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by AgentME 5y ago
The popular public worlds are like going onto AOL general chatrooms when those were popular. You get a lot of random people sticking around and often some obnoxious people. It's possible to find good conversation buddies and friends th
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by AgentME 5y ago
There is a walking animation that applies when someone uses a joystick to move around, but otherwise generally all movement of the avatar is directly driven by the positional tracking of the user. (All VR users have the positions of their h
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by AgentME 5y ago
>graphics I think a lot of people that have never used VR have a preconception that VR is necessarily about being photo-realistic enough to trick people, but VR is exciting enough just for giving you a first-person perspective and bodily
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Is it bad censorship every time when anyone gets banned on a forum?
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... The article is about a single bit of potential churn that was significant because it was so unusual for the web to have churn in standardized features, and regardless the churn didn't end up happening. The web seems like a success
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The way that's written like Ethereum owes the miners a job strange. Ethereum isn't a work program for miners to manage mining hardware. Ethereum functions on proof-of-work and needs some people to sell their compute time and elect
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by AgentME 5y ago
Generally I agree people (especially on HN) are too optimistic about zero-censorship decentralized systems, but I think it's important to point out that decentralization doesn't have to mean zero censorship / everything goes.
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A lot of stablecoins sacrifice decentralization, but there are some like DAI that get you all of the (non-volatility-related) benefits of cryptocurrency like direct control without the price volatility. If you want to use cryptocurrency as
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by AgentME 5y ago
IPFS works pretty well in the style of progressive-enhancement with the existing web for static content specifically. If you want to link to a resource that's available through IPFS, then you make the link point to an IPFS gateway that
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Merkle trees basically accomplish this with separate hashes over every N bytes, so that the content can be verified continuously as it's downloaded.
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by AgentME 5y ago
You're assuming that anonymous payments could only be accomplished if there's some private server that knows the plaintext of everyone's balances and just keeps it secret, but that's not the case. There are ways using ze
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by AgentME 5y ago
IPFS is great, but just a nitpick, there's nothing blockchain about IPFS. Blockchain usually implies decentralized but decentralized doesn't imply blockchain. Cryptocurrency blockchains only really make sense when you're mana
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by AgentME 5y ago
If you stopped there then you missed the parts where the author moved on to ranting about the Soviet and Maoist ideology of Big Tech! I'm a big supporter of free and open source software but this article is way over the top. The articl
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by AgentME 5y ago
I can't understate how much I disagree with that being an unambiguous lesson of history. There's been plenty of places where misinformation was identified and pushed out in favor of better information. But mainly, this is about an
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by AgentME 5y ago
Does Google need a government agency to determine what emails are or aren't spam? Why would it need that in this case instead, and do you really think that would be an improvement? This is a bad strawman.
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If they're bad at identifying misinformation, then I'll fault them for that. Has Google had a tendency to censor things on the basis of information that later turned out to be true? Your examples are the judgments of groups that a
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by AgentME 5y ago
Is totalitarianism when you don't let your servers be open relays for antivaxxer propaganda during a pandemic?
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I feel like a web clone of it hits some of your goals: https://webwormhole.io/
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>accelerates environmental destruction Ethereum is working on moving to proof-of-stake within the next year, which completely removes its need for energy-intensive proof-of-work mining.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Trezor is open source, and neither of them connects to the internet directly. They only connect to open source programs on your own computer, so the ways they talk to the outside world are known.
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A dedicated hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger is likely a much better setup than a homebrew setup on a general purpose computer.
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by AgentME 5y ago
QUIC has the solution to the issue you brought up with HTTP2: packet loss no longer causes all of the multiplexed streams to be interrupted, but without the costs of using many simultaneous TCP connections.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Yeah I tried using Mastodon for a while (decentralized Twitter clone that happens to only show posts in linear time order), and I quickly got sick of it because I almost purely saw the posts from the most active people I followed, and almos
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I think one of the most significant things about open source is that you're allowed to port it to new platforms. Imagine if you were porting some MIT or GPL open source application from Windows to Linux, and then the original author of
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by AgentME 5y ago
That's the author of the article in this thread. Are you mixing things up or are both of these things separately about him?
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NPM hasn't allowed unpublishing packages for years.
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This is almost like one step toward an object-capability system. In an object-capability language, the main function would receive capability objects, like a reference to a module for accessing the filesystem, and functions could only use t
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by AgentME 5y ago
Agreed. Anyone that decides to come up with a "common sense" subset of emails to allow is more likely to accidentally block some perfectly normal addresses than actually accomplish something useful. I remember I once made this poi
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I previously found this article and wrote a bunch of notes about it that I never got around to posting before. It was too long to be an HN comment so I've just cleaned it up and posted it here: https://macil.tech/2021&#
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>Conversely, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum have decentralized the process of issuing and managing a currency. But while the operations of such currencies, based on blockchains, have been fully decentralized, the trust grap

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