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by polyomino 5y ago
VR is more widespread than it would have been had FB stayed away and not subsidized it. They make up over 50% of VR hardware on steam now.[1] [1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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by polyomino 5y ago
Society has benefitted a net zero from software. Arguably a net negative.
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by polyomino 5y ago
Someone has not worked on wall street
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by polyomino 5y ago
And you'd end up building more trucks because of Jevon's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox . Bitcoin mining does respond to market pressure, if the price goes down, or you wait until the su
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by polyomino 5y ago
When receiving a payment over lightning, there's no way to tell which node or which channel the funds originated from.
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by polyomino 5y ago
You can splice out bitcoin from a channel without closing the channel. The channel balance can go almost all outwards (some is kept to be able to pay transaction fees). In the channel factory scenario, one participant can receive bitcoin on
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by polyomino 5y ago
Yes, but it would be worse for everyone involved
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by polyomino 5y ago
Once they started adding shitcoins you know they’re going the way of keybase
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by polyomino 6y ago
HL2 uses eye tracking for authentication so that one should be partially solved
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by polyomino 6y ago
What if instead of pulling carbon above ground, we inject oxygen underground, produce electricity and CO2 below ground and then leave the CO2 down there. Has anyone tried this?
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by polyomino 6y ago
lightning
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by polyomino 6y ago
Short answer is it doesn't work now and is not known to be able to work. Much easier to make promises than keep them.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Single parent household needs to be a supported scenario for public services.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Transactions will move to lightning, and since this allows multiple transactions to be aggregated into a single on-chain transaction, fees will be higher per transaction on chain.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Microsoft Edge didn't even make the list
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by polyomino 6y ago
Also Uber would benefit from a higher price of advertising for upstart taxi companies.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Even if you click the ads, you're probably fine. Google isn't telling the advertiser what data they used to serve the ad.
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by polyomino 6y ago
the existence of Ethereum classic doesn't affect the governance of Ethereum in the same way that stellar does not make a difference to the governance of ripple.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Ethereum does not follow the SEC's definition of "decentralized": If the network on which the token or coin is to function is sufficiently decentralized – where purchasers would no longer reasonably expect a person or gro
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by polyomino 6y ago
In return for more effective ads.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Consumers care about "privacy" so products are getting privacy-washed
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by polyomino 6y ago
Ad targeting is largely informed by browsing history.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Should everyone be able to see which ads targeted at their peers? Still seems like an invasion of privacy.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Nonsense bills like this are what will keep social media giants honest. The market won't on its own because the network effects are (largely) insurmountable. However, Facebook has to regain the goodwill of the public and fast, or they&
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by polyomino 6y ago
Yeah, fair. The congress should go after robocalling spammers.
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by polyomino 6y ago
So a facebook account isn't required
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by polyomino 6y ago
Don't buy one?
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by polyomino 6y ago
I think the core function of a product should be up to the people making it, not congress.
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by polyomino 6y ago
Facebook isn't selling your data. They're selling access to you.
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by polyomino 6y ago
It's unknown whether disparate startups would do a better job with things like attacks from state actors compared to the giants. Obviously, as things become more consequential, people would rather have entities they can hold accountabl

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