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by _448 4y ago
> On email, if using a custom domain... The problem starts here. Not many people who are not tech savvy even know what a custom domain is. Let alone having an email with a custom domain. > You can't get banned from email Ask peop
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> A monad is said to be a monoid in the category of endofunctors I was expecting this answer :)
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> All of which can be achieved in a more efficient manner without blockchain. Agreed, but you never know when people can get on a hype train and use it even when there is no need. > if they wanted the appearance of decentralization.
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> "...the business plan of some of these companies was to become so useful to the decision-making class (business executives, government officials, and rich people) that they’d ultimately get some sort of government support." T
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Ask HN: ELI5 What Is a Monad?
8 points by _448 4y ago|12 comments
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Tax on consumption rather than income. Just keep one simple tax, "consumption tax". This has lot of benefits like reduction of waste, equal access to resources, reduction in poverty etc.
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Finance, Healthcare and Land Registry are the domains I can think of. Blockchain is useful when history of the record is important and there is a possibility of fraud/tampering. So having multiple entities involved in record keeping th
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by _448 4y ago
It is pushed by the US, both for political and economic reasons. But it is up to the target country to decide on how to preserve it's own culture. It is a cultural thing. I will give you two examples. Both related to the most visible o
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by _448 4y ago
The only way is to travel to places that the western "developed" media projects as "underdeveloped". You will be surprised how developed and full of variety other places are that the west has projected as underdeveloped.
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I don't know about production quality but the innovation and substance of the stories are very good. I once saw an old UK TV series aired again few years back. The story was about a robbery. And each episode repeated the same story but
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Few years back I saw a documentary on BBC UK on how after world war two the UK government used it's propaganda might to project "UK values" to outsiders. But seeing now what is happening in the UK, I think the "Americani
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by _448 4y ago
Depends on your interest. It is an operating system, so has lot of different parts. It is a microkernel with other parts as servers e.g for graphics there is window server, for filesystem there is file server etc. Start from the server for
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by _448 4y ago
The term you are looking for is TME i.e Technical Marketing Engineer.
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Read the post carefully again till the end.
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Symbian was not in a dictating position as Google or Apple are. Symbian was a complex company structure with major handset manufacturers having their separate agendas. People at Symbian had to walk a very tight rope catering to the demands
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What is your programming language of choice? Do you want server-side rendered app or will your app require client-side processing? Do you anticipate that the app will, at some point in the future, need to be scaled to multiple servers? Once
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If that is critical to your employer then it will be a difficult thing to pull off. Otherwise you could do what the founder of Roku did. Roku's founder made Netflix as his investor when Netflix decided to scrap the internal project he
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Sometime ago I worked for a start-up and the manager of the team was the one I remember the most. Instead of dictating, countering bossing etc, this person use to listen with patience and then ask questions slowly nudging team members in th
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by _448 4y ago
Recently I stumbled upon BedrockDB[0] from Expensify. It is based on SQLite and has very interesting idea on HA and distributed DB. [0] https://bedrockdb.com
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Sometime back I read "How to Make a Million Before Lunch" by Rachel Bridge. It helps to get out of the "unicorn echo chamber".
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In addition to upload/drop image, you could also provide an option to enter an URL of online image. That will make it easy for users to try the project very quickly. Then provide an ephemeral preview URL to see the output.
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> In your situation was the debt ever going to last 30-40 years? 20 years was the time-frame.
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When bitcoin was being evangelised in its early days, a person who was vehemently promoting the digital currency was once asked during his presentation this very question. His reply? He said, he himself prints all the keys on a paper and k
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Within a few years of buying my apartment. I was actually in a dilemma due to conflicting advice. My dad was of the view that one should not be in debt for long. And my colleagues were of the view that instead of clearing the debt, that fun
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by _448 4y ago
I don't know whether it was a news piece or a documentary, but it was on the life of Spotify founder. In that piece it was mentioned that Spotify did use their own already available music collection to populate the service with content
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Share your idea here and provide your contact information, and technical people here will respond.
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Ask HN: Boring technologies and long-term reliability?
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UrWeb: https://github.com/urweb/urweb
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Day of Eight Billion(un.org)
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> you want to abstract over it. What does that mean? Any example you could point to?

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