nexthash

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by nexthash 6y ago
Purchasing power calculator https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/
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by nexthash 6y ago
The true story is bigger than Bezos or any other digital 'robber barons'. Income inequality ebbs and flows, controlled by many complex factors like public policy, availability of labor, etc. In the US, this tends to follow a 50 ye
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> SpaceX wants to shuttle settlers to Mars for $500,000 a ticket, with loans available that could be worked off. Woah. From the 15th - 18th century, colonization of the 'New World' was the equivalent of today's space vent
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Seems like we have come full circle for a state that originated as a colony with a tobacco-based economy. Back in its day, tobacco was also considered a vice and was heavily regulated by various nations.
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Personally my project never was the type to require such vigilance - 'content moderation' consisted of sshing into the server and deleting any objectionable posts directly. The factor you have to consider is shareability - the lin
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Yep, and also linking to other websites can be an issue, like phishing, porn, malware, etc. It is a very big can of worms but from my experience the second spammers discover your site it becomes their new home base and will get your domain
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Haha, I've built something similar to this before as a student project! Except I've described it as a 'shareable index card'. Check it out here: http://drop-info.live/ Two pieces of advice for you if you
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by nexthash 6y ago
Your whitepaper promises an all-in-one utopian decentralization panacea for the Internet. On top of that you are piggybacking off of unsubstantiated crypto hype, even though cryptocurrencies have many problems (including lack of trust/
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by nexthash 6y ago
In my opinion, having to shell out small bits of money every time you hit a paywall on the Internet is just as bad as having your data sold. I wish there was a viable pay-once-for-all alternative to microservices for the Web, possibly even
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by nexthash 6y ago
This post almost reads like a manifesto of the digital gardening movement that was showcased on HN a few months back [1], with some indiehackers sprinkled in. Just a small space of your own on the Internet to cultivate your thoughts/pr
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I love this concept, its like a power user's knowledge base specifically tailored to consuming large amounts of web content. There are definitely power users and busy people who could benefit from this. However, I think the most diffic
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I've noticed this as well - a significant problem with knowledge bases is that as knowledge builds up it becomes exponentially more difficult to organize. The article did hint at a solution, however: they are hiring machine learning ex
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A cursory skim of the comments reveals that the problem being pushed by Google here seems to already have many existing solutions being discussed for adoption as a possible comprehensive standard. Out of curiosity, can somebody explain to m
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by nexthash 6y ago
Interesting look on the lobbying industry: the day-to-day life is more mundane than popular opinion might suggest, mostly consisting of handshakes, conversations, and research. However, the impact on America's policy is still profound,
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by nexthash 6y ago
Why would you think the mainstream media isn't covering it? A cursory search on Google for 'oregon drug legalization' revealed these results: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/oregon-1st-stat
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For context: given Google's reputation with shutting down products and the struggles that Stadia and cloud gaming have been for Google in general, there exists a countdown to when Stadia is predicted to be axed: http://stadi
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I hope you understand that this is all relative... what if you were in a situation where all of your friends/news are on Facebook? Where you don't have time to update 30+ accounts/subscriptions to reflect a new email address?
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Personally, I heavily rely on Google and Amazon. All my emails, purchases, photos, and browsing goes through them. Opting out would mean uprooting gigabytes of data to other services, which takes time to research, backup, and transfer. And
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by nexthash 6y ago
What are the benefits and disadvantages of Freenet vs IPFS? I am genuinely curious, they seem superficially similar and yet Freenet has been around for 20 years. Personally I haven't heard of it but does it have a lot of traffic/p
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It all depends on what the tech company putting out the service is trying to achieve. While there may have been an era of increased hype in 'good UX' prior to 2008, UX as user exploitation has always been around. Both serve distin
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by nexthash 6y ago
I believe the more apt comparison is to the recent changes made to WhatsApp's privacy policy to integrate it closer to Facebook. The difficulty of moving to a different platform is relatively lower than getting rid of a social media ne
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by nexthash 6y ago
The one time I believe you are referring to is when Cloudflare banned the Daily Stormer, which is a far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, and Holocaust denial message board website that promoted the genocide of Jews. It went
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On the other hand, cloud software is often more convenient to use, allows for syncing on multiple devices, and is more powerful due to having access to the computing resources of large data centers. So you can't really say that buildin
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I have one: increasing the pay. The average food delivery worker's hourly salary on GrubHub is $12 [1]. Increasing the pay to something more livable might encourage the rushed driver to provide higher quality service. [1] https:/
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This is most likely due to the enormous capital needed to start such a service. I suspect if they were successful it would be all-paid at first.
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Essential, but maintaining a browser in the face of enormous competition from Google and Microsoft is tough. If you support Firefox with these new endeavors, you are helping preserve the browser as well. Since times are changing, Mozilla mu
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To be fair to Firefox, the only reason there is such a high rate of churn with their services is that they are trying to preserve their mission in the face of competition with Big Tech giants like Google. The more you support Firefox, the m
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You do not know if it was a felony. I doubt it would be, due to the low minimum sentence. Also, how hard is it to see a judge's sympathy for the commenters father? He made a mistake once, and the prosecution wanted to stick it to him.
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This article and the theory it presents has some interesting intersections with how society actually works (i.e. the elite being anyone who has real leverage). I liked the depiction of the intellectual classes, but I believe that rather tha
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The title of this BBC article is a little broad in my opinion, the laptops in question were given out by schools in England. I'm not sure if it is common in England for "schools" and "the government" to be referred

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