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by Taek 5y ago
Facebook refuses to let anyone else tap those network effects, that's what's suffocating. Remember when Facebook and Twitter and everyone else had these amazing robust APIs you could build entire startups on top of? Then when they
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by Taek 5y ago
I think we will win because locked down platforms are fundamentally less powerful and less suitable for innovation than open platforms. We are reaching a turning point where even the brightest minds struggle to generate major innovations on
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by Taek 5y ago
Then I can't message my extended family. I have no way to reach the friends I made in Costa Rica. Some of my business contacts in Europe only use adtech platforms to communicate. You can't just delete the app. You have to fully op
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by Taek 5y ago
Advertising works at a subconscious level. The more you see a product, the more you subconsciously learn to like and trust the product, especially if you are being exposed to that product in a trusted context (popular celebrity posing with
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by Taek 5y ago
I really dislike the suggestion "just have better self control". It's you versus an army of machine learning experts all tuning algorithm on personal data about you to learn your weaknesses and bait you into spending more tim
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by Taek 5y ago
They already have a problem with p-hacking
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by Taek 5y ago
The security properties of Proof of Work cryptocurrency are derived from the wastefulness. We want to be confident that everyone has the same cost when producing a block. If the problems being solved are useful, they are potentially more us
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by Taek 5y ago
Sure there is! The most obvious example to me would be a server-side database for storing user credentials. It's a very common problem, it's well understood by the experts in the industry, and also most everyone makes the wrong ch
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by Taek 5y ago
I think it depends on what you are building. For example, if you are building a database that houses user data and user credentials, this is is a very well understood thing that experienced professionals can set up quickly, efficiently, and
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by Taek 5y ago
Agreed, pretty much every physical operation (stores, logistics, etc) should have plans to continue operating when their IT is down. Losing access to dynamic pricing and loyalty discounts is better than closing up entirely.
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by Taek 5y ago
YouTube isn't trying to deny your first amendment right, it's incidentally enabling your first amendment right to be denied. Which I do think is a bad thing, and YouTube should not have automated systems that can be exploited to v
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by Taek 5y ago
You need violence because the US and China stepping up to stop pollution doesn't fix things if the Philippines refuses to take initiative. The Philippines alone contributes almost 1/3 of the plastics in the ocean despite having on
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by Taek 5y ago
Humans psychologically keep an internal karma counter, this has been established in scientific studies. People who performed small acts of kindness earlier in the day were less likely to take responsibility during bigger problems later in t
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by Taek 5y ago
> Wars are not exactly beneficial to the planet. And it would be a nice joke if your righteous war to save the planet from climate change ends up leading us into a nuclear winter. Fully agree. War is worth avoiding at all costs. > We
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by Taek 5y ago
I'm not celebrating people dying of thirst, but I also think that's the only thing that will get the world properly focused on the issue. We need to make big structural changes to the global economy to fight climate change, and th
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by Taek 5y ago
As an individual, there isn't really anything you can do. Going vegetarian doesn't help. Recycling doesn't help. Using your shower for 5 minutes doesn't help. As a society, we've chosen to manage resources via capit
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by Taek 5y ago
Just wanted to say thanks. I disagree with these arguments but they helped me to understand how the other side feels.
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by Taek 5y ago
I could be incorrect, but my understanding is that the DHT used to route through IPFS is not robust to attack. A bunch of nodes could join the DHT and start maliciously routing data in circles, and that would be a very low cost way to signi
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by Taek 5y ago
The reality is that we aren't very close to a world where everyone runs their own servers. Maybe we'll get there some day, but that feels at least a decade away. We built an alternative platform called Skynet, which allows anyone
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by Taek 5y ago
There's a comparable stack using Skynet and HNS. HNS is a lot cheaper than Ethereum because it's a blockchain dedicated to domains, you aren't competing with things like yield farming or crypto kitties for block space. If fee
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by Taek 5y ago
I think you've got that backwards. Profitability doesn't go up until the difficulty adjusts. Once the difficulty adjusts, it's cheaper to mine each Bitcoin and everyone who still has a rig running will make more money. The in
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by Taek 5y ago
People aren't stopping their mining because the price fell, they are stopping their mining because of regulatory pressure from China. Miners that are still running today just get to rake in the benefits of China pulling out of the game
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You Pay for Facebook with Your Pocketbook(blog.sia.tech)
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by Taek 5y ago
You can celebrate someone's accomplishments without condoning their sins. I applaud lots of little pieces of his life and reject/regret many others.
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by Taek 5y ago
At the end of the day, I need a phone that fulfills its function as a phone. 3 hours of screen-off battery life just isn't viable for my lifestyle. I'm here to support the ecosystem but it needs to start from a place of actually b
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by Taek 5y ago
Lightning network more or less failed to live up to the hype. Problems like routing complexity, liquidity, and a lack of on-chain space to open and close channels have delayed/limited its impact.
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by Taek 5y ago
Is art a Ponzi scheme?
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by Taek 5y ago
The beauty of crypto is that you can elect which ecosystem you participate in. If you don't like bitcoin because it's dominated by whales, go to eth. If not eth, try doge or Monero. Or start your own. It's pretty easy to move
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by Taek 5y ago
How would one go about making an inflationary currency? Eth already has infinite issuance
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You can't solve this problem without having a full history of code to inspect (unless you are decompiling), reproducibility is the first step and bootstrapability is the second step. Then we refine the toolchains and review processes t

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