Joeboy

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by Joeboy 8y ago
I used to be a web developer (still am, sort of) and, while I thought it was stupid and did it grudgingly, I have to admit that this sort of thing beguiled a lot of clients, generated a lot of work and paid a lot of bills.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Also something's stealing focus so that keyboard navigation doesn't work. We are probably not the target market though.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
As a user / consumer, I definitely very much do not want any of this.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Do you think somebody who's appeared in an advert should ever be allowed to seek an injunction against a stalker? Or is that just a choice they've made and have to live with?
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Not very common. But if people incentivize it it's obviously going to become more common. Vaguely relevant recent events: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/mexico-electio... https:&#x2F
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by Joeboy 8y ago
I wasn't saying you don't know because you're ignorant about the telecoms industry. I think you don't know how to algorithmically resolve a conflict between two adversaries who assert significantly different versions of
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by Joeboy 8y ago
I can see the benefit of real time operation, and I can see the benefit of using a single, standardized invoicing / payment system. I don't understand why you need a blockchain for any of that.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
> That's conflict-resolution logic, and up to the peers to decide a priori (they will likely already have this, since it is not an uncommon scenario.) Or you could just say you don't know?
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by Joeboy 8y ago
So eg. if telco A says a call was 8 minutes long and telco B says it was 15 minutes - what kind of smart contract / business logic decides how long the call was?
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by Joeboy 8y ago
> CDR's never match perfectly With a blockchain based system, what happens if two telcos send CDRs that don't match?
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by Joeboy 8y ago
So this seems to have happened because Youtube wants The Blender Foundation to agree to have their videos monetized. I'm not clear if they want that because of bogus copyright claims, EU legislation etc, or just because they favour mak
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by Joeboy 8y ago
They seem to kind of hide the licenses for each individual track, which is odd since the licensing is the site's USP. Does seem like a great curated archive of fine music, though.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
I don't know for sure why the downvote, but maybe because Thailand is a place where you can be imprisoned or exiled for criticizing the (late) king. It's not hard to imagine somebody on HN might not be cool with somebody supportin
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Go here and scroll down for lots more amazing Cudjo words: http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-...
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by Joeboy 8y ago
I was also surprised that apparently Kossula's account went unpublished due to a 1930s version of political correctness. http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-...
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Questlove of The Roots is a descendant of people who were brought to the US on the same ship.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
The food thing is probably well recognized at least among reputable charities (as opposed to opportunistic religious charities or whatever), but in general the role of external donors in weakening local infrastructure is still a live issue.
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by Joeboy 8y ago
A ton of reasons, but a big one is that external involvement weakens local infrastructure. Eg. dumping free food in poor countries seems like a lovely idea from a distance, and is the sort of thing people like to donate to, but in practice
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by Joeboy 8y ago
Personally, this year I donated money via https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds . I somewhat trust them to do something reasonable with my money, if that's naive of me I hope somebody will tell me.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The experiment referred to was one where the web was a level playing field that didn't differentiate between different classes of users. The fact you see this is as a silly semantic point underscores the original point about that exper
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted I'm guessing for being a pro-Facebook shill and/or an anti-Facebook zealot.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
For me, the result of having HN filled with these Facebook non-stories is that I'm going to stop taking an interest in them. As far as I can tell the situation with Facebook is substantially the same as it's been since it started.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Given that you are not the target audience of these stories Isn't that an argument for not having HN filled with these articles?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
No, I see ticking a box marked "I don't care about privacy" as comparable to ticking a box marked "I'm OK with mass extinction". In the sense that in theory nobody's outward preference is for invasion of p
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> People are mad at FB the same way people get mad when they realize they've been in manipulative relationships To run with the simile, maybe some people remain in abusive relationships because of a reasonable fear that leaving will
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Most people I know think privacy is important. Of course they do. What sort of person is going to tick the "I don't care about privacy" box? I guess the same kind of person that ticks the "I'm OK with mass exti
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I think the hype was really thrust upon them by the breathless NYT article and the unexpectedly massive donations to their Kickstarter. They did their best to run with it, and were met with limited success and widespread vitriol that was no
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by Joeboy 9y ago
So via that link it looks like a PR that "adds event entities" was merged in January. Which sounds vaguely promising, although I'm not sure what it means in practice for end users.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
From a personal privacy point of view it seems significantly worse to me, but I guess the positive spin would be that there isn't a single party that can simultaneously blackmail / breach the privacy of a billion people. Although
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I'm not really sure what "owning your data" means here, in practice. If you're sharing it with other people / pods the best you can meaningfully say is that you own a copy of your data, as does anybody you share i

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