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I'm still using the Pixel 4, I'm happy with it. I tried the Pixel 6 but it's just too gigantic, and the camera strip sticks out too much, so I went back to the 4

PoST (Chia specifically) produces 20,000 times less e-waste than Bitcoin. Chia also has 20x the nodes as Bitcoin. A comparison of network security would probably be the best way to…

The parent thread to mine actually did claim that various lies were their mother's reason not to get vaccinated: > My mother only got vaccinated last month [...] Her main hangup wa…

> Her main hangup was the lies and coercion. Can you provide examples of the lies you're referring to?

"Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out" No we don't need to break it here (even though it's a pastime of the autho…

Try some of the old school tech companies: Cisco, Oracle, IBM, etc Or find a company you are really excited about and engaged with and then it won't feel like work

This is an interesting thought that crypto (or at least proof of work crypto) is backed by a sunk cost of an otherwise useless task. But let me extend that paradigm: why is (or isn…

Anyone else care to comment on the S-1 itself? Revenues doubling, and a rare example of a tech company that is actually profitable before IPO (to the tune of $320M net profit on $1…

What does calling someone a "comedian" add to the conversation?

Clarification: It did not prevent you from selling your holdings (ie. did not make you a bag holder). It only prevented you from opening a new position.

> (although we should certainly adjust for the large gay male population) Just curious, why wouldn't there be an equivalently large lesbian female population?

How did you cherry pick that list? The actual top countries per capita from your source are: Qatar 40.1 Trinidad & Tobago 37.78 Kuwait 34.24 Netherlands Antilles 23.55 Brunei Darus…

This immediately reminded me of the scene from Silicon Valley where Gwart is working directly in front of an extremely powerful light, which Jared rushes to shut off because it's t…

>Throughout this year it is just loss-making companies floating everywhere on the markets here and have boarded the hype-train into the red. Cloudflare is a loss-making company too…

For a healthy dose of skepticism, check out the New York Times article "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It". It points out, among other things, that a …

If you feel compelled to put a smiley face after a sentence to make it more agreeable, it's a sign that you were uncomfortable with the tone of the sentence. Adding a smiley just c…

I loaded up my first screenshot sequence of the day. http://placeit.breezi.com/3443524 Please advise on how to kick up the 4d3d3d3

Yes you can.

xwowsersx, please send an email to join@app.net and we'll get you set up with your login information. The backing process and the alpha.app.net access are not automated yet, we sti…

There were certainly people calling app.net and our API spec vaporware on HN and other places. The purpose of this post is to showcase the alpha-version of our web service and API …

One thing to note is that our funding velocity is not linear, it has been picking up speed. If we can keep the momentum going and spread the word, we are confident that we will hit…

We used Facebook's APIs and Open Graph in our app discovery service. It was built and released before Facebook's App Center was announced, and Facebook dev-relations employees had …

The service we were building (I work at app.net) was a social app discovery service. It integrated with Facebook to show you what apps your friends were using and downloading, and …

Awesome, great work. When do you expect google+ integration to be ready?