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by api 9y ago
That's still the blog article that gets the most hits. I wrote it in response to someone on HN claiming that "you can't do peer to peer because of NAT" when we were doing it. There's the standard ways -- hole punchi
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by api 9y ago
Couldn't Trump's Twitter antics allow a tremendous amount of profiteering through insider trading, and aren't Congress and the President basically immune from insider trading laws?
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by api 9y ago
Nazis support Trump. If he doesn't disown them then people conclude it's mutual. Trump is the Republican president, so that makes people wonder. Maybe it's a Democrat trap, but if so he is stepping right into it.
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by api 9y ago
Isn't that also what the Nazi alt-right people are doing: grabbing a radicalized ready made identity off the shelf because they don't know who they are? I see a ton of this today. Maybe it's the social media version of the co
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by api 9y ago
This is huge -- we haven't actually had that many open source based IPOs!
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by api 9y ago
That's standard issue advice. "No company ever failed because of a security breach."
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by api 9y ago
My rule of thumb for adoption UX is: every step roughly halves the number of people who will complete the process. So a 10-step install means that if a million people discover the app only about 900 will get it running. As complexity and ge
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Zero-configuration P2P port forwarding in Go using libzt(github.com)
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by api 9y ago
Of course nowadays it actually could be a teapot.
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by api 9y ago
Yes, sort of. When you are in a crisis you want specific things to be done right now. Trump promised that while Clinton offered vague wonky rhetoric that sounded like empty platitudes. She is far better qualified to actually do something bu
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by api 9y ago
No, she didn't. If your house is burning you don't want the fireman to talk about how they are going to work to improve building codes. You want them to put water in it right f'ing now. Her language is that of a building insp
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by api 9y ago
Economic pain leads to racism, xenophobia, and extreme political fanaticism anywhere it's felt. Take any nation and systematically de-industrialize and liquidate its middle class and interior the way the USA has done and you will relia
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by api 9y ago
I tried Sia and it worked. I was able to use it. The tech seems solid and the plan seems straightforward and logical. If there is a good niche for decentralized storage then it already exists and they have it. No wonder nobody has heard of
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by api 9y ago
> you get a share of a closed economy. Who wants that? There are use cases where this is needed/desirable, but for the most part this is a bug and not a feature. I don't want to convert my general purpose currency into Somethin
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by api 9y ago
There's a bunch of projects trying to solve the distributed mass storage problem. I am not convinced this problem exists. (1) Hard drives are dirt f'ing cheap. Buying more than one and putting them at different locations (home and
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by api 9y ago
I lived through the late 90s dot.com mania and you saw an MBA out of Harvard and a couple techies raise this kind of money on nothing more than a hair brained idea with .com after it. Russ from Silicon Valley with his "radio. on. inter
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by api 9y ago
I disagree. Over-engineering is epidemic in modern software. That being said: in this specific case you're right.
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by api 9y ago
How much of the money raised actually exists as liquid and accessible? Is this just a big MMO?
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by api 9y ago
Is there an honest non-scummy way to raise capital through this mechanism for something without an inherent scarcity built into the system and that doesn't carry nasty future litigation risks (or at least doesn't carry them more t
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by api 9y ago
Real estate markets are local. This analysis only works if you do it for every local metro region and then aggregate. What you'd find is "jobs or affordable housing, pick one." Metro areas with hot job markets have inflated m
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by api 9y ago
Of the factors I mentioned housing is the worst. I recently heard someone call real estate the "great Satan" of the economy.
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by api 9y ago
It would be significantly less of a problem if it weren't for massive inflation in real estate, tuition, and health care. There are other gravity-defying areas but these three are the real killers. Wages are stagnant but the cost of ho
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by api 9y ago
> men felt exactly the same way about their job - but more women had the freedom to take action and leave the job. Is there a simple explanation of the year award trophy I can nominate you for? Maybe our field just sucks a bit more than
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by api 9y ago
Would you want employees sending out chain letters implying other employees should not be there? I would fire them on the spot. No "SJW" conspiracy need be applied. That's just unprofessional and out of line. Employees are fr
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by api 9y ago
There is another: c) Human beings are poor judges of merit due to cognitive bias, poor intuition for statistics, prejudices based on emotional reactions to irrelevant past experiences, and perverse incentives. It is therefore justifiable to
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by api 9y ago
In many companies any form of out of line crosstalk can get you fired regardless of it's truth.
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by api 9y ago
Really? I've read several screeds arguing against women in the workforce in the past few years.
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by api 9y ago
Centralization decreases frequency of failure but increases its cost. A really large scale nasty incident with a major cloud provider like Amazon could be a national state of emergency.
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by api 9y ago
You are correct that the doc does not argue this. I'm arguing that the doc's author fails to understand the purpose of diversity measures. They are not to make people equal but to challenge culture. Only CRISPR/CAS9 or simila
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by api 9y ago
One of the demons hiding in this issue is the is/ought fallacy. People go from is to ought quite readily in these areas. Let's say blacks really are on average better at basketball. Does it then follow that whites and asians ough

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