stuff. Not the poor, they got tons of it . I get the feeling you and your parents are well off. And I say that only because I've only met rich white people who are
13.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> So, you're basically only mitigating risk if you can't find a job. Which is.. everyone starting a bootcamp!! Lol. Who are you looking out for? You seem really concerned about the biblical application of usury laws. Do you kno
14.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> I just can't get passed the 300% At least you understand your mental limitations. But this is also a form of false charity, where you make decisions on behalf of others in order to signal virtue. This is a business model that shou
15.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> If they are JS devs, experienced in next, sure, go right ahead, but I don't think that's the case here. The author is clearly experienced in UI development. The app was already written in React/Redux. So honestly, yeah,
16.
by smokeyj 8y ago
It's funny how clearly people are addicted to outrage, yet also in complete denial about it. They don't see it as outrage, instead it's measured, proportional, and reactionary response to the opposition. It's the opposi
17.
by smokeyj 8y ago
"I smoke when I drink" - you never heard that? Social smoking is absolutely a thing. Facebook is a cancer and executives will jump ship while they can to claim ignorance.
18.
by smokeyj 8y ago
Comparing Magic The Gathering Online Exchange to an FDIC regulated bank.. He was running the equivalent of a fraudulent trading card ring that happened to become very valuable. Mark has some of my coins and I think he's done enough tim
19.
by smokeyj 8y ago
Imagine you have a team of rails developers and you're asked to create a simple portal. Rails as a tool may be "overkill" but what does it matter? If you already know Rails I'd say use that. If you only knew ruby then re
20.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> Are you saying that rhetorically? No. > And besides, the point here was largely about bundle size and fast time-to-interactive. As long as the point wasn't to be productive I'll just mind my own business.
21.
by smokeyj 8y ago
The whole thing is a solved problem. You can easily render React apps on the server and send HTML down the wire, then lazy load the rest of the JS. Author could have installed next.js and called it a day. If you put your app logic in someth
22.
by smokeyj 8y ago
But why write this comment? You’re a critic, but are you a creator? Post so your creations. I’d like to offer my valuable input.
23.
by smokeyj 8y ago
So, the ends justify the means. Was the war in Iraq worth it? Should I be proud of the torture and extrajudicial renditions that occurred to "keep me safe"? Sounds like the mentality of a coward. But we'll just have to agree
24.
by smokeyj 8y ago
What changed is FB had to make money - and they discovered "outrage" sells. That's the full answer. It has nothing to do with the lower-class crowding up your social network lol.
25.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> They did their duty, as the people of the nation asked them to. As you may infer from current headlines - "The president told me to do it" is not exactly legal justification. We're a nation of checks and balances. If dom
26.
by smokeyj 8y ago
What's the healthy amount of unwarranted wiretapping? Let's not pretend the NSA is fighting a war on terror. It's an economic espionage machine, and an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. The same constitu
27.
by smokeyj 8y ago
Alternative take. Want to secure national infrastructure? Release the tools to do it for free. Viva la open-source revolution
28.
by smokeyj 8y ago
> But again, my point is: IDA costs a lot less than its place in the market suggests it should. Sounds like every developer working on an open source stack.
29.
by smokeyj 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
30.
by smokeyj 8y ago
Law enforcement and prison unions have a financial interest to support mass incarceration. They lobby against drug legalization and have a history of systematic violence. I wonder which way union members vote.

More ›