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by vernon99 6y ago
Already happening, at least for rentals. We got a massive ranch in Sonoma for 10% the usual price and made a coliving for founders there (btw, hit me up if interested to join)
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by vernon99 6y ago
Check Palm Phone
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by vernon99 7y ago
This is equal to saying “I’m ok with Apple having a censorship monopoly of what an iPhone can run”. I don’t think the majority of people here would agree with that. I also don’t think users buying a device that is supposed to support web ap
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by vernon99 7y ago
Can you please elaborate? Why so?
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by vernon99 7y ago
I spent quite some time looking into the problem. The solution imo is twofold. First, yup, collapse all comments past 2nd level by default, show only top comments (others collapsed) on second level. Second, the same model used for HN thread
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by vernon99 8y ago
On point. I think that also is applicable to your personal life btw. I had a short-lived existensial crisis a few days back, realizing that my life is getting too complex for me to properly manage it. Things were falling out of hand, I wasn
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by vernon99 8y ago
Proof? My empirical evidence suggests the opposite, multiple engineers with Chinese origins I personally know moved back to China because it already provides compensation rewarding enough to compete with SV lifestyle. Plus really SV is a vi
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by vernon99 9y ago
I left Facebook a few months back so I don’t have anything holding me from sharing my honest take. Also I was involved in platform development a lot. Don’t envy the folks who stayed btw - now it’s gonna be much harder. In short: Facebook do
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by vernon99 9y ago
This is a one-sided comment. There’s a lot of research going into different variations of proof-of-stake. 4 out of 10 largest crypto (by market cap) are PoS. There’s a lot of work Ethereum community (Casper), Cardano folks, Tendermint etc a
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by vernon99 9y ago
1) Light blockchain clients? 2) Umm really? Controlled by you? Not by Apple and Google who censor software (crypto as well) and such? A bunch of companies are doing exactly that right now (can’t recall from the top of my head) and I honestl
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by vernon99 9y ago
I had exactly this thought yesterday when thinking of my experience of China. The states are so disconnected exactly because there’s no rapid transportation that would also involve local centers. And don’t tell me about the country size, I’
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by vernon99 9y ago
Not necessarily. This is actually orthogonal to decentralization question. Very much depends on their proof of stake implementation.
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by vernon99 9y ago
“The $280M internet bug”?
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by vernon99 9y ago
I would pay a lot more for really important things - science, R&D, tech, not politics and things that get dated tomorrow. If there would be a quality magazine with HN level articles on: cutting edge tech (blockchain, quantum computing,
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by vernon99 9y ago
Unfortunately a good eng/em makes much more than $50/h. More like 150-300 (pretax) and that’s just for a normal fulltime hour, they would def charge more for consultancy work due to the overheads. That leaves you with not-that-vet
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by vernon99 9y ago
Which you can, for years now... lots of services provide debit cards tied to your bitcoin wallet. Instant purchases. Some examples: https://www.weusecoins.com/bitcoin-debit-cards/
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by vernon99 9y ago
Yeah, as pointed above nobody's using ice for ages, your information is pretty outdated. Would also help if you would support your opinion by related research on the current state of the art cryo.
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by vernon99 9y ago
Except he didn't completely die, he was actually cryo-preserved. Although you can look at it in multiple ways.
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by vernon99 9y ago
This is why syndicates exist. Not a problem at all. Edit: not the only reason why they exist :) but a major one. To explain a bit more: syndicates allow you to consolidate multiple investors (not necessarily acredited) in an investment vehi
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by vernon99 9y ago
That's not exactly how it works as there's no voting per se. That would basically lead to a fork.
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by vernon99 9y ago
TL;DR: living systems may be defined as open systems maintained in steady-states, far-from-equilibrium, due to matter-energy flows in which informed (genetically) autocatalytic cycles extract energy, build complex internal structures, allow
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by vernon99 9y ago
Incorrect, movies are not automations, they are simple data sets. Movies+players combination is, yes. But this definition from the parent comment is an oversimplification. This is how the article framed it and its TL;DR: "living system
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by vernon99 9y ago
Ideally the organization itself should: a) be fully built on distributed technologies, if that's not the case, this is a clear red flag as it gives too much control to the founders to screw it. Ether+Web3.js+IPFS is a good combo. Prope
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by vernon99 9y ago
It sounds a bit arrogant. US systems are in a much worse shape than Chinese now (lack of innovation, constant bipartisan struggle, inability to make critical decisions and move forward fast, ridiculous expences) and a lot of that can be att
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by vernon99 10y ago
This basically sums up the debate to me. Great summary.
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by vernon99 10y ago
+1 to wolfgke. With BI costs for such mundane work would increase as less people would be inclined to do it. As a result more of such work still remaining in the states would move overseas to the countries with no basic income. That leads t
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by vernon99 10y ago
You have to fuck up our planed really badly to make Mars better than Antartica. I don't get this argument - what really can happen here for Mars to become more appealing? Nuclear winter? Virus outbreak? Zombie apocalypse? Antartica sti
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by vernon99 10y ago
I can't agree more and I'm in for this warehouse idea. Surprising how many people on HN are sorta against it based on the comments in this thread. That's the single most rational thing we can do - simulate the environment, na
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by vernon99 10y ago
So companies like Fb (with their gazillions of files) can afford a single repo and you hiring a new developer cannot?
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Facebook Messenger Platform Update(messengerblog.com)
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