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by lovvtide 4y ago
> A ragtag coalition of public-health activists believe that America’s pandemic restrictions are too lax—and they say they have the science to prove it. The tagline of this article. I wonder, first of all, do those who advocate for more&
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by lovvtide 4y ago
I'm so close to the product after building it that it's not obvious to me which things are not obvious to other people seeing it for the first time, so thank you, this is very valuable feedback! > is it akin to blogging where i
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by lovvtide 4y ago
disclaimer: self-promotion This is the exact reason I started working on Satellite. To be a platform where I could have a blog that talked to other blogs. If you have feedback I'd love to hear it. https://satellite.earth&#x2
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by lovvtide 4y ago
You might be interested in Roger Penrose's ideas about "Conformal Cyclic Cosmology". As best I understand, he's proposing that the universal will not ever fully collapse into a black hole. On the contrary, it will contin
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by lovvtide 4y ago
All the speculation stuff is a very wasteful distraction in my opinion. In my opinion, the goal should be a currency that is: 1) Privacy preserving 2) Scaleable (to billions of transactions per second) 3) Permissionless (global and free fro
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by lovvtide 4y ago
As someone who's built (and is still currently working on) an app that integrates WebTorrent, I want to thank you for resisting the temptation to cash in on the token craze while so many other decentralization-adjacent projects have be
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by lovvtide 4y ago
This would be awesome if it worked on iOS too
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by lovvtide 4y ago
It's a very difficult problem, no doubt. Implementations are currently battery-constrained, hence the usefulness of GCM/APN for efficiently batched polling. I suspect a fully decentralized system could be feasible for use cases th
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by lovvtide 4y ago
I would add: - The ability to send push notifications without replying on GCM/APN - Support for mesh networking (multiple low power peer connections) - Convenient "lockdown" mode that encrypts your phone's contents for i
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by lovvtide 4y ago
You make the data layer deeper than the platform. Platforms should be clients, not silos. Effective moderation is super necessary. And building a community is really hard. You need a level playing field for platforms to actually figure out
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by lovvtide 4y ago
If you're looking for a content management system that you can host yourself it might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you should check out Satellite, a blogging platform that I've been building the last couple yea
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by lovvtide 5y ago
I wondered the same thing. It appears to be a multicast address.
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Show HN: Satellite is a forkable social platform designed for trust and unity
3 points by lovvtide 6y ago|0 comments
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by lovvtide 6y ago
https://satellite.earth/ is doing exactly that. Using WebTorrent (over WebRTC) for the distribution layer and Ethereum as a decentralized an auth layer so people can digitally sign everything they upload and prove authors
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by lovvtide 6y ago
Take a look at Satellite. https://satellite.earth/ . Launched last month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23558483
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by lovvtide 6y ago
I just approved the ether request. Sorry about the delay, we had to switch to manual approval because too many people were stealing ether!
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by lovvtide 6y ago
The difference is that when you create a google account your user info is stored in a private database. In Satellite, the reasons for going through all the trouble of storing user IDs on Ethereum are 1) So account creation is permissionless
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by lovvtide 6y ago
That's a really great point. How did we miss that... thank you!
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by lovvtide 6y ago
Yes that's correct. User IDs are stored on Ethereum so to sign up you need a way for your browser to interact with the blockchain. Mobile support for Ethereum wallets is not quite there yet (but it's getting better!). Note about t
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by lovvtide 6y ago
We're finishing up the documentation and will be releasing it shortly.
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by lovvtide 6y ago
Someone finally got the joke!
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by lovvtide 6y ago
For an explanation of how this works: https://satellite.earth/pub/@sbowman:how-satellite-works-dec...
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Show HN: Satellite is a forkable, P2P, publicly hosted social platform(satellite.earth)
44 points by lovvtide 6y ago|20 comments
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by lovvtide 7y ago
This time we have the Internet.
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by lovvtide 7y ago
The implication that this has anything to do with the law is amusing.