douglaswlance

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by douglaswlance 4y ago
The point of work is to contribute to society. Sustaining your own life is a side-effect, though it is an important one, as it allows you to contribute more to society. Overworking can negatively impact how much you can contribute, so in th
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
The future of digital interaction will be three dimensional and skeumorphic.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
>It's being driven by predatory marketing tactics Most of the web is done the same way. All web1 and web2 company valuations were nuts. It was a ponzi that was regulated by the SEC. Whenever a new technology like this hits the marke
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
The quality of news is so poor that paying for it is aaaaaa waste of money. Most sites rarely cite sources. They're still operating like we don't have access to the same information. You can often get a better understanding of a n
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Only you (or anyone who has access to your private key) can access your data.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Data portability is a huge value prop: Everywhere you sign-in, you already have all of your data. Is it bad to pay to click, if you earn more from the ads on the page? Along with micro-payments, you also micro-earn.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
The internet didn't replace centralized services. It was a new platform that extended the capabilities. Web3 is the same thing. It offers new platforms for extending capabilities using blockchain tech. The platform is decentralized. Ce
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Hit the 3 dot menu button on a video, then click either "not interested" or don't suggest channel. It only takes a little effort every visit to tune your recommendations.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
A huge factor here that no one has pointed out yet: spam bots heavily target people with `.eth` in their handle. It could be the case that many people are removing `.eth` for that reason alone.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
If you want to store user data with consensus, in a tamper-proof way that can be universally accessed you need to use blockchains. Or invent a new technology.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Because blockchain protocols allow us to generate consensus at scale. They use cryptography to do so. That's why we call them crypto-currencies.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
The author and everyone commenting is making a categorical error here: A wallet is not your user account. A wallet holds many private keys. Each private key can be used as a user account. You can have an unlimited number of private keys. Th
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
>...it’s clear that Web3 is just a new spin on the same blockchain tech that we’ve been discussing for the last decade. The important difference being that the EVM allows us to add logic to transactions. >Web3 enthusiasts want to add
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
You almost never need to reach for advanced typing unless you're writing a generic library.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
It depends who the people are. Anyone can make an NFT of Nyan cat. That doesn't give it value. If the original creator of Nyan cat creates an NFT of it, and only one NFT, suddenly it has a ton of value.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
>No, it’s because the valuable object is physically scarce, and exists as a material historical artifact independent of any ledger. NFTs have never and will never have these attributes. Collectible cards are scarce by design. Manufacture
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
A Michael Jordan rookie card is worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on grade. If I print a Michael Jordan rookie card onto cardstock, it will be worth basically nothing. The reason that something is valuable to collecto
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Monetary value is just value quantified as a number.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Everything has value, whether you quantify it or not.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Latency is incredibly important in VR. If everything is streaming from a remote server, even if it's a straight fiber connection, it'll still be too much latency.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
As animals ventured out into the grasslands, visual acuity was selected for because the viewing distances expanded. As visual acuity improved, camouflage was selected for very strongly to allow animals to hide from the increasingly visually
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
It doesn't seem to have GitHub option?
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
I am a big GitJournal user. There's a small feature that I'd really like to see. It'd be great if I could set a designated "Inbox" file that would accept the Share Sheet output. Basically, I'll be on some websi
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
How do you add to it while out of the house?
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Could it work with a [[Roam Style]] linked markdown repository?
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
You could do a group call where everyone else is on mute.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
All subscriptions are reviewed by Apple.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
> If you can't pay the prevailing wage, then you don't belong in business. They may be able to pay an increased wage when the rest of the economy catches. So it may be optimal for the economy as a whole to support businesses te
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
What do we do for the businesses that cannot support a sudden increase in labor costs?
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
It could be better to add a long load indicator that says "Delivering your latest articles" or something with a nice animation while you fetch the latest few articles, then repopulating the viewport with the articles. Once users l

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