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by m52go 8y ago
> Just because something is on the internet doesn't give you the holly right of getting it for free. Correct. Others have the holy right to charge, and I have the holy right to try getting around it.
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by m52go 8y ago
Oh they'll use it...I have no doubt about that. If I led this company, I'd be foolish to turn it down (without knowing anything else). I'm less sure what's going through heads of their investors.
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by m52go 8y ago
So. This company raised $75 million less than a year ago. It just raised another $50 million for "growth" now, 10 years after it was founded...for a grand total of $213 million in venture capital. What the heck will these guys do
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by m52go 8y ago
The Harmonia format would be pretty awesome applied to nonfiction, I think (e.g., crowd-sourced marginalia). Closest application I can think of is Fermat's Library [1]. I was initially skeptical but found Wattpad's tap stories pre
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by m52go 8y ago
Which conservative outlets would you say are similar to Quillette? I've been reading it for a while and consider it a fair bit more thoughtful than other outlets, even if it skews conservative.
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by m52go 8y ago
By resisting Google, which to me implies that they're instead using Firefox. That may not be true, as they may be stuck on IE or dominated by some other browser. I don't know the numbers...it was just a bad attempt at humor.
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by m52go 8y ago
I think it's hilarious that 2 of the 3 countries hailed as bastions of freedom (by this 1 metric) include Cuba and Eritrea.
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by m52go 8y ago
Yes but they actually ship hardware right now (laptops), just raised a round of funding, and post regular updates on tangible progress. A safer bet than most, I'd say.
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by m52go 8y ago
I've been running Pop for about 6 months now and it's been fantastic. It's the first Linux distro that I've been able to run full-time, after trying the main Ubuntu distro for 6+ years with VMs and dual-booting. Beyond i
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by m52go 8y ago
Yeah. Last phone I bought was in 2015, and I haven't felt a compelling need to upgrade since then.
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by m52go 8y ago
All my mobile devices...5 Android phones, a Kindle, and everything else I own use Micro-USB. I haven't needed anything else for the past 10 years.
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by m52go 8y ago
All jobs that require making stuff are in manufacturing. As tempting as it is to think that software is taking over the world, humans will always live in a 4D world, and we'll always need stuff to help us live in it. Manufacturing wi
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by m52go 8y ago
Thank you both :)
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by m52go 8y ago
I'm trying to avoid dependence on a platform. I want this software to be sovereign...software that stands on its own and can't be strong-armed by any big company (or betrayed by a scandal/exploit).
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by m52go 8y ago
Hey thanks! QR codes might work, but I think key files will be too unwieldy for my user base. Do you mind elaborating on the hash to word concept? I'm not sure I follow.
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by m52go 8y ago
Dropbox, but first encrypted with Cryptomator.
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Ask HN: Is there a good alternative to software registration keys?
7 points by m52go 8y ago|7 comments
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by m52go 8y ago
Zotero. Cross-platform and open-source. You can sync it using your favorite syncing tool, and even encrypt before syncing using something like Cryptomator. I regularly use this set-up on Linux and Windows.
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by m52go 8y ago
We're in the first round of digital media becoming a pervasive part of everyone's lives. People are just now realizing how harmful these services are & just how extensive their powers are. At the same time, there are a bunch o
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by m52go 8y ago
What's the lesson here? I see 2 suggestions: (1) algorithm engineers try to make inputs as fair as possible, 'promoting' every political initiative perfectly fairly or (2) algorithm engineers train bots to produce output (e.g
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by m52go 8y ago
You're ignorant for making up a narrative the commenter never put forth. Also, I think it's odd that you consider regional median and average wages to be exploitive.
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by m52go 8y ago
I tried using DuckDuckGo many times over the past few years, but the results never enticed me to stay. But for the past 3-4 months, it's been my default. Haven't felt the need to use Google Search even once! Big props to Gabriel W
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by m52go 8y ago
Purism's carrier-less phone cannot come fast enough.
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by m52go 8y ago
I actually think the offer to read this story on your Kindle is quite clever...if they offered that to me in a pop-up before serving me a barrage of ads, I might even prefer it. And it's an honest revenue model! And it's 86 pages
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BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations(wsj.com)
50 points by m52go 8y ago|44 comments
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by m52go 8y ago
It depends on context. As much as some people would hate to admit it, communication and messaging is one thing POTUS is far from stupid about. On Twitter and TV, he speaks the way he does to maximize attention and media coverage. He has fou
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A More Medium Medium(medium.com)
1 points by m52go 8y ago|0 comments
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by m52go 8y ago
I hope this becomes a trend but there should be an easy way for non-savvy users to check keys & hashes to make sure they're not duped with tainted binaries.
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by m52go 8y ago
I know, but the UX is hobbled pretty bad IMO. There's a good chance less-savvy users are turned away altogether... Good to know. I'm planning on not signing anything for my first release, think I'll stick with that plan. Than
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by m52go 8y ago
Hey do you mind if I ask you you handled code signing for your Windows and Mac apps? Mac seems relatively straightforward, but Windows seems like an absolute cluster. I'm releasing my own free open-source desktop app built with Electro

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