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frobisher

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    Comment #49153854

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    Comment #49109118

    > [to your comment] Unfortunately it seems that often Western governments serve narrow interest groups (sometimes overseas) over their own people. In other words, open systems that…

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    Comment #48887877

    I'd recommend Shankar's books as a starting point.

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    Comment #48743161

    Too soon.

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    Comment #48742924

    Costs are very opaque from within the product...

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    Comment #48581108

    we're hitting the hype peak shortly

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    Comment #48567175

    Folks what has Meta got to do with engineering? Their products suck, we all use them because of network effects, nothing else mostly...

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    Comment #48566923

    I suppose cloud won because: - nobody wants to deal with the networking stack on the internet - you want servers alive all the time - it's businesses running their software on serv…

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    Comment #48320329

    We need to move to IPFS or something federated for source code

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    Comment #47562533

    Love this - modern governance has yet to take advantage of the information revolution

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    Comment #47375563

    I do wonder if self-host or centralised are the only options. Something like IPFS, but that works remains my dream - decentralised, but in the cloud nonetheless.

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    Comment #47348225

    Maybe with ai assistants, everybody is effectively technical?

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    Comment #46957157

    I wonder if IPFS or some form of distributed storage will ever be good enough as an alternative?

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    Comment #46957147

    The "acquired by Microsoft" curse. OpenAI is already ongoing!

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    Comment #46822290

    Can't win.

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    Comment #46156882

    lolol Gemini

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    Comment #46156863

    Although I find my brainspace being dedicated to thinking about memory, rather than the problem at hand. Which can be a worthwhile cost if the benefits of speed and security are ne…

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    Comment #46156810

    I'm surprised we still don't get github for laws (or do we?) with useful automations like suggested garbage collection. Wasn't collaboration at scale the reason Tim Berners-Lee wor…

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    Comment #45759938

    Would be nice to systematically start with problems of the non-uv world to highlight the specific value of uv. But nice read!

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    Comment #45681570

    Bought it but never read it - is it worth pushing through?

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    Comment #45557244

    I hear you. But what's integration in calculus? :)

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    Comment #45394575

    zero-knowledge proofssss baybayyyyyyy

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    Comment #35150681

    Nicely isomorphic to Musk's point on the affordability threshold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTs6xdx278&feature=youtu.be

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    Comment #32969956

    Love this, thanks for posting! I actually learnt a lot by following your links, from brutalist architecture to my new favourite tool nimbletext :) Great little hack.

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    Comment #31638554

    imo the problem with UST vs DAI was not under vs over collateralisation, but rather that Luna supporting UST had its value tied to UST adoption. On the other hand, DAI is collatera…