ummjackson | 7 years ago | on: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
London Trust Media recently hired Mt. Gox (yes that Mt. Gox) ex-CEO Mark Karpeles as CTO. https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/22/mt-gox-chief-returns-as-...
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ummjackson | 7 years ago | on: 50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases
The guy who created this is the CEO of "essentia.one", who are listed 4 times on the infographic. Blatant self-promotion. Cringe. https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/100942661434465894...
ummjackson | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
Hey @xur17, I run arewedecentralizedyet.com - we should partner on adding this metric. Really great work!!
ummjackson | 7 years ago | on: GDPR for side-projects? Blocking all EU traffic with Nginx in 3 simple steps
You could just use a log format that excludes or obfuscates IP addresses, I believe.
ummjackson | 7 years ago | on: GDPR for side-projects? Blocking all EU traffic with Nginx in 3 simple steps
Good point, it likely does. Alternatively, you could set up the rules using country and list out the 28 that make up the EU.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
Absolutely, and that's what is happening right now. I honestly don't have a solution for this problem... other than trying to make it as least appealing to these institutions are possible.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
+ the genesis block included the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" (Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
(author here) I agree! I was calling out Bitcoin's initial goals in the article but don't 100% align with them myself. Financial institutions came to exist for a reason and I'm really not on board with everyone "being their own bank" as I feel it'd be a step backwards from what we have today.
What I do agree with is the need for more audit-able, accountable systems so the institutions we trust are less susceptible to corruption.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Peak ICO: Paris Hilton endorses a token sale
To make it even worse, this ICO is being run by that RadiumOne asshole who got jail time for extreme domestic violence: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/12/gurbaksh-...
Crypto gold rush is attracting all sorts of unsavory characters.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Stephen Bannon once guided a global firm that made millions helping gamers cheat
...and of course there is a Bitcoin connection.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives
Are you from the https://www.notion.so team? UI looks eerily familiar.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Strukt – a visual shell for tabular data
This looks fantastic. Agree with others that a trial or free version would be great to test drive it.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Strukt – a visual shell for tabular data
Handling and manipulating data in an obfuscated web environment (Electron) is not fun. Native will undoubtedly offer better memory handling and performance.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Brave raises $35M in 1 min with ICO
Yup, fail whale.
ummjackson | 8 years ago | on: Brave raises $35M in 1 min with ICO
Ha, the top 100 holders own ~99% of the total token supply. Really poorly executed distribution model: https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/BAT
ummjackson | 9 years ago | on: The Deck ad network is shutting down
Shame to hear this... although I guess there is less demand now with hyper-targeted invasive social ads. Working with The Deck previously, Jim was always such a pleasure to deal with and it felt a lot more personal as a network vs. Google or the big social networks. RIP.
ummjackson | 9 years ago | on: Going native
Hmm, does Electron really == "native" ??
ummjackson | 9 years ago | on: Moving beyond localStorage
This still doesn't explain how large scale search indexing could take place effectively... the data still needs to float upstream un-encrypted, processed and indexed.
Somehow offloading full-text indexing to the client, uploading encrypted indexes to the server and then elegantly combining those indexes across users to display a unified search would be arduous and I don't see anyone doing it.
Also, IndexedDB has been around for years and still suffers from a variety of cross-browser inconsistencies that make it a little painful to work with.
ummjackson | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
Bravo, 100% behind severing ties with YC until they break ties with bigot Peter Thiel. Bigotry != difference of opinion. It's inciting violence and hatred, which is different and very dangerous.
ummjackson | 9 years ago | on: Is RethinkDB shutting down?
My guess would be closing stages of an acquisition, code audits etc. etc.
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