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1. 12811.▲
   by api 11y ago

   "More energy than can possibly be stored." For it to be a real test you'd have to exceed the total energy output of any plausible chemical system. Calculate the total amount of energy of a stoichiometric mixture of, say, liqu
2. 12812.▲
   by api 11y ago

   People want free. Things aren't free. But people want free, so let's give them "free" and monetize them indirectly with surveillance, invasive advertising, etc. The entire Internet has gone down this road since it's
3. 12813.▲
   by api 11y ago

   They abandoned p2p, ostensibly to make mobile work better, and it's been downhill since then.
4. 12814.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Will any actual VC firms invest in an LLC? I've never heard of that but then again I've never worked in that world full time.
5. 12815.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I see a lot of billions, with a b, and then I look at what small teams do on bootstrapping or little seed rounds. The mind boggles.
6. 12816.▲
   by api 11y ago

   It's the cloud equivalent of the PC world in the 80s: Commodore (64 and Amiga), Apple, TRS-80, IBM, TI, and dozens of smaller players all competing for platform dominance.
7. 12817.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Depends on what those p2p nodes are doing. We do p2p on mobile but it's to allow the mobile device to act as a client to access an IoT device, not to force the mobile device to act as a CDN node. Spotify was doing the latter, which is
8. 12818.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Seems to be a pattern: wimpy mobile endpoint devices drive everything to the cloud. If so this is perhaps a dated phenomenon. Moore's Law is still a thing and today's generation of mobile devices are getting fatter and fatter.
9. 12819.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I'd be curious if anyone knows the details about why: complexity, customer complaints, reliability?
10. 12820.▲
    by api 11y ago

    It's the unicorn crash. It's mostly affecting later stages of hugely valued companies. So far the impact in the seed and A markets and more reasonably valued companies is minimal. Whether that changes depends on a bunch of factors
11. 12821.▲
    by api 11y ago

    > No way ONE state adversary could rig this. What about multiple state adversaries? It would be hard as hell but it could be done. I'd still opt for an astronomical source. If God wants to backdoor our crypto we're SOL, but o
12. 12822.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Also it's called "Crypto Experts," which in this particular field somehow pegs my contrarian indicator button. If they'd claimed to have designed a modern alternative to SSL using modern crypto primitives that's one
13. 12823.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I generally like the idea of democratizing mobile, but how are they going to avoid the crapware problem? Seems like allowing lower level device access is instantly going to be abused by adware, spyware, and malware "vendors" to ta
14. 12824.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I get the concern with NIST but I'm unsure about the concern with Curve25519. Is there any reason to suspect shenanigans there to be plausible? Also I'm not sure that future public lotteries are really that great. Technically
15. 12825.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I always always always write code to just use the numeric time in seconds or milliseconds since the epoch. Time is only converted into messy Gregorian cruft to display to the user. Anything else is begging for crazy bugs. In a SQL database
16. 12826.▲
    by api 11y ago

    > there are some people who, because of their unusual needs, have a bigger more powerful one. Unusual needs like being able to see a lot of text at once, type things longer than a paragraph, multitask, use more than one app in a work flo
17. 12827.▲
    by api 11y ago

    We are working on a pluggable SDK version of ZeroTier with a tiny embedded IP stack that will allow p2p using standard unmodified network code, libraries, and protocols. Full interoperability with servers and desktops and other members of v
18. 12828.▲
    by api 11y ago

    If you include propaganda and persuasion alongside armies then that is exactly my point.
19. 12829.▲
    by api 11y ago

    One of the elements of typical libertarian ideology that now strikes me as a fantasy is the idea that one can truly separate economy and state and that wealth and political power (a.k.a. force) are not the same thing. In abstract theory w
20. 12830.▲
    by api 11y ago

    The majority never see IPs at all, in which case this is a non-issue. This is an issue for network people and developers. All the alternatives are either unreliable and slow (bonjour/mDNS) or require manual setup prior to use. Given th
21. 12831.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Sure it does: : == two keystrokes using two separate fingers . == one keystroke using one finger .. == ~1.25 (ish) keystrokes, since your finger has to move to the dot once and then tap twice and only one finger is involved :: == 3 keystrok
22. 12832.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Someone on Reddit suggested two dots.
23. 12833.▲
    by api 11y ago

    mDNS is slow and unreliable and on large networks it doesn't scale. I personally don't find it very useful since half the time it barely works even on wired LANs let alone big WiFi or distributed networks. It's also prone to
24. 12834.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Not solved on LANs, ad-hoc local networks, virtual networks, or when DNS is down or broken. This is not really an end-user issue but it is a serious usability issue for IT admins and developers. It's very very common to schlep around r
25. 12835.▲
    by api 11y ago

    That would require Apple to give up total control of the software ecosystem, which they're not willing to do. iOS is their kingdom. This is another factor in play here. Apple could make devices "yours" and therefore un-hackab
26. 12836.▲
    by api 11y ago

    My brother in law lived there for years and claims that the general sense is that if the leadership can't maintain at least 5-10% GDP growth forever they will lose favor. People there are very unsatisfied with the government but they
27. 12837.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I think a case should be made for a right to strong encryption based on the second amendment. If anything, encryption is far more relevant today to personal defense than gun ownership and does far more to protect your individual rights agai
28. 12838.▲
    Pi-Top: Raspberry Pi Laptop Shell(pi-top.com)

    27 points by api 11y ago|17 comments
29. 12839.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I think this was exactly their strategy and it failed since these industries are stubborn and moribund to an extent that's hard for us to imagine. I've had a little exposure to health insurance and the medical bureaucracy and I&#x
30. 12840.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Because once it is shown how it's done they will push to mandate the capability and force inferior security.