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Probably because Telstra 5G is currently using the same spectrum as 4G.

Telstra 5G 2019: 3.5GHz

Telstra 5G planned future: 26 - 28GHz

My 20-month-old Pixel 2 got the update today.

Sounds like planned guerrilla marketing.

Cloudflare is amazing but in the long-term they're incredibly dangerous to the future of the internet as they further consolidate traffic and power via their network.

The US is an absolute joke of a country. Just vote candidates in who will make universal healthcare a reality rather than spawn new industries to further extract value. /Australian

Their non-standard GraphQL query language is a huge problem to adoption: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/issues/933

Cloud managed Dgraph instances would also be nice.

Well it's either that or build middleman platforms like Upwork that force workers into bidding wars and fight over scraps to survive. You can either make the world a better place for many, or just enrich yourself.

I understand broke founders who go after the boring startup projects with the goal to just make money. But once you have money behind you that's your rare opportunity to tackle the profound projects that capitalism doesn't really give a shit about.

eg tackle poverty, hunger, homelessness, climate change, freeing everyone from 9-5 jobs to pursue their own passions, reducing living costs to give everyone more free time to pursue their passions, creating new models for collective governance, helping communities to bootstrap collective intelligence, distributing the web and institutions, building models for open P2P accounting and supply chains, brain computer interfaces etc etc etc etc etc.

Attempting to monopolize the home improvement industry by becoming a middleman that routes tasks and takes a cut, with the goal of selling the company off is truly lacking imagination.

At the very least you could build Ergeon as a distributed and open network co-operative. Cap your team to a max of 20 people, pay everyone including yourself the same salary, either distribute zero shares to anyone (inc founders or investors) or equal non-transferable shares to all contractors + team (with dividend payouts), setup the company such that it can never be sold (whatever legal setup makes sense), have public transparent financials, charge a 1% transaction fee but cap your annual budget and pay back any excess to the network of contractors. That would be profound.

Why would a guy with enough personal funds to tackle any project decide to focus on home improvement? How boring and inconsequential to the future of humanity.

So if an unregulated ICO does it, it's bad. But if a regulated ICO does it, that's cool, just regular startup scene behavior. Pump and dump those return multiples on unsophisticated public investors. The VC leeches will love this new short-cycle SEC-endorsed wealth channel.

Boggles my mind that the SEC would give the tick to an ICO with heavily discounted tokens. You gave founders, employees and investors tokens at $0.00012. Then you sold discounted tokens at $0.12. Now you're pumping the pyramid scheme further with a public sale at $0.30.

It's a nice way to pump a 2500x return for yourself and investors before any exchange listing. Can't wait for the SEC to endorse that behavior across the ecosystem. /sarcasm

At ConsenSys we all called it the "shadow hierarchy". Like any cesspit choked with internal contradictions; it implodes.

Will Facebook make Libra the default payment method across its ecosystem of ~3 billion users? Yes.

Is Libra a digital currency created and controlled by an oligarchy ("consortium") of mega-corporations? Yes.

Everything else is propaganda.

What Plex install guide did you use? Few months ago I tried to install Plex to a pi already running Pihole but couldn't get it to work.

Hopefully they recognise their niche and stick to it. I'm particularly interested in Svelte for compiling down to vanilla WebComponents to be used in P2P apps (eg Holochain) where you want the end users to be able to modify components themselves.

Well that's enough to reinforce my switch to https://svelte.dev

I want a JS framework simple enough that even hobbyist devs can understand in an afternoon.

React syntax is an overly complicated mess; like reactivity forcing itself onto HTML.

Current Vue syntax is neat, simple and clear; like HTML with added reactivity.

I've met a hell of a lot of authoritarians in the crypto scene over the past decade. Blockchain technology is a centralized datastore so of course it's a tool for global authoritarianism; think IBM in the 1930s selling slow databases to the Nazi's so they can keep a universal ledger of the Jews.

P2P distributed architectures such as Holochain which actually decentralize data and control are far more positive paradigms for humanity.

Nope both. Holochain core is written in Rust and you code distributed apps ("DNA") in Rust. Polkadot core ("Substrate") is written in Rust and you code smart contracts in Rust ("Ink"). Both compile down to WASM.

Rust. Holochain, Polkadot and others have adopted Rust to solve these issues.

Because it's not $6.99. It's $6.99 multiplied by every platform silo in which the content you want to view is held captive.

The idea is to decouple the content from the platform. So one way you could do it is have the content deployed to an open distributed file storage and streaming protocol (IPFS or Holochain perhaps, blockchain will never scale).

Content creators upload it to this network and the content becomes a standalone entity.

Platforms then have full open access to the content. The platforms compete on the UX/UI and recommendation algorithm layers. Every platform will have access to all content. But if Netflix provides the best viewing experience then people will pay a monthly fee to use it.

Each time the content is streamed, the user (or platform) pays a microfee per minute watched which goes directly back to the content creator.

Omitting quite a few technical details but you get the gist.

Torrents. Either the dumb rentier platform wars end in an open streaming protocol standard, or we just stick with piracy. Capitalism is absurdly inefficient.

Australian. I've seen this circle the internet many times, but I've never seen one in the wild at any beach or river outlet.

Still stereotypical capitalist exploitation of workers through economic arbitrage.

If all of these decentralized identity companies truly want an open and self-sovereign system, the big question is: are they willing to shutdown their operations once that is achieved?

Or are they all attempting to monetize identity with various business models that are against the stated goal?

Identity should be owned by the individual, and the universal decentralized/distributed identity protocol should be owned by the commons. Any for-profit business model for identity (90% of the member companies) will inevitably seek to silo and exploit data to achieve monopoly and extract economic rents.

Step 1) Have $25,000 to gamble on ads in one day. Well, shit.

Yep I've got an index.js file that creates a simple API gateway via a basic switch() on the url pathname. Then individual files for each function. Bundle them into a single script with webpack and copy that into the Workers UI (there's an API for deployment too... eg can use Serverless Framework).

1MB max size, max 5-50ms CPU time, max 128MB RAM: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/writing-workers/re...

That said I've got a worker script running a pass-through websocket to GraphQL origin server and it keeps the connection open.

I'm doing authentication within the worker too. Long-term I can see ability to run absolutely everything there: microservices, GraphQL server (Apollo has a beta), auth, static SPA files, SSR etc. $0.50 per million calls ($5/mth minimum). And they intend to be within 10ms ping of 99% of the global population.

If they can workout how to do databases on the edge (they're working on it), then I can see a future where you could build scalable apps that serve millions of users for maybe less than $100/mth across the entire stack.

Nah they eventually got me on a technicality. 3-day per week gig, but they kept pushing me into doing a 5-day week. I was the "innovation manager" funded by a government grant. So I was a one-man show expected to build, market and sell new profitable internal startups with zero resources or equity.

On a Friday I found out the largest startup conference in Sydney was happening the next week. So I let the boss know I'd be going to that. No response. I went to the conference. When I got back to work they fired me for "not giving 2 weeks leave notice" as was in my contract lol.

The story of how I got fired from the second job was even more sketchy. Involves the largest employer in the crypto industry. HR lied about giving me a warning about "behaviour" (never provided any evidence to the claim) and later admitted to having never contacted me. Small cartel of middle managers in a supposedly "decentralised company" fired me 2 weeks before a 6 month probation without any knowledge or consensus from my regional team or primary team. HR lady was fired 2 months later. They then strung me along for 2 months with a "soon to be proposed" rehire offer. Now they ignore my emails. Classy.

Some ideas:

1) Flash up a QR code (and/or NFC) on the device to allow for crypto payments/buy/sell.

2) Flash up a QR code (and/or NFC) to sell custom store tokens or loyalty points.

My first "real job" (31, had two, fired from both) was in a small web dev shop of about 15 people. One morning I walk into the office and there was a giant wet puddle on the carpet in the middle of the open office. The roof had leaked in the office building and gone through a few floors. The air was damp and all the windows covered in condensation. Clearly a safety and health issue.

I lived about a 10min walk away, so figured I'd just work at home and announced that's what I'd be doing.

Everyone wanted to work elsewhere or from home. However the boss decided that he'd cram everyone into the boardroom for the day.

I was the only one who stood my ground and told the boss I was going home despite his bullshit about not being a "team player". Wage slavery is a dangerous mindset.