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by barnabee 5y ago
I don’t call a GPS tracker installed in a car without the owner’s knowledge or permission, and where it’s still unknown if it is now or ever has been or could later be activated (again perhaps without the owner’s knowledge) to send the car’
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by barnabee 5y ago
There’s https://bisq.network/
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by barnabee 5y ago
There can be no justification for this.
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by barnabee 5y ago
You no longer need a test to get on a plane to the UK, from most countries
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by barnabee 5y ago
Miners still receive it from transaction fees, so no. Although the economics of keeping the network secure in the face of no new bitcoin being created and many txns happening in side chains or rollups (or not happening at all) are untested.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Cryptocurrency, along with mixnets, end to end encryption, the internet itself, and a scattering of other technologies together make it possible to create a (or more likely several) virtual electronic realms outside the control of existing
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by barnabee 5y ago
I don't know… maybe it's just not ugly?
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by barnabee 5y ago
I think it's ok that people don't know. Doing better at discovery is obviously better but if there is a manual/help function that explains all the features... good enough. Some people want to take the effort to become profici
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by barnabee 5y ago
I don’t expect free content, I expect that if your business can’t survive without ads it should disappear from the face of the earth. Going without is better than ad funded. The goal of me running ad blockers is not just to make my life nic
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by barnabee 5y ago
Make the service less useful in the free trial period — for instance a really low cap on API requests per hour/day or limit the user to cresting a very small number of records/items when they aren’t paying.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Nope. In the UK and EU (and probably other places!) you can’t send someone email marketing unless they explicitly opt in (i.e. no pre-ticked boxes either) [1]. Also, it is presicely spam because I don’t want it, whether you have a right o
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by barnabee 5y ago
DearPyGui is built with C++ ImGui and includes a node editor [1]. It’s actively maintained and I’ve found it a joy to work with. [1] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui#node-editor
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by barnabee 5y ago
Does anyone know who I can donate to to fund a counter-campaign?
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by barnabee 5y ago
No, I think property (or better, land value) taxes are probably the most justifiable of all taxes. You are occupying land, which is scarce. Noone else can use it, but except for some accident of history or geography you have no more right
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by barnabee 5y ago
This seems to be an incredibly simplistic view to me. I can’t even identify which of these two supposed groups I would fit into, let alone map it onto the rest of the people I’ve met who are somehow interested, involved, or invested in bitc
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by barnabee 5y ago
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme because IF it successfully achieves a certain level of adoption or usage it WILL have some intrinsic value. The current value can be seen as a view of the average expected future value. A risky bet/investm
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by barnabee 5y ago
> Because technical minutiae are completely irrelevant if they don't eventually convert into useful features for products with at least some level of mass-market appeal. Why? You might care about building businesses, mass-market app
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by barnabee 5y ago
Certainly bitcoin is designed that way, and it’s one of a few reasons why although BTC has a good chance of succeeding as “digital gold”, it has almost no chance of being a general purpose currency. Other chains and tokens have they problem
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by barnabee 5y ago
Much of the 2007/8 crisis was caused by derivatives and other margined (leveraged) financial contracts between banks and other institutions meaning there were huge liabilities that were not well understood, or even understandable (no
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by barnabee 5y ago
I totally agree. I would love to have applications that are more tools than products and weave together these APIs and middlewares, both in querying and visualising, combining, enriching, analysing, filtering etc. data and also taking the o
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by barnabee 5y ago
Thanks! This looks really cool
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by barnabee 5y ago
Someone deleted an interesting comment about adversarial interoperability [0] I’d love to see and give money to a project to create and maintain easy to use and stable “adversarial interoperability” APIs for as many services and products as
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by barnabee 5y ago
I’d rather we all ceased the collective regressive delusion that is copyright. There are other ways to make sure artists and inventors can eat than by using the threat of violence to make the unscarce scarce.
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by barnabee 5y ago
I have never found a solution for this. At my desk, with multiple extra screens and a keyboard and mouse for searching and rapid navigation, a PDF is sometimes a decent enough alternative but for non-computer based hobbies as well as readin
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by barnabee 5y ago
You also don’t “need” a second home for diversified income. Prioritising your finances over a satisfying and interesting life sounds dull, and like a great way to make yourself mentally unwell if you do it for too long. Not everyone’s prefe
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by barnabee 5y ago
Addressed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29565981 Vaccination is much quicker than 15 minutes... if there isn't space in the room for the next person to sit quietly, you can't jab them.
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by barnabee 5y ago
If the additional room has N seats you can vaccinate at most N people per 15 minutes. Many vaccination venues are small and the size of these rooms could easily be the limiting factor compared to the throughput potentially achievable by a c
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by barnabee 5y ago
Bitcoin is the tip of the iceberg and I didn't mention it intentionally. That is an interesting take, not one I tend to agree with, but also unrelated to the point I was making about the technology more generally.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Sounds more like you don't want to do that. I am comfortable with the amount of risk in this experiment and would love to see more like it.
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by barnabee 5y ago
One of the major factors that has made it difficult for cryptocurrencies etc. to get past toys, speculation, and outright scams (as many on HN are so quick to point out) has been the barriers erected by institutions and governments to serio

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