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by dcposch 5y ago
Eh this is a niche issue. I bet less than 1% of people answering NPS have ever heard of "NPS". The only way this would be a meaningful effect is for a dev tools or similar product where your audience is the HN audience.
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by dcposch 5y ago
NPS has the advantage of being concrete and simple, producing evenly sampled feedback. This is hard to get any other way. A proper NPS asks only one question and requires only a single click to answer -- eg "Scale of 1-10 how likely ar
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by dcposch 5y ago
Ah the aesthetics are absolutely perfect. software minimalism x vaporwave And it's not just empty nostalgia. A text interface should be lightning fast. Hit a button, next screen repaint reacts. The ultimate retort to all the 5mb websit
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by dcposch 5y ago
One of the more toxic ideas floating around our culture is this idea of "net worth" as a scoreboard. This woman is 82 years old and a leader of a nominally left-wing party. So given the choice between: 1. taking a principled stand
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by dcposch 5y ago
We don't mean that there won't be off-chain computation. Just that everything that is owned and interopable should be on-chain. Rendering can be in the client. If someone wants to render differently, they can run their own for
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by dcposch 5y ago
Framing it as machine learning undersells the problem. It's a hybrid model trading in an adversarial, real-dollar environment. The leverage comes from having a small human team trade big volume, much more than they could possibly trade
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by dcposch 5y ago
The hilarity will become apparent once an NFT project's servers go down. I predict that within the next 5 years we'll see certain art NFTs that once sold for six figures turn into a 404. (This could happen en masse if one of the b
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by dcposch 5y ago
> 100% On-chain > Your traits and all the pixel art reside in the contracts themselves, nowhere else. ... > You can use the entirety of Wolf Game by directly interacting with the blockchain (like through Etherscan) Very cool that t
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by dcposch 5y ago
If they were holding USD during the crash, that is great for them. Means they may end up with more than they started with. It would be a pretty funny outcome: "hey sorry we couldn't buy the Constitution, thanks for sending us 10 e
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by dcposch 5y ago
Lot of red flags for Spinlaunch. > The test projectile "goes as fast as the orbital system needs, which is many thousands of miles an hour," Yaney told CNBC This is an evasive statement. The test projectile is nowhere near as f
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by dcposch 5y ago
The Economist publishes a fun and simple metric called the Big Mac Index. They present it as a way of looking at forex rates. If 1 USD buys you 1 swiss franc, but a Big Mac costs $5 here and 7 CHF there, then maybe the franc is overvalued.
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by dcposch 5y ago
This is a good argument against running a k8s cluster when u don't need one, but not a good argument against this new serverless Cockroach product. Serverless is not just about auto scaling up from 1 to n, it's about autoscaling d
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by dcposch 5y ago
Orwell has this great line, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." So the promise of the early internet was to allow anyone to publish without permission. This was a parti
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Edward Snowden: “Why is the CIA so obsessed with silencing Julian Assange?”(twitter.com)
48 points by dcposch 5y ago|1 comments
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by dcposch 5y ago
This is incredible. How big of a VPS would you need to preprocess the whole dataset now? If I use peermaps and zoom to a particular city, how does it find peers that have that particular part of the db?
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by dcposch 5y ago
A lot of discussion here about productivity and flow of information. For me, the biggest downside of remote was something less measurable: it's much harder to build rapport with people you can't hang out with. Even more so with pe
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by dcposch 5y ago
Are you actually an LA taxi driver, like it says in your bio? What a story.
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by dcposch 5y ago
> They still don’t get to hand over your emails This gets at the key tech question: what's the most they could do? (either in response to a legal order or for any other reason) ProtonMails answer here is "not much"; they c
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by dcposch 5y ago
Freedom of speech is in a fragile place in our culture if we start seeing certain words or opinions (even bad ones!) as "unsafe". This is not a criticism, just an observation of where we're at and how dramatically attitudes h
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by dcposch 5y ago
Also, people lack intuition for just how much cars hog space. Here's 60 people in cars, in a bus, on bikes: https://lh3.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/S7tbclwxiPI/AAAAAAAACmw/u... To quote ru paul... "you&#
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by dcposch 5y ago
Nice, makes sense!
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by dcposch 5y ago
The standard solution is to exempt small organizations. It's why, for example, you can start a company with minimal accounting. When you hire your first employee, your requirements increase. Then above 50 employees the IRS considers yo
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by dcposch 5y ago
Cool to see people thinking this big! One challenge I foresee is unintentional coupling. Say you have two functions: func serialize(MyRecord) ... func debugToString(MyRecord) ... Now if you ever make the mistake of having giving those the s
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by dcposch 5y ago
In the case of a supply chain attack, you don't even need ingress or egress. Say the posgres binary or image is set to encrypt the data on a certain date. Then it asks you to pay X ZEC to a shielded address to get your decryption key.
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by dcposch 5y ago
Has a full linux image--something you can actually boot--existed as a reproducible build before today?
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by dcposch 5y ago
This really deserves more love. Who remembers Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"? The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software. This places a ton of trust in the publisher. Even for open-source, well-vetted
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by dcposch 5y ago
The first post also misses something fundamental about modern software: servers programming is becoming more browser-like. > Node is not ECMAScript in a server-side ECMAScript engine, it's JavaScript in a browser JavaScript engine.
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by dcposch 6y ago
Do esims fix this problem? Increasingly the norm, no physical sim card at all.
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by dcposch 6y ago
Wait how does this work. If you can't withdraw then in what sense do you even own the coins? Does this mean that if you are, say, a New York based Robinhood customer, and you buy Bitcoin, then the only thing you can do with them is sel
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by dcposch 6y ago
> Some successful existing examples of client ecosystems built around open standards: [...] email clients Yeah, the way they just casually slid that in there... That example really cuts both ways. Yes, email is fundamentally better than

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