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by avaer 9y ago
Right, wrong, damage, and safety are precisely the dressed-up fashions PG's essay talks about.
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by avaer 9y ago
I took it more as the frustration of someone who wanted to grow a garden when the circus rolled in to drill for oil.
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The solution is for the market to correct itself (if it is thus insane as claimed). If that happens it will be very very hard for the greedy to find buyers or sympathy.
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by avaer 9y ago
Am I the only one that wishes the pendulum of fashion would swing back to the time when a site expressed its character, rather than its money funnels?
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by avaer 9y ago
I'm less concerned about rogue hacking than I am about legitimized, persistent, permanent data mining that seems fine now but I'll regret later. The kind that props up most of the biggest internet companies and spy agencies.
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by avaer 9y ago
Putting text on a page isn't hard stuff. The hard stuff is teaching computer security to an organization that mistakes responsible disclosure for a hack attempt, and thinks a Twitter block will protect them. It's probably also har
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by avaer 9y ago
Unfortunately these tend to be woven into tales of incompetence and failure, not being too nice. That's the bias. When you open your house to a haggard stranger (as my in-laws did) and they turn out to be fugitive that robs them (as th
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by avaer 9y ago
The author rightfully acknowledges that "it is a decision that cost me some short term profits early on". But I also know people and companies that were so nice and generous that people and customers learned to bleed them to figur
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by avaer 9y ago
I have a theory that once you can define ICOs, they will cease to exist in their current form. If the layman buying ICOs for their speculative value understands the asset they're buying, they might not want to buy it anymore.
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Nit: it's not pawnch-kee if you're speaking American English, it's more like pown-chkee. But still not quite.
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No, because you're not the one who started it. This case is different.
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The measuring stick for journalists being right is whether their content brings eyeballs to ads. That journalists are paid to be accurate is just another aspect to the fiction this article talks about.
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It's not about consensus, it's about verifiability. When the president justifies policy because group X believes Y, I could theoretically fact-check what X actually says -- we unfortunately live in a post-truth world where that&#x
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There are two incompatible "kinds" of bitcoin now because people disagreed about how to scale the technology.
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It just hit me that if I want to get an accurate view of what people think of a contentious topic, I can't trust Google or Youtube as a gateway anymore. I simply don't know what machines or "experts" have decided to hide
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by avaer 9y ago
Right now ICO combines the legitimacy of seeming like an IPO with the security of code written by strangers on the internet, the virality of Twitter rants, the promises of a budget spent producing concept videos, and the value of snake oil.
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Hm, if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions? Isn't that just new web APIs with tweaked security parameters? This is great for security and all, but browser extensions were borne out of the idea that you wan
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by avaer 9y ago
I think it's about controlling the conversation. Ad blockers are trickling down to mainstream adoption, and this is an existential threat to Google. The best way to counter that is to redefine "ad blocker" to mean "Googl
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> Let’s be clear: the absolute last thing we wanted was for someone’s code to get synced to our servers without their knowledge. I don't buy it. The UX was dark-patterned to enable this very thing, and this reads like damage control
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Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins. That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence.
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If e.g. Shapeshift can walk away with my money when they feel like it, that's not decentralized. If the law can kill off Shapeshift for shady transactions and not following sufficient KYC protocol, that's not decentralized. I&#x27
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by avaer 9y ago
Hm, if that's indeed the case then this is free, feeless and decentralized only to the depth of its landing page.
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> How are there no fees and restrictions? _Someone_ is paying the TX fees. Who? It can't be a single party, especially the developers, without betraying the decentralization. > Pay with 50+ cryptocurrencies on OpenBazaar: Bitcoin
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by avaer 9y ago
I'd even be fine with this if it were applied equally to US politicians calling for executions and sermons threatening people with damnation. This isn't about actual extremism though; it's simply about getting off of YouTube
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99 out of 100 questions. Solidity is ostensibly designed to let people write smart contracts for Ethereum. More realistically, it is a marketing tool for enabling and onboarding people onto the Ethereum platform, which Ethereum benefits mon
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by avaer 9y ago
That ship sailed a while ago. Ethereum has already used its market position to de facto interfere with the transactions they declare immutable on the project home page. [1] [1] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17&
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by avaer 9y ago
Seems the implication is that if UAHF forks Coinbase (potentially) owns your UAHF coin. I wonder if and how the legal waters of this will be tested.
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According to Wikipedia it was started as, and at, a Swiss corporation, followed by raising a crowd investment. So it was a funded corporation before it was a cryptocurrency.
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I do everything with a full Debian VM which I SSH into from a Javascript SSH client running in Chrome. This is generally much more performant than doing things in the Windows 10 shell.
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This is kind of a slap in the face to anyone who's considered themselves a journalist, as well as anyone who bought a newspaper for the news. It also makes me wonder how the news industry ever got started if it never sold "news&qu

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