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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
I haven't seen Tribler before, this looks pretty neat. Another difference is the ability to make money off your own content. You can upload a file and charge some amount users have to pay before downloading it.
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Discovery is definitely hard. We've created https://github.com/lbryio/chainquery which parses the blockchain and pumps it into a SQL db for better searching. So that part is still centralized, but anyone who creat
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
LBRY uses a database, that everyone has access to, to store metadata related to digital content and provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent. The blockchain also provides publisher identities, human-f
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
It's not being "peed away". It is being used to help people send money to each other. That's like saying the energy used to run the security system in a bank is being peed away.
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
> In that sense, the coin would create an economic incentive to pollute I think if anything it creates an incentive to use renewable energy. If miners are able to pay less for power, they make more money. As the cost of renewables contin
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
That's a good point. I wasn't trying to say they should have offered these benefits to everyone, but sometimes it seemed like the contractors were just ghosts. It would have been nice to at least have these activities mentioned so
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
While the conditions weren't nearly as bad as those in this article, I experienced some of this as a contractor for Walmart at their Sunnyvale office. On Thanksgiving, they had a special lunch prepared for everyone that had to come int
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by seanyesmunt 8y ago
Yep. When I was at Walmart the code freeze started in early November, with only critical bug fixes going in, then continued until the start of January.
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by seanyesmunt 10y ago
Thanks. Nice work on yours too! :)
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by seanyesmunt 10y ago
Thanks! History is definitely something I want to add. I was just focused on a solid stories view/thread view. Now that I am happy with that I plan to add more settings/features. I haven't worked with storing info to a device
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by seanyesmunt 10y ago
Thanks! What is the "standard" menu icon? This isn't really a menu, but a dropdown, so I figured the chevron would work fine. I'm really pleased with React Native. I am writing React at work, and I was surprised how simi
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by seanyesmunt 10y ago
No, the API is read-only at the moment. So from the app, you can't login/post/comment. It's more of a reader. I mostly made it to have a canvas that I can try to add/build fun features whenever I want.
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Show HN: Hacker News Client for iOS built with React Native
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