One project I really like is Streamr. It looks promising. Monetizing realtime data on top of ethereum. It's great to see projects on top of ethereum creating real value.
I respect your point of view. I like the project as i like Golem. They are trying to build decentralized cloud services on top of an existing blockchain.
Hacker news is not read by idiots, so please don't accuse me of trying to deceive readers. The average reader here is quite smart, they don't need your defense.
Here is a post he wrote about leaving Poland and starting his journey to emigrate to the US. He ended working as Director of security @ google even without a college degree.
https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/on-journeys.html
> Within this nascent computer world, Luhn cut an unusual figure. An elegant dresser throughout his life, Luhn knew more about the textiles industry than computer science when he arrived at IBM in 1941.
So it might be more the exception than the rule there as well.
"Experience has prevent that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of the basic system principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.
This is achieved by:
disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity.
engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers.
giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need.
rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.
These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions. "
For they go on saying that the big fish eats the little fish,
without asking whether little fish swim up to big fish and
ask to be eaten. They accept the devouring dragon without
wondering whether a fashionable crowd of princesses ran after
the dragon to be devoured. They have never heard of a fashion;
and do not know the difference between fashion and fate.
The necessitarians have here carefully chosen the one example of
something that is certainly not necessary, whatever else is necessary.
They have chosen the one thing that does happen still to be free,
as a proof of the unbreakable chains in which all things are bound.
Very little is left free in the modern world; but private buying
and selling are still supposed to be free; and indeed still
are free; if anyone has a will free enough to use his freedom.
Children may be driven by force to a particular school. Men may be driven
by force away from a public-house. All sorts of people, for all sorts
of new and nonsensical reasons, may be driven by force to a prison.
But nobody is yet driven by force to a particular shop.
Depends on your experience level. If you have never setup postfix/exim/sendmail to do more than accept local mail then it will indeed be a giant headache. With a bit of work with dovecot and postfix you can have yourself a very nice mail-server. That said, there is a point at which the self-hosting pain point is not necessarily realistic, and if you have two accounts you need and they're $4/month elsewhere, why bother would be the discussion to have.
Generally you don't want to host email or DNS yourself but I think if done right and you keep them on their own servers it can be great in the long run.
I am a fan of self-hosting, right up until the point it crashes on you and you have to spend a weekend fixing it. You are right, email is one of the biggest headaches out there.
I took a pod from the list:
http://podupti.me/
Went to sign up:
https://poddery.com/users/sign_up
There is no way to use my facebook or google account to sign up! IMHO, The barrier of entry for regular people is too high...
