harwoodleon

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by harwoodleon 9y ago
It is a feature that needs improving, but it's not one that is missing :) Totally agree though - it's such a pain to handle it. Although - I would argue that spam management is probably one such missing feature. A lot of work is d
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Ask HN: What are the biggest missing features on the internet?
3 points by harwoodleon 9y ago|3 comments
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
How do non-nerds become nerds? "View source" can be the lid of the pandora's box for lots of young people who become inspired to be developers. Alos the web is not just for nerds! HTML is a language that lots of everyday peop
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github. In the way the internet has evolved we really should look hard it t
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Akamai charges $50/TB. (Decentralized) Sia charges $0.50(reddit.com)
12 points by harwoodleon 9y ago|0 comments
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
This is nothing that cannot be achieved by a write locked DB, with verification via inputs from smart contracts. You are basically using the security of these massive P2P networks to shore up a consultancy model.
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
There is an important omission here: battery technology. I'm not talking about tesla power walls - although they would go some way to smoothing the troughs for solar. I'm talking about the 7.2 megawatt-hour sodium-sulfur battery s
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
This is valid. Better systems of audit are already emerging to tackle this particular problem.
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
>There is no real financial incentive for a bad actor to find a software bug that is capable of crashing an airliner. Not heard of plane hijacking? ETH engineers are totally incentivised to write the most perfect code possible. With a wo
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
It's true that abstractions require trust. Have you flown anywhere lately? Inspected the plane before you took off? It's true for the risk you take you must be assured that engineers are making things safe. Lots of planes crashed
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
This is a very interesting retort. No you don't have to. You just have to trust that the community has provided you with a secure, usable tool. It is unreasonable to expect you to understand the engineering that goes into this kind of
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
Camus has been a guiding light for me through my youth and I still draw from him today. The human absurdity is very real in the modern condition. The challenges we face are so much more profound these days. With Nuclear armament, AI and cli
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
This is where cryptocurrency comes into it's own. I am so heartened to see that blockchain fintech is being used to help vulnerable people. I predict that with initiatives like this and things like http://disberse.com we wi
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
He was a thief, in the spirit that the money invested in the DAO was never intended to go directly to one individual (i.e. him). It was an error in the contract, as outed by numerous individuals. Code as law is right, but laws can (and shou
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$1bn for a Solar Gigawatt Alarms the Horsemen of the Apocalypse(desmogblog.com)
1 points by harwoodleon 9y ago|0 comments
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Brave is already doing this http://brave.com
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
This is where it will fail (if indeed it is true). Privacy is not a massive concern for people, but it is a concern. It's enough of a concern for people to mistrust the brand serving the adverts - google. Considering how much google re
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Click bait ads that are made to mimic UX / UI are as close to malware as you can get and often result in malware installs. Good on you for protecting your dad.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Because they gave to be seen to do something. Google have never really cared how dirty or malicious it's ad inventory is.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Google have totally missed the point here. Ad blocking is a reaction to advertising, not good ads or bad ads. People install ad blockers, not ad filters. Advertising is dead in its current state. The first banner ad had a success rate of 95
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
See Brave Browser ( http://brave.com )
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
I did read that at the time, and it is interesting. But as James Lovelock says - one of the first people to alert us about rising co2 - smoke or soot is the only countermeasure we have now, but it is a very short term fix and the other gase
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
No. I didn't. I didn't say stop flying instead of stopping eating meat. Do both. Go for it. I'd say stopping eating meat will be a lot harder for people than stopping flying.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
All the numbers we have heard about causes, haven't altered the overall increase in the PPM co2 number. I don't trust that we won't discover more about this situation. My hunch is flying is one of the biggest feedback mechani
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
In what way? They are still publishing.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
I completely agree with the principle of being paid for my time to create content. If I choose the publish it for free, that is my choice. If I need to charge for it to feed my kids, that is my choice too.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Moot argument. If everyone charged for their time creating content on the internet, you would buy the best quality content. Newspapers had this model for decades, worked for them.
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
I started, ran an sold an ad based business in 2008. To say that most of the activity in the ad space was dubious back then is a complete understatement. Most of our traffic to the adverts was generated, purely to syphon off money from the
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
Those aren't fake facts. They are facts. I don't really dispute their legitimacy, they could be absolutely correct and I could be wrong. It's my own view, you don't have to hold it for me. However, this is not either or,
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by harwoodleon 10y ago
I certainly don't trust the numbers. There is common sense right? If we stick water vapour and co2 above the weather layer in the atmosphere, it will act like a pane of glass in a greenhouse? Right? You can't rain anything down f

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