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by exdsq 4y ago
This is as hardcore pointless fanboy-ism as the speculative JPEG trading nutters. How can you be so emotional about tech? Maybe there’s a middle ground?
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by exdsq 4y ago
We don’t know each other - how would we trade or bet or do something that requires trusting each other? For example what would be your current solution to have a $10 bet on the outcome of a sports game tomorrow, between me and you?
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by exdsq 4y ago
I quite like oracle based betting. Lots of sports/gaming/news apps have public APIs to see the results of something - aggregate them, plug them into a smart contract, and bet a total stranger on the outcome of an event with intern
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by exdsq 4y ago
Does it need to be statistically faithful or can it just fuzz the data type? Maybe that’s better for testing anyway?
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by exdsq 4y ago
Depends on who’s making money, how much money, etc… could be that if you don’t require having Yahoo build this but a small open source protocol with people tipping to cover electrical costs it’s far cheaper :)
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by exdsq 4y ago
If you think every project out there is some scam, and the entire space is speculation, then you’re in a similar polar opposite bubble to those trading jpegs. There’s loads of cool things going on in the space that allow you to build produc
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by exdsq 4y ago
Exactly this! It’s amazing how simple it is to add a crypto payment system into an app or write a smart contract.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Maybe not this iteration, but could something similar in general take off several iterations from now? Maybe Edit: Someone listed two examples inc Geocities but deleted their comment as examples of Web2 options. These work (although now def
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by exdsq 4y ago
Had a quick discussion about a use case for Web3 based self-hosted emails yesterday that didn’t get downvoted into oblivion by HN for once :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180379&p=2#31180968
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by exdsq 4y ago
You’d imagine Postgres or whatever would have a built in function to populate a DB based on types as a sort of fuzzing tool tbh I worked on a gov app years ago that required anonymized databases and I remember thinking that then - why isn’t
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by exdsq 4y ago
GPT-NeoX 20B is worse than davinci at writing code - NeoX seems to only really work with C/C++, and even then it's not the best. Just tried to ask it some leetcode questions and honestly I'm not sure what it was doing, but re
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by exdsq 4y ago
> The only question is how do you stop spammers walking away with their stake and creating another domain? This is why I think it makes sense for an email-by-email basis if you also enforce a deposit and withdrawal delay. It's the s
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by exdsq 4y ago
I was looking for this recently but as a Web3 service (so emailing other Ethereum addresses) and found one that let you host an email account but you had to stake X amount of money to use it to avoid spam (spam gets too expensive /awkw
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by exdsq 4y ago
Sure I get this in principle but if you keep rebooting something can you instigate errors that are very unlikely to normally occur, by increasing the probability? Feels like you're going to trip an edge case maybe even lower in the h
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by exdsq 4y ago
I know this can be a good idea because it helps you catch stuff, but man how could you convince patients that you're a reliable company if you did lose something by deliberately turning stuff off and on again. I wonder if you could a
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by exdsq 4y ago
Yeah that's fair! This is one of those times when coding is similar to writing and mostly personal aesthetics.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I'm not saying it's woke or not woke, I doubt anyone could agree on one definition, but I think it's clear people talking about Netflix "being woke" are saying this because of the original content they create.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I organised one of these as a junior dev at my first job! Glad to see I was ahead of the curve. cough .
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by exdsq 4y ago
> Netflix just streams videos They make a lot of content too
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by exdsq 4y ago
I’m holding out for this - Nix is the only tech I veto in startups I work at nowadays because I’ve never seen it go well beyond small dev scripts, and time spent on Nix is time taken from the product/project.
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by exdsq 4y ago
The issue is if you need A, B, and C to do a task and your function fails if it doesn’t retrieve it, won’t it waste time cleaning ingredients for a dish you can’t make? I don’t think it’s less readable than carrot = fetch carrot onion = fet
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by exdsq 4y ago
Do you have any example issues of more complex problems you’ve worked on, to show it in more detail? I like the premise of the idea - especially in remote-first teams it’s a great way to share information, just wondering what it ends up loo
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by exdsq 4y ago
I’m the same but thankfully my house has a rule of whoever doesn’t cook cleans. So tech debt isn’t too bad!
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by exdsq 4y ago
I worked on a blockchain that used formal methods as part of the development workflow. The development process was essentially writing a paper that formalised an algorithm or a protocol, an implementation in Agda that would generate Haskell
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by exdsq 4y ago
It wasn’t overlooked - someone noticed the issue and reached out to the team just before launch but it was declared ‘FUD’. Ultimately it’s a junior team - this should have been caught. While not perfect, smart contracts are starting to matu
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by exdsq 4y ago
I can't wait for another series of fruitful discussions HN has on front-page crypto articles! It's great how people discuss the article itself and not pre-conceived prejudices for/against this topic in general.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I am still totally lost to how what I said could constitute a Ponzi scheme
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by exdsq 4y ago
He can just borrow the money. He’s the worlds richest man - he can borrow < 10% of his net worth against his Tesla stocks if he wanted to.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Haha, having moved to Palo Alto last year I think you might be 100% right there.
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by exdsq 4y ago
> Why would someone writing a fork of Gods Unchained (or any Crypto/NFT game) port ownership of cards? If they did, why would they not then flood the market with their own copies of those cards, or power-creep the original cards int

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