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by alanfalcon 6y ago
I find myself re-listening to large portions of my audible library fairly often. I pick up so much more on additional read/listen-throughs. I listen to or read Snow Crash at least once a year. I just enjoy most everything about it. Ana
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by alanfalcon 6y ago
https://hackmd.io/@XR/tim-metaverse
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by alanfalcon 6y ago
Scarcity meaning that if person A owns it, person B/C/D etc. cannot, because (in this example) there is only one. Most digital files are infinitely copyable, and there aren't good DRM solutions for managing this conundrum tha
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by alanfalcon 6y ago
In this whole thread, there's not one mention of the word "scarcity". Blockchain allows for digital scarcity. For me, the problems that blockchain solves, it solves through the creation and enforcement of real digital scarcit
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by alanfalcon 6y ago
What is GEB?
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by alanfalcon 6y ago
Very cool site/presentation of a mildly amusing and thought provoking topic. The quiz was just the right length to leave me wanting more rather than bouncing. And it all works great on mobile.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
You can blacklist certain addresses with certain law abiding exchanges, which is more like marked bills than a seizure. What happened here was obviously not a seizure, you’d need the private key(s) AND to have actually moved the bitcoin to
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Background: DeFi (decentralized finance) is the movement on the Ethereum Network to build and use finance building blocks to allow for any kind of financial instrument needed, in a trust-less, decentralized way. Using these building blocks,
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What happens when you attack DeFi?(bankless.substack.com)
4 points by alanfalcon 7y ago|1 comments
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
The rules for Go are also actually pretty specific. Would you consider any territory capturing game played with simple tokens on a board to be Go? Is Reversi/Othello also Go?
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Tim Sweeney Metaverse(m3-org.github.io)
3 points by alanfalcon 7y ago|0 comments
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Really great related read: https://m3-org.github.io/research/sweeney.html
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Yes, they care.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
You both speak of the day AlphaGo won 4/5 matches, yet the matches were played over a series of days. Which of those days was the switch flipped, then? For me there was a significance in day three, but it was mitigated somewhat by the
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
We're going to get the Metaverse from there, eventually! And it will be glorious. A great definition of the Metaverse and what role blockchain may play in it: https://soundcloud.com/siggraph-spotlight/30-tim-sweene
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
The blockchain is indeed fraught with peril. Code review, audits, and bug bounties are an absolute necessity when it comes to smart contracts! Learning in a high stakes situation seems pretty good as long as you have a robust support struct
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Our CTO likens developing a smart contract to civil engineering. Our CTO also remembers what it was like to ship your software in its final form on a floppy disk! I think it’s great that more and more people are jumping in and learning what
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
The best smart contracts don't need to be reverse engineered, they've got shared, verified source code. The bugginess is a real problem as you've pointed out. The "impossible to sell anything" couldn't actually
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
I sometimes pay YouTube $11.99 a month for premium. It replaces the need for an alternative music streaming service, for one thing.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
The tools exist for people to experiment as if they had infinite copies of every card ever printed, and the people who most enjoy that sort of thing definitely make use of those tools!
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
There’s just enough luck involved that the risk-reward ratio was probably mostly right in those early days, especially as the game wasn’t designed with the expectation players would ever have perfect information about scarcity and relative
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Salt the Pass(saltthepass.com)
4 points by alanfalcon 7y ago|0 comments
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Similarly, my CPAP changed my life for the better. I went from constantly tired to being a productive member of society again.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Good ol' Greg Egan. Thanks for sharing.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
I noticed a political robocall taking advantage of this just yesterday, and there went any possibility that I would vote for this person. Your robocall did not constitute an emergency _you asshole_.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
It is perhaps more appropriate to say the button frequently does nothing because you frequently lack the proper permissions... https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
Missiles have a lot of value. Crashing them expends that value. Governments still crash missiles into their enemies.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
What makes you say this? Are you confusing vanity-eth with a brain wallet?
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
The lore goes that Airbnb was started because the founders couldn’t pay rent.
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by alanfalcon 7y ago
“To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight – and never stop fighting.” –EE Cummings With an assist fro

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