moolcool

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by moolcool 5y ago
Sure, but it's doubtless that there are prevailing attitudes, and also doubtless those attitudes are allowed change over time. Because of the voting system you can even measure that change. I would also argue that a voting mechanism ca
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by moolcool 5y ago
> It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years It's a bit disheartening. It makes me wonder how the HN of today would react to someone like Aaron Swartz.
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This isn't technically a DDOS though, is it? My understanding is that they're overwhelming humans' capacity to process the applications, rather than machines' capacity to process them.
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"Unless the striker is adding enough variety in the applications and when they are submitted, I think it would be pretty easy to match and discard the bogus ones" That wouldn't be so hard to do, would it?
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Where do you anticipate Steam to compete with Alphabet?
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by moolcool 5y ago
You're totally right, but this mentality doesn't totally invalidate the concept of DeFi. Like the state of DeFi today functions alongside the systems of today-- it's utility isn't contingent on burning the entire system
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Nespresso is debatably an actual espresso maker
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Distribution of binaries of obsolete games is a solved problem. It costs money to leave dedicated servers running for legacy titles, but costs nothing to leave the Steam page online. Plenty of commercial games are also free to download, but
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by moolcool 5y ago
You could say that about the value of any currency though
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Instead of hitting the publisher's endpoints, they'd hit a web3 endpoint to get the list of digital assets owned by the player
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by moolcool 5y ago
What about gaming? A huge problem in gaming now is that once games are no longer profitable, the servers go offline and they become unplayable. In-game assets simply disappear, and DRM servers go offline on the whim of the publisher. With t
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by moolcool 5y ago
(not an economist) If most bitcoins are bought with USD, all else remaining equal, wouldn't this automatically happen?
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by moolcool 5y ago
> am reminded of the P2P/decentralized nature of Napster and how it was going to be a revolution Torrents still account for a massive share of internet traffic. Furthermore, I think it's reductive to just consider it a tool fo
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> But if I can build my app using smart contracts, then they are always available to execute when needed - just pay to write/execute. I don't need to cover hosting costs or much infrastructure beyond some web interface (which I
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by moolcool 5y ago
(Not the Dilbert one)
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"If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike"
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He links that very site in his third paragraph
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by moolcool 5y ago
> including possibly taking on the responsibility of ensuring stale data is retracted SO much of the current covid conspiracy stuff relies on redacted studies. The thing is, the conspiracy theorists either think that they've been re
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by moolcool 5y ago
Halifax is still livable/affordable as a remote dev-- far more affordable than places like NYC or SF. On remote engineer salary the increases in cost of living aren't so much the killer as the insane income tax is.
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by moolcool 5y ago
This whole thread seems to love the principle of LibreOffice, but ignores the fact that actually using it is a slog and a half.
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by moolcool 5y ago
The craziest thing about it to me is just how _absolutely hideous_ most of the profitable NFT art is. The BAYC apes are just some of the ugliest designs I've ever seen. Remarkably ugly stuff.
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by moolcool 5y ago
XP's luna didn't run very deep though. XP was very similar in appearance to 2000 with a couple of minor settings tweaks
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It would serve as a neutral platform on which clients could be built though. Like instead of a restaurant listing on the existing apps, they'd list their menus on the blockchain and third party clients could exist and race-for-the-bott
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by moolcool 5y ago
This may be a hot take, but I think the gig economy is one thing which could be a pretty solid use of the blockchain. Uber/DoorDash/Lyft are all pretty simple CRUD apps at their core, and the companies themselves do very little
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by moolcool 5y ago
Google's "plane ticket in the inbox" logic is extremely handy, but it's also not very clever. If a family member forwards me their itinerary so I can pick them up from the airport, for example, Google will still remind m
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Technically correct
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The problem isn't that Facebook isn't do enough to control what you are thinking, it's that it's doing way too much!
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by moolcool 5y ago
I think that information increased in sensitivity because technology that gives us instant access to it also allows it to be exploited in different new ways. Like there's no machine that can take a paper phonebook and call everyone in
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Even if you've already had covid, the vaccine is still a safe and effective way to even further reduce your odds of transmitting it in the future
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Why?

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