natural219

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by natural219 9y ago
A lot of miners lose their jobs.
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by natural219 9y ago
I welcome the changes, and am open to giving Zuckerberg's pledge to investigate decentralization this year[1] a fair shake. He has a lot of work and convincing to do to fulfill these lofty goals and inspire us to take him seriously.
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by natural219 9y ago
Everyone’s sensitive around some niche subjects.
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by natural219 9y ago
Yeah, this put me off from reading the rest of the essay.
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by natural219 9y ago
> Alternatively, the distribution of value in the blockchain paradigm can be described with fat protocols and a thin application layer. This paradigm shift is possible due to the innovation of cryptographic tokens. As a long-time decentr
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by natural219 9y ago
I have them on a list to follow up on! Would love to read more from them. This was my pinned Tweet for a long time: https://imgur.com/a/0hneI
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by natural219 9y ago
I totally agree actually, and maybe worded it a little poorly. I love it back in the Midwest and mostly think positively of it, I just think starting a technology company here would be a mistake, since they are inherently risky endeavors, a
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by natural219 9y ago
Midwesterner -> SF transplant here. There's fundamental cultural problems in the Midwest that are basically insurmountable. Outside of pockets like Boulder, people are simply culturally uninterested in the future, changing things, o
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by natural219 9y ago
What a huge joke.
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by natural219 9y ago
Why can't I vote this comment down, or at least flag it?
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by natural219 9y ago
Camlistore & Brad Fitzpatrick's original writings are what initially got me into decentralized web advocacy. Since then, I've moved on from this project, since it seems to move at a very slow place and the authors do not seem
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by natural219 9y ago
Thanks for the great response! I don't think I understand how HTML, CSS, and Javascript interaction makes Gulp development complicated. My CSS files are totally separate from my HTML/javascript, and are just included directly in m
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by natural219 9y ago
Bash and C absolutely suck to work with if you're not a systems developer. There's so many caveats, gotchas, extra ways to do things, hidden things you have to learn, and lack of clear explanations that touching any ordinary shell
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by natural219 9y ago
Curious what you dislike about Gulp? I keep hearing people poo-poo it and say that it's "totally uncool now", but I can't understand anyone's frustrations with it, especially compared to other build tools.
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by natural219 9y ago
Interesting to see that Webpack has continued to gain ground on Gulp as the leading top-level build tool that people use, because from my experience it seems slightly over-engineered for 99% of use cases. Webpack uses the "configure a
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by natural219 9y ago
Thank you for this good response. I didn't notice the NYT covering this story before, because I have cut NYT out from my life due to their malicious, partisan reporting. So maybe I should be less bold about my evaluations of them and j
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by natural219 9y ago
I'm being a cheeky detractor of NYT here. I think "candid, engineering-style blogposts" are the future of news, and ancient vehicles like New York Times are long dead. I think the "general NYT audience" is participa
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by natural219 9y ago
This is really fascinating to me. Is this because engineers who they want to recruit dislike the New York Times brand, or because readers of the New York Times don't want to read things as informal as transparent blog posts about inter
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by natural219 9y ago
I recommend considering a non-cryptocurrency startup that's doing similar work in decentralization and creating new protocols for internet architecture. See a short list here: https://decentralize.tech/ Blockchains get
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by natural219 9y ago
Gotta love that URL. "War-on-drugs-racism-Nixon". For some reason I predict this link will shed more heat than light.
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Blockstack raises $50M in initial token sale(twitter.com)
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by natural219 9y ago
Why doesn't New York Times et al just go for the full donation model? Make the articles free, put a bug Jimmy Wales-style banner at the top, probably rake in more money. Are they still pretending like they're a prestigious instit
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by natural219 9y ago
I was talking about thing he was working on in 2014 - 2015, which his website described as: > On the surface, Eve is an environment a little like Excel that allows you to ‘program’ simply by moving columns and rows around in tables. Unde
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by natural219 9y ago
Wasn't http://witheve.com/ supposed to solve this? I love Chris Granger and his team, but at this point he seems inclined to pivot ideas every 2-3 years, instead of following through with an industry-workable solution
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by natural219 9y ago
FUD is the correct call, sometimes. http://clutchofthedeadhand.com/fud/
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by natural219 9y ago
I'm still extremely sad that Firefox OS was sidelined and Mozilla appears to be permanently stuck on "faster browser tech" instead of innovating on open standards where it actually matters (like mobile phones, social data sta
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by natural219 9y ago
I'm surprisingly sympathetic to idea of nationalizing the internet, but the paragraph about "deregulation in general is bad" seriously baffles me. Not only because taking a principled stance on "regulation as a whole&quo
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by natural219 9y ago
My biggest question is: When are people going to stop spilling ink over this issue and actually fix it? Here are some things that won't work: 1) Continue writing long thinkpieces about how bad big tech companies are and how they should
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by natural219 9y ago
I got so excited from the title. I also want Amazon, Facebook, and Google to be beaten. I am however not excited about just another hypergrowth-driven, capture-the-whole-market-or-die, walled garden, more-of-the-same traditional startup.
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by natural219 9y ago
All the other stuff they're working on that's more important than creating a new engine.

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