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• Regular blogging to build the community and position our company as a thought leader
• Tracking and reporting of analytics to drive decisions
• Lead expansion of online and in-person offerings
I’m trying to think of use-cases for trusted stable-coins. The obvious one is just another way to sell products — this has failed for Bitcoin due to volatility risk.
One scenario I can think of is a decentralized e-reader and e-book marketplace:
- you have an e-reader app that is capable of decrypting books stored somewhere, as long as the content was encrypted with your public key
- authors publish their books to contracts that accept payments via an ERC20 stable-coin
- the contract responds by encrypting a copy of the book with your public key and placing it at a location your e-reader can retrieve it
Are there inherent advantages to a decentralized book store vs. Amazon though? Not sure…
This feels a bit to me like saying: "electric cars still have to charge their batteries somewhere, and they aren't necessarily being charged with renewable energy."
Electric cars provide the capability to power a car with renewable energy. Powering the grid with electric energy is a separate problem.
IPFS provides the capability of distribution. Incentivizing pinning is indeed a separate problem, but providing this capability feels like a huge step forward to me.
Likewise if the process of distribution was automated there would be people complaining about opt-in being a waste of their own resources for content they don't care about, or something.
Exactly this. I don't understand why this is being thrown about like it's a bad thing; I gladly pinned all of Wikipedia, but it's also a huge amount of data and I made sure I was prepared to follow through before I asked my IPFS node to do it. If there's content out there that has earned my respect, I'll pin it gladly just to help the authors out, especially if they ask me politely.
To be fair, some of this is automated. If you browse using your own node, it does maintain a small cache, which helps with the load distribution when something gets really popular. This blog post is a good example; despite literally being the #1 item on HN, it's still up; that's the global IPFS cache at work. It's slower than the average site, sure, but it didn't outright vanish, even though the author clearly is using minimal resources to actually host it. I think that's awesome.
More realistically it would have the same complains as services like Freenet. You are in legal limbo if you just host random stuff and it's not too unlikely to get all your equipment confiscated.
I'm seeing more of these "anti-blockchain" criticisms circulating lately. This one makes valid points about problems with the present state of the ecosystem, but the author seems to ignore the fact that these problems are addressable.
His basic criticism of smart contracts is they can have bugs, and they can be costly since they will often involve moving money. Yes, this is a fact. Many potential solutions are out there, but how about these two ideas for starters:
- a crypto-currency where at least accounts for certain transactions can be de-anonymized, so a person can be identified and face consequences when they commit a crime like hacking.
- special transactions with settlement periods in which they can be canceled in the event of a hack, which might be identified by voter consensus.
I recall that https://bitcoinbuilder.com allowed people to purchase locked up GOX coins during this fiasco. This would be a good time to check up on those accounts.
It seems like Wikipedia would be familiar with a lot of the same challenges that come with identifying fake news articles. Anyone more familiar than I am with Wikipedia care to comment?
Wikipedia has a policy to only accept reliable secondary sources on controversial political articles. What comprises a "reliable source" is loosely defined, and what sources are considered reliable is ultimately decided by the editors in a somewhat per-article basis, with some global definitions which are not centrally listed anywhere but are enforced by senior editors and their admin friends. Because of the systematic bias that Wikipedia suffers from there is strong partisan bias in this selection, which resulted in a number of wiki clones with their own bias (e.g. Conservapedia), forums dedicated to show how bad this is (e.g. /r/wikiinaction) and has - among other things - been leading to a steady decline in the number of editors in the last couple years - everyone eventually gets bullied away from that place by a clique of editors + admins.
Quoting Wikipedia policy itself:
>If Wikipedia had been available around the sixth century B.C., it would have reported the view that the Earth is flat as a fact and without qualification. And it would have reported the views of Eratosthenes (who correctly determined the earth's circumference in 240BC) either as controversial, or a fringe view. Similarly if available in Galileo's time, it would have reported the view that the sun goes round the earth as a fact, and if Galileo had been a Vicipaedia editor, his view would have been rejected as 'originale investigationis'.
My personal rule is Wikipedia is very reliable in non-controversial topics, and should be trusted only as much as source of links and search keywords and information about some of the existing opinions for controversial topics. Which is something, but definitely not a full solution of a problem.
I imagine it won't happen because in some ways it's kind of backwards, but I hate running with my phone, especially because I have a huge 6+.
It seems like a simple thing to just want to be able to take some of my music/podcasts with me running, but it's not realistic unless I own a separate iPod shuffle that I then have to deal with. Adding a small amount of memory to AirPods would make this possible and relatively seamless.
I sync a playlist of my music from my 6S onto my Apple Watch rev. 1 and use a pair of beats solo 3. Works daaaaandy.
The Apple Watch is far, far too goddamn expensive, though. Let's get it down to at least $199, guys, and don't force us to pair an iPhone with it. It's what the iPod Nano turned into. Why is it so much more expensive?
If people could just buy an Apple Watch, it could convince them to buy further into the Apple ecosystem, in the same way as the iPod did (but obviously not to such a scale).
Presumably you would have to sync the iPod Shuffle equivalent as you would the AirPods. Maybe the issue is more with their syncing? (I know I find it annoying.)
DHH from 37Signals mentioned on Twitter recently that he has two iPhones - 6+ and a 6. Larger one for around the house, in bed, etc and the other when out and about. It struck me as an almost affordable luxury for some people, if you can endure any syncing hassles.
On the surface it would seem not, but going by my usage, I think there's a difference. Since getting a 6+, my iPads go largely unused. There are 3 iPads in my house and my wife and I both regularly watch streaming content on our phones. I think it's because you tend to have your phone with you as you move from the kitchen to the couch to the home office to read/watch before bed, etc.
For DHH, I guess it's a combination of that and the fact that he doesn't want something as large as a 6+ in his pocket all the time.
But in terms of having the two devices, then little different. Obviously an affordable luxury given that many households would have phones and a tablet. I just hadn't thought of it being two different sizes of phone before.
I just made my way through the first few sections. This is really great content, and I think you've done a nice job of making it accessible to beginners.
I'll be pointing many of my bootcamp prep learners to it for practice.
First Step Coding is hiring a growth marketing manager to join a small team of 3 to grow a profitable education business with product-market fit.
We occupy a unique niche in the coding bootcamp space. For most of our students, our classes are their first serious foray into coding. Since we focus exclusively on the introductory level, we have opportunities to partner with many other organizations in the space.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Primary ownership of marketing, advertising, and copy to grow top-of-funnel
• Regular blogging to build the community and position our company as a thought leader
• Tracking and reporting of analytics to drive decisions
• Lead expansion of online and in-person offerings
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