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Unfortunately I can't play due to the HN hug of death, but I just want to say that this is a great idea. Chess is a wonderful game on its own, but having a synchronous element to t…

I find it helpful to think about blockchains as the next step in the fintech ladder. Imagine you want to represent ownership of a company, i.e. stock. You don't need electricity to…

Google's first party platforms (Search and YouTube) account for 85% of ad revenue [0]. Search alone accounts for 72%. I'm not really sure how AdSense is relevant to the discussion.…

> The NYT is in the "providing content to lure people to advertisers" business. What does that mean? The NYT sells ads, i.e. you can pay the NYT to have your advertisement shown in…

You use the setsockopt system call. This is an example in C: int sfd = socket(domain, socktype, 0); int optval = 1; setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEPORT, &optval, sizeof(optval…

You could solve the resource starvation issue by running multiple instances of your app and binding to a port using the SO_REUSEPORT option. This will allow multiple instances of y…

Browsers aren't single threaded, so the ST performance isn't the end-all-be-all metric to use. JavaScript is single threaded, but the browser itself uses multiple threads. E.g. the…

Basically, there is no free will. Think about it like this: where do your thoughts come from? They appear magically in your head. So you can choose between the set of things you th…

Crypto doesn't pose an existential threat to the NYT business model like social media and search do. I.e. The NYT is in the advertising business. Google, Facebook, et al are direct…

I mean they do that. Companies issue, hold, and buy back stock all the time. The difference is that JPM stock is a thing that people want and has intrinsic value as it confers owne…

Are there any out-of-the-box non-commercial licenses? I’ve wanted to do this too, but I’m too lazy to find an appropriate license.

Mighty had no hope of succeeding. I’ve built something very similar to Mighty, and the fact is that browsers are hogs, and then adding on video transcoding on top of that makes the…

It's not an excuse, just an economic reality. People prescribe value to things. The value of a typical transaction at a centralized exchange isn't worth the on-chain transaction co…

Fees are cheaper on centralized exchanges. Like with everything else in crypto, transaction fees kneecap most of the cool stuff.

I wouldn’t say tether shows that trustless decentralization is irrelevant. Rather, the existence of tether proves the need for stable coins. What was interesting about LUNA is the …

How do you send data to the client without their IP address?

Let's say all the money is in BTC, which is down 74% YoY. If you started with $100, you'd have $26. And then you lost half of it, which brings you to $13. So you'd be down 87%, whi…

I feel your pain. I've given up on so many projects because I got bored tinkering with build systems. Ultimately, the answer to your question is going to depend on what you want to…

One nice thing about submitting forms the "old way" is that they work even when JS is disabled. Not many people care about that, however.

Monero implements sender privacy as well.

You could do that with Monero as well. Ultimately, you would use a taxable system because you’re honest and want to pay taxes. So nothing about using Monero prevents the parties fr…

GNU Taler seems totally obsoleted by something like Monero. Can anyone enlighten me on the advantages of Taler?

This is fascinating analysis. Not just the specific details about SBF and FTX, but the insight into the short seller’s process of company analysis. One thing became apparent to me.…

The cell network is property of the carrier. It’s in the user’s best interest that they have access to the cell network, which means playing by the carrier’s rules. The user is fre…

Yes, succinctness is almost never in Go's favor.