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by indy 3y ago
You don't think it strange that the guy who taught a course on blockchains at MIT has never made a transaction on a blockchain?
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by indy 3y ago
The correspondence is with power. Opposition parties are often anti-censorship, pro free speech etc. Once they come into power this all changes and they drift towards authoritarianism. Western, left-leaning governments have invented the ter
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by indy 3y ago
Why label this 'rightward'? Plenty of left-leaning governments throughout history have used censorship.
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by indy 4y ago
The trade-off for extracting maximum performance from a user's hardware is that it becomes much easier to fingerprint. Judging by the history of the web this is a trade-off that probably isn't worth making.
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by indy 4y ago
Every iPhone ships with a bitcoin miner. It gets activated once your phone is over a year old.
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by indy 4y ago
Living in London: food is more expensive, there's greater political polarization and it seems like there's a strike every week. So things are getting noticeably worse but I wouldn't use words like collapse just yet.
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by indy 4y ago
The web is the best distribution platform we currently have and increasing performance via WebAssembly means a wider variety of programs are now viable on the web.
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by indy 4y ago
https://www.theblock.co/post/219391/barney-frank-regulators-... According to The Block: Regulators shuttered Signature Bank to show 'crypto is toxic'. “They closed us even though there was no good, compe
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Regulators shuttered Signature Bank to show 'crypto is toxic'(theblock.co)
1 points by indy 4y ago|1 comments
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by indy 4y ago
Fuchsia has always had an element of "talent retention program" about it. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569631 )
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by indy 4y ago
The article didn't imply that the food was still edible.
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“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance [video](youtube.com)
91 points by indy 4y ago|1 comments
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by indy 4y ago
100 books a year? Those are rookie numbers! Don't forget that you have two ears, why not listen to two books simultaneously? Left ear can have personal life hack books and right ear can have business books
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by indy 4y ago
Agreed, as a society we need to increase our resilience to opinions we may find uncomfortable.
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by indy 4y ago
Yes, and not just TVs but any piece of electronic equipment with 5G built-in will be capable of serving ads and sending usage information back without needing access to the user's WiFi or router
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by indy 4y ago
It may be worse for the end user but it's great for corporations. Samsung could sell you a smart TV with built-in 5G so that it can always serve you ads even if you never connect it to your wi-fi.
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by indy 4y ago
Reminded of the Louis C.K. sketch about being broke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jLufZx3IM
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by indy 4y ago
Perhaps he might have bought Twitter for reasons other than closing down Elonjet?
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by indy 4y ago
Oh no, you've caught me red handed 1attice, I am indeed a fascist. I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for your brilliant insight, you truly are an amazing person protecting the marginalised communities from evil. Truly
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by indy 4y ago
It's difficult to argue about the woke mind virus with someone who is suffering from the woke mind virus. Not everything is fascism.
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Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing(newlearningonline.com)
177 points by indy 4y ago|120 comments
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by indy 4y ago
Socrates on the Forgetfulness that Comes with Writing: https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
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by indy 4y ago
The most productive days are before that when you're finding the unnecessary code. Deleting it is just the victory lap
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by indy 4y ago
I'm surprised that Microsoft haven't already done this with their Edge browser. At least offer a 'developer' mode which enables TypeScript support only during development
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by indy 4y ago
Evading government controls sounds like a valuable attribute.
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by indy 4y ago
Sounds a lot like Silicon Valley circa. 1999
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by indy 4y ago
Whenever I see these kinds of articles posted on Hacker News I'm always reminded of Paul Graham's excellent article The Submarine ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html )
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by indy 4y ago
Bon appetit
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by indy 4y ago
"Why is it not normal?" That is a bizarre question to ask. To answer it you'll need to examine your own reactions to the idea of eating insects, you'll have to ask older family members, you'll have to speak to the w
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by indy 4y ago
It's almost as if some people are trying to push the false narrative that eating bugs is perfectly normal.

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