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awgneo

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About awgneo

Hacker for Good Work @ GitLab

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    Comment #45229592

    This sounds a bit like an addiction? We need to find ways to exercise influence in the real world, offline. The connections formed through volunteering or public service are the be…

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    Comment #38690442

    I too thought this was "Hacker" News, where we found ways to break down barriers and expand access to services to the benefit of society. Apple is absolutely abusing their market p…

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    Comment #21727463

    This is my absolute concern with Brave as well and why I do not trust this browser and its advertising model in the slightest.

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    Comment #20966763

    This article continues to be a fantastic introduction to the distributed log and all of the benefits it can bring a project as scaling becomes more complex. When I worked at Salesf…

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    Comment #20953597

    This design system failed to deliver the highly requested feature of a desktop dark mode for five years (until today): https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/531941157283315712?s=19

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    Comment #20932925

    When the right to be forgotten becomes plastic surgery.

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    Comment #19001984

    I really wish Brooklyn had as many latitudinal lines as Manhattan. Whenever I visit Brooklyn, Uber/Lyft is always a better option.

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    Comment #18713070

    I have been excited about this project for quite some time. They recently released their Rust client, although without networking. I cannot wait to play with it further as it holds…

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    Comment #18670312

    Congratulations on the move. I've been working in tech for a decade in Atlanta and have always been impressed with the diversity here.

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    Comment #18645950

    Or a narrative about a narrative about a Facebook crisis?

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    Comment #17993192

    How often do tech people actually strike?

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    Comment #16996006

    This is an excellent write-up on the different on-chain randomization approaches. If both secret messages are somehow discovered by a hacker, I wonder if it would still be possible…

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    Comment #16444598

    I am so glad the article mentions IPFS and the great potential it has to solve this very issue.

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    Comment #16004168

    Who cares?

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    Comment #15983817

    I believe this article completely contradicts this belief.

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    Comment #15763496

    Shill much? There are tons of projects like this doing the same thing and you've already plugged this once.

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    Comment #15554207

    I still have faith in our ability to escape the ill effects of capitalism that are slowly destroying our industry. See Bitcoin & Ethereum.

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    Comment #15467065

    Who are they? The founding fathers of America promised Democracy, yet look at the corporate oligarchy in which we now live. You have to fight for this decentralized future in every…

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    Comment #15467017

    How are you measuring efficiency? If something is centralized and widely used, are you even capable of recognizing technological progress now defined by the centralizer?

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    Comment #14569236

    They do offer credit cards through third parties. They also have the Amazon payment service that allows third parties to process transactions through Amazon.

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    Comment #14469038

    Like seriously, what the hell link did I just click on? This has to be the worst mobile ad experience in recent memory.

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    Comment #14435750

    Absolutely; blockchain technology is just the shift of power from one group to another.

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    Comment #13492271

    There are just far too many better choices out there (Elixir, Phoenix) for me to ever consider going back to Microsoft technologies. I still haven't forgotten their ASP.Net MVC fra…

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    Comment #13213929

    I agree with this perspective. However, you have to wonder why we don't have more Alexa skills in the platform. Here are a couple of my thoughts. 1. They require you to say "Alexa,…

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    Comment #13213787

    I tried Alexa a month ago and gave up on it within a week. Digital assistants fall flat in walled gardens. It was clear during this week that Alexa only worked well with Amazon ser…