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by phgn 5y ago
I've seen a few large tech companies where internal "bookmarks" where all just shortlinks you had to remember (using golinks.io or another internal config). So for example http://go/project-X , go/JIRA-12
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by phgn 5y ago
Hearing about Wikipedia's deceptive fundraising messaging [0] made me question all donations to large non-profits -- but I guess a 30-people org is a different matter. Plus, Signal doesn't seem to be aggressive about it. [0] http
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by phgn 5y ago
I got the impression that his web3 post [0] only talks about token incentives, DAOs and other decentralisation for decentralisation's sake. There's no mention of MobileCoin, which I gather he just sees as tool to facilitate anonym
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by phgn 5y ago
Chat apps are incredibly commoditised. It also seems natural that improvements to huge tech platforms today takes more time than anything previously. But for smaller applications that innovatively solve a new problem, feature parity shouldn
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by phgn 5y ago
You mean the smart contract would sign the response? Signatures by Infura or the node client would not tell you anything, you're already trusting them by using them. Much of the infrastructure seems quite immature, with lots of hard pr
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by phgn 5y ago
Your phone is not always online, running a node on it would mean frequent synchronisation every time you want to do something.
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by phgn 5y ago
I think Moxie's critique of web3 concerns the decentralised aspect (DAOs, token economies, smart contracts, NTFs etc). He probably sees MobileCoin (which is built on the Stellar blockchain) just as a solution to fast anonymous payments
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by phgn 5y ago
Your distinction aligns with Moxie's point that most people do not want to run their own servers. Web 2 made user-generated content easier, so more people used it. > "user-generated content [...] is dead for several years now&q
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by phgn 5y ago
Not having an archive of links may be a feature -- relieving you of the responsibility to decide what to read.
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by phgn 5y ago
How would you compare Amazon to working at a startup? Pretty often things are on fire in small startups too, but possibly people feel more responsible for fixing things.
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by phgn 5y ago
But if every team has to wait for planning from a centralized decision maker who doesn't have all the context, they won't get any important work done as well. Or they loose the motivation that comes with owning services yourself.
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by phgn 5y ago
I think some of the value of long articles is simply that they are long -- if you can get into them, they get you away from news feeds long enough so that the effect feels calming. Regardless of actual content.
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by phgn 5y ago
For me, the archive seems by far the most valuable part of longform.org. I'd guess no-one has even approximately read most of the best articles they recommended in the past. This is now the chance to get to them and re-read the best on
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by phgn 5y ago
Your point applies to much more than long-form articles. We spend so much time subscribing and scrolling through information sources just to be "aware" things exist (it's the worst for news). If we'd really want to read
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by phgn 5y ago
Very likely this is would be the effect of a company-wide policy that would apply to every employee. (writing "would" because I'm convinced this entire post is BS)
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by phgn 5y ago
> Nat Friedman is Alex's best friend I'm convinced this post is satire. Too many unlikely claims, against one .jpg in Google Drive.
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The Web3 Playbook: Using Token Incentives to Bootstrap New Networks(future.a16z.com)
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by phgn 5y ago
> lately I've been learning more about how the VC world works PG started YCombinator the same year this was written. Did he state somewhere how he planned to address the VC incentive issues pointed out here?
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by phgn 5y ago
For anyone trying to install Websters' Dictionary on a modern mac, downloading it from https://github.com/mortenjust/webster-mac worked for me.
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by phgn 5y ago
Well, what does "energetic output" mean? If I understand the core point of the article correctly, radiant heat only heats the surface of objects not the air, so it will require less heat for the same effect. I don't how to pu
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by phgn 5y ago
> Today’s energy crisis is not the first in human history. The article is from 2008, I wonder what the author refers to here. Possibly using more environmentally sustainable energy sources? Or using less energy in general?
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by phgn 5y ago
To be fair, the article is quite long so I for example gave up reading after a while. Which from my brief skimming seems like what the author advocates for -- reading less things but more deeply.
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by phgn 5y ago
Ah, I see what you mean (at least in the case of YouTube). I'd actually like that behaviour weren't it so addictive.
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by phgn 5y ago
I'm curious (without having context on 2b2t): How did you all think about the morality of the exploit? Like it's fun to overcome technical challenges and interesting to see / follow projects other people build in game, but ar
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by phgn 5y ago
This whole project is incredibly impressive, good job! How much time would you say went into this both from yourself and the others? Probably quite a lot over the years? (because again, it's very impressive)
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by phgn 5y ago
That is true ;)
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by phgn 5y ago
Mhh, maybe I'll add an "archive" button you can click to see the cached page easily - though the challenge with that is explaining the feature... I fixed the simcity link, thanks for reporting!
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by phgn 5y ago
That would be interesting, as an unbiased window into life back then (if any text still exist). If the post gets 10 upvotes on HN it will automatically turn up on hn.lindylearn.io/years. It's like our collective library.
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by phgn 5y ago
Well, you don't have to read through all stories now - just check back later when you're curious again ;) But I know what you mean.
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by phgn 5y ago
Haha I am sorry. The idea is to come back to the site when you're curious about something, and be ok with not knowing everything (like with a library). That's different to how we consume a lot of our news, so just an experiment. A

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