I get that App.net is supposed about owning your own data, and sure there's a brief mention of PRISM at the top. But why I would want to write an app for it in the era of PRISM? How can I trust this notion of a "private cloud?"
What I'm looking for now is more decentralization and encryption than a walled garden.
>Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins from other registered addresses, else they are black flagged and no longer a registered address.
This particular implementation wouldn't actually work. Anyone can send BTC to any address, so it would be easy to poison the well.
(But I suspect some similar scheme could be feasible. You might be able to enforce the rule on BTC->$ withdrawls? I wonder about mixers, though.)
This particular implementation wouldn't actually work. Anyone can send BTC to any address, so it would be easy to poison the well.
You could easily have software that would automatically turn over to the government any coins sent from addresses that are not registered. It's like if you found a briefcase full of money: you'd turn it over to the police (or maybe you wouldn't, but that's what you should do). With software, it could just be automatic.
If you refuse to run software that does this, or you don't turn over coins received from blacklisted sources within some period of time, you get blacklisted.
Yeah, such generalizations make no sense. Your mileage will depend on the characteristics of your workload.
I've been working on a HN clone. The HN codebase creates a ton of small files for storage (one per post or comment), which need to be loaded up en masse on startup. Switching to Digital Ocean from Linode reduced startup time by 50x.
That's interesting because cost is Linode's reason for not offering SSD. Digital Ocean actually uses very expensive enterprise SSD in the servers. I'm a current customer of Digital Ocean after being with Linode for over 2 years.
When I looked at their site I didn’t see information about what kind of SSDs they are using and, based on the price, assumed they are MLC (consumer grade). I’d never want that on a server.
>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to be interesting, engaging, and meaningful. Otherwise, why are we wasting our time on this planet?
A little early for April Fools'. Let's try this again.
>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to get things done. If your work is useful to other people, you will be able to enjoy life on this planet for a long time.
Not really. The work must be enjoyable for self before it help others. And that won't happen unless we know our interests.
E.g. Everyone at the restaurant admires good service; but not every waitress enjoys her job; those who do, keep their own as well as others' interests.
> The work must be enjoyable for self before it help others.
The garbage man who doesn't enjoy carrying your trash away still helps you get rid of your trash. The truck driver who doesn't enjoy driving still gets your food to the store...
Sure there are a lot of jobs that people can do better if they enjoy them, but that's certainly not all of them.
Getting to have a job you enjoy is a luxury that most people in the world don't have.
