NiloCK

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by NiloCK 5y ago
I recently paid ~$150 for an hour's worth of notary services in Canada while preparing a property sale. I guess I should have driven to Maine.
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by NiloCK 5y ago
Here's one cryptocurrency PoC on micropayments: https://web3torrent.statechannels.org/ More directly to your point, I think lots of people have made attempts at micropayment protocols. The difficulty is psychological r
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by NiloCK 5y ago
I am serious that it is straightforward to create a token where everyone on earth gets X/day in a sybil proof system. Making this token retain some sort of value is of course an entirely different problem, and I don't have strong
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by NiloCK 5y ago
Some people believe that government issued ID in conjunction with a government that implemented a UBI scheme would indeed improve poverty. Andrew Yang wrote a reasonable book about the idea. sybil-proofing in blockchain systems opens the po
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by NiloCK 5y ago
The connection here is that sybil-proofing is a (the?) major bottleneck to cryptoeconomic UBI schemes.
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by NiloCK 5y ago
I use this software every day on multiple machines (rss for work, rss & email personal). It's not without wrinkles, but at least it never feels exploitative. Donated, and will consider setting up something recurring.
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by NiloCK 6y ago
https://eduquilt.com I don't even know off-hand if the current deploy is even semi-usable, but I'm jumping on the thread because ... you asked! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo This is a pla
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by NiloCK 6y ago
There was a time when people out of steam would take a break!
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by NiloCK 6y ago
I believe that social cooling is a thing, and I also believe that the observations you're making are legitimate. Three points that might reconcile these ideas: 1) social cooling is a long-term, slow-burn, bring-pot-to-boil-so-slowly-th
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by NiloCK 6y ago
You may enjoy Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford. It made sense of the permanent vague anxiety I've always had while working in a digital medium.
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by NiloCK 6y ago
I enjoyed 'The Information' by James Gleick.
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Ask HN: What are you continually forgetting?
4 points by NiloCK 6y ago|1 comments
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by NiloCK 6y ago
You are right that there are two acceptable answers to the question. How does this compare to the number of acceptable answers to the other question?
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by NiloCK 7y ago
Not sure if I understand the first disadvantage. People not living in the US live someplace else, with its own TLD.
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by NiloCK 7y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by your ultimatum for me? Whatsapp and Instagram are already owned by Facebook - that is, as far as I understand, they have already merged.
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by NiloCK 7y ago
Blanket thanks to everyone who responded. It'll be May or June before I have any certainty on this, and September before I get to work. I'll post an update :)
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by NiloCK 7y ago
Off the top of my head: Benefits: - Working in a dead ecosystem reduces the risk of bleeding-edge fomo (see web-dev) - Prior generation tooling has fewer layers of abstraction - Imperative paradigm easier to groc than, eg, OO perspective Co
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Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?
200 points by NiloCK 7y ago|236 comments
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by NiloCK 7y ago
Regarding a specific thread going back and forth (span of a month or so, not years): Google marked as spam my 7th or 8th reply in a chain of emails with a prospective tenant (presumably) because my email contained instructions for sending m
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by NiloCK 7y ago
The article presumes that the point of mathematics class is to produce numbers that match the ones in the back of the book or an instructors answer key. This is incorrect. The point of mathematics class is to build skills for deduction - dr
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by NiloCK 7y ago
I have a Windows machine whose internet connection is not always on, and I get this every single time I go to this site. Rotten Tomatoes too. If I didn't know how to do a hard refresh (eg, ctrl-f5) the pages would both be permanently i
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by NiloCK 8y ago
I'm an educator in a 'Google' school board. We use google products for all documentation, and it's given me pause to think that Google's ML algorithms will be combing through allegedly confidential documents. Is it
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by NiloCK 10y ago
Isn't this the old meaning of "put your money where your mouth is"? What other meaning does it have?
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by NiloCK 11y ago
Well, yes, that was the question! Got any favorite line chart plotters?
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by NiloCK 11y ago
Today's productivity wasn't a priority for the author, but tomorrow's productivity is the goal. edit: A proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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by NiloCK 11y ago
How well does plot.ly do with plain old equation plotting? In particular, I'm looking for something that can produce mobile friendly plots that scales diagrams automatically to show relevant features (x, y intercepts, inflection points
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by NiloCK 12y ago
alfiedotwtf was referring to the potential for hockey stick growth for go, not Android.