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1. 901.▲
   by pfraze 10y ago

   Explain this for me, because I don't feel Truthcoin's argument holds: Truthcoin claims that any money system will cause the exact same resource expenditure, no matter what method you use. That resource cost is equal to the value o
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   I agree with you, to a point. Gore's case was uniquely bad, and I'm not convinced it wasn't fraud, personally. But he made the challenge after there was evidence of fraud; he didn't lead up to the election hinting that a
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   Please! Your interpretation of "I'll keep you in suspense" only makes sense if you strip the context. The question of concession was only asked because, he's been claiming the election is rigged. So that question of conc
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   Oh, stop. I don't like Hillary, but Trump says he'll contest a loss. That's what actual subversion of the process looks like. Everything you're bringing up is politics. > Hillary intentionally subverted the democratic
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   I generally agree, but we benefit from realizing everyone's potential, and this study seems to indicate we're not doing so now. There's also a political angle; Meritocracy is an important justification for American capitalism
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   > This also highlights a shrewd move on the part of npm: a clear decoupling between the npm registry and client, with a well-defined protocol between the two. The strength of Node is in the staggering size of its ecosystem; how those bit
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   LWW is a tradeoff. You'll be better off selling it as an automated-resolution option on top of manual resolution, instead of an innovation over manual resolution. (MV registers are a CRDT as well!)
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   There's one specific thing that I'd point out to the author: Zookeeper and load-balancers accomplish different things. If leader-election is being used, then the cluster needs to have a single authority to enforce strict consisten
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   by pfraze 10y ago

   I happened to catch an a16z podcast on (the original) disruption theory the other day. They clarified the theory in a way that, perhaps, Blockchain advocates would appreciate right now. The original theory was specifically exploring why mar
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    Introducing Brave Payments(blog.brave.com)

    6 points by pfraze 10y ago|0 comments
11. 911.▲
    by pfraze 10y ago

    There isnt a doc available yet, but there are two key properties. The first is, you can create mutable IPFS archives by generating a keypair; the pubkey becomes the identifier, and new versions are signed by the private key. The second prop
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Have a look in https://github.com/pfrazee/beaker-plugin-ipfs . (All protocols and web apis in beaker are plugins.) The Go binary is distributed via npm, and spawned as a daemon.
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Thanks! Nice term-coining work :) I was really just the frontend guy for Patchwork. Much more credit goes to Dominic Tarr [1] for building the underlying tech, and I should also mention Cel [2] and Mix [3] for their work there. Hopefully we
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    > Can you explain how the process-level sandbox is broken using webviews? Sure thing. It's the node integration that's an issue. To let the render processes import node's APIs, the process-level sandbox had to be removed.
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Hey all, I'm the author of this project. Happy to answer questions or talk about the software. It took about 2 months to write. I used yo-yo[1] for the frontend UI, which I enjoyed using a lot. The rest is standard es6 and electron. Da
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    Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat(pfrazee.github.io)

    160 points by pfraze 10y ago|29 comments
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    > I don't see what blockchain tech has to do with charging for API access. In the situation he's proposing, Twitter's product wouldn't be an API; it would have to be a blockchain protocol. > You have to determine
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    So far it's only been used in Servo, their next-gen browser project.
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Ok, a lot of people don't know the context for this. Last week, the Internet Archive ran the Decentralized Web Summit. It was an opportunity for new projects [1] to gather with prominent people in the industry [2]. It was productive an
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    How similar is this to how CouchDB handles conflicts?
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Cool, this is made by substack (the author of browserify) using internal protocol-modules of the dat project. Glad to see it launch. https://twitter.com/substack https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperlog
22. 922.▲
    by pfraze 10y ago

    Out of these, I thought Zeronet had the best demo. Dat and IPFS are both very promising. I also thought Matrix and Interledger show a lot of potential.
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    by pfraze 10y ago

    Eugh. Wow. > In Miami, Buterin’s army was small, but already keenly aware of the importance of beatifying its leader. Joseph Lubin, one of the developers staying at the house, and one of the few people who seemed to understand Ethereum e
24. 924.▲
    by pfraze 11y ago

    Clever UI concept. I'd like to have it as a chrome/ff extension, because I don't want to change my browser. Looks nice, though.
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    There was a bug in the contract. The developer's post-mortem [1] is interesting if you want to see what Ethereum dev is like. 1 http://www.kingoftheether.com/postmortem.html
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    > To fund the project, Dotcom said the company will be conducting a seed round in January. Once the prototype is ready, he will also undertake a massive equity crowdfunding campaign. He wants to do what Ethereum and Maidsafe did -- creat
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    There's a W3C rule, that each browser needs their own implementation. If everybody uses the same code, it's considered a Monoculture security risk [1]. 1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    Yeah, that was a bummer situation. The problem was that browser APIs require independent implementations to become standard. Chrome used SQLite for their WebSQL, which left Firefox without a good option. (Implementing a SQLite clone isn&#x2
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    Paul Graham gave an interesting and relevant talk about wealth inequality at defcon 13 [1]. I recommend giving it a watch. To this article's point, shouldn't parent companies be optimized out as well if we're innovating on ma
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    by pfraze 11y ago

    In fact, WebRTC's datachannel uses it