thejohnhenry

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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
It seems weird to assume that people will continue not caring about this 50 years from now, given the power conferred and stakes at hand for democracies to function.
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
One harsh truth that must be swallowed before we (the Hacker News community) makes progress on this problem: We live in the land of Startups. All good technology innovation we're used to over the last 20 years has come from the Startup
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
US debt to GDP is more than double China's. Where are you getting your data?
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
IPFS is certainly one of the top initiatives, and Juan Benet in particular will be involved in whatever future internet architcture takes shape. I need to investigate them more myself before I endorse the full vision, though.
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
Background: I'm a decentralization researcher, I quit my job at Twitch to report on decentralized web initiatives full-time, and I'm tracking 200+ projects and protocols like this attempting to remake the web. Urbit is near the to
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
The first kind. Is the second kind also a big problem? I'm unaware of it.
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
It's crazy to me how nobody, even the (usually remarkably candid) Youtube stars themselves, acknowledge that this story is mostly about ad fraud. I would expect people to be hush-hush about this in a normal industry, but Youtube creato
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 Although core devs don't seem to be interested in implementing this, as it's not supported in the Ostatus spec.
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Mastodon is dead in the water(medium.com)
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
Do you have a link to the history here? Would love to hear about it.
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by thejohnhenry 9y ago
Do you have a link or further information on this?
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
Oh, certainly, I didn't meant to say that non-profits didn't create software, just that they're not primarily software companies, or working in domains that compete with traditional big vendors. Love the work you do at Watsi!
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
Haha, interesting, I didn't know they went through YC at some point. I'm making a strong bet that people do want to switch to fully-open social clones, because it's hard for me to imagine citizens of 2024 or 2028 conducting
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
thanks.
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
Sure, and I'm aware of the non-profit initiatives. I don't think many people have considered producing actual software under a not-for-profit (except for Khan Academy?), probably because it's insanely expensive. Would YCombin
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
I...just like the fable, haha. I am happy with close derivations.
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
you stole my name! bastard! ...also I have the same question edit: sort of forgot to abide by community norms here and keep my comments on-topic. apologies
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
I'm extremely interested in this, as the current funding model for startups restricts new technology to companies that are fiduciarily compelled to monopolize their market, siphoning user data and (potentially) damaging civic society i
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
what does capability-safe mean?
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
My thesis is that the 2016 elections have graduated this question into a pertinent political problem. The Facebooks and Twitters of 2020 will have to be built on something, and the current model of "VCs/existing tech companies&#x2
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by thejohnhenry 10y ago
Hey Kenton! Congratulations, I'm really happy for you, Jade, and the rest of the team. I am sad about the projected lower development activity in Sandstorm in the coming months. You had a tremendous community/brand built up, which