SI_Rob

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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Well there's also Dunning-Krugerrands, but that's already been taken
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Sigh. If the tokens are tradable (and they will be, otherwise what's the use in trying to earn them), how will this not to turn into yet another blockchain cartel race to the bottom in pursuit of leverage over the thinly traded float?
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Words like security and decentralization are indeed not binary, but referring to them as being on "a continuum" or something similar is not particularly helpful either. I wish I saw more application of them as modalities, such th
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Some of the most successful cults did effectively operate as "startups" bootstrapped by a counterpart religious service community, i.e. the Oneida Community and the Amana Colonies
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I think one of the components that drives the success of AirBNB, the ability to "live" for a couple weeks in, say, a former hermitage just outside Naples or a beachfront condo in the Seychelles, would also be viable for small team
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
What's stopping potential competitors from making slack-compatible APIs?
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
What have you added other than to change "I" to "we"? How does one determine what values are pertinent to "we"? "don't enable harm" (ahimsa) would seem to be a "we" universal, but how t
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I'm a long time Galaxy Note (2-8) user considering a Key Two instead of waiting for the N10. I realized that my dissatisfaction with smaller devices is not a want of screen area, but of better input ergonomics, and that an ever larger
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
Blockchainism doesn't work, in the long term, for one simple reason: people want technology to give them leverage over their environment (which includes over their peers), not to undermine the leverage they already have. People pay
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
Thus the motto of Blockchainism: "In Trust We Trust"
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I predict this will be abandoned (or the blockchain figleaf dropped in favor of an explicitly centralized and far simpler/cheaper store) in 2, maybe 3 years. Or about as long as it takes for the fundamentally unsolvable problems of dec
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I don't think this actually addresses the problem at all unfortunately, as a gossip protocol that has to flood a global network is going to require, sooner or later the affirmation or rejection of a truth value from all nodes in that n
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I suspect that sentence would remain true even if you took the word blockchain out of it and replaced it with any network paradigm that is intended to operate on a global scale. The speed of light becomes a hard ceiling very quickly, and th
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
It could be a little of both additional supplies of late-to-the-party money have finally found their way to this market, amplified by the ongoing process of coin concentration into fewer and fewer hands. Both factors (with a little help fr
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
Indeed it actually may help lower the noise floor, as it would expose (through unusually precise, if idiosyncratic electron-counting metrics) the real cost of power expressed by inputs from both the acknowledged market, and the unacknowledg
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
Are FINRA truly 'regulators' (with access to state enforcement apparatus) or just a professional standards-setting body of license gatekeepers?
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
This is almost an unofficial motto of the "prediction markets" trend, which I've heard rather elegantly compacted into the form "make cheap talk expensive" It runs into a lot of practical problems with standardizin
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I would largely agree, though in a corporate environment the pressure to influence change in the organization is less driven by purely voluntary motives than the "trend jamming" (for lack of a better label) ambitions of the GP. In
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
The basic premise of this headline represents a complete failure to grasp the point of a cryptocurrency, which is to take the power of money issuance away from incumbent authorities who can back it with physical force (that is, states), a
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I doubt there's even 1.7bn worth of Ethereum liquidity available altogether, let alone enough capable of supporting that figure in a 30 minute selloff. What will likely happen is at most 5-10% gets liquidated over the course of a few m
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
I'm inclined to agree that this doesn't seem to add up, but I don't think that matters much any more. There seems to be a transition taking place in which exaggerated, thinly-supported 'market cap'-based value metr
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
This the first cryptocurrency-related thread I've seen on this site in which overtly skeptical comments like the one above and a few others (including luka-birsa) are the ones getting swamped with downvotes. Is it this particular token
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by SI_Rob 8y ago
Curious - source for the estimated figure?
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by SI_Rob 10y ago
Indeed, this is a function of monumentalism, which is to reify and consolidate ritual into a pattern that is as permanent and immutable as humanly possible, and thus make the physical landscape shared by a given community reflect the mental
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by SI_Rob 10y ago
Fascinating paper. Seems to support the idea that social networks are just another species of complex system, and as such tend to develop self-reinforcing structures of influence according to an underlying set of universal state-transfer pr