0KnowledgeGoof

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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
Absolutely agree. There are powerful politicians promising all sort of ideologies. There are weak politicians promising all sorts of ideologies. In the end the powerful remain powerful, and the weak remain weak. IMO much of democracy is
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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
Sure, but do we want to optimize for creating trillion-dollar companies? They can hardly even find ways to spend their fortunes; we could tax quite a bit from them before anyone except accountants notices. And that money could be used fo
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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
I agree that there are things that are possible only from a giant organization. However, IMO both Apple and Microsoft are at best indifferent to their customers. Not fixing bad UIs even when people complain, putting ads in products you pai
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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
On a related note, I run noscript on my browser and overall it's not a bad experience. The conveniences IMO outweigh the inconveniences. However, Cloudfront, JSDeliver, etc are a pain. I understand the benefits of caching javascript
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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
Hey, thanks for engaging and challenging my thought experiment. I think I could probably come up with a solution to that, but your point is made: this system will get arbitrarily complex very quickly. And require cryptography experts. I
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by 0KnowledgeGoof 5y ago
My thoughts around that are to have all authorization and ownership encoded in database relations. I was thinking of a read-append-only table. This is a bit kooky maybe, but I experimented once with trying to make database constraints tha
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Ask HN: Experiences with alternative front end-back end architectures
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