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by jakear 5y ago
Good point. I hate web3 as much as the next HN’er but “buy things and engage in recurring subscriptions via easily-canceled smart contracts without giving your full account details to a random third party” is a compelling proposition.
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by jakear 5y ago
Sure, but that still introduces at least one nameable real world entity that can officials can convince to stop processing transactions.
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by jakear 5y ago
Given this is going through traditional payment infrastructure it should be easy enough to follow the money, no?
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by jakear 5y ago
Are you implying people should feel free to create and obtain a new name on the blockchain using any random website? Also I do not see the list of popular GH names in the link you provided.
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by jakear 5y ago
So handshake.org seems to be the authoritative source on everything handshake, and it has several lengthy posts describing how using anything but it and things it vouches for to interact with handshake is about the absolute dumbest thing
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by jakear 5y ago
Same holds for HN discussion in particular. It's interesting to look back to what "metaverse" meant to HN in 2018-2020: https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends/?query=%22metave... (shameless plug for
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by jakear 5y ago
Links would be more compelling than grandstanding.
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by jakear 5y ago
Paypal's might be the closest. If FB, Amazon, or Google woke up and saw that all their data was gone, it'd be extremely annoying but recoverable by just having users recreate accounts (or re-scraping). If they woke up and saw that
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by jakear 5y ago
How do I get this? Sick of seeing oversaturated landscapes. Edit: why is this downvoted? honest question... I'm on iOS and didn't see anything in settings.
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by jakear 5y ago
You seem to be confusing your argument for my own. I'm the one claiming that the text is ambiguous and shouldn't be, you seem to be outright denying that it's ambiguous at all? You're the handless guy feeling smug about
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by jakear 5y ago
Yep. (better on mobile where the bottom can get cut off)
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by jakear 5y ago
What "source" is this? I found https://nces.ed.gov/Pubs2007/2007480_3.pdf , which is considerably more clear as it lists the three statements as entirely separate list items: > Any statement such as the fol
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by jakear 5y ago
What a nice use-case for my recent web1* project, google trends for hackernews! Here's a comparison of "metaverse" vs "web3" over the past several months: https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends&
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by jakear 5y ago
I love that the article I presume you got that from [1] states: > Acceptable answers include statement such as: > To enable people to better serve and sell to the Hispanic community; to improve marketing strategies to the Hispanic com
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by jakear 5y ago
All over Seattle. Also have been seeing them more and more often online. “Hey we’re following you around the internet to insist that we don’t track you” has been rubbing be the wrong way a lot recently. I stick with Bing.
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by jakear 5y ago
Probably not as easy to secure additional funding/headlines when the tagline is “tardigrades move in the simplest conceivable manner, much like other simple creatures”.
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by jakear 5y ago
I’m sorry you did not enjoy your experience. However that does not invalidate the experiences of the people I have spoken with, despite your attempts to project otherwise. Regarding homeless folks in areas with inclement weather, as I have
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by jakear 5y ago
Were you living in year-round gorgeous weather areas alike I mentioned? (Coastal Southern California) > It's generally not "they really aren’t interested in housing" but "they aren't willing to accept the terms o
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by jakear 5y ago
The obvious explanation would be that expensive cities are more desirable to live in and thus see both higher property values and more homeless. Having spoken to a number of homeless folks, a common pattern is that they really aren’t intere
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by jakear 5y ago
Some examples: receptionists, administrative assistances, quality control officers, compliance officers, and maintainers of bloated legacy software systems. I disagree that any of these jobs are “bullshit”. I think the most bullshit of all
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by jakear 5y ago
What form could such a commitment take over the wire?
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by jakear 5y ago
The first thing to abandon is certainly vax card verifications. I know a handful of anti-vax folks and without fail every single one has printed out a fake vax cards on their home printer and gotten past any and all vax verifiers they encou
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by jakear 5y ago
Coin pocket https://www.heddels.com/dictionary/coin-pocket/
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by jakear 5y ago
Did you read the linked article? [1] The only thing that matters is if the property owner likes it. If the property owner likes it, it stays up, if they don't, they file a vandalism case with the city. Banksy is a vandal, as I'm
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by jakear 5y ago
Though the origin of both names is indeed the same: https://blog.system76.com/post/622541723365769216/the-meanin... Thus proving 76 is not the smallest uninteresting natural number.
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by jakear 5y ago
> 5-over-1 buildings often feature secure-access interior hallways with residential units on both sides, which favors a U, E, C, or right-angle building shape. L?
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by jakear 5y ago
I have too much faith in humanity to believe that the thing which beats out every other clearinghouse over sufficiently long timescales will be “dedicate unimaginable amounts of compute to find one meaningless number and in doing so commi
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by jakear 5y ago
Would you mind linking to some of these websites you mention so I can better understand the flow? Also links to major open source components used?
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by jakear 5y ago
The value of Okta is in its centralization - the reputability of the brand and the existence of a conscious entity equipped with the power of reason that can use their centralized superpowers to resolve unexpected issues as they come up. An
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by jakear 5y ago
So it’s either an expensive way to claim ownership of a resource provided other people are trusted to do the actual work of hosting that resource, or it’s an expensive way to replace JWT’s. Exciting. Truly.

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