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by mathnmusic 5y ago
> the centralized platform aspect and the use of phone number Don't forget how Signal built MobileCoin integration completely in secret for a whole year. Public was kept in dark just so $MOB insiders could benefit handsomely.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Sure, S3 is also cheaper than torrents. And HTTP/Telnet is cheaper than HTTPS/SSH. But some people do see value in math-based guarantees over those given by governments and courts. And others don't. We need both approaches to
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
The quality problems often come from the poor proxy. Money being fungible means that the rich get higher weight in determining what's considered valuable. In this marketized system, who will value journalism - especially the kind that
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
I didn't say "income tax" or "federal tax". I asked for examples of economies that don't collect taxes but have been effective. Survival is one important aspect of "being effective". So, an example th
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Is there a single economy that demonstrates this working effectively without taxes?
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
What incentive does the developer of the second game have to support a portable account? We've seen how it played out with social networks. And if both game 1 and game 2 are by the same developer, then all that's needed for portab
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
How do you run background jobs (either schedule-based or one-off like sending emails)? How do you hold a websocket channel with the client to push real-time updates? IMHO, "Full stack" means a lot more than "can talk to the d
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
> How do we get rid of crypto entirely then? Stop everyone using it, shut it down and ban all of it? Govts around the world could start treating tokens and NFTs as just another kind of security. Bitcoin and Ethereum would also qualify. F
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Users just need to insert signed data into the database for tamper-proofing.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Or a traditional database with read-only credentials and a function that adds "ORDER BY version DESC LIMIT 1".
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
This is relying on something akin to a free market for laws: immigrate to a place which has better designed laws. I find it way too simplistic for real life. Network effects and other cost of switching can sustain bad regimes for quite a wh
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
loading="lazy" is for images that are NOT embedded in the same file. So we either have entire site in a single HTML file or we have scalability for large stes. There's no solution that gives us both.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
I like how the site being discussed implements footnotes with a hidden checkbox followed by <small> tag: https://john-doe.neocities.org/
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
I have never understood why footnotes are added to the bottom when we have an interactive medium available at hand? Why not leverage <details> and <summary> to show them in-place without breaking the flow and without listing the
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
So we agree that Bitcoin is more like a stock than a currency. Nobody calls Apple stock "most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world". There's a reason why SEC heavily regulates issues of security w
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
A unique ID can act as a common "foreign key" in multiple databases. All IDs earlier to this were purpose-specific (Driving License, PAN etc). But with UID, state governments as well as central governments are building 360 degree
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
> most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that? Accepting any currency that's not a stablecoin, gives power (not just purchasing power) over you to those who bought it really
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Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS(cleartax.github.io)
104 points by mathnmusic 5y ago|10 comments
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Ownership disputes exist in many places across the world. But making an island appear larger than it is, is a unique demand that reminds me of Indiana trying to pass a law that declared the value of pi to be equal to 3.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
You can experience all of this while staying in a single language ecosystem. Just recently, I had to build something in Javascript and got to know Express is no longer recommended. Fastify, Remix are the latest hotness. :)
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
> If we're going to start legislating how we're all allowed to use energy that civilization has made available, who gets to decide what's allowed? We already legislate different pricing for different applications. Househol
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
A door-and-lock is a single-agent system and therefore isn't a good analogy. Money always needs social consensus. In a blockchain, you're relying on others agreeing on a certain history. That society can decide to disagree with yo
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Banks can block accounts of centralized exchanges (and have done so in the past when govt asked them to). And once conversion from and to fiat money is disabled, there's very little value left in cryptocurrency.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Advertising does not require tracking. See TV and Radio.
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
> I stopped giving a shit about "changing the world" when my kids came into my life. Does that mean we oldies should be okay with tech employers showing a preference for young workforce?
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Open source != Open governance. Consider Signal as an example. It's open-source but there's no developer "community".
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Arathorn, thanks for responding to comments here. Public discourse comes in all flavors and I appreciate you taking time to respond to the queries and comments. :) AFAIK, there are 6 server implementations of Matrix protocol: Synapse (Pytho
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
Gauss complained about the name too. He suggested using "Direct, inverse and lateral numbers" instead of "positive, negative and imaginary numbers". Imaginary numbers are not pairs. Complex numbers are. Continuing Gauss,
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ENS just airdropped 1.55B $ to developers, early adopters and community members(twitter.com)
5 points by mathnmusic 5y ago|0 comments
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by mathnmusic 5y ago
The battery that they made not replaceable. Interesting how it all fits together.

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