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by KoftaBob 4y ago
One of the criteria of a Perfectly Competitive Market is "Perfect Information": "In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition. With perfect
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Reddit Onion Service Launch(old.reddit.com)
5 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
GDP is essentially the total yearly revenue of a country, so it's not directly comparable to a companies market cap.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Sure thing!
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
According to stats like this one and many others, Google AdMob has a much larger presence in terms of serving ads on mobile apps: https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/ads/all
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
When you use a free app that shows you ads, whose ad network do you think is serving those ads?
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
It's a human nature thing, the US did not invent the concept of bullying or being made to feel judged for being different. You just happened to grow up around good people, but not everyone is as lucky unfortunately.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
> Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balanc
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Most homes in Florida (in the last couple decades at least) are built with "Concrete block construction" to adhere to Florida's hurricane codes. Concrete block also combats things like termites/mold/mildew, which ar
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
It's a fork of the Signal client but instead of the centralized Signal back end, uses the decentralized Oxen Service Node system to relay messages.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/ Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/ Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
More likely it's academic laboratories doing reckless gain of function research because it keeps the grant money rolling in, and in Wuhan Lab's case, they also half ass the safety precautions.
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Yo, Blair(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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Traff: A universal format for live traffic information(traffxml.gitlab.io)
152 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|39 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I see, that makes sense. In that case, it becomes more of a discussion of boundaries and proper work-life expectations.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Most airlines I've traveled on have stated at the beginning of the flight that video calls aren't allowed, they could always just keep that rule.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Most airlines I've traveled on have stated at the beginning of the flight that video calls aren't allowed, they could always just keep that rule.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I see this take a lot, and I don't really understand it. I'm sure you know that you always have the option to just not use the in-flight wifi. Is it that the availability of the wifi will tempt you to use it, therefore removing
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Yeah that’s a big pain point that i’m hoping to see figured out soon. It can’t reach mass appeal until that’s handled seamlessly.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
For those looking to go even further than federated, to fully P2P social networks, the scuttlebutt protocol is the way to go. The two best clients for it that are still actively developed are Planetery and Manyverse. https://www.
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The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: Infrastructure for Anarchists(itsgoingdown.org)
3 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
Yeah unfortunately that was my experience as well when i tested Manyverse and Patchwork on my test Android and Linux devices. The Planetary app handles this much better, but it’s only on iOS/iPadOS ( therefore also able to run on M1 Ma
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
edit: Scratch that, a more fleshed out and popular protocol that implements this P2P concept is Scuttlebutt: www. http://scuttlebutt.nz/ The most user friendly and refined client I’ve found that implements this protocol is P
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
All fair/valid points to consider. The closest example so far that I've found of a truly P2P online community is Aether: https://getaether.net
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
This is why I view the "federated" form of decentralization to be more of an intermediate stop-gap between fully centralized and fully decentralized in the form of true P2P. For a decentralized social network to be viable/sus
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
I just recently ranted about this exact thing in an Ask HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32767277
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
What would be an example of a functionality that has ongoing server costs? The email itself is hosted by the email provider that they're pulling from, and I don't see any features on their site that would involve any intensive ser
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
My two favorites are Podverse (iOS + Android) and AntennaPod (Android only), both free + open source.
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by KoftaBob 4y ago
If an app doesn't have recurring costs involved in serving their product (server costs, etc), it's hard to justify a subscription model vs charging a one time cost to purchase the app. To fund/incentivize continuing developme

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