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by deftnerd 11y ago
I'm a solo-founder, but I made the move to the mountains of Puerto Rico for similar reasons. Next year I'll move with my wife and kids to the beach. By moving, we're able to survive on passive income from a few web properties
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It's interesting that the very security minded disable javascript in their browser for security reasons, which makes most client-side crypto not possible.
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Well said! I know one thing I would like is Cloudflare doing something magical with Sub Resource Integrity. Maybe if the source HTML specifies a SRI string, check that the hash in the HTML matches the hash of the resource before allowing it
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by deftnerd 11y ago
This seems like a very inefficient infrastructure to accomplish what you want to do. By using Plaid to determine transactions, I assume you then do a once-a-month transaction that is the sum of all the round-ups? Or do you do a separate tra
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by deftnerd 11y ago
Plex at https://plex.tv is an amazing startup that has created an ecosystem of media players on multiple devices "Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox (Xbox 360 & Xbox One), Playstation (PS3 &amp
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by deftnerd 11y ago
I love what Taiga.io is doing. They're making an Agile/Scrum solution that's a pleasure to work with by focusing on UI first. They're even open-source.
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by deftnerd 11y ago
I hate to be rude, but this AskHN was clearly a request for people to mention what startups are doing new and exciting stuff. A dedicated server provider, unless they're doing something exceedingly unique, doesn't really fit that
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by deftnerd 11y ago
Metered goods have a long history of having to have the meters certified by state bodies. For instance, grocery store scales, gas pumps, power meter manufacturers, etc. If we're going to lose the fight with Comcast over metered bandwid
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by deftnerd 11y ago
There is a long history of Company Towns in the United States. At their peak in the first half of the 1900's, about 3% of the population lived in one. At the time, it was seen by the industrialists as a way to raise their workers into
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That must be heart-breaking and very frustrating. You've done everything you can do to be a good internet citizen and support all the proper technology, but you're still treated badly. If I am correct, gmail now defaults to a &quo
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by deftnerd 11y ago
I've been unimpressed with LiveCoding.tv's spammy tactics as well. The decided to enable email notification of video streams for users who have already signed up by using an opt-out system rather than opt-in system. I created an a
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by deftnerd 11y ago
I wonder how this new plant will affect the power costs to consumers and especially wholesale power costs. The Chattanooga area just turned up their municipal fiber network to 10 Gbps and a lot of tech companies are moving there. With inexp
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I also wonder if it's where the person who initiated the recording is, or if it's where the recording is taking place. If it is where the recording is taking place, a VoIP provider could do all the recording on servers in a state
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by deftnerd 11y ago
One potential source of a mega-tsunami in the future is Cumbre Vieja, a volcano in the Canary Islands that has an unstable side. [0] This "fact" is actually in dispute and is somewhat controversial. [0] https://en.wikip
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by deftnerd 11y ago
Check out LunaNode too. They're an OpenStack provider in Canada that let you not just spin up VM's, but also have your own virtual network, floating IP addresses, block storage, billing by the hour, and some other neat stuff. I&#x
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There are some ways that he could have improved the deactivation routine, but I thought the most clever thing was that he used a capacitance sensor to activate the magnet the moment the handle was touched. That had to greatly increase the b
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by deftnerd 11y ago
I'm building a microwork platform but so far the main focus has been on the worker side and not on the submission of jobs side. Are you set on just using MTurk as your backend for workers or would you be willing to work with other prov
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In my opinion, no internet is better than a limited internet. With no internet, people WANT the internet very badly. With no internet, ambitious entrepreneurs see a market willing to pay for their services. No internet births wireless ISP&#
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For a moment, I thought you meant that the first 10 minutes were free. I had all sorts of fun ideas brewing about minimal OS's and trying to take advantage of free resources. I looked into it and they do billing by the minute with a mi
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sigh That's what I get for making assumptions and not reading in depth enough. You're absolutely right, they're going to be leasing existing fiber.
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This is smart. By offering free WiFi in 400 train stations, they're undoubtly getting the Right of Way allowances to run fiber along the majority of the rail system This will allow them to spread a Google-owned backbone across the coun
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by deftnerd 11y ago
PornHub has a great blog at http://www.pornhub.com/insights where they put out all sorts of interesting statistics on viewership, preference of certain search terms, and demographics data. I'm not much of a porn connoi
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You can't pay people token sums to moderate or they can sue you and demand proper wages and benefits. The same thing happened to AOL's old chat rooms back in the 90's and early 2000's. http://priceonomics.com&
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And likely the type that requires blockading members off from interaction from the world. Good points though. The internet has allowed people to create echo chambers to get a global pool of potential devotees. It's still a different si
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I wonder if the internet has had a decrease in the power and occurrences of cults as a whole. I know the FBI has task forces that focus entirely on monitoring cult behavior. Any published statistics? I imagine that they might be wary of bra
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Because of the NSA'S ability to scoop up the most brilliant cryptographers, they're one of the few powerhouses that have the ability to put together a team effort to accomplish this. Unfortunately, they've shown in the past a
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by deftnerd 11y ago
Ouch. Sure they screwed up, but this has to be really rough for them. If any of you guys read this, send me a message. I'm not in a position to hire anyone, but I'm working out the details of a non-profit service that could use yo
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You can use https://srihash.org to hash links and update your HTML.
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WoSign stopped doing free SSL in the last day or two, FYI.
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I like it when things like this happen. When a new discovery mucks up what was assumed to be established knowledge, it causes a lot of scientists with a stake in either side to push themselves hard to do more research. Science and society i

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