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if you didn't like the term smart contracts in the header image, you probably won't like it in the body either :)

i don't believe they are the same thing

here's an example that might help -- you can allow key A to own your identity and key B to move your identity to another key. But key B can only move the identity after a time dela…

not a dumb question. if you squint, the protocol i've described is really a fancy version of RSS. In fact, the original brainstorm doc for this idea was titled RSS+ :)

a simple mechanism is using a smart contract to map your key (0x123) to an identity (@alice). the contract can allow you to transfer that identity to a different key (important for…

author here. what distributed database would let you own your identity without any third party party being able to take it away from you? that's a necessary condition for sufficien…

what is the best reading you've found that explains polycentricity well?

author here - happy to answer questions folks have. we've also been building a sufficiently decentralized protocol called Farcaster, and you can check it out here: https://github.c…

account recovery is very possible with smart contracts and public-key crypto

author here - you're right that the average user doesn't care about decentralization as a first order benefit. people typically use social networks to be entertained / informed or …

if im not mistaken, whatsapp already monetizes their users, charging $1 / year after the first year. with 700m active users, they potentially could be generating ~ 3.6% of their sa…

Not a pedantic distinction at all - on a second read, I completely see the confusion, and I'm going to reword the article to separate the concepts of dynamic range (which is just a…

hey anigbrowl, OP here. You raise some great points - it is indeed impossible to use an MBC to bring sounds back into a user's range of hearing if they have lost all sensibility at…

OP here. Some argue that in-ear earbuds send more high frequency energy directly into the ear than headphones, so the balance of sound is always tilted towards the highs, which ove…

Hey anigbrowl - thanks for the detailed reply and the tip on the Yamaha NS-10's, I'll have to pick up a pair soon. To my earlier point - you're correct, what I meant is that its ma…

Stoev, thanks for the feedback we'll keep that in mind, we've had a couple requests for a DAC only version so far. If you shoot me an email (in my HN profile) I can reach out to yo…

Hey stoev - Amp founder here. Great comments, tailoring to your hearing pattern and headphones is a big part of what we focus on in addition to your environment, and I'm glad you'r…

We used Flurry last summer, but ended up switching to Localytics who we've been very happy with. The main reason was real-time data (which was really important to us since Flurry w…