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bondon Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network

A complete S3 service on top of Sia is what SiaPrime[0] is doing.

[0] - https://siaprime.net/

bondon Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight

More like a first hover... Congrats!

bondon How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)

Top Gun...

bondon Home-built 737 cockpit

That brings back some memories of when I was building my CRJ cockpit. Fun times.

bondon Fukushima's surfers riding on radioactive waves

Nice :)

bondon Buying an Amiga 30 years later

I remember playing R-Type and it was a blast at that time. The Amiga was really a beast compared to my spectrum and timex machines.

bondon Buying an Amiga 30 years later

My god, a Timex 2068, have't heard that in a long time. Had one and it was great.

bondon Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros

The name is different... ;)

bondon Xamarin Forms: it works

Also showing a parked domain...

bondon Show HN: Video Hub App – like YouTube for videos on your computer

Good that someone created a tool like this.

Learned english when I was a kid by watching cartoons with subtitles... Good luck.

bondon Why It's So Hard to Learn Another Language After Childhood

When I was a kid I learned english by watching cartoons and movies with subtitles, in Portugal we have subtitles in pretty much everything except comercials.

As I grew up it was easy to learn a few words in other languages due to watching movies. This is extremely easy and I can see why other european cultures don't speak other languages more easily, all is translated to their native language so they don't have that correlation on what is being said with the meaning....

bondon Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves

Maybe something like Selfkey would be useful...

https://selfkey.org/

bondon IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur

A review on siacoin would be great..

bondon Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business

In Romania they do..

bondon Ask HN: My free app has gone slighty viral – looking for ideas to monetize it

My opinion is not to listen people telling you not to put ads. Remember, your demographics is not first tier so that advice doesn't apply... You'd be surprised what a banner or an interstitial can bring on those countries....

bondon Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures

Every time I read about Twitpic closing I remember this...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/twitpic-noah-everett/

bondon Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise

Maybe they can use an existing coin like Karma...

http://karmacoin.me/

bondon PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future is now

This brings back some memories. Used to do some experiments using POV Ray back in the day.

I remember how slow the process was, it could take several hours/days to generate an image full of reflections, but in the end the results were usually stunning...

Link: http://www.povray.org/

bondon Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video]

Here comes their favorite word..."nominal"... :)

bondon Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop

If only could be used for android development...

bondon App Store Pricing: Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee

Increase the price...

bondon It's Behind You: The making of the game R-Type on the ZX Spectrum

One of my favorite games I played on my Spectrum and on a friend's Amiga.

bondon JustFab Raises Another $40M Led By Hong Kong’s Shining Capital

Don't act dumb...

bondon Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry