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by prohobo 4y ago
What? What the hell I've been trying to do this for years. This is on the desktop app? Just checked, they finally added it...
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by prohobo 4y ago
They're quite mean to free users; ie. they can't listen to Spotify in other countries, and they have a song skip limit. But that's at least understandable from a freemium perspective. The most hostile thing they do to paying
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by prohobo 4y ago
Exactly. Google does this through the video transcripts, and finds the query location in the video for you. The problem is that this isn't part of the video player itself (or YouTube search). It's also very basic, being just a tra
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by prohobo 4y ago
Thanks for summarizing the info. But only 12-15 months? What do they foresee is going to change then, just adaptation to the new market realities? From what I understand we're likely to enter a prolonged recession.
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by prohobo 4y ago
It's essentially supposed to mean the full maturation of P2P solutions that can rival the centralized web. A modern decentralized web, with finance included. There are plenty of things still missing which make it not mature enough to d
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by prohobo 4y ago
I think there's definitely self-selection, the anonymity effect, and the fact that when people say things online they're usually in a safe place and have time to ruminate. Mostly you just need to catch certain people at the right
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by prohobo 4y ago
But, it is full of bullshit. Just because it happens to align with my ego doesn't mean I'm wrong to say it. I would say the same thing even if I did get funded.
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by prohobo 4y ago
It was odd, but my envisioned development window was about 3-4 months (planning for 6) and I had potentially high upkeep after launch ($500-$1000pm for production ready servers). I could have found a co-founder or two and funded them for th
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by prohobo 4y ago
Maybe. In any case, it seemed to be much more about extracting profit through facades rather than funding real products.
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by prohobo 4y ago
I'm saying that he was already neck deep in bad investments, which he happily funded. That's the main point I'm talking about. I'm not saying my idea deserved investment, just that this whole industry has been full of
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by prohobo 4y ago
People said this was the "best time ever to get funding" for a startup. I disagree. In my view, it was the best time ever if you played a particular game and had the right connections. I pitched an idea to a VC, which I had a prot
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by prohobo 4y ago
This is overtly political and has nothing to do with being "nice" or "empathetic". The corporations have inadvertently made an arrangement with critical theory leftists to transform society into a capitalist monopoly on
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by prohobo 5y ago
flippa.com You put your project up for auction, and if someone thinks it's worthwhile they might throw you some money for it. If your project is "cool", cheap to maintain, and non-profitable - then I think you can aim for som
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by prohobo 5y ago
The government wouldn't be able to control it, if it were decentralized. They would only be able to enforce blockchain decisions.
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by prohobo 5y ago
Blockchains require systemic buy-in to reveal their instrinsic value. That means government implementation and enforcement, or at least some widespread system that recognizes a particular blockchain as law. It's coming, but slowly. You
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by prohobo 5y ago
People still don't understand cryptocurrencies, and at this point it seems more like intentional obtuseness for political reasons. At the same time, cryptocurrencies still haven't provided a killer app that shuts everyone up. So,
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by prohobo 5y ago
This economic model for games is kind of required at this point, but the author is hitting on something true about the industry: it's not as good as it used to be. The golden age of gaming ended somewhere in 2005-ish, and now the vast
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by prohobo 5y ago
Thanks for the in depth response, it took me a while to read it properly. It seems to me that cities are full of silly people who work each other to death in one way or another for no real benefit. You mention homelessness, and that's
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by prohobo 5y ago
Most of my friendships are long distance nowadays, or over the internet, so I tend to know people for like half of my life and meet them once a year if it all. That's all good, but sometimes I just think why not actually organize and d
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Ask HN: Should people move away from cities?
37 points by prohobo 5y ago|47 comments
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by prohobo 5y ago
I would've tried to challenge your claims a while ago, but seeing recently how many racists come out of the woodwork as soon as it becomes socially acceptable I'm starting to think I've been naive. Actually, I think you can t
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by prohobo 5y ago
That pet theory is what got it classified as a drug of interest in the first place. That's why most of us even know what ivermectin is.
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by prohobo 5y ago
That's likely true. Hopefully someone can modify it to create the effect without the huge dosage?
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by prohobo 5y ago
That is not the effect they're trying to test. Yes, ivermectin is an anti-parasitic, and yes that's probably why there's anecdotal evidence of it working. The reason people are testing it is because it has potential anti-vi
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by prohobo 5y ago
To me this is a call to get off the corporate controlled internet. People have been warning about this since like 2010, and I always agreed that there could be a danger, but I never realized just how bad it already is. This is a kind of p
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by prohobo 5y ago
Okay, I may have went too far there. I didn't properly think that through, but I still think it's a bad idea to not use a blockchain for a new currency.
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by prohobo 5y ago
> mainly unjustified because they're already tracking you in regular bank accounts so it can't even be any worse… That's one way to look at it. Another way is to see that tracking will be backed up by efficient enforcement
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by prohobo 5y ago
That's not what they're working on though. No one is dumb enough to try to make a central (and traditional) database/system for digital money. They could do it, and if they do it eventually will get hacked. They will use bloc
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by prohobo 5y ago
They probably don't need to, and can profile your economic status through indirect means. Not that I know they're doing that, just that they definitely can get the gist of what and how you're doing with their tracking algorit
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by prohobo 5y ago
You always try to negotiate with your enemy, even while shooting at them. It's just a law for succeeding in ending conflict. The Russians have changed their demands since the conflict started, here they are currently: https:/&#x2

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