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by Jd 10y ago
Next up, Rilke week? ;)
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by Jd 10y ago
Agreed but you have to credit PG's earlier work that makes this all credible as an uber-nerd watering hole (i.e. his guide to Lisp, Arc, Hackers and Painters, etc.).
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by Jd 10y ago
Yep, well that would be interesting in the sense of how you could disrupt the music business by "manufacturing" beats. We've seen some similar progress around machine generated art (e.g. deep dreaming and the like).
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by Jd 10y ago
Do you think the penalty works better than a positive incentive? i.e. if you got $5 to vote or a 1 in 100 chance of $1000? Also, was the penalty introduced in order to increase turnout? Is there any data on how it affected it, including amo
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by Jd 10y ago
Have you ever invested in a band or music production company or considered doing that?
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by Jd 10y ago
Do you really think that financially incentivizing voting will create good downstream effects? Almost all ideas of civic duty are historically drawn from non-financial incentives and the idea of attaching some financial incentive to them po
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by Jd 10y ago
Emin supports some variant of a hard fork regardless.
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by Jd 10y ago
My own A/B testing revealed that sometimes fitting the thingy into the thingy does not go as seamlessly as desired. Suggest bigger apparatus more prominently displayed. Bright colors should be used to attract the eye. Labels with san s
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by Jd 10y ago
I've been building something like this in VR.
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by Jd 10y ago
Author here. I'm "smug" in the sense that I've made all of the mistakes of the DAO folks and many more beside. One of them was optimistically assuming that many more things could be done in an extralegal context than act
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DAOs, Hacks, and the Law(medium.com)
2 points by Jd 10y ago|1 comments
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The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum(backchannel.com)
2 points by Jd 10y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 10y ago
I co-founded and ran the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup for some time. There was lots of interest right after the whitepaper up through the crowdsale, then a waning of interest in the details, and now resurgence of interest. Like the Bitcoi
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by Jd 10y ago
What's missing is that this DAO structure has a self-evolving nature and can modify its own decision making structure, something that no "old-fashioned" structure can do.
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by Jd 10y ago
Someone explained this to me recently with a simple analogy that may be helpful to you as well. Suppose the average user of AOL is 50 years old and non technical. That person has a decent amount of purchasing power and is likely to not sign
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by Jd 10y ago
Could be simply that his need to promote his products (i.e. marketing) create a need to self-promote.
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by Jd 11y ago
I'm the guy who created the Swarm platform, Swarm fund and Harvard conference on cryptoequity. The rough conclusions of $100k+ of legal research was that product tokens are highly likely to be regulated as securities in the US but that
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by Jd 11y ago
Anyone know if the "Knights" use lambda calculus? If so I don't think they are that similar to Anon. Knights seem more like a hacker elite where as Anon is more like a flash mob.
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by Jd 11y ago
Do you feel the same way about Blade Runner? I'd put both in the same category. Philosophical digressions and epic musical interludes mixed in with violent cyborg action. Personally I like it but it definitely doesn't have the sta
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The Second Wave of Blockchain Innovation(medium.com)
39 points by Jd 12y ago|8 comments
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by Jd 12y ago
Actually I'm the founder of Swarm (www.swarmcorp.com) which is built on Counterparty. Very familiar with the platform ;) (although original post on Quora was written pre-Swarm)
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by Jd 12y ago
Reposting my review of Ethereum from Quora: Ethereum has been described by core developers as oil to Bitcoin's gold. it is similar to other metacoins in that it acts as superlayer that empowers the blockchain, that is something like wh
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by Jd 12y ago
As it turns out, Swarm's first legal entity is in the UK.
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by Jd 12y ago
I agree. It's on our roadmap to build the appropriate tie-ins to the existing legal system to provide benefits that are not only pledged but also enforceable. Among other things we are actively attempting to hire a lawyer (ideally a br
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by Jd 12y ago
There are lots of reasons for pause and our choice of the term "cryptoequity" was certainly because it does evoke the fuller idea of the potential behind these cryptoassets, something that you don't get with the weaker but mo
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by Jd 12y ago
Completely agree with what you say, so not sure what argument you think I'm making. I'm only pointing out that our system does have fraud prevention mechanisms that do not exist with standard cryptotoken offerings.
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by Jd 12y ago
As listed in the above document, cryptoequity is not simply a cryptotoken that ostensibly represents a stock, it encompasses all types of programmable rights that can potentially apply to a project. There are many potential applications of
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by Jd 12y ago
Yes, one of our legal counsels actually recommended that we read that article once. And then again. And again until it sank in. It sank in. ;)
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by Jd 12y ago
I personally strongly dislike the term "Bitcoin 2.0" although I still use it quite frequently, primarily because I don't know of any other succinct way to describe all of the second generation functionality that is currently
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by Jd 12y ago
Kickstarter's "perks" model was not clear cut in the beginning. It became clear cut over time as the legal space was established. We are probably one step further than Kickstarter in that we offer things like programatic voti

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