magicjosh

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by magicjosh 5y ago
Here's Steve Jobs' speeding ticket: https://www.judyrecords.com/record/vde11sdzw25ac
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by magicjosh 5y ago
> any server application needs compute I'm curious about this as well so will be learning more about dapps (decentralized apps). Starting here https://blog.chronobank.io/what-is-a-decentralised-applicati... https:&
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by magicjosh 5y ago
High level, Ethereum is intended as "computer", and IPFS is intended as "storage". They complement eachother well. Beyond that, it depends on what you mean by "computations". Our example is setting up decentral
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Well said. Exposes their own bad habits and understandings. Wonder if there are nonprofits that offer training for journalists on this stuff.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Agree that returning user information can be delicate. I would think journalists dealing with such a sensitive contact would be more careful, but that's a dangerous assumption. Sure, I can use Tails and Tor, but for someone without a t
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Ya the core of the article is missing a key point. Did you enter "Mustafa Aksu" as the title of the Otter recording? If so, they just took the text you entered and emailed it to you. Why did you write this sensationalist article?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
By hosted I mean stored on IPFS. It's a bit like downloading a file from Bittorrent in that it can be fast and distributed, but with some added crypto layers. The only part stored on the blockchain is the address itself. The files are
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by magicjosh 5y ago
I like how you put this. Yes, it does seem like our ownership of digital services is tenuous, unlike owning a knife or a car. I could wake up tomorrow and conceivably be locked out of my Twitter, Gmail, Facebook accounts forever. Perhaps in
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by magicjosh 5y ago
If your email were hosted on a public blockchain, Google could not kick you off. - Decentralized file hosting for all the emails using IPFS instead of Google's servers - Decentralized login using ENS / Ethereum Name Service instea
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Here's the start of what that might look like: https://ethmail.cc/ As far as I can tell this is just like regular email that you login using your Ethereum Wallet. Data is still stored the web2 way.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
I'm curious about blockchain solutions for this. Public blockchains have potential to be part of the solution. Imagine the following: - Decentralized file hosting using IPFS - Decentralized login using ENS / Ethereum Name Service
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by magicjosh 5y ago
The full article goes into the advantages and disadvantages of rounded corners. From the article: + Boxy shapes are commonly seen as reliable, uniform, traditional, and professional. + Round shapes are commonly seen as charismatic, endearin
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by magicjosh 5y ago
To be clear the paper claims they developed their own methodology. And that this methodology lines up with the previous source: "This figure is consistent with research conducted by Ratliff in 2014 (n. 5) and Chainalysis in 2017.6&quot
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Indeed! "He works in a very boring building. It basically never gets robbed. He sits in his security guard booth doing the crossword. Every so often, there’s a noise, and he checks to see if it’s robbers, or just the wind. It’s the win
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Good point let's factor that in. Let's say 4% per hear or 1,500 Bitcoins are lost per day as of 2020 (crappy sources but let's use them as an example) (1)(2). That puts us at 547,000 Bitcoin lost per year compared to 350,000
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by magicjosh 5y ago
This attitude was used as an example in "Heuristics that almost always work": https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Similarly an onboarding on common user errors would be useful too. An estimated 10x more cryptocurrency is lost to user error than scams. (source in my other post on this thread)
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by magicjosh 5y ago
> BTC will never be stable. Care to elaborate?
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by magicjosh 5y ago
User error is an order of magnitude more dangerous than scams. Estimates suggest 4 million bitcoin are lost due to user error [1]. Estimates also suggest $14B per year of cryptocurrency is lost to scams. [2] At $40k per bitcoin this suggest
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Depends on what you want to learn. Rocketpool has a testnet setup so you can play with ETH staking: https://docs.rocketpool.net/guides/testnet/overview.html Get some free testnet ETH and try it out! I haven't
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by magicjosh 5y ago
I was curious about how prevalent the use of crypto is as referring to cryptocurrency. I had to get to the fifth page of Google results for "crypto" to get to this non-cryptocurrency gem: https://www.rottentomatoes.com&
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Depends on what cryptocurrency you want to experiment with. Bitcoin Cash looks to have $0.0007 transaction fees [1]. Seems like $5 would get you some basic experience. Another option is to get some free tokens from a testnet faucet, then ev
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by magicjosh 5y ago
The writing style is hard to follow. Did anyone who read the article find interesting points? Overall, would not recommend wasting your time with this article. Dunno why it was posted or written. Kind of a stream of consciousness thing, doe
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Yeah. It's a summation/averaging word. It's supposed to indicate "so much here" instead it means "nothing here".
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by magicjosh 5y ago
HN thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165118
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by magicjosh 5y ago
A neat follow up article would be "I was so excited about my dinner with Pete, it overwhelmed my ability to write about it and here's what I learned about myself and my needs"
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by magicjosh 5y ago
"Language that adults think works on children but kids are smarter than you think and see through your bullshit"
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Huh I usually like Perell's stuff but this one seems a bit empty, like a cream puff without filling. The examples seem weak, for example the McKinsey story about smartphones is vague. Sure, people get things wrong, and groups certainly
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Now I'm wondering if the cost of escaping regimes is actually part of the reason regimes persist. This may be more obvious to others, appreciate other perspectives here.
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by magicjosh 5y ago
Came here for this comment. This choice of headline by Meta seems like a bad choice. The language just reeks of double speak even if it isn't (No, I haven't read the article!). Who is running PR at Meta these days? "Dad Is Ab

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