cy_overlord

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by cy_overlord 4y ago
Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.
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CAI Achieves Milestone: White Paper Sets the Standard for Content Attribution(blog.adobe.com)
2 points by cy_overlord 4y ago|1 comments
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
No computer programs are perfect, there will be bugs and exploits. The question then comes to whether we want to deal with unpredictable human "bug" or consistent computer bug. For the later, we can engineer our way to a minimum r
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
An opportunity to do things differently. The Internet today have flaws and we had exhausted all the possible way to build a better one on existing technology. Blockchain present us with a new way to coordinate online activities and transact
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
Exactly, I don't see blockchain as a solution to cure world hunger or help us "decentralised" everything but I won't dismissed it as a possible route to a new future. I have high hopes for it to be a better future than i
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
"Who is hosting the blockchain?" Miners/Stakers who is incentivize to validate the network and maintain the collective consensus. All your points are valid and universally known but the more important here is whether or not t
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
In an ideal world, things will be build to facilitate the trust, we don't have to trust any programmer at all. The trust in put on the code itself which not one but all of us agreed upon. Today, we don't have the tools to allow pe
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
No, that's why many people is working on it now. If you compare old smart contract with new ones, you will see that things are slowly getting fixed. For e.g., you could literally send NFTs to any address (including a smart contract add
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
"you can ask the bank to give you the money back" "you can take them to court" Which like the article argues, is not something that can be solved by any ledger, distributed or not. Even if banks reverses records, they do
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
"I suspect that legacy industry and regulators have smothered two generations of technological improvement, largely (I suspect) by building a (mostly) closed and permissioned financial system." It's technically possible to re
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
The argument made was that it's not about the technology itself but the transaction rules. If money are stolen from banks in a specific way (withdrawn into prepaid cards), banks will not and cannot reverse these transactions. Banks do
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
Stay away from social media for a while helps too.
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
Not everyone needs a platform to be honest. Most people lives their lives without posting anything online, just jumping from platform to platform searching for something to consume. And the argument that people would worried if they lost ac
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
Has anyone optimized for the feelings of web developers?
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the story from the other side, like how effective are these promotional notifications.
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
GitHub testing social media feature
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by cy_overlord 4y ago
The whole web3 hype is that it promises a utopia version of the Internet hence no matter where you choose to attack it, it almost always seems vague. But remember this, Internet itself is someone's utopia in very beginning but it morph
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by cy_overlord 5y ago
Remember this: < https://media.wired.com/photos/593230395c4fbd732b5511e3/mast... > History is repeating itself, old thinking + new technology is never going to create innovation, it's just going to end li