AHMagic

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Show HN: MindPawn(mindpawn.com)
2 points by AHMagic 8y ago|0 comments
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by AHMagic 9y ago
How can you tolerate CNN’s sophomoric clickbait plastered across their home page? http://knn.press looks better, and that’s saying something.
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by AHMagic 9y ago
You don't really know what's going on. You only know what you're told, and there's many ways to interpret the source data. You really can't have a good sense of corporations and governments unless you work specifica
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by AHMagic 9y ago
The world was better when people paid for communications. It's why the internet was better in 1995. Most of the people who had access needed to afford a landline and likely had to own a home or rent an apartment. The only way kids got
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by AHMagic 9y ago
I hear what you're saying, but the analogy doesn't hold because we no longer need horses. In order to use Facebook, you have to sign up with an e-mail and typically a phone number (and in many cases, a photo ID, birth certificate,
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by AHMagic 9y ago
You're right. I think I'm referring more to "federated" than "decentralized".
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Your point is valid, but we still live in a world where we can call Verizon phones with AT&T phones; send e-mails to Gmail users with Yahoo; and send mail with UPS instead of USPS. With those means of communication, we still have contro
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Here's why I don't think decentralization is a red herring: in a centralized service, if you disagree, you don't have another option. If you didn't like AOL and quit, there was no way for you to maintain contact with AOL
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by AHMagic 9y ago
We already have decentralization in three primary forms of communication: phone, mail, and e-mail. They worked great in 1998. Why can't they work great in 2018?
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Do you really want to live your days feeling dependent on this sort of "service"? Do you really want to say, "but I need Facebook!". In today's age, you need a phone number and e-mail. It's ok - they are decent
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Do you really want to live your days feeling dependent on this sort of "service"? Do you really want to say, "but I need Facebook!". In today's age, you need a phone number and e-mail. It's ok - they are decent
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by AHMagic 9y ago
Delete and forget it existed. Ignore and move on. Give up the benefits and pay the cost. Do you really want to live your days feeling dependent on this sort of "service"? Do you really want to say, "but I need Facebook!"