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by ENGNR 8y ago
Their ideas around product design are basically opposites, it would be a pretty rough merger I think
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by ENGNR 8y ago
The reality is that I don’t want a search engine in my phone. Maybe it wasn’t the case when he said that quote, but the story here is they’re trying very hard to blur the line between their services and the device itself, in some very awkwa
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I can’t even ask my phone to set an alarm anymore without giving it my entire web and app history. Google is vulnerable here as they’re creating a very real need for basic alternatives
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by ENGNR 8y ago
There’s a real need for a currency that’s actually backed by something real, given the amount of silly money sloshing around the system these days Linking a currency to wasted energy isn’t great, but what solution would you put forward? A f
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by ENGNR 8y ago
The problem is that moment didn’t include locales as a default at one point, and then suddenly it did. And it’s the kind of thing you don’t want to do module splitting on, date functions can be used in all sorts of places so it’s really a c
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by ENGNR 8y ago
If Apple can take over transport and wall it off for somebody then it just further cements their high ground I fully expect that you won't be able to tether an Android (or any open specced) phone to an Apple car, like iMessage and Appl
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I think he was saying evolution rather than revolution is a better business strategy, when bootstrapping at least
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Publishers need to own their own distribution, it's that simple. That's their core business and it can't be outsourced
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by ENGNR 8y ago
What if the big bang was a white hole? I'd butcher the idea if I tried to explain but.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqGI1mSqo
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Agreed, either the universe knows the future or locality isn't enforced in a way we currently think is possible (ie one or more of our dimensions are just virtual dimensions not bound by the speed limit) The second seems the most likel
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Check out the top post on EthTrader, it's about Sir Isaac Newton losing money in a scam. HN is not the only ones with this opinion https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/8zamjw/sir_isaac...
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I like to think it's the slow death of the concept of retirement Work is purpose so long as it's engaging, and people with purpose do things to keep themselves going
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Byzantine fault tolerance and zero knowledge proofs, so cool! Oh it's being done by people using it for distributed ledgers? Boooo now we hate it I've realized I have to broaden my news intake as even this community has it's
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I don't even own any ICO tokens let alone shill them : D The emotional response here is fantastic, it reminds me of this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Geez sorry for outlining both sides of an argument in response to a question, hivemind downvotes are strong today
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Golem has a working product, integrated into blender. It lets users trade rendering time with each other It works well for 3D graphics because it's easy to verify the work was done and it's low risk. With more encryption research
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Securities deregulation. On the one hand, investors deserve protections. On the other, has the regulation gone too far by design, locking out the middle class it used to serve so well. Why do companies wait until most of the value is alread
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by ENGNR 8y ago
What if the failure mode was it just being a regular wheel again? I suppose it's competing against letting the air out of the tyre so it might still be worse
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Ethereum is the robust base layer for a whole bunch of stuff. ICOs are an ok use case for Ethereum today, but when plasma is ready (months not years), the transaction capacity will explode and fees could go to zero within a plasma chain. Th
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Just messing around and nothing worth showing, but the web audio API gives all the low level stuff, and then hot module reload from webpack means you can change a function while the music is playing and it updates in real time. Not being bo
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I think part of it too is that it's exploratory. Sometimes I use javascript to write music and as creative twists and turns happen the code folds in on itself in ugly ways that don't happen when solving a clearer problem Compounde
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I'm not ruling Lasik out personally, but I'm just giving it another decade or two to see the long term effects. My eyes are the highest bandwidth input by far, it's not a decision to take lightly In the mean time, I have thes
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by ENGNR 8y ago
If anything I'd love to see a barebones 'obj => native DOM' library built into browsers Let React and others compete over the more advanced use cases like context, lifecycle methods etc
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It could be a simple smart contract rather than an entire ICO/coin
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Git is great, but it has a few social features missing Centralised git is great, but becomes a target Is this the perfect blockchain pairing?
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by ENGNR 8y ago
Why are publishers buying ads anyway? They should have their own distribution Or at the very least not have to pay Facebook, or Facebook should make it clear that's not the kind of content they want if it's so off mission that the
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Ironically Bill and Melinda Gates turned into sort of worldwide heroes, targeting the big difficult unprofitable problems with the most social impact
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One use case that's already operational and doesn't need additional transactions - distributed domain resolution The entire .eth registar runs in a smart contract. You put your ETH in to claim the domain, others also bid during th
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by ENGNR 8y ago
I'm starting to think the killer app isn't just breaking the back on public security over-regulation (ie pulling an Uber by just disobeying it until they cave), the killer app might be governance in general. An algorithm to gain c
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Ask HN: What is the killer DApp going to be?
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