When I was in college, I'd come up with a similar concept for creating addresses for the developing world. For those that don't know, most of the world actually doesn't have any address and the governments have no plans in place to solve this.
Basically have a third party DNS like company and all it would do would be digital addressing. Since we would also deliver the mail, there was the added benefit of not sharing your actual address, temporarily sharing it, having alternatives based on day, kind etc and potentially just sharing your phone number as your address etc etc
Looking back, this would've been a great company but one that almost no investor would fund
I have never understood this. You build a house somewhere, develop your existence, etc.. Surely you have a way of telling others where you live? Simply give your place a name, if there are multiple buildings there, give them numbers, et voila you have an address. Why isn't this what is happening? Isn't this what happened everywhere where there are addresses? We don't have street names and numbers, because a central number authority chose to assign them, we have them because humans give things names in order to refer to them. So whenever someone is claiming that there are people living without an address, I find that incomprehensible.
People live somewhere that doesn't have a name yet. They are going to name it anyways since they talk to others (I live near the new bridge). Eventually someone is hanging up a sign "new-bridge-street" and the name standardizes so bypassers will get to know the name also.
Isn't that how street names came into existence everywhere?
before centralization, maybe. currently how do you think the post office will know some randos hung a sign saying "new-bridge-street" somewhere? Do you think they browse the streets to observe latest changes? Feels like I am talking to a teenager.
> most of the world actually doesn't have any address and the governments have no plans in place to solve this
I thought we were talking about a situation, where there is no system already in place? Either there is no postal service, so this will be bootstrapped as well, if people care about mail, or there is already. In the latter case, they either have a system, in which case there would be in fact an address system, so it is irrelevant for the current consideration, or they don't. While I don't know how this state is supposed to exist, streets signs from randos would be an improvement so, why wouldn't they adopt it?
Also in case the local authority doesn't care anyway, you only need to convince your local delivery guy who lives next door and faces the same problem.
Giving your lat and long solves this, without recourse to proprietary systems, similar sounding words or requiring a proficiency in the English language.
The problem with lat/long at this resolution is -> Too many numbers. Get one wrong and you are somewhere else. what3words identifies the correct problem, provides a solution, but I agree that it has its flaws. I wish some independent org can come up with a better standard that addresses those.
It's $120/TB for the first 10TB in a month, so you need to be spending >$1200 just on bandwidth every month before you even get the "discounted" rates.
Vercel heavy user here. They have a very misleading pricing. It's "starting at $150", it varies depending on the region. I end up paying $400 / TB as we have a very international website.
this +100 I can't just let some random exe run on my machine with nothing but claims from the author.
In my head, I'm also wondering why a botnet wouldn't just want to take over such a machine because they know for sure that it's a scarecrow. But security by obscurity is no way to instill trust here
Claims by an unidentified author(s) replying to comments with a 4-hour old HN account.. How did this make it to the front page other than the catchy name?
Wow! Apple does Apple again. Just carved the exception to the EU market. I was hoping these pushes would stir changes across the globe but I guess the market size is too big especially the US market
Surprisingly enough, I actually _want_ mine turned on. I normally look through when I found a particular site and just can't remember what it was but vaguely remember the dates or some other information about them. I'm happy Google is even sharing these controls but I would assume anything that's deleted here is a soft delete on their system
I too like my every action and utterance being recorded by massive corporation with ties to intelligence just in case I have to go back and find my lost keys!
This is materially impacting us. We were just about to launch a feature and have a call with customers in a few minutes :cry:
The release is blocked on deploy (managed by GH Actions) so I'm literally doing a build and eventually k8s deploy from my machine
Basically have a third party DNS like company and all it would do would be digital addressing. Since we would also deliver the mail, there was the added benefit of not sharing your actual address, temporarily sharing it, having alternatives based on day, kind etc and potentially just sharing your phone number as your address etc etc
Looking back, this would've been a great company but one that almost no investor would fund