EGreg

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by EGreg 10mo ago
I don’t want to follow many different laws. So inconvenient. I don’t want to stop at a red light if I see there are no cars around. It’s stupid. But…
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by EGreg 10mo ago
Why is this so difficult? Verified Credentials exist on the Web. Drivers’ licenses exist. Just show that you are over 18 in a zero knowledge way and be done with it. Why do they need to see your IDs?
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by EGreg 10mo ago
Why not let people scan QR codes like restaurants do for menus?
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The Day We Realized Who Colonizes the Galaxy
5 points by EGreg 10mo ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 10mo ago
Stop hating on crypto just because you're on HN, and consider that actual problems have grown very large with current systems. This is the problem with many HN denizens -- they keep correctly posting about problems, but then dismiss so
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by EGreg 11mo ago
There can be many models. One model is just to have shares expire after a certain point, the same way options do. Or undergo demurrage (a discount that grows from 0 to 100% over a decade, for instance, where the remaining % from the sale go
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I'd even go so far as to say that shareholding in PUBLICLY TRADED companies is one of the primary engines of enshittification. Shareholders want to extract rents from the ecosystem, full stop. And if the CEO isn't sociopathic en
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Both Family Dollar and Dollar General declined interview requests and did not answer detailed lists of questions from the Guardian. Instead, both sent the Guardian brief statements. “At Family Dollar, we take customer trust seriously and a
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by EGreg 11mo ago
How does this compare to Alpine Linux, Amazon Linux and Slackware, including zipslack? Tiny Core Linux?
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by EGreg 11mo ago
This. I remember in 2012 TechCrunch disrupt hackathon overnight making “Birthdays” to satirize how Facebook systematically helped society cheapen the word “friend” and “like”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om4_F0VFIdI It
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Our values are whatever Trump says they should be! An interviewer asked Trump in 2016 how people will know that America is great again. He replied: “cause I’m gonna tell em”. :) https://youtu.be/6TuqNMIxMeI?si=oCkU2Rypuf9SOU
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by EGreg 11mo ago
URL has been deleted NYTimes acts quickly!
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Can't we just append "before:2021-01-01" to Google? I use this to find old news articles for instance.
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Just wait til AI botswarms do it to everyone at scale, without them having done anything at all… And just remember, someone will write the usual comment: “AI adds nothing new, this was always the case”
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I remember they prepended the word “Microsoft” to official names of all their software.
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Frustration. A lot of frustration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation
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by EGreg 11mo ago
People, it wasn’t just a safety net. Bezos’s mom was his first investor, giving him $300K. Then he also had connections to millionaires through his family Bill Gates’ mother, Mary Gates, was instrumental in securing Microsoft's first m
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by EGreg 11mo ago
You can imagine what forms most of the the “pressure” from the government will take, on platforms owned & controlled by large corporations. Hint: it will involve their profit motive. Also it is not just in Europe — digital ID is comin
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Let me generalize The problem is the organizing principle for our entire global society is competition. This is the default, the law of the jungle or tribal warfare. But within families or corporations we do have cooperation, or a command s
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I thought it would be useful to provide the ChatGPT conversation behind this article, so you can see how the sausage was made: https://chatgpt.com/share/692890a4-ff64-800a-94db-749d089d78... Once again, I want to turn
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How to do Localization and Internationalization properly on the Web(community.qbix.com)
2 points by EGreg 11mo ago|1 comments
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I bet you that this hasn't been proposed, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfClJxdQ6Xs I found that video very interesting! Especially the second half about apparent super liminal speed
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by EGreg 11mo ago
You can make it even easier And serverless Just have the client redirect to your checkout flow, and it redirects back with a signed payload. Like oauth. Done. Make an HTTP interface that’s easy to curl, as well as a Javascript library to as
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by EGreg 11mo ago
https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Having said that, I am a big fan of CDNs. Your origin server can generate pages and that’s a lot better than static sites. If you want a decentralized Internet, don’t use the Web. Use s
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by EGreg 11mo ago
So Chomsky was right?
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Show HN: smtp.js, a drop-in relay to prevent your sites spamming your users(community.qbix.com)
2 points by EGreg 11mo ago|0 comments
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Loading at Runtime: The Web Framework Everyone Wanted All Along(community.qbix.com)
1 points by EGreg 11mo ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Seigniorage doesnt create liability But commodity money doesn’t require seigniorage
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by EGreg 11mo ago
George Foot :)
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I remember back in the day using DJGPP (DJ Delorie) with the Allegro library (Shawn Hargreaves), building little games that compiled and ran on Windows and other OSes, and being part of the community. You can still play the little game I ma

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