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Suez blockage is holding up $9.6bn of goods a day(bbc.co.uk)
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WeWork discloses $3.2B loss in 2020 as it seeks SPAC deal(reuters.com)
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by iamben 6y ago
It's the separation of church and state, right? Obviously annecdata, but a pretty decent amount of people I know struggle with the blurry lines that working from home brings. Like, it's easy to say "when I put on work clothes
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by iamben 6y ago
To reply to you both - I'm specifically talking about the web. I have no experience building apps, so can't comment there. But for the web, I'm absolutely happy to argue it's not that much more effort.
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by iamben 6y ago
Yeah, see that loads, very frustrating. "Desktop CVR is double that of a tablet, so we don't bother with tablets..."
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by iamben 6y ago
We've had this discussion on HN before and I'll make the same point, because this is very similar with responsive websites as well. All too often I see designs that don't think about odd size tablets, or (as here) phones less
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24-yr-old, never-before-seen Hyper Neo Geo 64 game prototype found in Cali field(eurogamer.net)
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by iamben 6y ago
Yeah - I think a lot of my thoughts regarding NFTs have been "why do we need a NFT for this" (much like "why do we need a blockchain for this" during the ICO craze). From what I can see, pretty much everything getting hy
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Tracking Covid-19 excess deaths across countries(economist.com)
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by iamben 6y ago
But surely you'd still need to build something to work with the NFT marketplace(s)? At which point, why not just own the whole thing?
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by iamben 6y ago
Right, but as a game manufacturer, wouldn't I want to be a central authority?
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by iamben 6y ago
It's a lot easier to get something illegally when it's legally available and ubiquitous.
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by iamben 6y ago
Genuine question - why do you need an NFT/the blockchain for the "in game" stuff? Why not just manage that "in game"? And then I guess - outside of "in game" what incentive would companies ever have to wor
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by iamben 6y ago
Curious as to why you think that? It definitely affects my decision when buying non fiction - particularly if it's a book with a lot of photos.
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by iamben 6y ago
Few things - I think the whole AR world could end up pretty sad. Imagine I go to a friend's house and all the art on his walls is mine? Like a world I've chosen where I'm not exposed to anyone else's tastes and choices?
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by iamben 6y ago
Robots really seems the wrong word here, after reading about the magnets. Especially with the whole anti-vaxxers "Bill Gates is injecting nanobots in my Covid vaccine" rubbish that's perpetually doing the rounds on social med
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by iamben 6y ago
Just off the top of my head, didn't Binance do exactly that in like the last 10 days or something (with ETH, iirc)? I don't think it's an argument against some kind of regulation/consumer protection. Pretty much everyone
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by iamben 6y ago
I wasn't making a point about centralised or decentralised currency/money/finance? It was regarding the 'regulation' thing. Cryptocurrency is only ever going to work for John Everyman if the industry starts to mat
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by iamben 6y ago
I don't have the keys to my bank...
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Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT(rollingstone.com)
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by iamben 6y ago
Some of my London friends are using this. Crazy good value and the CS is excellent. We've just moved from 20/2 Talktalk to 200/20 with Virgin for the same price (£30/month). Pretty sure you can get Hyperoptic a couple of
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Jay-Z Sells Majority Stake in Tidal to Jack Dorsey’s Company Square(pitchfork.com)
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by iamben 6y ago
I don't know a huge amount about SoftBank - but what have they backed that's successful / working / making a profit? They seemed to be attached to (at least in my 'bubble') a lot of stories about failing or tro
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by iamben 6y ago
Except if I bought the rights to a song (like Hipgnosis Songs Fund are doing, for instance), I could profit off them as the song is mine. As far as I understand, for the most part with NFTs, it's more akin to buying a baseball card - I
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by iamben 6y ago
Yes, and most consumers outside the tech space just want to access the content. 95% of my friends have no clue what a cookie is - they just press the green button and get on with their shopping. It's not an education issue either - the
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by iamben 6y ago
From what I gather, unless specified, you don't.
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by iamben 6y ago
I asked this in another NFT post the other day. As far as I could understand unless specified it still doesn't include the rights to the image (like you can't reproduce it on t-shirts), it's just you own a (for want of a bett
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by iamben 6y ago
I would, in exactly the same way I had friends the first time I was working from home. There's precisely nothing that stops me calling any one of them and having a "proper catch up". But sometimes we just need background chat
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by iamben 6y ago
But on the flip side I have shallow conversations that dribble my attention away throughout my entire day. The first time I worked for myself - pre social media - was really, really lonely. This pandemic and lockdown is really, really lonel
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by iamben 6y ago
Thanks! So assuming this followed the physical art model, and in the absence of any kind of 'on chain' royalties, you're literally just buying to say "I own this"? Except you don't own the copyright, and, being

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