varunsrin

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by varunsrin 4y ago
if you didn't like the term smart contracts in the header image, you probably won't like it in the body either :)
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by varunsrin 4y ago
i don't believe they are the same thing
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by varunsrin 4y ago
here's an example that might help -- you can allow key A to own your identity and key B to move your identity to another key. But key B can only move the identity after a time delay if key A does not cancel it. So key B is not your &qu
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by varunsrin 4y ago
not a dumb question. if you squint, the protocol i've described is really a fancy version of RSS. In fact, the original brainstorm doc for this idea was titled RSS+ :)
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by varunsrin 4y ago
a simple mechanism is using a smart contract to map your key (0x123) to an identity (@alice). the contract can allow you to transfer that identity to a different key (important for key rotation) and also to set up a recovery key that is als
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by varunsrin 4y ago
author here. what distributed database would let you own your identity without any third party party being able to take it away from you? that's a necessary condition for sufficient decentralization, and the only distributed databases
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by varunsrin 4y ago
what is the best reading you've found that explains polycentricity well?
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by varunsrin 4y ago
author here - happy to answer questions folks have. we've also been building a sufficiently decentralized protocol called Farcaster, and you can check it out here: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol we'
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by varunsrin 4y ago
account recovery is very possible with smart contracts and public-key crypto
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by varunsrin 4y ago
author here - you're right that the average user doesn't care about decentralization as a first order benefit. people typically use social networks to be entertained / informed or to increase their status. we've been bui
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Governance Minimization(fehrsam.xyz)
2 points by varunsrin 6y ago|0 comments
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Hiring your first 10 engineers(engineering.coinbase.com)
4 points by varunsrin 9y ago|0 comments
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by varunsrin 11y ago
if im not mistaken, whatsapp already monetizes their users, charging $1 / year after the first year. with 700m active users, they potentially could be generating ~ 3.6% of their sale price in annual revenue.
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SoundFocus (YC S13) Is Hiring DSP, Firmware and Mechanical Engineers in SF(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by varunsrin 12y ago
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by varunsrin 12y ago
Not a pedantic distinction at all - on a second read, I completely see the confusion, and I'm going to reword the article to separate the concepts of dynamic range (which is just a dB value) and dynamic ranges across a frequency spectr
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by varunsrin 12y ago
hey anigbrowl, OP here. You raise some great points - it is indeed impossible to use an MBC to bring sounds back into a user's range of hearing if they have lost all sensibility at that particular frequency. However, the loss of hearin
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by varunsrin 12y ago
OP here. Some argue that in-ear earbuds send more high frequency energy directly into the ear than headphones, so the balance of sound is always tilted towards the highs, which over time can cause more high-frequency loss (low frequency los
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Can't you just turn up the volume?(medium.com)
545 points by varunsrin 12y ago|152 comments
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Help build the future of audio – SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by varunsrin 12y ago
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by varunsrin 12y ago
Hey anigbrowl - thanks for the detailed reply and the tip on the Yamaha NS-10's, I'll have to pick up a pair soon. To my earlier point - you're correct, what I meant is that its mastered in ideal studio conditions, but to a s
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by varunsrin 12y ago
Stoev, thanks for the feedback we'll keep that in mind, we've had a couple requests for a DAC only version so far. If you shoot me an email (in my HN profile) I can reach out to you with updates. And yes, Amp will ship with a setu
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by varunsrin 12y ago
Hey stoev - Amp founder here. Great comments, tailoring to your hearing pattern and headphones is a big part of what we focus on in addition to your environment, and I'm glad you're excited by it. Music, and audio in general, has
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by varunsrin 12y ago
We used Flurry last summer, but ended up switching to Localytics who we've been very happy with. The main reason was real-time data (which was really important to us since Flurry was lagging by several days). The nicer UX and faster cu
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by varunsrin 12y ago
There are many objective reasons why the world is becoming a better place if you take a macro viewpoint (i.e. at the decade or century level). Violence for example is one, and Steven Pinker makes a great argument for it in this book: http:
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by varunsrin 12y ago
"But what I’ve lost isn’t just a set of structured sounds, but the world those sounds create, a world you can live inside: Bach on a snowy afternoon, hard blues on a long night’s drive, the background mood in a restaurant or at a party
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by varunsrin 12y ago
SoundFocus - San Francisco, CA Roles: iOS Engineer, Product Marketer, Community Manager Full-time in SF (VISA ok, will relocate) ================================== TL:DR; We're a YC-backed startup building audio hardware to help people
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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring a Senior Mobile Engineer (employee #4)(careers.stackoverflow.com)
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago
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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring a mobile / front-end engineer (employee #3)
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago
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SoundFocus Raises $1.7M to Protect Hearing in Post-iPod, XBox Era(blogs.wsj.com)
33 points by varunsrin 13y ago|4 comments
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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring an Industrial Designer
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago

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