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11161.
by api 9y ago
I can't help but keep wondering if "life originated on Earth" might not be the last geocentrism. It's only speculation at this point but it's one I've harbored for many years. Part of this is because of how com
11162.
by api 9y ago
Yes, and we want to do everything we can to keep the wired world from being as shitty as the wireless world.
11163.
by api 9y ago
20 years ago it was a different world. The Internet was new. ISPs were new and there were more of them, with many being local and regional businesses. Technology for deep packet inspection and micro-prioritization of IP flows was non-existe
11164.
by api 9y ago
> It's so they can prevent a commercially viable piracy business. I think it's exactly this. They know they can't stop DIY hackers from pirating, but they can stop the next Napster.
11165.
by api 9y ago
Most widely mocked, most successful, first open source IPO in a long time.
11166.
by api 9y ago
So broadband speeds are now frozen for normal Internet traffic. Only paid traffic will see any upgrades from here on out.
11167.
by api 9y ago
To me the lynchpin is the monumental catastrophe represented by Iraq War II and the entire decades-long Middle East quagmire in general. It's been nothing short of national suicide, especially when one considers what else might have be
11168.
by api 9y ago
It was a delusional ideology that presumed that democratic systems can be imposed on another country by military force. This wouldn't work even if social democracy were the best possible system. To understand why just invert the circ
11169.
by api 9y ago
They are moving toward 1 billion USD in funny illiquid non-money. Try actually moving all that out of ETH and get back to me. They will however manage to extract something... probably millions. Then you will never hear of EOS again.
11170.
by api 9y ago
Not even Elon Musk on meth could write this: https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/Technical... "The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical
11171.
by api 9y ago
Open source, true L2 emulation, more platforms, faster, less bloated, rules engine, ...
11172.
by api 9y ago
Has there ever been such a thing? Were the newspaper barons of the past neutral?
11173.
by api 9y ago
Absolutely. I'm sure they are realizing that Trump's social media powered victory means that the entire center of gravity has moved and that next election all parties and candidates will mostly campaign online. Traditional media w
11174.
by api 9y ago
Rust glued to React Native or the latter actually ported to Rust sounds like Nirvana.
11175.
by api 9y ago
Yes, but it was mostly Bush II who institutionalized that doctrine. Obama continued to some extent the neoconservative program with awful consequences. My main criticism of him is that he ran as a radical against those policies and then gov
11176.
by api 9y ago
Choosing against is how I've voted in every presidential election. I have never really felt good about a candidate, only that they were less bad than the other. E.g. I voted Clinton even though I can't stand a lot of her policies
11177.
by api 9y ago
I've come to the conclusion that this often also applies to the founder / VC relationship. The best angels and VCs are relatively hands off, providing counsel when asked, hook ups and intros, and other resources but otherwise lett
11178.
by api 9y ago
The whole Saddam story and Iraq war II pretty much guarantees that all nations will seek nuclear armament and will refuse to truly comply with any deal. Yet another reason Bush II was the worst president of the last 100 years.
11179.
by api 9y ago
Telecom is like health care. What we have now combines all the worst things about a private system with all the worst things about a state run system.
11180.
by api 9y ago
... or arrived a while ago? There could be many acceleration and deceleration stages.
11181.
by api 9y ago
Not look like crap?
11182.
by api 9y ago
Watch some rocket separations. Usually they end up tumbling.
11183.
by api 9y ago
Probably. Strap a big overpowered upper stage behind a little lightweight payload and you can fire something pretty fast.
11184.
by api 9y ago
Well hey... It's possible. Not likely but possible. It could be a dormant long term hibernation ship en route somewhere. Computing it's trajectory would be a way to look at this. Very long term deep hibernation would be one very p
11185.
by api 9y ago
Something on this page just asked for permission to record audio and video via my browser. Wow.
11186.
by api 9y ago
That is what we found. Targeting didn't matter. YMMV of course but we did not find Facebook ads effective at anything but reaching click farms.
11187.
by api 9y ago
There's a lot of really weird vicarious worship of the wealthy around here. It's ironic that it's called Hacker News since traditionally hackers came from more of a "fight the man" zeitgeist. At times it borders on
11188.
by api 9y ago
... for now. We just tried to use it to advertise and had exactly this experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag Pulled the plug. Nothing but worthless traffic, no engagement.
11189.
by api 9y ago
It's got nothing on "Bixby," Samsung's me-too entrant into the world of largely useless voice assistants.
11190.
by api 9y ago
The only one I've seen that really works at all in my mind is a kind of "it's got to get worse before it gets better" argument. Basically the idea is that if we let ISPs do what they want they will pave their own road to

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