wallacoloo

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by wallacoloo 4y ago
i don’t know. the past decade has been everyone shouting about network effects, yet i can’t count on either hand the number of matching-related apps i’ve both left and joined over that duration. on the other hand, i’m still using basically
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
say BTC rises from $30,000 to $300,000. two scenarios: 1. 10% of all BTC holders want to cash out. nobody lost their keys, so 2M BTC hit the “supply side” of the market. 2. 10% of all BTC holders want to cash out. half of them lost their ke
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
sorry to come off as pedantic: it's not my intent. everyone has different experiences on Twitter, and this relates to an experience i don't have much of. a _lot_ of people complain about "anonymous Twitter users", and i
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
i'd be really curious how the author approaches DMs. microblogging didn't make sense to me until i realized that the timeline can just be used as an approach to easily create surface-level connections, with the more fulfilling int
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
i’m frequently confused by people referring to “anonymous” accounts on Twitter. every Twitter user needs a handle, so it’s not really possible to use it anything less than pseudonymously AIUI. by “anonymous”, do most people mean pseudonymou
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
one usually hears the opposite argument: Bitcoin becomes more scarce as users lose their private keys. lost keys => smaller supply => higher price per unit. i can see the opposite argument though: lost keys => less desire to intera
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
Eth fell by about 10% relative to BTC pretty much immediately as the Terra/Luna stuff went south. yeah, there's absolutely connections between all the different currencies out there, but they're not equal strength. it'
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> I’m also never going to rely on anything but .com because I don’t trust ICANN. what's wrong with the other 2 of the "original 3" gLTDs: .net and .org? i spent an afternoon digging into the ownership of all of this stuff,
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> Most world governments and taxing authorities work for their populace, they could be easily voted out if people saw what other nations are benefiting from such innovation. you've got a lot of faith in "most world governments
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
it's about the economics of mining _using an external source of capital_. the more significant interaction is not between the ASICs and the bitcoin rewards, but the companies and their investors. in that sense, it's more accurate
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
modern day i expect to not have to turn off/on my receiver: it should wake on input and go into a standby state after so much inactivity. hence my problem: i’ve got the Technics receiver + stereo speakers i inherited, but if you leave
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
we used to have a phrase to remind each other not to give attention to the bad actors: “don’t feed the trolls” (doesn’t capture 100% of attention sinks, but it’s catchy, and a certain percentage of people understood that the phrase could ap
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
for the HN readers who aren't clued in to everything Elon Musk says over the last two years, i believe parent is referring to this tweet (AFAICT Elon deleted the original, hence screenshot): https://twitter.com/panopark
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
1) although federation enables any user to _contact_ any other user that's distinct from saying every user's _experience_ is the same everywhere. the ELI5 thing to point to is the "local timeline". although your "ho
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> If I give someone a sample docker-compose file, they can immediately run my service regardless of OS _if they're already bought into the docker ecosystem_, this is true. if not, then they first have to go read up on docker first:
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
consider a slow-growth company free of a title system (e.g. where every engineer is just a "member of engineering"). the less-credentialed nature means you don't have to be as specialized to float ideas. the slow-growth natur
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
yes. i'm not taking any stance on the risk v yield profile. i was just bothered by JumpCrisscross's mischaracterization of the earlier comment & wanted to correct that.
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
what's the alternative? of all the friend groups i've had only _one_ has ever been among a group that has all iphones. i'm having a hard time imagining that, in a world of 70% android share, finding yourself in a group that c
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> > would convert a some portion of my savings into stablecoins > This is probably the worst choice one can make. It's accepting a 0% nominal yield against an unregulated counterparty. A Bank of America savings account is lite
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
can you imagine the faces of your loved one's? like, if one of them went missing, would you be able to help the investigators draw up a sketch of their face? as far as i can tell, most people say "yes". for me, when i imagine
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
yeah but classes like geometry? i remember our section on conical slices. like, cool, you can make an ellipse by intersecting a plane with a cone, but (for someone with limited mental imagery: ) isn't that just a really tortured way to
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
i'm sure perception is cool when reading, but arguably it's cool mostly because the imagery leads you to _feel_ certain ways? when an author describes a moonlit scene with the protagonist alone at the edge of a lake watching the p
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> The there is definitely a question whether, now that they have moved so solidly into content production, Netflix is actually a scalable / viable company any more. When they were just sending other people's content around and
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
consumers don’t everywhere react instantly to price changes. the number of lost subscribers is likely to be greater than what you see today as consumers explore alternatives over time and change. though by how much i don’t know. (for exampl
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
the myopic view: of or focusing on only the present. never did i say the antidote is to take a hyperopic view. obviously the appropriate view will lie somewhere in between. i even went out of my way to clarify that the extreme hyperopic
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
and in its wake would be left space for more resilient structures to emerge. i’m not saying “let it collapse”: a government has a duty to protect its own citizens of course. but i do think the myopic view which subsidizes a system once it b
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
> But a collective action at this scale is pretty difficult to orchestrate. maybe, maybe not. Mastodon & the Fediverse has been around long enough to establish itself as a Twitter-like "alternative". it's crossed the s
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
i feel like i'm out of touch. the premise is that most Americans don't like/agree with the political aspects of their social media: to which i wonder, why don't they disengage? even in 2022, it's not hard to fin
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
EU membership is more fluid than US membership. and i’m not an expert on it, but my understanding of its origins is as an economic partnership first (promote a unified currency and compatible border regulations between member states). AFAIK
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by wallacoloo 4y ago
a federal government is a single body of policy which states opt into (more or less permanently). one read on GP is that we don’t need something this rigid for every coordination problem. time-limited and domain-limited agreements to whic

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