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by Taek 6y ago
GitHub's primary value add to the world isn't that it's a web interface to git. It's also a social network, an issue tracker, a workflow management system, a code review tool, a wiki-builder, a frontend for your CI, and
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by Taek 6y ago
I've been back and forth with members of the open source community a few times on this, and it seems like a battle that isn't going to be won. Software that has a price tag attached to it is unlikely to be accepted as open source,
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by Taek 6y ago
quick reminder: the team behind IPFS raised over $200 million selling tokens.
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by Taek 6y ago
Ethereum (and blockchain tech in general) genuinely open new doors to development and make it possible to do things that were not possible before. Especially now that we're several years further along, the tooling is a lot better and t
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by Taek 6y ago
I think you could add moderation to a project like this much the same way you can add moderation to a centralized project. You don't need to be as heavy handed as "community voting", you could just have each client nominate a
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by Taek 6y ago
The challenge with IPFS and DAT is that you have no guarantees around the data reliability. The DHT style of p2p sharing pretty much only works for popular content. Incentivized storage networks can onboard any type of data and guarantee hi
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by Taek 6y ago
We've been building a platform called Skynet which makes this possible. It has a user-oriented data model: all of the application code is run client-side, and all of the data is stored under the user's control. That means that som
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by Taek 6y ago
They use the same mining hardware, but they are not the same chain.
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by Taek 6y ago
This comment is too snarky for my taste but the main thrust of the message is spot on. When I've taken the time to ask black friends and black professionals in my industry about their experience, it's very clear that they deal wit
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by Taek 6y ago
The response from Coinbase does not feel to me like one that would be presented by a company that is effectively seeking out and mitigating pockets of racism within the org. The comments section on HN do not leave me feeling like racism is
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by Taek 6y ago
Innocent until proven guilty is a standard used by law which places a very high burden on the accuser. Such a standard is in place because the consequences are both formal and very significant. Such a burden is also unreasonable in many in
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by Taek 6y ago
There's a more sinister yet subtle implication to this, which is that Amazon can de-platform people from their own homes. If the doorbell stops accidentally when Amazon goes down, it can also stop intentionally at Amazon's discret
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by Taek 6y ago
Nobody is getting convicted of a crime here.
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by Taek 6y ago
If you get accused of racism, what you should do is take the accusation seriously, assume that it is the result of genuine tension within the company, and then figure out places in your process where you were not being proactive enough abou
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by Taek 6y ago
Agreed. It's not an innate intelligence that makes us stand out. It's our capacity to share our intelligence and build upon solutions from friends, parents, and many generations of ancestors.
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by Taek 6y ago
Isn't this the classic pattern followed by almost all startups? Create a product that loses money and attracts users. Sustain it with VC money until you have a large number of users who are highly dependent on the product. Then switch
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SkyDB: A Mutable Database for the Decentralized Web(blog.sia.tech)
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by Taek 6y ago
It's both amazing and terrible. Amazing to see people standing up for their rights and voting in the face of adversity, these voters deserve praise and are role models for the country. Terrible because it means that they are in corrupt
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by Taek 6y ago
It matters because in the case where Monty does know to avoid the door, those games end up as wins for the person who selected to switch, as opposed to broken games. You are taking an empty result and replacing it with a strict win.
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by Taek 6y ago
For most drugs the economics aren't about the cost of producing the chemicals but all of the R&D behind the companies. Whether it's 10mg or 1000mg I don't think it's typically a material part of the cost.
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by Taek 6y ago
Hasn't the DRAM industry gotten in trouble with regulators multiple times for fixing prices?
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by Taek 6y ago
It's not that it makes normal psychosis feel milder, it's that after trips my mood is more stable and I simply don't have as much bipolar psychosis. I know other psychedelics (MDMA, Ketamine) can have this impact on depressio
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by Taek 6y ago
LSD induced psychosis is stronger and pretty much overrides any bipolar psychosis I've ever had. My bipolar visual hallucinations typically lasted seconds to minutes, typically only happened during deep anxiety, and could be shooken of
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by Taek 6y ago
Actually, it just got easier to beat. What happened was scientists found a new way to measure the effects of gravity that can substantially distinguish between different proposals to unify general relativity with quantum mechanics. The arti
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by Taek 6y ago
What matters is not how much people care about it but rather how much it shapes our lives every day, how much it shapes the geopolitical landscape, and how much of a negative influence it threatens to have over us all.
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by Taek 6y ago
A quick google search suggests we need to cut emissions by 80%. For population control to be a meaningful play, we're talking about cutting the entire world down under 2 billion people. And this is assuming people on average are respon
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by Taek 6y ago
I'm assuming you hold these views for environmental reasons? I don't think the quantity of human beings is a significant factor in the deterioration of our environment. We have plenty of stainable ways to provide for ten billion p
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by Taek 6y ago
Sia is a decentralization first protocol. We believe strongly that the biggest advantage is an immunity to de-platforming and a commitment to uncompromisingly open protocol. Crypto is the only means of payment I am aware of that does not ha
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by Taek 6y ago
Yes Skynet leverages the Sia network for storage and retrieval. We don't have swift bindings but other developers have been able to make iOS apps without much trouble - the API is pretty clean. Example: https://github.com&#x
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by Taek 6y ago
Aren't reproducible builds pretty well established as being important for security? How do you know that the developers are providing you with the binaries that they claim? Most people do not compile their own software, they used signe

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