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www.nytimes.com 3y ago

Ethereum’s energy use expected to reduce by more than 99 percent after “merge”

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etherflow.quiknode.io 5y ago

Show HN: I built an Ethereum Node debugging tool

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developer.ap.org 5y ago

AP reports US election results via Ethereum blockchain

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decrypt.co 6y ago

PAN Protocol is an anonymous, censorship-resistant database of police misconduct

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

Getting Ahead of the Cryptocurrency Wave and Generating Early Revenue

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

Getting Ahead of the Cryptocurrency Wave and Generating Early Revenue

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Show HN: CBlocks – A Mystery Box of Cryptocurrency

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urchin.biz 9y ago

The origin story of Google Analytics

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www.nbcnews.com 11y ago

Miami Seeks Apps to Save the World

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Whats the hacker house that will let you stay for free if you interview?

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faye.jcoglan.com 13y ago

Faye - A really cool pub/sub messaging system for node/ruby

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github.com 13y ago

A message bus in ruby on top of redis

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abunsen.ruhoh.com 13y ago

Why do I care?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

HN: Please come to my conference for free ;)

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superconf.co 13y ago

HNer's - If you want to come to my conference, I'll give you a ticket for free

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github.com 13y ago

dm-cache: new caching method that operates within the Linux kernel

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www.fastcompany.com 13y ago

Nightlife Innovation? Only in Miami.

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igorgue.com 13y ago

PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal

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www.morganstanley.com 13y ago

Morgan Stanley research on LatAm Internet market pre-dotcom bust

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daltoncaldwell.com 13y ago

Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware

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www.youngentrepreneur.com 13y ago

Is Working at a Startup a Waste of Time for Future Founders?

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emmanuelpozo.com 13y ago

Why my first startup in the valley “flopped”

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Flomio (Tagstand competitor) releases Zapps (NFC app shortcuts)

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www.eyecon.ro 14y ago

Bootstrap Datepicker

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abunsen.ruhoh.com 14y ago

How get a return on your effort at a startup

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mixergy.com 14y ago

Mixergy Interview - Grubwithus: Eddy Lu

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lollaland.wordpress.com 14y ago

What it’s Like to Be on Shark Tank

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www.fastcompany.com 14y ago

Pinterest Designer Sahil Lavingia And His New E-Commerce Site Gumroad

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money.cnn.com 14y ago

Innovative financing for startups

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betakit.com 14y ago

BetaKit - NFC Enabled Devices and Brand Adoption on the Rise

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https://www.accessgrid.com/ - The best way to issue and manage secure NFC credentials for Apple and Google Wallet via API.

No app required!

We took all of the complexity of issuing MIFARE DESFire enabled NFC credentials and made it extremely developer friendly. SDKs in most major languages (python, ruby, csharp, js, etc), developer console with request logs, and more.

I think he makes legit points:

1. NFT spec is flimsy at best

2. We trust output from ETH nodes inherently

3. Most of the user facing clients for Web3 are decentralized

4. Power is easily rolled up into convenience providers like QuickNode

but I think something that is (perhaps conveniently missed) is that there is A LOT of power in having decentralized / censorship-resistant state - this is the thing that makes DeFi a real threat to orgs like exchanges and banks. They can't force people to have a certain amount of capital to trade derivatives or have a certain credit profile to borrow, the system is permissionless and the API is open 24/7.

That's pretty remarkable IMO and I think that sort of permissionless is likely to be used for very compelling things in the future, NFTs aside.

Also one thing that he notes but doesn't quite provide a solution for but I'm betting will exist in the near future is a markup language to map UI components to smart contract functions/views.

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The issue is that deferred prosecutions shouldn't be offered to anyone, instead of as yourself and parent imply, being offered to this guy. In this case the system worked, in the others, it needs to be adjusted.

If it is offered to others, it should be offered here. Let's keep people out of cages.

I disagree, if this is passed, everybody break it and call your congress person / senators and complain that it was passed.

disclaimer: also not a lawyer.

Yeah this part had me baffled:

“ In other words, while it’s possible for an individual bank to boost its reserves by selling assets to raise capital, it’s mechanically impossible for the entire banking industry to collectively raise its reserves industry-wide.”

Why not? I have confidence people would rally together to buy distressed bank assets at rock bottom prices.