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Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting username
Comment · 9 months ago
Excited to see how this plays out, I made something similar a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286
Comment · 9 months ago
Missed an opportunity to name it WikWok or Tikipedia.
Comment · 1 year ago
I own the 'if' package on npm, which I wrote to be functions that can replace the if keyword, making no use of the if keyword in its definition.
Comment · 2 years ago
Missed out on an opportunity to name it "QWOPtimizer"
Comment · 6 years ago
This is fascinating - I have been quantitatively tracking TikTok trends and Indian songs consistently top the charts on TikTok by view counts. This will displace many Indian TikTok users and either a new platform will spring up, or Indians will get slightly better at using VPNs (just like internet users in China).
(For the curious, my TikTok data is shared here: https://tiktometer.com)
Comment · 7 years ago
Amazing, this is clearly a glimpse into a future of internet content being less like a document and more like a virtual world.
Suggestion: the enter key should focus the chat box (like a FPS game) so you don't have to hit escape then click on it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why would you force anyone?
They are incentivized to buy a miner-heater because as long as it earns something, they are essentially just paying less for heating.
Comment · 9 years ago
They can, the idea is that they can mine more efficiently by storing the scrambled version rather than storing it unscrambled and re-scrambling when they need to generate a mining proof.
Comment · 9 years ago
Very cool, I really like this idea of Nomic-style open-source code governance. I previously built a similar project: https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythi...
Comment · 9 years ago
Unfortunately, SGX is not open for public use yet. You currently need special permission from Intel to access it.
Comment · 10 years ago
You could use hashpipe (https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe), from Juan Benet (the author of IPFS). It simply checks that the input to the command matches a given hash, so you can do `curl <url> | hashpipe <hash> | sh`, and if the output of the curl command is different than expected it won't be passed in to `sh`.
Comment · 10 years ago
I am long Zcash:
* The founder is Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, creator of Zooko's triangle, the BLAKE2 hash function, Tahoe-LAFS, and former employee at MojoNation (an early attempt at cryptocurrency/P2P filesharing where another employee, Beam Cohen, went on to create Bittorrent). He knows a thing or two about decentralization/P2P.
* This project is NOT a trivial Bitcoin clone with only a new proof-of-work swapped in. The Zero Knowledge Proofs they use to keep transactions private is state of the art crypto. Also their PoW is actually memory-hard (many currencies have used PoW functions which they thought would be memory-hard and ASIC-proof, such as Litecoin with Scrypt, but it turned out not to be the case).
* Their "Founders Reward" is less like a premine and more like startup vested equity (it pays out to them gradually over 4 years to incentive themselves not to pump and dump).
* The team is extremely helpful in the Zcash Slack and are a relief after dealing with the pedantic, difficult Bitcoin developers.