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1. 931.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   No, Keybase uses these social network proofs to verify the ownership of the public key so you can encrypt messages to it, like what a "web of trust" would do in traditional public key directories. Since they need public proofs, em
2. 932.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   I have another suggestion: keep a public database of linked accounts: someone@gmail.com == someone@twitter == someone@keybase. Let people append to their set of linked accounts only if they prove to control at least one of the accounts in t
3. 933.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   Nice, but where do you keep your private key? Why storing and syncing a private key or multiple private keys is better than storing and syncing a complex password or multiple complex passwords?
4. 934.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   You'll have a blockchain, but the outstanding majority of blocks will be orphans and thus lost and invalid. Lots of promises will be broken. You'll only know a transaction was confirmed after many months -- and before you get a co
5. 935.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   Ok, let me jump in with https://fiatjaf.alhur.es/pouch-replicate-webrtc/ , you can replicate a totally in-client database between browsers. The example doesn't use a signaling server, you must copy and paste the IC
6. 936.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   Amazing idea, it seems they're implementing Pieter Hintjens' https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/edgenet But why a blockchain? How can you even have a blockchain if everything is asynchronous and decentralized
7. 937.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   More activity means more people posting memes, fake rumors and "to the moon" kind of stuff. Do not underestimate human stupidity.
8. 938.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   Thank you.
9. 939.▲
   by fiatjaf 9y ago

   I ask a question and get a downvote.
10. 940.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I don't understand why that would have impacted more $1 donors than others. Someone please explain!
11. 941.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    Fish is great both as shell and as a scripting language. I've written both my Trello Exporter CLI tool[0] and the first version of my React/Browserify static site generator[1] on it. [0]: https://github.com/website
12. 942.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    What is this?
13. 943.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    Doing what?
14. 944.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I hope not.
15. 945.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I've seen "Learn Anything" links submitted here many times and every time I open them and conclude I don't like this approach -- it seems like a worse Google. But I dislike even more the fact that now there is a "wh
16. 946.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    Yes, you have to pin to keep it, but you download it and begin serving it automatically every time you load something. You can continue serving that for a while after -- specially if you're not downloading many other things after.
17. 947.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    The canonical way of getting content on IPFS isn't through some HTTP gateway, but by running a node yourself. In that case there's no way for an ISP to block anything.
18. 948.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    By default IPFS replicates content. That's it's main feature.
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    Show HN: Module Linker 2.0, serverless version, multiple improvements everywhere(fiatjaf.alhur.es)

    2 points by fiatjaf 9y ago|0 comments
20. 950.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    Relying on others is fine, the problem is when someone relies on you. Please see my answer to the other comment.
21. 951.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I just made an analogy, didn't say it was the same thing as the cloud. My point was that in a P2P architecture you must be a server, everyone else must be a server. And being a server is costly. There must be incentives for someone to
22. 952.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    "use a P2P protocol instead". Actually, just like "the cloud" is just someone else's computer, "P2P" is just someone else's server.
23. 953.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    It isn't supposed to do that. It isn't supposed to replace the entire internet nor even the entire web. This "primer do the decentralized web" title is just bullshit.
24. 954.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    So your entire point amounts to naming?
25. 955.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I don't see that anywhere. A rebase is just a fork.
26. 956.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I thought this would be something that would run in my own machine.
27. 957.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I'm happier now.
28. 958.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    Pretty honest, no whitepaper. I like this. But at the same time, it's stupid to have a coin just so people will use it in gambles. The entire purpose of ETH was to be that coin, the coin used in smart contract transactions. Gambling is
29. 959.▲
    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    I agree that Redux is a horrible pain. A week ago I started searching for a simple yet powerful solution for the state problem in React. After trying 3 libraries (Baobab, Cerebral and react-cursor) and discarding without trying a bunch more
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    by fiatjaf 9y ago

    All the ideas are good to generate money, but bad for mankind and civilization. There's already too much vendor lock-in and ausence of communication between platforms. We should aim for a single tool that would serve for all kinds of