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3 years ago
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on: YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers
ime mods here tend to actually stay away from negative yc stories, in order to not get into slippery paths. don’t have proof of it, but the simple fact that this is still up with 400 points is a fact.
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4 years ago
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on: Why income share agreements did not work out
I'm not following. Afaik Lambda didn't collapse. It recently rebranded due to a trademark conflict, but they're still alive and well from what I gather. Someone be so kind to explain?
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4 years ago
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on: Facebook loses users for the first time
> FB have never built a successful product besides Zuck's original.
Can we argue the same point for Google?
Considering their dominant position in digital ads, I wonder what this implies.
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4 years ago
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on: I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS
i'm very embarrassed to admit this, but i literally just discovered this. thought ufw was literally last defense. gotta run to fix this
(luckily, all just pet projects with no sensitive stuff - still…)
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4 years ago
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on: Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure
can confirm for italy: whatsapp is 100% the only expected tool of communication. telegram is making some waves in some circles, but for the most part it's whatsapp only: groups, 1:1, business support, anything
my experience in germany and spain is vastly similar
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4 years ago
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on: An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
so it's a branch, uh. i'll never wrap my head around the complex corp structure of these crypto juggernauts
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4 years ago
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on: An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
they're based in Hong Kong so i'm not sure why US / EU regulation should apply
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: WordLines – A zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain puzzle game
Congrats for the impressive technical feat!
One (maybe naive) question: at a certain point in the demo, Rainbow wallet forecasts a 400$ gas fee. Does this mean that in order to play this game, I need to spend hundreds of dollars for each round?
I know that there are many other chains that are vastly more efficient, plus all the L2 optimizations and all.
I was just wondering if this is actually the case in this particular instance or I'm missing something important.
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4 years ago
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on: Ten Years of Logging My Life
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4 years ago
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on: Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
They've been already doing server side CSAM, for a while, on iCloud pics. Their issue was targeting all media that wasn't uploaded.
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4 years ago
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on: Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says
Sounds eerily similar to what happened during the Enron saga. So many employees tricked into keeping all their pension savings into the stock. Quite a sad story.
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4 years ago
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on: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
It could be remunerated. Like: pay 100$ to have a human look at your case. You can appeal (and pay) up to 3 times. This would partially solve the scalability problem + provide partial disincentives for scammers and spammers.
I would happily pay 100$ to recover my lost Google account.
Of course this would in turn create the bad incentive of having Google not create good models. Ideally the law would require to cap prices somehow.
Hard problem for sure.
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4 years ago
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on: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
I believe we're not saying opposing points of view. What I'm arguing for is moving corporate law on chain, mostly regulating relationships between shareholders, and keep everything else real world. In Europe for instance it's quite absurd how much bureaucracy you have the cope with to create operating entities in different countries within the same economic space. Everything else can stay the same - penal law in particular. It's a very fine line but I believe it can make sense in some instances
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4 years ago
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on: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
You don't need to hire lawyers to create the entity and coordinate internally. I've managed a multinational company: it's absolutely crazy the amount of complexity needed to coordinate between legislations, just because states can't efficiently talk with each other. It doesn't make any sense. It's a broken protocol.
It's a fine line: within the org, on chain and no lawyers, only code and everyone must take care of code due diligence. Outside the org (ie. real world), you deal with lawyers as much as needed.
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4 years ago
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on: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
Because it's global. I don't need to reason with anyone anywhere, I don't need to hire lawyers, I don't need to make a global enterprise fit local regulations that are often conflicting.
I'm not saying it's recommended, or even reasonable. I'm arguing that is not utter nonsense in some peculiar cases IMHO
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4 years ago
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on: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
I'm by no means an expert, but my intuition is that the relationship between on chain and real world should be regulated by real world courts.
So, for instance, an on chain DAO hires a contractor, that then does insider trading on behalf of the DAO in the US: both the contractor and any real world activity in the US get targeted by US courts.
It's like fining Google in the EU: you can't touch it in the US (it's as if it's on chain), but you can prevent it from doing business on EU soil. Or what happened with Facebook in the UK: the parliament summoned Zuck, and he just didn't show up.
It's convoluted, but not far fetched imho.
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4 years ago
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on: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
That’s actually the point. You theoretically shouldn’t need a court. Everything is regulated by code, and if something goes wrong you have to own it. The code is public. You can vet it as much as you want. Proposals are voted proportional to code ownership. It looks controversial but not utterly nonsense to me.
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4 years ago
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on: What's the Future of IDEs?
100% this. That's why Projector is an interesting project, completely different from — say — VSCode or Replit.
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing
Why? They can change the policy and ask for a confirmation, as every service out there is already doing.
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4 years ago
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on: Vimium C – Extension to navigate website by keyboard shortcuts
My issue with it, as others have pointed out, is the lack of extensions ecosystem. It's painful how locked in we really are.
