How Many Devs Does It Take to Fly on Mars?
What's David's hot take on Facebook's pivot to audio? Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake! ALSO: are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? 😱 Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors —
This Wee...
What's David's hot take on Facebook's pivot to audio? Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake! ALSO: are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? 😱 Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors —
This Week on Planet Internet:
- Props to the 12k open source devs Github says contributed to Ingenuity's maiden voyage! (0:33)
- Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake (3:52)
- Catch David's Hot Take on Facebook's pivot to audio (06:18)
- Hey WTF happened to Libra? (07:23)
- Are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? (08:50)
- Is Substack's margin really Facebook's opportunity? (11:03)
- Find out how Facebook's moderators accidentally helped Hacker Noon sell more t-shirts (15:46)
- Is any system that claims to be blockchain voting "neither blockchain, nor voting?" (17:13)
- Do you stan #decentralization? (22:42)
- What worldwide crypto adoption sounds like (25:23)
- Oh hey, happy 4/20, everybody! (30:12)
Read the tech stories talked about this podcast:
1. Open source goes to Mars by Nat Friedman for The GitHub Blog: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/
2. Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio by Casey Newton from Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/p/5-takeaways-about-facebooks-pivot
3. 3 Reasons Why Blockchain Won't #ReleaseTheKraken: An Interview with John Sebes of TrustTheVote.org by Benjamin Bateman for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/3-reasons-why-blockchain-wont-releasethekraken-an-interview-with-john-sebes-of-trustthevoteorg-713i339y
4. Cannabis banking act passes U.S. House with bipartisan support by Matt Burns (lol) for Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/cannabis-banking-act-passes-u-s-house-with-bipartisan-support/
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