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All these posts like "See what Brexit (unintentionally) did!?" This is exactly the point of nationalistic policies. Make foreign trade more expensive and you're effectively subsidizing your national industries. This reminds
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Beyond the question of who is responsible, or if this person is owed anything for the risks they took, my biggest gripe with these stories isn't Bird or scooters, or governments bureaucracy or litigiousness, but instead, simple the dol
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1.3“ LCD Display Rendering in Go(kubesail.com)
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Good. The per-device message encryption UI/UX is one of the main reasons matrix/element sucks to use. Is it valuable? I'm almost certain. Is it a huge blocker for the average user? Yes.
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It’s just a matter of tooling. Do you think AWS logs into the servers that back your service and care for them individually (as the article imagines caring for your own server)? Not even in the least - they treat them like cattle. If data c
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Not to advertise, but I'm building exactly that at https://pibox.io - also solving other problems people have identified in this thread like automatic valid certificates, DNS, remote access, etc :)
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We're not quite publicly launched yet, but I've been working on making self-hosting easier for several years now. People often ask "why would I self-host?" and it's hard to pin down one answer - instead the answer d
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It wouldn’t matter if there were no resources in space (which obviously is not true). Nothing has to be brought back ever. It does not have to be profitable. What it has to do is allow life (maybe not even human life) to survive if either h
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I love Werner Herzog - but he’s never been an optimist. As for the content of the complaint: habitable planets are too far away, Mars is very much not a nice place to live, and we must protect the earth instead of abandoning it: well - of c
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One of the most interesting bits of devops work I've done was when I was embedded with a data science team. Infrastructure for data science is just so different than traditional ops - but I feel like I was able to both help the team mo
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Congrats Tom! Can’t wait to have a use-case for this (soon!)
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This is extremely close to what we're building at https://pibox.io if you're interested - although after some polls we decided to drop PoE on our first model. Just improved the mDNS support last night!
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Am very glad to see this - was considering adding Coinbase's Commerce product due to quite a few requests to accept BTC payments for our hardware at https://kubesail.com - I suppose we have an extremely privacy focused user
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I’m building a product that tries to make this easy at https://pibox.io - but “secure” is a vague and tall goal post - although we cover things like service updates, firewalls, and abuse monitoring. Planning on a proper HN laun
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> You will scream at me (that is, if you condescend to do so) that no one is touching my free will, that all they are concerned with is that my will should of itself, of its own free will, coincide with my own normal interests, with the
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It’s like oncoming confirmation bias - like a car wreck you see coming but the car in front of you doesn’t - and you’re helpless to do anything but honk your horn “nooooooooooo!”
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I need the long German word for “however this plays out, it will be used as a spurious example either for or against some extreme position”. If it works out, great - that hardly means unions are a foolproof idea - and if it fails it’s hardl
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Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “most impressed” moments in the industry so far. I highly recommend it for absolut
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> After all, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive I mean - no? Google can’t track more than one timer at a time (and can’t subtract time from it either) and recognizes me maybe 80% of
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The internet is stupid because writing letters is perfectly good. The metaverse might be boring but it’s not nearly as boring as those who can’t use their imagination even a little. I know it’s bad form to reply to snark with snark but I ca
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Wow India is really headed north in a hurry.
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I don't follow the argument: the oligarchs aren't using crypto, so using crypto helps oligarchs? If the average person , wealthy or affiliated or not, has a way of avoiding the mandated use of a fiat currency, and that pressure c
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Not to start a debate, but my suggestion is to ignore anyone who phrases a sentence such that value can exist inside of objects. Nothing is a store of value, because value doesn't appear to exist - it's like color - it's an i
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I'm sure you can find plenty of crazy people doing crazy things. I try to look for the rational argument behind the straw-man. If someone is upset about "fake news", to me, that implies they believe that "real news"
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And then there would be a black market, immediately. Prohibition tends to be exceptionally violent. The point being: using a decentralized currency makes authoritarianism harder. This is not exactly a radical idea: foreign currencies have v
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Isn't that their main argument? They say "today's journalists are bad at journalism" not "journalism is bad". "Fake news" with a negative intonation must imply that it's bad to fake something
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It saddens me to think that a polite exchange in which all parties are incorrect, come to a better conclusion, and leave amicably is so rare as to be remembered across a span of time greater than my entire lifetime. Good conversations are s
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It’s also one of the rare careers that still feels heroic. Everyone knows we need good journalists - it might be the last thing everyone agrees on.
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I've long stopped believing the smartest people in the world accomplish much at all besides doing extremely well in systems others have designed. Certainly the vast amount of time I've spent thinking about monetary policy offers m
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On the flip side, some of the new ID games are nowhere _near_ as popular as the ones from Epic games, and WOW wound up dying by its own hand, to some extent. The more time I spend working on startups and less at BigCos, the more I value the

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