ericflo

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by ericflo 8y ago
An example of this problem is casting shows to Chromecast. Android often kills your app in the background while you're watching, and now your Chromecast controls don't work and you have to reconnect.
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by ericflo 8y ago
I banged my head against this issue quite a bit last year. Specifically the thing that tripped me up, is how many fields can either have single value or be a list of values, and figuring out what is meant semantically when it's a list
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by ericflo 8y ago
It seems we agree in principle on tragedies of commons - that in edge cases where normal rules of economics produce lethal externalities, we should intervene. My original comment was simply pointing out that it is not inconsistent to blame
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by ericflo 8y ago
You quoted me, but missed the important word - these decisions. It's a tragedy of the commons type thing, and we can carve out specific solutions to that, as we do for these types of situations. Where the European healthcare bureaucr
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by ericflo 8y ago
> Viewing this after-the-fact leads one astray, into thinking there is some problem with the system > The answer is probably that this drug doesn't make economic sense You don't see it? The problem with the system is that we
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by ericflo 8y ago
Native applications can be rejected from app stores, have their revenue siphoned off 30% at a time, and have a high barrier of entry. It's completely reasonable for an alternative ecosystem to evolve, with a different set of tradeoffs.
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by ericflo 8y ago
You didn't set politics aside at all in this post. Your opinions are politically charged, or at least have significant political implications —though I suspect you know that.
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by ericflo 8y ago
No, they made a minor change to an existing Pixar file format. Pixar who they already had a very cozy relationship with. The whole industry was standardizing onto glTF and Apple couldn't let that stand.
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by ericflo 8y ago
Also supported in products already by Facebook, Google, and even Microsoft. Really disappointed that Apple went their own way on this.
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by ericflo 8y ago
Very glad someone posted this.
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by ericflo 8y ago
I wonder if you will be able to watch this if you don't use Apple hardware.
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by ericflo 9y ago
One or their problems right now is their foundation owns too much of their own currency, which is a risk to their entire ecosystem. Without looking into the details, donating the money seems like a really great way to build good will while
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by ericflo 9y ago
We've accepted trusted computing as a society, many phones have a secure element now, and I think this can migrate down to that level. That's the real trade-off: we reclaim ownership of our data with knowledge of where it goes and
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by ericflo 9y ago
Cryptocurrency projects.
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by ericflo 9y ago
To my knowledge, you're not able to reveal just your first name, or just a proof that you're a FB verified user. And once you grant access, it's forever. We may be at a global maximum for user permissions, but I doubt it. The
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by ericflo 9y ago
I should have used Monero as an example instead of Bitcoin, but I thought less people would have heard of it. Privacy can also be achieved with these primitives.
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by ericflo 9y ago
That's because privacy was not a goal of that particular system. Pseudo-anonymity was the goal. (That's unrelated to my point about security and openness though.)
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by ericflo 9y ago
This is buying into the idea that security and openness are at odds. Bitcoin is extremely secure, and also open to all. The way forward is people owning all their data encrypted, and revealing zero knowledge proofs about that data to servic
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by ericflo 9y ago
Soundboxing ( https://twitter.com/jobjstauffer/status/904229973430591489?s... )
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by ericflo 9y ago
I'm honestly really glad to hear this
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by ericflo 9y ago
That's pretty cool - so you can just render DRMed video to a texture and record that texture to get around the new DRM stuff?
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by ericflo 9y ago
I think they will never do this for DRM and security reasons :(
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by ericflo 9y ago
Someone lost 70lbs playing my VR game. I think fitness is a huge use case for this stuff.
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by ericflo 9y ago
Google has funded Tiltbrush and Blocks and released it for every VR platform. We need to grow the industry. But this isn't their biggest problem - that would be their extremely walled-off app store. Oculus must still see their platform
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by ericflo 9y ago
Honestly, this comment depresses me so much. We've all got Stockholm Syndrome.
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by ericflo 9y ago
That's one of the reasons Google Cloud has fairly small quotas on everything now, and you have to request permission for more. They'd almost certainly stop approving you way before you got to $23m of GPUs, assuming they even have
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by ericflo 9y ago
We're finding out the cost, now, of the extreme centralization of these platforms, especially caused by their device-locked app stores. Doubling down on the idea because people "seem fine with" it is a bad idea, especially no
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by ericflo 9y ago
They are too busy trying to build a walled garden. They hired a bunch of console people and they see everything from that perspective, so the main goal is to sign exclusives to short term gaming hits as a way of getting more users locked in
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by ericflo 9y ago
To be honest, the more that I've looked into this, the more it seems like a good idea. It was not presented as a new and fairly dramatically different way of distributing content on the web, it was presented as a way to get around show
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by ericflo 9y ago
I don't understand. So now the URL bar won't always show where the page was actually loaded from? It could show example.com but really be loaded from Google'S AMP servers? If I'm reading this right, I find it very sad.

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