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by paulgb 4y ago
We’ve been working on a way for browser-based apps to run a rendering thread on the server and streaming back to the client, possibly composited into client-sode-rendered UI. So far the results are promising: you get the power of a server-s
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by paulgb 4y ago
You might find Whist interesting https://www.whist.com/
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by paulgb 4y ago
Having used both Citrix and Mighty, it’s clear Mighty cared about latency in a way that Citrix doesn’t (or, more generously, is out of control of Citrix since they don’t own the end-to-end system)
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by paulgb 4y ago
The tragic irony is that many of those teachers’ pension funds were the very ones making it lucrative for sociopaths to build crypto companies by blindly throwing money at them.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I wouldn’t say AI hype has cooled down; things like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, large language models, etc. have captured people’s imagination about AI. If anything, it seems like a lot of the crypto hype has been usurped by AI as the market
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by paulgb 4y ago
True, I didn't see that. Still, he wasn't her boss at the time, that was the day he filed the first termination letter of his attempt to buy twitter, so it looked like he never would be. (I'm assuming she pinned it after he f
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by paulgb 4y ago
Eh, normally I'd agree, but let's not pretend this is a normal situation. If you parachute into a company as CEO and start publicly insulting all of the professional work that the employees (half of whom he just fired) have done,
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Mighty and the Neobrowsers(digest.browsertech.com)
1 points by paulgb 4y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
It doesn’t stop processing blocks, miners just make less money for each one. Some miners will pull out of the market, making it easier for the rest to mine, until the market finds an equilibrium. The cost of attacking the system will go dow
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by paulgb 4y ago
I’ve talked to a couple of very loyal Mighty users. If you think about the number of hours a knowledge worker spends in the browser every month, it works out to a pretty small price per hour. It’s similar to people in jobs that require them
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by paulgb 4y ago
No, but it will reduce the demand for what they produce. This isn’t hypothetical, even in the US there are examples of coal/natural gas plants getting brought back online for bitcoin mining (finger lakes NY; Hardin, MT)
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by paulgb 4y ago
Saying it’s not a Ponzi doesn’t mean everfree is defending it, it’s just useful to have precise definitions about these things.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Nobody has the power to unilaterally “set the price” of energy, it’s set by the market. Free markets are great for a lot of things, but pricing in externalities isn’t one of them.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I think that's exactly what's happened, but it's led to demand of drop-in rather than permanent offices (WeWork does both). We have an office in one of the 40 locations being closed, and it's mostly an office location (I
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How to do distributed locking (2016)(martin.kleppmann.com)
1 points by paulgb 4y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
Mastadon doesn’t ever need to become the twitter of 2022, and most people would rather it didn’t. It does remind me of Twitter in ~2008, which is arguably more fun anyway. (Anybody who thought 2008 twitter would become what it is now would
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by paulgb 4y ago
I agree that this is an eventuality, but is anyone actually doing it yet? Everyone I’ve known who has migrated has either been to community-run or self-hosted instances, and I haven’t encountered any corporate or university domains when lur
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by paulgb 4y ago
Here's a 10-Q filing from a miner from yesterday[1] They mined 1,047 bitcoin from July, Aug, Sept. Their cost of revenue for mining works out to $13.5k per coin. But that doesn't include the cost of the equipment they use (which,
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by paulgb 4y ago
You can buy put options or outright short the mining companies. I don't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing and what the risks are, but it's worked out well for me. I've written about it a couple times.
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by paulgb 4y ago
If I lend Bitcoin on a decentralized protocol, who has the private key to the wallet I transfer the Bitcoin to? At some point I'm still trusting a centralized bridge, right?
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Binance statement: “[FTX's] issues are beyond our control or ability to help”(twitter.com)
20 points by paulgb 4y ago|1 comments
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by paulgb 4y ago
That may be his opinion now that the market has gone to crap, but a year ago he was telling me that Bitcoin had a 1-15% yield (presumably via exactly that sort of opaque, centralized exchange, although he was coy when I brought up counterpa
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by paulgb 4y ago
If that’s the company-wide number, I imagine it’s even higher in the Family of Apps and Reality Labs groups (the ones affected by layoffs), because it doesn’t include cross-org functions like facilities or accounting.
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by paulgb 4y ago
A handful of people have made a name for themselves covering crypto from a critical point of view, largely because they filled a vacuum for that sort of coverage. Crypto press has generally not been self-critical, and mainstream press is mo
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by paulgb 4y ago
This has been happening for at least a couple years: https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1294531764359069696
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by paulgb 4y ago
It says those will be “disproportionately affected”, but that could just mean that they represent (say) 10% of the layoffs even though they make up 5% of the team. It doesn't mean that the layoffs are mostly those folks.
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by paulgb 4y ago
One unfortunate thing about Docker that exacerbates this is that certain places where you can specify a local container, if the container can’t be found (e.g. a typo), Docker will automatically attempt to pull it from dockerhub. IIRC “docke
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by paulgb 4y ago
I used to work in (trad) finance and while I want to agree with you, there's also a lot of trend following and going to where money is moving, with a belief that if it does go to shit you'll see the writing on the wall first befor
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by paulgb 4y ago
What numbers are those? I didn't think anything was public, and probably never will be now that the company is privately owned. I just know anecdotally, I've been a long-time Twitter user (user id #1661), and the current mood on m
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by paulgb 4y ago
It’s mildly amusing to me that after VCs poured billions into a decentralized blockchain-based web, the twitter exodus is here and web3 isn’t really even part of the conversation.

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