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by leifg 5y ago
Call me a socialist but we had scientific and engineering breakthroughs without hyper capitalism. If NASA had the budget of the 1960s today we would be way ahead of what Space X is doing now. And yeah, even without that I’d trade Space X fo
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by leifg 5y ago
> Ok, so how is this remotely the same as PCs being cheaper? Well because to some people this matters a great deal. Why? Because much of the power held by large companies (and by governments) comes from the fact that they operate and con
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by leifg 5y ago
Leaving aside the discussions around PKI and necessary centralization in public/private key authentication I've seen this web3 debate a couple of times now. It starts with "web3 is the second (third?) coming of the internet a
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by leifg 5y ago
I think the argument made implicitly is that with web3 you could actually monetize your contribution. If you run an IRC server you (usually) only have cost. One part of web3 is tokens so you can actually earn some fake money by running an I
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by leifg 5y ago
Maybe but I feel the term is currently so much in the public that it's unlikely to change its definition. What I think is more likely, that the buzzword web3 will evolve into something that has nothing to do with blockchains or even to
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by leifg 5y ago
Mmmh interesting, I always assumed the term smartphone was basically a term coined with the iPhone. I should have probably called it something like "the modern smartphone". I didn't want to write iPhone because that's no
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Blockchains Are Too Old to Be the Beginning of Anything(leif.io)
1 points by leifg 5y ago|4 comments
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Overengineering My Blog for Fun and Definitely Not Profit(leif.io)
1 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
Seems like we have very different interpretations and standards for “disruption”. I don’t consider “everyone is talking about it” disruption. I want to see real world implementation that goes beyond “virtual asset value goes to the moon” to
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by leifg 5y ago
Even if that’s true the argument “web3 is better for some users and developers” is very far from “web3 will disrupt the internet as we know it”
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by leifg 5y ago
How does the nail for the web3 hammer look like? Because every use case I heard so far can already be solved more efficiently without blockchains.
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by leifg 5y ago
> I just want the common man to see crypto for what it really is with a balanced debate or interview, not just a blog post that only 'nerds' reads as Diehl states. I've been following this space for a while and honestly I
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by leifg 5y ago
Genuine question: what has private key authentication to do with blockchain? I've been using this for my ssh connections for almost 15 years now. And the second question: what happens if you use your private key? Every website that use
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by leifg 5y ago
The original letter is in German and behind a paywall. Here is an English translation: https://cleanenergyrevolution.org/publications
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by leifg 5y ago
The best comparison for NFTs I heard was the comparison with buying a star or a piece of land on the moon. There are multiple providers that sell you various areas of space. But in the end it’s just a piece of paper that grants you nothing.
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by leifg 5y ago
Poor phrasing on my side, I apologize. Your argument has not been debunked, it's still a bad one. 1. You are responding to a comment that didn't talk about mandates under an article that says nothing about mandates. You are the on
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by leifg 5y ago
OK that argument has been debunked a million times but here we go: 1. No one is talking about mandates 2. Yes living unhealthy is a burden on the health care system. But I am fine with that as long as your actions only have consequences in
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by leifg 5y ago
If catching COVID is only a risk to the people catching it I'd agree. However by catching COVID you are also a burden to the health care system and possibly take away a hospital bed for someone who actually needs it (already happening)
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by leifg 5y ago
The argument seems fine to me. Let people with natural immunity have the same privileges as vaccinated people assuming they have a piece of paper from a federal entity to prove it. The only argument I can think of against it is: Certain vac
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by leifg 5y ago
I think this only works because of the novelty effect. A big reason why influencers or any kind of celebrity are successful is because enough people aspire to be like them. That's pretty hard to achieve for an AI.
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Show HN: Infinity Maps – If Miro and Notion Had a Baby(infinitymaps.io)
8 points by leifg 5y ago|6 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
Having had 3 full time Elixir engagements and one engagement where I partially used Elixir, I am not so convinced Elixir/Phoenix is the best career choice. It limits you to certain jobs and there is a lot of competition (from anecdotes
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Ethereum Miners Are Still Investing in Mining Hardware(yahoo.com)
2 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
Was I the only one who assumed it's gonna be some new Tesla (the company) product?
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by leifg 5y ago
That is pretty much what I thought of when I thought about this question. On a technological level I think that is pretty sound. I think however that introduces a bunch of potential social issues in the aftermath: - If people would get a pi
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by leifg 5y ago
Government can also seize your crypto but that’s besides the point. When does non-reversal ever benefit the average Joe? The only scenarios I can think of is when you transact with non-trustable sources. E.g. buying “stuff” off the darknet
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The Get Protocol Doesn't Solve Ticket Scalping Through Blockchain(schlockchain.substack.com)
2 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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Copilot implements wrong solution if you make a typo in the signature(twitter.com)
5 points by leifg 5y ago|1 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
I still remember when Windows computers beging hooked up to a dial up would be open on the internet. Lots of them had no admin password and all drives where shared by default. So by just port scanning on the SMB port you’ll find a lot of co
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by leifg 5y ago
Regular written contracts are not automatically enforced. Not a lawyer here but I’m guessing. Not all legal loopholes automatically deprive you of all your savings. Intentional loop holes only go so far before consumer protection or other e

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