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by natrius 10y ago
I get it, governments that forcibly redistribute are infringing on freedoms. I agree. Luckily, we now have the technology to compel redistribution without force. Blockchains allow the people to define value, and if most of the world is comp
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by natrius 10y ago
> "The spontaneous order of the free market is always going to be more effective than the top down order of some government mandate" This is why the basic income approach is so popular. It guarantees a minimum standard of li
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by natrius 10y ago
Yes, there are lots of satisfying addictions competing for our time. That doesn't absolve any of them for the harm they cause. Anyone selling ads is trying to addict you to get you to see more ads. It's immoral.
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by natrius 10y ago
I expect glorified menu systems to be fantastic . I'd like to replace every phone call I make to a corporation with a glorified menu system.
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by natrius 10y ago
I was born in Austin, and I've lived here for about eight years. This city and it's people have taught me so much, and I really don't know who I'd be if I never came here. I want to share this place with as many people w
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by natrius 10y ago
I used "program" because that's what we call things that automate things for us, and that's the appropriate frame for thinking about React: it automates things you could've done by hand, but why do that?
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by natrius 10y ago
I don't use React for speed. I use it because manipulating the DOM to make it reflect the application state is hard . It's something a program should do for me. React is that program.
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by natrius 10y ago
Hand the signed transaction to that miner instead of broadcasting it to the network. It'll only get mined whenever that miner successfully mines a block.
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That's exactly what I'm saying. It's not a conspiracy. It's just what's profitable.
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In a world of centralized media, the incentives led outlets to promote viewpoints supported by the elite and omit viewpoints that would offend them. Their access to viewers, leads and advertising dollars required the party line product we a
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by natrius 10y ago
This is the book I didn't know I was looking for. Thanks.
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We may never know precisely how much more powerful the ideology of software freedom made us as developers, but there is no doubt in my mind that the work I do every day is on top of a foundation of free software and the compounding returns
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by natrius 10y ago
Everyone is familiar with the idea that companies pay politicians to weaken regulations, but more people need to realize that they pay politicians to strengthen regulations as well. Expertise in regulatory compliance is a competitive advant
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by natrius 10y ago
The company that introduced the world to the web is being bought by the yellow pages . This could only be more tragic in iambic pentameter.
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by natrius 11y ago
Advertising is an immoral business model in the age of constant connectivity and pervasive data collection. The winners are those who do the best job of getting you to come back over and over, and the best way to do that is to addict you. O
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by natrius 11y ago
Sandstorm.io is great. It's definitely a part of the story.
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Dallas and Houston are very multicultural. Texas is a state of immigrants.
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by natrius 11y ago
General purpose blockchains are social clay: you can model any economic interaction on them, then people can engage in that interaction without any company's assistance or permission. I think I have a model that incentivizes crowds to
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by natrius 11y ago
Agreed! Economic models for funding decentralized apps are the key barrier to liberating our network effects from the companies who have fenced them off. I spend my days trying to solve that problem. I'll post on /r/Ethereum
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by natrius 11y ago
We can take back the internet. We've been at a disadvantage for so long because centralized services are easier to build great experiences with than federated services. Messaging protocols require identities, and federated identities a
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by natrius 11y ago
The advertising business model is why those companies built addictive products. To make money from ads, you have to keep them coming back as often as possible, even if it isn't adding value to their lives.
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by natrius 11y ago
Advertisers aren't funding content to help the middle class. They're funding content to take the middle class's money . You might think advertising doesn't make people spend more, but there's a pretty big industry
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by natrius 11y ago
My day job is to solve this exact type of collective action problem. Wish me luck!
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by natrius 11y ago
Right, they'd look very different. But charging money isn't necessarily the answer there. I'm betting on decentralization. Facebook and Twitter manage identities that let us interact with our friends, but we have the technolo
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by natrius 11y ago
Yes, it's an arms race. We might lose, but until then, let's go faster.
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by natrius 11y ago
I subscribe to four publications and fund two nonprofit publications. But let's assume I wasn't willing to pay. We should still stop supporting our own addictions. Especially since the people feeding us junk literally sell changes
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by natrius 11y ago
Advertising as a business model is destroying the things we love. Nobody wants addictive content. We want informative, enjoyable content, but that's not profitable. Page views are profitable, and page views require addiction. Turn on y
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It's probably propaganda, but I might be okay with progress propaganda.
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They will work far better than Siri because they have a constrained world to work in. Every call center has scripts for their predefined scenarios. AI chat bots navigate a world that fits in a book, but Siri has to navigate the whole world.
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A product people liked got shut down, so someone else rebuilt it. As a society, we're needlessly duplicating so much effort because we've decided treat software as a private good even though it's non-rivalrous and non-excluda

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