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by Agebor 8y ago
True, might make it easier in some cases. This is a general architecture decision, unrelated to serverless.
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by Agebor 8y ago
Not sure what do you mean about scaling storage layer separately from the compute layer. It's how it's usually done currently, with the disk being the storage layer. As long as there are machines/containers to be started, the
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by Agebor 8y ago
I would rather disagree with these practices. Some of them are subjective and some will likely be outdated soon. > Each function should do only one thing. The problem with one/a few functions running your entire app, is that when yo
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by Agebor 8y ago
Connecting a DB might be a bad idea only currently, until cloud providers implement some sort of RPC SQL layer. We are successfully running Lambda functions connecting to AWS Aurora MySQL using IAM authentication. It has some quirks but aft
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by Agebor 8y ago
GraphQL is similar to what you describe
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by Agebor 8y ago
Maybe it's also time to realise for OSS developers that they cannot win with the cloud in the long term, so maybe it would be better to work with it. The reality in a few years time will be a multi-cloud environment where it's the
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by Agebor 8y ago
It does, as the regions with different population sizes should have different overall importance.
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by Agebor 8y ago
Look several years into the future and what you could have there is electron being faster/lighter. Being web-based gives you a standard way for fetching and displaying content. It's just a matter of time that the performance impro
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by Agebor 8y ago
Advertising is showing a given set of eyes a given ad. Then how else this particular person can be shown the ad, other than by using some kind of knowledge about them? So then the line can be anywhere between completely random and a single
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by Agebor 9y ago
Perhaps, but also most of technological progress in recent centuries. It's a shame humans have a bias for negativity.
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by Agebor 9y ago
Then the value just diffuses in the whole economy, ending up in investments in countless industries. Instead you can keep it in stocks of companies you believe in, like startups and interesting moonshots. It all ends up with the question -
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by Agebor 9y ago
Reading comments lately on HN feels like an expression of Two Minutes Hate.
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by Agebor 9y ago
- is it correlation or causation? - could the causation be in the other direction? You always need to ask these questions. Perhaps senior people who have immune systems as 20-year olds, are much more likely to cycle in old age. Or there is
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by Agebor 9y ago
https://improbable.io/ are also working on this, though in a much larger setting, e.g. open worlds, MMOs
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by Agebor 9y ago
True. I think my point was more about games with non-trivial rules (or many degrees of freedom). For example going from chess/go to turn-based video games like civ, to starcraft. Usually it involves vastly more possibly positions in ti
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by Agebor 9y ago
> What you just described is a zero sum game. Not if the amounts are different. > Capability and intelligence are starkly contrasted by luck and birth, and this is a problem. One creates meritocracy, the other monarchy Yes, and that i
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by Agebor 9y ago
But what is wealth, and how do you want to share it? It's not a zero sum game. Let's say a billionaire wants to part his ways with $500M. They need to: 1. Sell $500M of shares they are keeping, hence dropping the price of the comp
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by Agebor 9y ago
I think the main problem is with simulating enough games/tries. In the game, you can easily let the AI play against itself countless times. Much, much slower in real life. Until we have good enough simulators/approximators of real
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by Agebor 9y ago
Perfect information is not the case when the AI is reading pixel colors off the screen and pressing keys on the keyboard. This is very like the real-world situation. As for goals, they are indeed better defined in games. But we can create a
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by Agebor 9y ago
> It just needs restraint and better web development with existing standard technologies, and ideally a strong taboo on bloated web-sites. Restraint can't appear out of nowhere, especially when bloating the website frequently works
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by Agebor 9y ago
Or just price manipulation by big holders. External factors/news are often regarded as the cause of dips and gains, while other, often simpler reasons remain under appreciated. This post about XRP applies to roughly every other cryptoc
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by Agebor 9y ago
CDOs are in the research phase currently: https://ethresear.ch/t/collateralized-debt-obligations-for-i...
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by Agebor 9y ago
Why bother if you have a mixer: https://www.privcoin.io/ethereum/
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by Agebor 9y ago
- is the agreement of the community a requirement of the protocol? Yes. Always with a choice of creating your own rules and convincing other to switch to them. Decentralization in this context would mean different rules for every participan
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by Agebor 9y ago
This is a good source about it: https://medium.com/@jonchoi/ethereum-casper-101-7a851a4f1eb0 Main reasons are deducing centralization and more control for protocol designers to fine-tune incentives and punishments, to
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by Agebor 9y ago
In case it does not handle HN traffic well, alternative: https://hackmd.io/s/Hk6UiFU7z
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by Agebor 9y ago
In 5-10 years, you'll click a button to move all your functions to a decentralised computing fog.
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by Agebor 9y ago
Talking about distributed ledgers, blockchains is kind of misleading. Fundamentally, this technology implements distributed trust. You can put some information there and it will remain, forever. Everyone can see that this data (and hence,
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by Agebor 9y ago
People value proxies, like cash. It goes like this: proxy (cash/cryptocurrency) -> belief -> result/other resource
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by Agebor 9y ago
> Don't go into open source expecting anyone to pay you. It doesn't work like that. It's changing a bit in the crypto space. Take a look at: - https://gitcoin.co/

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