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901.
by Taek 7y ago
My house is open, any friend who wants to give beat saber (or half life, or space pirate trainer, etc.) a spin is welcome. No need to spend $1000 without getting a proper demo. I know not everyone has a friend with a high spec rig, but that
902.
by Taek 7y ago
Yeah but have you played beat saber? I'm dead serious though the experience you get in a good immersive VR rig is completely unrivaled. Well worth the hassle and overhead. This will get better as costs come down and developers continue
903.
by Taek 7y ago
> Someone owns the computers, and someone owns the blockchains/ their data. That's the beautiful part. That someone is the end user, who is running a full node. The reason that blockchains require every node to have all the d
904.
by Taek 7y ago
The miners don't have power even if they act as a cartel. They can't print themselves new money, they can't redefine who owns the existing money, they can't increase the block size or force people to run new code. In Bit
905.
by Taek 7y ago
> I don't see at all, how you could claim there's something fundamental to the technology that will lead to more consumer power... Does Bitcoin decentralize control? Or does it hand that control to the tiny handful of Bitcoin m
906.
by Taek 7y ago
Less than being worried about the 'why', I'm just stating the facts. These studies usually collect information via anonymous surveys, and generally there's reason to believe that these surveys are reliable. Saying "
907.
by Taek 7y ago
Recent studies have been consistent with the result that teenagers are having less sex today than they used to.
908.
by Taek 7y ago
Doesn't matter. If capital controls get put in place and bitcoin also loses 80% of its value, you still have 100x the liquidity that you would have without it.
909.
by Taek 7y ago
That's blitz. Bullet is a faster time control
910.
by Taek 7y ago
It's perfectly possible to not ask for a fee on your websites. Plenty of websites will continue to exist for free even though they could ask for money. Also, the internet is already something that users have to pay for. Users pay their
911.
by Taek 7y ago
And that's why you see advocation for systems like Bitcoin to ossify, and get to a state where the protocol can no longer be adjusted. I totally agree with you, if someone has the ability to make good changes, that same someone has the
912.
by Taek 7y ago
> A "perfectly designed" decentralized system may be superior, but I don't believe it's possible to perfectly design an incentive structure from the get-go. The world is incredibly complex, and once you have a bug or
913.
by Taek 7y ago
Free as in freedom, not free as in beer. I would argue that the current model is more friendly to attention grabbing content (clickbait, etc) because advertising has the limitation that all views are worth the same value. In a pay-as-you-go
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by Taek 7y ago
I really don't like the idea that a blockchain is just a chain of objects that commit to eachother by hashing. That is not what anyone in the industry is referring to when they say "blockchain". A blockchain is a trust minimi
915.
by Taek 7y ago
A well-run, transparent, centralized entity can easily become an opaque and corrupted entity over time. A well designed decentralized system will maintain its integrity indefinitely. In practice we've only really seen this play out wit
916.
by Taek 7y ago
The strongest use case right now in the blockchain space is Bitcoin as a sovereign money. It's an asset with substantial liquidity that has incredible protections against asset seizure and strong independence against capital controls.
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by Taek 7y ago
For your first question: technically yes, but it's not really the way it's meant to be done. If you want to pin something with storage, you can become a host on the Sia network and then make that content available through your hos
918.
by Taek 7y ago
Attaching a cryptocurrency to Sia allows us to draw a distinction between producers and consumers. In typical p2p networks, you are expected to be both in roughly equal proportions, which means your network gets polluted by a lot of low-qua
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by Taek 7y ago
Skynet is a new protocol that has been working on something like this. You can see some of the webapps built on Skynet here: https://skynethub.io/_B19P18DEI4Y_37wg6yXtfulEq2U8AcIO_lWM7s... Main project website: https:&#x2F
920.
by Taek 7y ago
The first thing you cut as a business looking to save as many employees as possible is your donations.
921.
by Taek 7y ago
A common trap in tech is to reach for the fanciest tool instead of the simplest. The best engineering often comes from mastery of the simple tools, and the most beautiful engineering is the one that makes you say 'that's so obviou
922.
by Taek 7y ago
Only possible if you don't do anything novel. If you are building a website that's got all the same patterns as the previous 5 websites you've built, then you can provide a solid estimate and deliver on time. If you're b
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by Taek 7y ago
Question for HN: I cannot imagine starting a company with a stranger. There are so many intense moments, points of extreme trust, and ways for things to go wrong, so much passion, and so much blending of self and company, that I wouldn&#x27
924.
by Taek 7y ago
Respectfully disagree with this one. We don't even have a bounty program, and we get at least 10 non-issues for every actual potentially exploitable report. I can definitely see someone reviewing this and accidentally putting it in the
925.
by Taek 7y ago
Make sure you account for the value of time saved. Time is precious and there's never enough, if I can find a way to add 40 more minutes to my day I'm going to value that immensely.
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by Taek 7y ago
I've been following the the death rate, because I think deaths are probably a more accurate statistic than cases - less likely that a covid19 death goes unreported. This of course is a significantly lagging indicator, but it has been l
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by Taek 7y ago
Doesn't seem like there are enough masks for this either though. The US is going to need literally billions of masks that are distributed to the population. Are we doing everything we can to ramp up production as fast as possible?
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by Taek 7y ago
I am sure that dropping comments like this in threads on popular news aggregates has crossed the minds of many PR firms. Even if this comment is genuine, culture within a company is temporary, and once a company has built up a trusted brand
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by Taek 7y ago
They are -20C until you drop a bunch of heat into them. Air works well because it's a fluid. And even as a fluid it's completely ineffective at cooling a cpu. You need to pair that fluid with a heatsink that creates massive surfac
930.
by Taek 7y ago
The moon would be very bad. No atmosphere = no heat dissipation. For thermal reasons alone, computing is a massive challenge in space.

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