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by slang800 10y ago
> They were looking at those Spain, India, China markets, yes, and nailing those markets didn't really depend upon the opinions of comparatively extraordinarily rich Bay Area denizens or hackers. It does when those Bay Area hackers
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by slang800 10y ago
I'm glad that there isn't a standard. Implementing a captive portal should be a painful experience that ultimately results in giving up and not using one.
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by slang800 10y ago
Yet another fantastic reason to get rid of captive portals. They spy on you _and_ are frequently broken.
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by slang800 10y ago
I don't buy the "troll" argument. Every site has low-value comments and people either ignore them or down-vote them. They're not an issue. Take YouTube for example - they are known to have a cancerous comment section wit
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by slang800 10y ago
They're not WASPs - the closest label you could put on them would be "hipster" or "liberal". Plus, most of the writers don't even work at VICE. Articles are contracted out to freelance writers so they don'
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by slang800 10y ago
Right now storage space and inefficiencies in the reference IPFS implementation are the biggest problems I've hit. Downloading sites is easy enough with grab-site, but my 24TB storage server is getting pretty full :( ... Gotta get more
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by slang800 10y ago
If ignorance gets you a 30-something billion dollar valuation, then maybe it isn't such a bad strategy after all.
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by slang800 10y ago
> No matter what incentive scheme you [devise], it's not going to help you with your battery. Obviously with certain incentives, battery would become irrelevant. If this hypothetical "IPFS ratio" were as valuable as (for e
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by slang800 10y ago
Streaming _is_ downloading. It's just downloading _continuously_ as the content is presented. Whether or not you seed is an entirely separate issue and has nothing to do with streaming vs downloading.
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by slang800 10y ago
Plus a plane, bus, or train could easily have 50 people within range. Assuming everyone has 8GB of cache space on their phones, you could access about 0.4TB of content directly. With a mesh network that supports packet forwarding, you could
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by slang800 10y ago
IPFS archives is the effort that's going on right now to archive sites. Eventually there will be a system for automatically scraping & re-publishing content on IPFS.
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by slang800 10y ago
Yeah - there's a ton of immutable URLs on the web. All of CDNJS/JSDelivr/Google Hosted Libraries, most of raw.github.com, all Imgur & Instagram images, all YouTube video streams (excluding annotations & subtitles), an
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by slang800 10y ago
By allowing your phone to be used as a server, other people will let you use their phones as a server, so you can download faster. If this sharing doesn't emerge naturally, then it can be directly incentivized with ratio tracking (like
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by slang800 10y ago
> except you are not allowed to download videos from YouTube or most (if not all) the popular video content services. If you're not allowed to download videos, then how come they show up on my screen? That information wasn't on
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by slang800 10y ago
I've used it for a few small tools and love it. I started out just writing schemas for testing the format of JSON generated by tools or pulled from an API, but you can do so much more... like using it to generate documentation or even
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by slang800 10y ago
JSON-LD is not for validation - it's for linked data
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by slang800 10y ago
You put the human readable part underneath the hash, like `/ipfs/QmPJnEf5933cXteZmaMJkphCW1CtpcMMVx7N6rUr8cZAok/jquery/3.0.0/jquery.js`. In this case, the hash represents a directory of everything from CDNJS and the
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by slang800 10y ago
You can't change your keyboard at work? That's odd... Where do you work?
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by slang800 10y ago
> Cathedrals, and their close cousins, castles, last centuries. Is that even a good thing? Aside from being beautiful artistic and historical works, I think that Cathedrals have outlived their usefulness. Just look at St. Patrick’s in NY
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by slang800 10y ago
Digital goods don't have zero value. We know this because people are willing to pay for them. They just have very little cost to reproduce/transport which results in easy sharing. They're not even unique in this regard - you&
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by slang800 10y ago
But that doesn't tell me how Bloom filters work. I don't care about his dinner or what favors he owes, unless he's planning on turning those expository details into a clever metaphor later in the article, or if they really ar
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by slang800 10y ago
I would argue that it's your fault for trusting Mr Celebrity to give you good laptop recommendations. If Mr Celebrity's reputation isn't crippled by making a bad recommendation or two then you're picking the wrong people
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by slang800 10y ago
Carestream Health Inc
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by slang800 10y ago
According to http://bizwest.com/deconstruction-on-kodak-campus/ , demolition began on 2011-06-01, but that didn't get rid of the entire campus, since a few buildings were still being used. In 2012 Kodak sold 320 ac
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by slang800 10y ago
Now if they'd just release their tractor firmware so people can actually repair and control the 50-250k USD machines that they _own_, then I may respect them.
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by slang800 10y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561514
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by slang800 10y ago
I can't imagine why I'd want a separate messaging app that I only use for family members, or why I wouldn't just use Trello/Trello-clones for tasklists, but that location tracking part sounds cool. Right now I use Google
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by slang800 11y ago
In addition to offline use, YouTube videos frequently get taken down due to bogus copyright claims (see: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/internet-creators-pressuring-... ) or even nuked by their creator (like the "I
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by slang800 11y ago
There's a few "glue" services like [Huginn]( https://github.com/cantino/huginn ) or IFTTT, but we really should be able to use unix pipes on the web with just curl. Sadly, people have taken to reinventin
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by slang800 11y ago
I'm inclined to agree with this - I've got a backlog of albums to listen to, either recommended by friends, new releases by artists I already know I like, or from monthly playlists like BIRP. According to Banshee, it would take me

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