jonmaim

Flash loans have to be repaid in the same block/transaction.

There is decentralised finance (defi). One example of application is lending your money (in stablecoin or token format) in a lending protocol of your choice. You can expect a very good yield compared to traditional finance. Aave and Compound are the most famous. This is one type of the many financial applications developed on Ethereum's smart contracts.

Indeed I think they don't ship the whole browser package.

What they might actually do is to locally launch a HTTP server which renders the app if you call it on any browser (localhost:8080 in the examples). The chrome of the app is actually a thin layer that use the default OS web browser. That is why the memory footprint is much less higher that alternatives like electron.

Thanks for mentioning the Fediverse.

Who is paying for server costs?

What a surprise: developers getting screwed by big centralized companies. Nowadays wasting time and money building anything on the shoulder of another company is crazy. It's not if but when are you getting screwed: Twitter, Facebook, Apple, this is history repeating itself plenty fold.

I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform where spending time and money building on it is just worth it for the future.

Have a look at the Steem blockchain: social network like publishing and commenting are free and even rewarded with crypto-currency payouts. And as a developer it is very elegant to develop on it.

filecoin is made by the creators of ipfs.

Thanks!

If you are ready for that, is it possible for a foreign company to obtain an ICP license and thus operate in China?

Good to know!

Any content hosted outside China is very slow for chinese users. So if you're serious about serving content in Mainland China, you will first need to obtain an ICP license. Only then you will be able to use the Mainland CDN and cloud instances.

Sorry it's too late, I already migrated to bitbucket 6 months ago.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

May i ask you where and how are you transitioning your list away from FB?

How do you differentiate from Radbox (radbox.me) ?

expatisan is very nice for big cities, but as soon as you look for smaller city no data is available.

numbeo.com

A very useful site to help you find a good city/country is numbeo.com. There you can make cost-of-living comparison between 2 cities.

For example, look at the difference between Lausanne, Switzerland and Bangalore, India (the indian silicon valley!) -> bit.ly/ltwXUf

Currently doing it in Bangalore, India! Anymore people/couples doing the same right now?

If you can keep the one page no-scroll policy of the default layout that would be awesome!