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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Wow, I had multiple very similar experiences with the same person she's talking about.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Decentralization can occur across many axes -- our public DNS infrastructure, for example, does not have decentralized registration or governance, which is what matters for things like privacy or censorship resistance.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Sure, it needs to be accurate, but why can't it be quick too? Unless it's truly cost-prohibitive, quick is always a better user experience.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
This is a weird kinda escape. The only time I use --privileged is when I'm debugging, _because_ it lets me easily elevate access. Does anyone actually run privileged containers for production workloads?
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Being able to say that sort of thing with a straight face is the tremendous privilege of being an American. I think this is a really important point. It's hard to be rational and idealistic when you're under the stresses of s
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
I've never yelled at my computer. Until today.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Um... curious to hear what the alternative is. Fully democratized decentralized naming simply lets the powerful squat on all the good names. It's the tyranny of structurelessness.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Mentioned on the site: > There are 255 possible representations of zero. They are all considered to be equal.
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> why does everybody say it's a "Facebook currency", a Facebook project, if there are +/- 30 corporations in the association? Because FB launched it, and currently appears to have the most control over the project. At
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Conspicuously missing from the entire libra story All of this is answered in the Libra whitepaper. > is how they are actually going to manage the peg. How will they handle the custodian counter-party risk? "The assets in the L
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Two things I can think of: - you can get transparency (the entire ledger must be public, so you reduce the risk of many kids of internal fraud and manipulation.) - you can use these coins outside the facebook ecosystem -- I can't think
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Also, kids don't seem to like books anymore ;-) I know you're kidding about this, but just incase, you can make kids love books by limiting their options. They will always gravitate towards less effort/more fun, so if yo
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Looks like a GCP-wide outage. And you can't tell them because their ticketing system at https://cloud.google.com/support/ is down too :-)
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
I guess you can't change your password (while keeping the same private key), can you?
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Would you rather have a well-designed flop, or a poorly-designed hit that you can't scale fast enough? Poorly-designed hit any day. Was this a trick question? :-) (Obv, I'd prefer a well-designed hit, but I'd rather move
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
For folks that want to learn more about stellar: https://github.com/0xfe/hacking-stellar
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> That sounds like quite possibly the least effective method of learning. It maybe less efficient, but in my experience, practice has consistently been the most effective way to learn something. If you're looking for efficient, then
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Google Cloud Datalab seems like it fits the bill: https://cloud.google.com/datalab/
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
When you're working with sockets there's lots to think about that you can simply ignore with an HTTP library -- connection setup and teardown, buffering, serialization, byte ordering etc. But more importantly, you'll have to
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> This isn't hypertext. That ship has long sailed. HTTP is no longer just hypertext -- it's a ubiquitous and well-understood transport for RPCs, with lots of tooling and infrastructure support across the Internet. I think at it
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
Yeah, working with other good devs is fun too, but working alone is a special kind of fun. :-)
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> The particular irony here is that blockchains are a giant waste of energy compared to non-blockchain approaches Not all blockchains are proof-of-work. Almost all modern implementations (particularly for federated blockchains like OPs)
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by zeroxfe 7y ago
> Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted. You know that open source is not the same thing as open standards, right?
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
It's not a dealbreaker for in-house ML applications particularly in the enterprise (banks, telcos, etc.), which is a huge market for cloud providers.
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Building a Reliable Serverless Application in a Weekend(blog.quid.works)
6 points by zeroxfe 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Thank you (and colecut) for responding. I'm loading 'em up right now :-)
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I would love some recommendations.
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Show HN: Library to render guitar chords in the browser(github.com)
3 points by zeroxfe 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
> Performing a double blind test on whether meditation can help you avoid pain would probably be unethical Um... how does one even perform such a test? It's not like you don't know you're meditating.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
> The only downside to this system (robots or technicians) is how will you ever get experienced doctors to do the hard stuff if they never get to practice doing the routine stuff first? I think this argument applies to any kind of progre

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