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by olah_1 6y ago
This one? https://8th-dev.com/samples.html It looks solid. I’d like to see how the GUI stuff works
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by olah_1 6y ago
Is there a modern Forth-like that is usable in all modern domains like android, iOS, web? More importantly, is it pleasant to use?
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by olah_1 6y ago
Seeing that privacy is a big concern with Clubhouse (not just taking contact data, but also recording convos and who knows what they do with them), is Soapbox implemented in a more privacy preserving manner? I'm not sure what can be do
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by olah_1 6y ago
Code that manages and manipulates memory, network stuff, GUI. Basically anything more intensive than client-side JavaScript
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by olah_1 6y ago
It’s worth noting that Mask.io are doing a similar thing. Except they’re scraping and storing everything in an encrypted network. And when you post, you’re just posting encrypted text that your friends can then read with mask. So you’re onl
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by olah_1 6y ago
I wish someone would teach low level programming from scratch with Zig
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by olah_1 6y ago
For people asking why Urbit created new programming languages and architecture, this is big reason why. Owning something should mean that you are able to fix it. A single person can peak under the hood of the entire OS and know what's
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by olah_1 6y ago
Buddy of mine that was hiring for a team put it this way: HR determines the upper and lower range of the salary for positions. It’s actually in your boss’ best interest that you’re brought on at the highest in that range so that you’re the
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by olah_1 6y ago
> tries to impose old ideas of scarcity & exclusion on the digital realm, NFTs also impose the best aspects of physical goods. Namely that I can re-sell, trade, or borrow digital things as I wish. It’s an improvement on DRM in that s
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by olah_1 6y ago
Unfortunately, the powers that be have ensured that we will never again be allowed to live in high trust societies because “diversity is our strength”.
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by olah_1 6y ago
> No clue where you got that from "Most transactions cancel out at the account level. The binks demand bitcoins of each other only because they don't want to hold account money for too long. So a relatively small amount of bitc
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by olah_1 6y ago
> being ripped off by a vendor [...] things like chargebacks and courts are there to deal with this Third party escrow services, the better business bureau, the police... all of these can (and should in many cases) exist with bitcoin. It
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by olah_1 6y ago
> If I buy 100% of the world's gold, gold would still be valuable Sure, yes. It would be valuable in the way that a barrel of oil is valuable. It has a number of practical uses in electronics, medicine, etc. Valuable as a currency o
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> when I recently read about its energy consumption (per byte stored), I sold my bitcoins in disgust You fell for the meme... Energy consumption as compared to what? What energy sources? This line of argumentation feels very misleading t
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> You probably wont make money form that but still I hope you dig into it There is something to say for incentives. The positive incentive loop is what drives adoption, innovation, security etc.
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That does seem like a cool feature. It just requires a bit of a mindset change. Compared with gold, yes you can estimate when new gold is unearthed, but at the same time, there is a theoretical limit to the total amount of gold in the groun
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by olah_1 6y ago
Exactly. Lightning was anticipated from the very first email group conversation on Bitcoin. It is not ready for primetime usage, but it is rapidly approaching that point as Lightning improves. The "killer app" of Bitcoin is the sh
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by olah_1 6y ago
There's a difference between merely making money and being your own sovereign node in the network that is not reliant on anyone else (other than your source of electricity :P). Just making money, yes you can pool together. And that&#x2
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by olah_1 6y ago
>Doesn't the same hold for PoW systems, except the X amount is in the form of mining resources? That's not as true as I would have thought. Surprisingly, a single person can have a profitable mining setup on Bitcoin today. It m
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by olah_1 6y ago
Thanks for linking the Grin article! Now you've sent me on a rabbit hole reading about different emission strategies and ideas. (I follow Beam development, so I love to read about both projects). Doesn't the consistent emission of
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by olah_1 6y ago
> using 0.1% of the entire world's energy in order to do 3 transactions per second is beyond ludicrous In comparison to what? What do we get in return? Many consider the benefits to be worth it.
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I'm not saying this is you, but many people on HN will cry out "Use Boring Tech!" while also not understanding why Bitcoin is king. Bitcoin is old, secure, proven, and most importantly _simple_. Of course what you sacrifice w
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by olah_1 6y ago
This is the article that made things finally click with me. Thinking about the pre-WWI gold standard and the issues that existed there and the improvements that Bitcoin brings around time, consensus, etc. The baseless negative comments with
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It sounds like Taler is not competing with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is just as much about improving money in general as it is about preserving and transferring wealth. Before WWI, a large part of the world was all on the gold standard. I think a Bi
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I know that they use the same Clarity[1] smart contract language as Stacks. I like that it's not turing complete. The more I've read about Stacks, the more I like it. But I haven't done a deep dive into Algorand. Do you know
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Buffet’s opinion of gold is not at all surprising considering his profession.
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I’d love to use GNUnet and those projects. I’ve just not found anything that is usable for normal people yet. Fingers crossed that it comes to fruition at some point! (Or if there is a working app please share it with me) In the meantime, y
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by olah_1 6y ago
I shared Iris in my last comment but perhaps this would have been better to share to explain the idea. I think what you’re looking for is the solution to indexes. You’re right that indexes are really the big issue here. We were talking abou
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> There needs to be a system I can type "smithsonian" into and reliably find the right page. You should look into what Iris is doing with web of trust[1]. To me, this is the future. But like I said, Status has a good mix of mul
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by olah_1 6y ago
> A trusted source of accurate information is a prerequisite for entering someone's information into a rolodex. This even a problem with actual rolodexes. How do you get someone’s phone number today? You just ask them. I don’t see a

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