Joeboy

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by Joeboy 9y ago
After the Time person of the year thing there was a bit of an online spat about who did and didn't get featured on the cover and who was most deserving of the credit. To me it seems a bit unseemly and unnecessary. I don't think an
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Named "Useless Ethereum Token", with the strapline "seriously, don't buy these tokens", raised $187k worth of ETH. https://uetoken.com/
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> truck-type energy I think "embodied energy" is the technical term for that.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Me, I'm an expert. It'll be around 2pm EST, January 9th 2018.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
In a similar vein, BBC's Ghostwatch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch#Controversy
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The BBC's spaghetti harvest documentary from April 1 1957: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
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by Joeboy 9y ago
(in the context of first world countries with functional welfare states) I'm deeply skeptical of the idea that we're going to get some sort of new deal where the rich are suddenly happy with increased subsidy of the poor, in retur
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by Joeboy 9y ago
And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
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by Joeboy 9y ago
You know nothing.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I feel like there's some obvious point-missing going on here. "Millennials are killing X" is a marketing POV, and marketing fundamentally exists outside morality. It's not a moral indictment, it's just a bald statem
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Well I tend to assume people are using bitcoin in a decentralized fashion because that was its entire raison d'etre, but it's true that at this point that seems to have fallen by the wayside.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Maybe I don't fully understand it but from what I've gathered, the Lightning Network is a plan to enable people to do transactions outside of the main blockchain and eventually sync them back. It seems to get touted as a magical p
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Anyone that says digital tulips at this point sounds hurt that they didn't invest I did, several years ago when it looked like a genuinely interesting up-and-coming technology. At this point though, digital tulips.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
But why would anyone spend days downloading the blockchain, significantly increase their data management and opsec responsibilities and cede their usual consumer rights in order to have the same transaction fees as Paypal? The only reason I
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by Joeboy 9y ago
One way or another I'd rate the odds of their still having access to that address in 2035 as pretty low. Realistically anything that requires people to have decent data management / opsec is going to fail for >99% of people.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Right, the examples are just missing the step of "somehow make sure this isn't as bad an idea as it looks".
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Me and You start a company together. We would like to split things 50/50. We setup an address such that when values are paid to it, half goes to you, half goes to me. What is the real world use case for that , though? That seems
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by Joeboy 9y ago
(Actually it's back up to two days now, I think it might just be that the break in downloading made my ISP unthrottle my connection).
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Ah cool, I set it to 4000 and it looks to have sped it up a bit (currently saying 16 hours to go, down from "two days"). I'm still not convinced it's a very practical decentralized currency though.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I wish Bitcoin was as decentralized as everyone says it is. I'm trying to cash out some of mine and I've been downloading the blockchain for four days now. I had to buy a new hard drive before I could even start. I've re
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Depends on what you mean by 'entitled'? I'm not sure it does. I can't think of a reasonable definition whereby I consider an average software developer to be more entitled to a decent life than a tube driver.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Personally I would say a tube driver is just as entitled to a decent life as an average software developer but I realize this may be the wrong audience for that argument.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Tube drivers are well paid and yes that does impact the levels of sympathy available to them. £55k isn't that well paid for people who have to live in or near London. Not if you consider it the kind of job where you should be ab
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I should choose an instrument that uses single notes, it might be easier. I'd say the easiest / most immediately rewarding way is to pick up a guitar or similar (banjo / uke / banjolele / mandolin etc) and lear
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Recent reports of google docs arbitrarily removing people's access to their documents seem like pretty good marketing for decentralized solutions.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Lots of software that's considered free-as-in-speech-and-beer doesn't have official binary downloads at all. Ardour additionally provides the option of paying to download an official binary. Building from source is pretty much t
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Free speech isn't important because it's in the Constitution, it's in the Constitution because it's important. Also for almost everyone on Earth it's not "in the constitution" because we don't li
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Yeah, I mean "taking a photograph" is literally something a macaque can do (and claim copyright for), so on that basis it would probably not be worth establishing a complicated rights infrastructure for photography alone. Photos a
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Do they get into trouble for uploading copyrighted work to youtube? Except maybe in unusual circumstances I think all that happens is the video gets removed or demonetized. Which I would say is pretty forgiving.
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I agree but I think the way they need to be amended is to shorten copyright periods by at least 50%. I think it's a good thing that it's possible to make a film or a piece of music and insist on payment for its use, at least if it

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