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by Jd 7y ago
The problem with this article is that it seems to cherry pick the easiest examples of pagan identity to criticize and then simply rebukes them by pithy aphorism. This makes it an extremely uninformed article. The mainstream witchcraft (i.e
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by Jd 7y ago
There were a few cryptos that tried the exact same thing before Maker. Notably NuBits and BitShares, both of who had dollar equivalents with what was at the time more collateral in their native crypto than the dollar peg. In all instances a
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by Jd 7y ago
I've heard this from people other than yourself but are there any write ups or documentation of the "early days" of MMA/UFC?
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by Jd 7y ago
If someone would compile it this is the sort of report I would read (and pay for) gladly (i.e. what martial arts are used in military / police academies and the rationale).
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by Jd 7y ago
All the more reason to support a social media platform that creates extreme groupthink?
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by Jd 7y ago
I know that dog created the universe with a pair of parentheses and after that it was pretty much backwards and uphill. ok maybe not: https://xkcd.com/224/
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by Jd 7y ago
TLDR: Two zero days. Complex social engineering including spoofed university emails and identities. Not a lot of detail.
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by Jd 8y ago
Grade inflation is a relic of the Vietnam war era where grades were systematically inflated to keep people from the draft. Also happened uniformly across top tier schools and its hard to do a rollback (especially at one institution only).
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by Jd 8y ago
There are many nomic games which involve a starting rule set and a subset of the rules that are mutable. Those are the most playable ones in my estimation.
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by Jd 8y ago
I tried leaving a negative review once. It was a disaster. I stopped using Airbnb. I started using HotelTonight. Soon it looks like I might have to consider something else.
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by Jd 8y ago
Point of symphony was the privacy focus. If you are a bank you could imagine the issue with have all your data in Slack or a Bloomberg chat DB.
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by Jd 8y ago
How did you get rid of the wall? From my experience with FB apps and desktop experience they always feed you back into the wall. I haven't found an effective way of blocking it yet. FWIW on the phone I uninstalled the FB app ages ago a
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by Jd 9y ago
To me this illustrates a huge opportunity: big tech can't effectively engage with public good projects (e.g. typical government territory). What's needed is a tech gov superlayer that provides an umbrella for these services and ca
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by Jd 9y ago
Among other things it's virtually a HN rule at this point that the top voted post is critical. A purely positive post is a clear red flag and indicates sarcasm or some other snark.
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by Jd 9y ago
I work on and advise several projects involving protection and cyber-security, specifically within the blockchain space.
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by Jd 9y ago
I'm hiring ;)
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by Jd 9y ago
Here's the earliest legal work on this stuff which will probably interest you: https://coincenter.org/entry/reporting-back-from-the-blockch...
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by Jd 9y ago
The textbook definition of a security is expecting to profit based on the efforts of a third party.
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by Jd 9y ago
For Goliaths the optimal strategy I found was to tail them and wait until they ran into some trouble on the front end. Its easier to make it a pack kill. Wait for a moment of weakness and then finish it off. In general the optimal strategy
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by Jd 9y ago
The pricing is very unclear from even three clicks in from that link, only that it is some sort of add on service.
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by Jd 9y ago
Thanks for understanding me. Unfortunately my original comment seems to have been massively downvoted by uninformed HN readers.
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by Jd 9y ago
There was also no evidence you could do sub one minute blocks for Proof-of-Work. Then Vitalik read the ghost paper and figured it out. Put enough very smart people working on hard problems and eventually they will figure some of them out.
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by Jd 9y ago
For 100+ person events? What coffee shops have 100+ person spaces? I have the same problem described and space is always an issue. I live in Silicon Valley and i can't think of a single bar that has a space of that size or that would l
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by Jd 9y ago
Founder of the first ICO platform here (April '14, SWARM) and early contributor to the Ethereum project. I half-left the industry for a few reasons: (1) Current crypto-markets highly favor "smoke and mirror" hype-driven appro
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by Jd 9y ago
Here's some more context: Tether was originally setup as RealCoin. It originally had a clear bank account relationship with a Taiwanese bank. It had about $30mm. Then the bank cut them off. Since then they've been floating withou
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by Jd 10y ago
I've had several personal interactions with Prof. Puett. He's sort of like a new American Emerson, spartan in lifestyle, and incredibly inspiring both in his intellectual rigor and dedication to principles. I highly suspect he hi
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by Jd 10y ago
Is that equally true of the incubator side and Research?
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by Jd 10y ago
Does YC have any evolving thesis as it comes to particular technologies, such as Blockchain or Quantum technologies? For example, are there attempts to achieve internal consensus on the use of Ethereum? (Full disclosure: I applied with an E
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by Jd 10y ago
My 'cryptoequity' project was on the Hacker News front page a couple years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992667 ), in which many commentators noted that many high value applications were probably illeg
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by Jd 10y ago
Same boat here. I co-founded a few Ethereum related meetups, including the Silicon Valley one. I think one of the big problems here is that a lot of the "business thinking" type folks are pushed to the side, as well as some brilli

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