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by theK 5y ago
Am at the same point. Have been thinking about a variety of options 1. bidirectional pacts with self-hosting friend 2. creating a network and culture of self hosting techies that develop the skills to assist (money and documentation require
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by theK 5y ago
That’s actually very insightful. The OS era you describe was mostly local with not so many things happening in online interactions and way less devices collaborating to create for example your images folder. Now that we mostly have the serv
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by theK 5y ago
A couple of things you and gen pop are missing: web3 solves the identity and privacy problems web2 created dApps are actually a boon to open source by offering monetary incentives to create working open source solutions NFTs are doing the s
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by theK 5y ago
I have the Mozilla foundation in high regard but this decision is nowhere near the quality standards I’d expect from a technology foundation/company. Saying Crypto has a bad eco footprint is outright wrong, sure Bitcoin and ETH and a n
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by theK 5y ago
How about just permitting copyright on real people as a non transactable property? From my understanding, the grief with IP law comes from corporate activity. So if only people can own copyright and the only thing they can do with it is lic
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by theK 5y ago
> The entire blockchain world is focused on building systems for global consensus, but global consensus is a goal that is fundamentally at odds with the goal of decentralization. This whole article starts by missunderstanding logical and
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by theK 5y ago
The key is not in eUTXO (allthough eUTXO is a great piece of work, especially because it solves a multitude of scaling issues in the long run), it is in the ledger's capability of handling custom assets natively. This way a wallet exac
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by theK 5y ago
Adoption of forks depends on public adoption. Let's call this common consensus. Classical law is just the public deciding which set of rules leads to a healthy society, these laws are then adpptedby societal structures. Let's call
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by theK 5y ago
Not completely. The main difference between blockchain and classical banking is that the protocol defines what transaction can be done and the network of block producing nodes manages the evolution of its state. In classical banking you hav
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by theK 5y ago
Tracking partial identity through tokens is actually a very common concept amongst the newer blockchain platforms which also have addressed such topics as the drawback you describe. While said attack is theoretically possible it only is app
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by theK 5y ago
How do these compare in build quality to something like the Librem 14? I always get the feeling that these "Chinese reseller" laptops are kinda on the lower end of the scale. I have to qualify here that I only ever have seen revie
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by theK 5y ago
No, you need real money backing a credit line and collateral. Same as in any other futures business. This isn’t a new correlation, it is society driving the value of society’s creations.
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by theK 5y ago
We’ll this is from the 80s right? Iirc, the switch of symbolic to ML oriented solutions in Ai really hit mainstream around the late 00s
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by theK 5y ago
Just for the record, source maps are awesome and (unfortunately) typically disabled on production. The original remark was criticism towards this practice.
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by theK 5y ago
Yeah this was awesome time and it did teach you more than just the trick, navigating unknown codebases, extracting the meaningful parts of a non trivial piece in f code… I really think the web community lost something with the transition to
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by theK 5y ago
Fair point, I stand corrected:-)
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by theK 5y ago
30 cent per user per month, maybe. Not 30 usd
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by theK 5y ago
I think anybody’s mileage might vary in these situations. I’m aware of once case with a German publication where I had to call to unsubscribe (and was told to send physical mail!!!) and some other person could just cancel their contract per
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by theK 5y ago
I hate so many companies just because of these “make it difficult” policies… it’s just disgusting. NYT did it to me as well, they will never see a penny from me again. Economist? It was just clicking around in the site! I unsubscribed and r
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by theK 5y ago
Cool project! Personally I've been using apiary or Snowboard for Backend prototyping since they allow for a design first approach and typically end up with quite good Dokumentation and Testing infrastructure. But having a real interac
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by theK 5y ago
Yes, the idiocracy scenario does appear more and more relevant when you go out and look around and realize that 99.9% of civilization treats tech just as black box appliances....
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by theK 5y ago
I'm pretty sure he is trolling... It is evident by now that the energy fueling bitcoin should better be used otherwise.
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by theK 5y ago
In sociological terms? Negligible in relation to a days mobility.
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by theK 5y ago
Well, you need to compare the societal impact one BTC tx has vs the societal impact the equivalent energy consumption in mobility (you example) has. If my calculations aren't off, a bitcoin tx is the equivalent of your days mobility a
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by theK 5y ago
I think there are a number of fallacies in this white paper. For one, energy consumed by pow is just spent energy, it does not contribute to societal development. Also, this sort of consumer specific investment disregards society because it
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by theK 5y ago
I'd go one further and say it is the worst time to back any sort of wasteful(as in pow) crypto project, not specifically bitcoin.
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by theK 5y ago
1. It is still wasted energy 2. This concept fails miserably in the global scale test...
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by theK 5y ago
Correct, often a root cause fix turns out to introduce much less complexity than a symptom fix.
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by theK 5y ago
Dito, have been doing the same with a selfhosted mailcow for years. Never had a problem :-) Lately I started switching over to account+labels@domain.tld style because of the automated organization so I don't need extra routing rules if
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by theK 5y ago
I can see this being true in the stocks world. A lot of companies have IPOed without a plan for dividend payouts because their main business plan is investment in expansion. People who jumped onto amazon and tesla may have made fortunes but

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