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by askmike 8y ago
Completely unrelated from anything. People don't come on HN to make or save money.
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by askmike 8y ago
The whole inequality discussion we've been a few years now all started with this book from Thomas Piketty (a statistical analysis). Maybe start with reading that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty
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by askmike 8y ago
I disagree. When they say "you can only use this feature by opting in our programs that allow you to track us". A lot of people would think that most Google tracking doesn't happen when you don't opt in. This example sho
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You thought it was a Volkswagen project named "volkswagen"?
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This has less to do with cloud vs own hardware and more about how the company is structured. I've worked in companies before with an ops department: a few people responsible for managing all the cloud servers. All the devs (like me at
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> But I speculate, a good collection of today's "chrome leavers" here already use another browser - and are just adding fuel to the fire. Haha you got me! I did leave Chrome (for privacy reason) for Firefox. Not during thi
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by askmike 8y ago
I also believe most of these topics are just talk. But the point I was making is that whenever someone talks about "I'm leaving Mac for whatever reason" it blows up and everyone and their mom weighs in to give their opinion.
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No direct data. But that's the impression I have gotten over the years. I've seen a ton of posts at the frontpage that talk about moving away from Apple for whatever reason, which are always heated debates. I've never seen an
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That's not the behavior we are arguing about here though.
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Can't speak for ux-app but most people on HN are on macs, also a lot of people on linux.
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Honestly I'm also quite skeptical, I share your view. Though I believe the deciding factors aren't very technical. For public projects it all depends on what people want (in reaction to government control, surveillance, financial
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Not going into the topic, just the discussion itself. I'm totally fine, hope you are too. I don't feel personally attacked at all. But on the internet a thick skin is required. I hope you don't feel attacked either. > Anyw
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by askmike 8y ago
> You talked about bitcoin. That's entirely different to a "private blockchain". I never said they were the same, however the similarity is that they are both blockchain systems. And you cannot achieve the same with git fo
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> To be clear, what are you trying to convince me of? The target keeps moving. Are you trying to convince me that a blockchain is needed instead of Git for a currency like Bitcoin? In that case I agree. In fact I conjecture that blockcha
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by askmike 8y ago
Well in the first case the problem is the lack of centralized repo: there are a million and one forks of linux, and they are all linux however they have all different code (Linus maintains the one that most people call linux, but there all
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> You started your thread saying "I've worked on private blockchain solutions for financial firms" Yes: I stated "I work in this field, this is what I see around me at companies that are doing private blockchains. I h
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In my understanding you can definitely point to some tx and say that has something to do with the other party. But if there is a "contract" between two companies, like company A should give this in these circumstances to company B
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> Digital signatures are recognized by the law in most countries. Digital contracts are not. If you believe they are, start posting some examples like you keep asking me to do. > Show me a production ready product and I can show you h
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> Exercise for the blockchain advocates: explain as simply as possible why a “private blockchain” is better than Git. Because with git you either go: - The linux way with one upstream and everyone branching of the "main" repo:
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> So it would be fair to say to get rid of the paper work by making it digital and using blockchain to reduce the fraud risk? I'm no expert on fraud, but I think most of it comes when data enters a system. With a blockchain (or any
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> I am not inventing anything new here, just exposing the claim vs. the reality. I have worked on on proof of concept experiments that did this. Because it's easier to showcase "data goes in here, comes out there". But tha
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> Another is the number of security point of failures you have. If you use your blockchain for supply chain but the input to the supply chain depends on devices, since all these devices can be hacked or impersonated you cannot trust them
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by askmike 8y ago
Very true, in my experience talking with lawyers is that blockchains are still very far away from having any type of legal meaning: if there is a problem down the line you can't refer to the blockchain in a lawsuit (IANAL).
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by askmike 8y ago
Hard to say for me, because the obstacles and problems in these projects are always legal and business. I'm just an engineer ;) > use case where I personally see the benefit This is just infrastructure (as it should be), right now t
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Definitely not. You can build a small network (eg. pegged sidechain) within different Swiss datacenters owned by different companies. It's not trivial, but at least possible. Because if you are bank you cannot ignore the law because yo
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> Otherwise the public/private key could also be used for the encryption of the contract. No bank inside the EU is allowed to send one bitcoin to another bank for the reason that the miner (a service provider) is not KYCed. There ar
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by askmike 8y ago
I'm only involved with proof of concepts, as such I usually work with pre made blockchain solutions with smart contracts slapped on top. Consensus is arguably the hardest part of a blockchain (if you need distributed data storage just
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For compliance and privacy reasons. For example I deal with a lot of Swiss banks and Swiss law is very strict about what kind of data is allowed to leave Switzerland (not very much).
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by askmike 8y ago
I've worked on private blockchain solutions for financial firms (in supply chain and commodity trade finance). The reason companies are doing these projects is because in a lot of scenarios no one trusts each other. Even if they do, th
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I'm open to new ideas but I can't imagine this being a very efficient way to input words and characters into a computer. I have worked with older game consoles and remote controls that tried to do this stuff and I'm not sure

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