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Encapsulated vs. systemic complexity in protocol design(vitalik.ca)
17 points by CurrentB 5y ago|1 comments
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Coinbase 2021 Q4 Shareholder letter [pdf](s27.q4cdn.com)
1 points by CurrentB 5y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 5y ago
Totally agree wrt marketplace. For awhile it was great, the only reason to sign on to Facebook. You could sell anything locally easily and quickly. It really pulled off being a better craigslist which is no easy feat and not something I eve
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by CurrentB 5y ago
> Get a loan from your bank, and refuse to pay it back. I don't even know where to begin when it comes to examples of just that happening. Defaulting on debt is something that happens with every single form of credit. It's extr
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by CurrentB 5y ago
Borrowers cannot be "made" to repay debt in traditional finance either. Lenders must make decisions based on some measure of the credit worthiness of potential borrowers. The same mechanisms could be replicated on blockchains. See
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by CurrentB 5y ago
There's no reason why Blockchains can't also incorporate their own trust model to facilitate lending that isn't fully collateralized. There are already projects working towards this. Pseudonymous p2p lending isn't some i
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by CurrentB 5y ago
I agree the results are bad unfortunately. I really do want to like duck duck go. I want to get away from Google and am still in the middle of a full switch to ddg, but I don't know how much longer I can last. The problem is even if 90
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by CurrentB 5y ago
1password now has exactly this implemented with fastmail integration. You can generate a new email just as easily as a password when you make an account
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by CurrentB 5y ago
Nice read. What I don't get about all the crypto haters, who will probably make up the majority of replies here, are they really just happy with the status quo? Do they really think the current financial system is great and their onlin
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FTX’s Key Principles for Market Regulation of Crypto-Trading Platforms(ftxpolicy.com)
1 points by CurrentB 5y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 5y ago
Any tips for how one might maintain composure enough to handle these situations if they ever find themselves in them? I imagine the obvious answer is just practice saying "no comment, I need my lawyer present" but I'm not con
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by CurrentB 5y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas... This has been a greatly appreciated plugin for these scenarios (it's on Firefox as well)
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by CurrentB 7y ago
But a much much more limited scale and years away from widespread usage. It's one ideal city hard coded into the technology vs tens of real stores using the real technology that could be installed in a 3rd party store today. I could be
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by CurrentB 7y ago
So if you close your eyes and visualize a grocery store experience where you put stuff directly into your tote bags or your backpack and walk right out, with 0 time spent on anything after you have everything you need, this doesn't see
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by CurrentB 7y ago
What I mean is that people are looking at self-driving as the next huge thing in automation that is "around the corner" for some definition of that time frame. But these stores exist today and make traditional cashiers obsolete in
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by CurrentB 7y ago
It it just me or are people massively underestimating this? I feel like the impact of this will be close to the self driving car in terms of a vast rollout of massive new automation. I've been to Amazon Go a few times, the small one in
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Password data for ~2.2M users of Gatehub and EpicBot dumped online(arstechnica.com)
3 points by CurrentB 7y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 7y ago
You won't necessarily have to use it directly to reap benefits from it. API authors can use it to provide you with excellent error messages which pinpoint the exact location something is wrong
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Fed Reserve to Create Payments System(wsj.com)
1 points by CurrentB 7y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 7y ago
I'm excited that some of the ideas from Datomic are starting to make it into some open source projects. With crux last month and now Eva, there are now multiple options for modern clojure databases. While there are many excellent ideas
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Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value database in Clojure(github.com)
255 points by CurrentB 7y ago|62 comments
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Crux: Bitemporal graph query db for Clojure and java(github.com)
6 points by CurrentB 7y ago|2 comments
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Subway Chief May Quit over Tensions with Cuomo, Colleagues Fear(nytimes.com)
1 points by CurrentB 7y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 8y ago
I've had volume issues with the AirPods on my android (Pixel 2). They were so quiet that I could barely hear anything at full volume over normal street noise walking around in the city. I ended up selling them. This was over a year ago
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by CurrentB 8y ago
As a developer who has repeatedly tried and given up on linux on laptops, a Pixelbook with crostoni has been the first that I have been extremely happy with. Everything I use just works pretty much as it should.
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Against the Current by Chris Granger: The Story of Light Table and Eve(youtube.com)
5 points by CurrentB 8y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 8y ago
Only if 100% of your contacts use iPhones.
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How Did New York's Trains Get So Bad?(nytimes.com)
2 points by CurrentB 9y ago|0 comments
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by CurrentB 12y ago
Yeah that is extremely annoying.
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by CurrentB 12y ago
See here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/263656-dangers-of-wearing-... Basically I wore them for the majority of the hours of the day (during sleep + while working) for over two years without any issues then I had a

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