Janker

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   by Janker 5y ago

   I find it hard to discuss consciousness without first trying to come of a definition of it. Is self-awareness a condition for consciousness, or even the ability to contemplate consciousness? That being said I liked "the hidden spring&q
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   by Janker 5y ago

   The constant conflation of block chain and bitcoin makes the article tiresome. Furthermore the author seems only to propose "everyone uses it" use cases. Imo the most useful use cases are distributed ledgers used between companies
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   by Janker 5y ago

   Even though it provides an interesting take on some flavours of historical timekeeping it disregards many others - water clocks, candle clocks and hourglasses were (imperfect) manmade constructions to fix timeframes. Evolutions in accuracy