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by ftlio 5y ago
I went through this as well and kept throwing out "Sharper Image" as a name, one for the homage to the Simpsons' "Max Power", and two because it'd be hard not to confront that name as "not my identity&quot
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by ftlio 5y ago
The later zones (of Vanilla Wow) were pretty boring and ugly, assumedly because they ran out of time to develop them further. They definitely put a lot of iteration into the earlier zones and it paid off. Looking back, there just wasn&#x27
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by ftlio 5y ago
What's stopping me from declaring that people who have normal clothes drying habits are unethical compared to my proposed alternative, devoid of any attempt to understand its potential externalities? I'm not a butthole.
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by ftlio 5y ago
It's not a safe assumption that other forms of money exist that are less problematic than Bitcoin. People can and can't buy things using certain kinds of money largely because of the results of war or the threat of war. I'm
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by ftlio 5y ago
We use almost as much energy to dry our clothes. You have to argue that Bitcoin isn't useful as well to argue that it's wasteful. Most people do this by saying there are alternatives to Bitcoin, but none of them have the same se
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by ftlio 5y ago
I guess it doesn't fit in besides I've seen it be used for microservices where microservices don't apply
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by ftlio 5y ago
I've seen millions of dollars spent on infrastructure to support what Heroku could do for a few thousand a month. Not to mention the egregious dev heartache caused by having to work against it. Anyone who argued it was a waste of tim
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by ftlio 5y ago
> People you like would have signed profiles that tell you where they publish so that you can subscribe. You can follow their interest graph but use your own algorithm to filter and rank content. Solving custody and permissions issues in
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by ftlio 5y ago
Every time I leave a job, there's suddenly the money I was asking for available. If someone was asking for a raise and you couldn't give it to them, and then they turn in their notice, and then there's onus to retain them at
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by ftlio 5y ago
> The actually hard parts aren't about moving money around Yes, they are, if you're trying to be censorship resistant and scale transaction throughput. Do you have any examples, or was your original comment about showing us th
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by ftlio 5y ago
Bitcoin. "Crypto enthusiasts" and the uninitiated will argue that "Bitcoin doesn't scale to Visa levels", but it does through the Lightning Network. Most critiques assume that you don't need the graph of liqui
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by ftlio 5y ago
Good luck getting any change into Bitcoin that isn't good for every participant of the network. The last time people tried this, users, not even those users with the most Bitcoin at stake, were able to produce enough chaos and generat
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by ftlio 5y ago
I can write code that trades bitcoins without having to ask anyone for permission. Without getting into what Bitcoin will change about banking, I'd say that's pretty different from regular banking.
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by ftlio 5y ago
Back then it was so clearly orchestrated propaganda, but it took a lot of newcomers. I'm not looking forward to this cycle's "blocksize" debate. It seems that rolling new coins is the better vector overall for such sch
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by ftlio 5y ago
What was controversial about segwit outside of a large commercial interest (Bitmain) losing the ability to leverage a patented algorithm that effectively increased their ASIC productivity? I always thought that was what drove most of the d
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by ftlio 5y ago
This is likely the target for the product. Still, at a relatively small number of seats, maybe 200? an IT service administrating Chrome through the Google Apps service you're likely already paying for becomes more economical.
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by ftlio 6y ago
Bitcoin is P2P software. Every model that doesn't start there is wrong. Certainly most hype pieces start somewhere else. All critiques do. It's easy to ignore them.
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by ftlio 6y ago
Thank you for a measured response that doesn't categorize everyone on the "wrong side" of history here as inept, or miscategorizes Proof of Work. What also seems to be thrown out with the bathwater in this discussion is that
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by ftlio 6y ago
Of the hundred+ billion humans to ever live, practically none of them were planned. Children will come, and their ability to thrive is a commons. Moralizing the decisions people make that result in kids is my goto example of how poorly a
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by ftlio 6y ago
Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) still have about half of all meters to go in the US. Real time pricing for the customer requires cutting through a few intermediaries designed to keep the grid and utility bills stabl
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by ftlio 7y ago
I don't want to know how complicated someone has made their life if K8s can't simplify it.
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by ftlio 7y ago
> representations of social relations What Nick Szabo would call reciprocity, or the delay thereof. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
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by ftlio 8y ago
It's trying to solve the problem of having to involve a 3rd party in on-line transactions. Chargebacks are expensive to deal with. Jurisdictions are expensive to deal with. Standing up a multinational e-commerce site requires a lot
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by ftlio 8y ago
Is there some other technology out there creating an immutable supply token better than Bitcoin that I don't know about?
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by ftlio 8y ago
It was fun to watch Congress pretend like there's something to legislate here, and to watch Zuckerberg pretend like whatever legislation Facebook helps write might be a burden. The openness to the idea of AI modulating discourse so tha
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by ftlio 8y ago
Since when are businesses not users of the internet?
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by ftlio 9y ago
You're probably referring to a strong 3rd party intermediary as the aggregate of our financial system when you refer to its regulatory power here, but that it reads like the bank itself has regulatory power is the critique of money pro
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by ftlio 9y ago
Facebook owns Whats App. It's one of the first thing they acquired with IPO money.
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by ftlio 9y ago
> For instance, I would pay for a high-quality service like Mint (I don’t use it) that kept my data private, but there is none. Have you looked at ynab.com? I find their overall philosophy on budgeting to be more effective, the app is h
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by ftlio 9y ago
If Google is paying what Yahoo was, it's $300 million a year for the default search option on Firefox. Google pays Apple billions to stay the default on the iPhone as well.

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