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by uncomputation 4y ago
Faulty analogy. The lack of DRM would not hamper my enjoyment of the media, as the lack of anti-cheating ware would hamper my enjoyment of a shared game. Put simply, DRM is about protecting the creator , anti-cheat is about protecting th
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> The unfortunate second-order effect of the death of globalization that no one likes to talk about is the rising cost of all kinds of goods and products These aren’t second-order effects or some kind of dirty secret. Anyone with a high
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Smells like a cheap shot of desperation given recent events and Apple’s rumored AR/VR/MR entry. If anything, Whatsapp’s competitor is Signal and Telegram, not iMessage, since they are cross platform and fulfill the same niche inte
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it This is a common but I believe overstated, even naive, ideal. What exactly does "holding them responsible" even truly mean? If a company is greenwa
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Duolingo, It’s Time to Log Off(gizmodo.com)
2 points by uncomputation 4y ago|0 comments
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Faster data rates, lower network congestion, more efficient spectrum allocation, and private commercial networks for IoT. There are many benefits. Although, perhaps marketing has oversold those benefits that will be passed into consumers. L
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Yes, that’s exactly what OP proposed. /s
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> open identity standards and open payment standards Ah, but that won’t line Elon Musk’s pockets.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
This is conflating two very different issues around social media regulation in my opinion. I won’t claim to know “HN’s” opinion because it will likely be as varied as its users, but there are two main camps in this area: 1. Regulate data pr
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Perhaps but Library Genesis worked long before it started using IPFS as well.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Yeah, I read about Ramon and his wiener dog ramps when this was first submitted to HN months ago and I said the same thing then as I am now. It’s bullshit. If Ramon wants to sell wiener dog ramps, then the system to do that should be “buy a
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> But it crushed FB, Snap, and 1000s of small businesses in the process. Ironically, this is far more of a narrative than this guy’s idea of Apple’s “narrative.” The idea that banning user tracking hurts small businesses was FB’s narrati
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> With this update, you’ll see more results with unique, authentic information, so you’re more likely to read something you haven't seen before. This phrasing sets off a little alarm in the back of my brain. Overall, I agree with th
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Yes, Signal’s phone number requirement is bad. But, given that, the fact that they don’t store any messages on their side and everything is client side is still a huge benefit over a lot of other apps and still a huge step forward for priva
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by uncomputation 4y ago
I think this is the wrong question actually. Say I wanted to learn machine learning. It might be counterproductive to Google “what language/toolkit is used for ML” because then I would just be an expert in Python/SciKit/etc.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
That’s not a compromise at all to me. That’s total capitulation. Once any party has the right to sanction or ban and CEX comply with government orders, what is the point?
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by uncomputation 4y ago
This is kind of a misconception a lot of people have about law. Especially in crypto, you’ll hear people gape “oh what, the government is going to ban random numbers? oh, the government is gonna ban something they can’t shut down?” I guess
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer As in, deploy contract, yes. As in, have enough liquidity to both “mix” (aka launder) money and provide sufficient anonymity, no, that’s a network effect which is largely winner-take-all.
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Starbucks to unveil its Web3-based rewards program next month(techcrunch.com)
8 points by uncomputation 4y ago|3 comments
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Not really following their reasoning why this is specifically crypto related and not the hot market of Covid economics in general e.g. asset valuation spikes, housing "bubble", meme stocks, etc.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Because there still exists informational asymmetry where the platform/exchange owners (and all employees privy to that information) still have material advantage over their customers but can now manipulate them easier than they can in
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by uncomputation 4y ago
But what can law enforcement do against decentralized networks with anonymous hosters? With torrents for example, the ISPs go after peers using their service but the content itself will stay up until all peers stop seeding.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Great example of how most of the fluff around decentralized finance being more fair just because it is public and “open” is naive at best and a wolf in sheep’s clothing at worst. They claim that regulated banks are a moral evil and “wouldn’
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Minecraft bans NFTs and blockchain, saying they don’t align with game’s values(marketwatch.com)
8 points by uncomputation 4y ago|0 comments
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Brilliantly said.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
It’s not so much they were “real” problems, as they were acute problems. Acute problems - bad guy with gun - are easier to portray on screen than chronic problems. Anyone who thinks we don’t have real problems anymore and this is the end of
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by uncomputation 4y ago
I agree with some other commenters; this is a lot of cherry picking. You could just as easily compare Nosferatu (1922) with Blade (1998) with Twilight (2008) and ask why culture gets happier and less serious as time goes on, “aren’t we all
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> Everyone pretends that racism in America is just that, when it's actually classism born of racist roots I am very tired of non-Americans comments about America. We don’t “pretend” that racism is racism, racism is racism in Ameri
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by uncomputation 4y ago
How is this different from Auth0?
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by uncomputation 4y ago
The issue many "folks like us" have with crypto is not that it "will never work" but precisely that it works all too well facilitating scams, asset bubbles, risky lending practices, financial hacks, ransomware, and vario

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