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   by api 8y ago

   I still visit HN because its comments are above average. Some of the topical subreddits are decent too. Of course above average is not saying much.
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   by api 8y ago

   The comments on that site are pretty cringey. Of course most comment sections are like an intellectual version of one of those gore sites that shows you a procession of photos of mangled bodies or grotesque carcinomas surgically removed fro
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   by api 8y ago

   Never pan out? Doesn't seem that way to me. Everything hasn't panned out but what has been achieved is quite astounding and far beyond what I or many others expected years ago. It's also quite nutty to single out Elon for cro
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   by api 8y ago

   More precisely the biggest problem is "Sybil attacks." There is no way to tell if someone who is part of a crowdsourcing campaign is honest.
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   by api 8y ago

   Inefficient and poorly run things die in down cycles but so do new things and innovative things. Efforts to innovate must usually burn money for a long time and are more vulnerable to downturns since in downturns people become more conserva
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   by api 8y ago

   Ignoring some of the right wing cultural points this is like 2/3 an economic liberal piece. I hear more economic liberalism from the right than from the "progressive" left. That is a problem.
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   by api 8y ago

   This could be working up to that.
8. 10568.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Quibbled: conventional transactions are cheaper, but not "orders of magnitude." Also Bitcoin is one of the slower block chain coins.
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   by api 8y ago

   The 51% scenario: just install more hash power. That would be cheaper and would not risk anyone's life. Protecting cryptocurrency: there are cryptographic ways to achieve very high security that are free or very inexpensive. Physical e
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    by api 8y ago

    I think the other reply about TX counts vs. people-hours of power convinced me that indeed cryptocurrency is much less efficient than conventional currency even if you put large error bars on that analysis. I do think it's a solvable p
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    by api 8y ago

    How much energy is spent securing conventional financial systems? You have to include everything: banks, minting, enforcement, physical security, even military and intelligence action.
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    by api 8y ago

    I hear you, but the alternative is to write your app four times. That's a non-starter.
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    by api 8y ago

    You're missing the point. If a web application is well written it does "just work" from most users' perspective. Whether or not the code behind it is a mess is not relevant to the user. They don't see it. They just
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    by api 8y ago

    I tried Xamarin forms. After an hour I could not get a project started. It was painful in the extreme. Visual Studio crashed once during the install. I tried to create a project and got several non-descript errors that looked like vomit fro
15. 10575.▲
    by api 8y ago

    JavaScript is also taking over because it's a way to deliver cross-platform GUIs painlessly. The alternatives are much slower to develop with, not necessarily that much less bloated, and have questionable future support. Not only that
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    by api 8y ago

    I really dislike how absurd conspiracy theories are used to discredit any discussion of networks of power and how those networks operate. There is no vast monolithic conspiracy but there are certainly many smaller ones (lobbyists, front gro
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    by api 8y ago

    I found a series A to be very ambiguous. Some people thought of it as a big late-stage seed and others had more series B type expectations. IMHO the series thing is outdated. Just call it R0, R1, R2, R# where # is round number and be done w
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    by api 8y ago

    The Presidency is a labor supply problem. No sane person would want that job.
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    by api 8y ago

    I don't think it's just nostalgia and survivorship bias. The median quality of content on the Internet has become objectively much worse, mostly due to a race to the bottom and a race to make the most "viral" thing to ca
20. 10580.▲
    by api 8y ago

    It's 22 years later. The presentation is infinitely better. The content is infinitely worse... or at least the content that greets the average net user. You really have to dig for good quality content today.
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    by api 8y ago

    These are valid points in isolation, but they ignore the meta problem which is that policies backed by communities all over California have created an unprecedented housing affordability crisis. Without this crisis this just wouldn't b
22. 10582.▲
    by api 8y ago

    We use OVH and Hetzner dedicated (2X providers, 5X data centers for redundancy). Our application is CPU bound and it's approximately 10X cheaper than AWS/MS/Google and 3-5X cheaper than Vultr and Digital Ocean. If you need a
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    by api 8y ago

    The trouble is that I always see the inverse too: people deflecting any criticism of American foreign policy by citing other countries with worse human rights records.
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    by api 8y ago

    His frustration is justified. He's calling out the massive hypocrisy of claiming to be liberal and about "social justice" while doing everything possible to exclude people from housing even to the point of forbidding a church
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    by api 8y ago

    Whataboutism is a powerful disease of modern discourse. Pretty soon we will start letting killers go because John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer killed more people. I think it arises from a misguided attempt at calling out hypocrisy, but the
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    by api 8y ago

    I ended up starting my own so meh. https://zerotier.com/
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    by api 8y ago

    ISPs are a natural monopoly unless you want this in your neighborhood: https://news.lovepattayathailand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017... I also must point out that fighting a patchwork of local regulations is more e
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    by api 8y ago

    It's a devil's bargain. In the long term it means that innovation is restricted, massive taxes are levied, and peoples' livelihoods are captive to the whims of the Apple App Store. The times I've dealt with the App Store
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    by api 8y ago

    This sort of thing is why I will not buy an iOS device. They're nice pieces of hardware but I refuse to support their model of complete lock-down. The double standard is kind of funny. There is no way Microsoft or even Google could eve
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    by api 8y ago

    Part of the problem in my mind is that most high speed Internet in the USA is provided by companies that have a vested interest in sabotaging the Internet and thus have a conflict of interest. They'd love to see something like the old