Hacker News: Andrew_Quentin

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends"

Andrew_Quentin — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:34:23 +0000

Wow, this place has completely transformed then? More like pleb news nowadays I guess rather than hacker news. Shame.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Google Is Not God of the Web"

Andrew_Quentin — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:26:05 +0000

Everyone is an outlier to an 'average.'

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Google Is Not God of the Web"

Andrew_Quentin — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:02:54 +0000

And it creates monopolies, perfect for gulag control of the people.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Google Is Not God of the Web"

Andrew_Quentin — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:01:54 +0000

How does google know they hit back within three seconds? Oh yeah, monopoly. Break them up.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Google Is Not God of the Web"

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 23:59:21 +0000

They decide by the Wired guys having a coffee with the Google guys or a chat in some party.

Google is people afterall. Corrupt as fuck. That's why plenty call it gulag.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends"

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 23:38:00 +0000

Are you a bot? Where do you find those stupid words? No wonder you're attracted to useless positions for status.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 28 May 2020 01:31:49 +0000

I'm saying there are laws against foreign interference in domestic politics for obvious reasons, so if some foreign government for example - which can openly buy Twitter stocks as there is no legal restriction and can do so either directly or like with Reddit indirectly by getting Tencent to buy it off - is moderating the speech of the president, then there's a big problem.

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 28 May 2020 01:09:58 +0000

Twitter is not a private company, it's a publicly tradable company that can technically even fully be owned by the Chinese government itself through perfectly legally buying their shares on the open market.

You don't see a problem here?

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results"

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 28 May 2020 01:07:00 +0000

Ah, so that's why Google has added site speed to their ranking factors? Another brick to hit them with then in the anti-trust lawsuits.

Hacker Makes $360k ETH from a Flash Loan Single Transaction

Andrew_Quentin — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:32:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/02/15/hacker-makes-360000-eth-from-a-flash-loan-single-transaction-involving-fulcrum-compound-dydx-and-uniswap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22337375

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

Ethereum Based Tokens Near $10B in Combined Market Cap

Andrew_Quentin — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:13:15 +0000

Article URL: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/08/28/ethereum-based-tokens-near-10-billion-combined-market-cap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15117043

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bitcoin Cash Starts Trading

Andrew_Quentin — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 15:33:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/07/22/bitcoin-cash-starts-trading-reaches-high-nearly-900

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14827668

Points: 123

# Comments: 90

Ethereum Will Bypass Bitcoin in Market Cap Says Union Square’s Fred Wilson

Andrew_Quentin — Thu, 18 May 2017 17:10:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/05/18/ethereum-will-bypass-bitcoin-market-cap-says-union-squares-fred-wilson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14369008

Points: 16

# Comments: 4

Is Google Stealing Money from Adsense Publishers?

Andrew_Quentin — Sun, 07 May 2017 14:25:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/05/07/google-stealing-money-adsense-publishers-can-blockchain-help

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14285601

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ethereum at a Crossroad as Corporate Interest Grows

Andrew_Quentin — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:59:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethereum-crossroad-corporate-interest-grows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508065

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Andrew_Quentin in "Decentralized platform for photo sales and photo sharing, built on Ethereum"

Andrew_Quentin — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:26:57 +0000

The interface, as in the website, is often a centralized point. Admins can remove stuff from there which easily deals with CP reflecting to a large extent the current situation - sending CP stuff to some fringe.

In more grey areas, although admins can remove, say, free speech pictures, the picture remains there, with anyone free to create a new interface allowing the picture to be easily accessed. So it's a bit similiar to the internet where anyone can - or maybe now, could - create a new site and upload the info.

You can then add more user level jury aspects on top, but I doubt anyone wants to face that sort of stuff and moderate it if the network was to gain scale. If we go back to the centralized website though, it becomes a bit interesting.

Take Milo's banning example - just because it is the most recent and comes to mind. We have the twitter website with Milo banned. Under this scheme, we can have a twitter classic with Milo not banned. Both of them have the same network effect, the same users etc, they identical in all ways, but in one Milo is banned in the other Milo isn't with the only other difference being that they have different domain names.

When we all agree something is abhorrent, everyone uses the non cp network through the centralized website interface, while some go to... like now we have internet and tor, when something is in a bit of a grey area, however, there is an added benefit.

Say, for example, reddit took some action against everyone's opinion. The current option is for everyone to move to a new site. That's of course a bit difficult as it requires a change of habit and changing habits can be stupendously extremely hard.

With this, or more generally, with a blockchain based approach, you don't ask anyone to shift at all. There is no shifting. All users remain, the entire network effect is still there. There are no bootstrapping questions etc. No starting back from zero. All there is, is typing a new domain, far, far easier than persuading everyone to start a new town in a ghost desert place.

So, it is obviously not a utopia, but, it is a bit of an improvement. The whole thing is very much at a cable switching for phone calls stage though, so, everyone is sort of considering this matters.