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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... taxes that ... keep people from investing ... in a much more distributed way ... [than] they'd prefer ..." There's an implicit assumption in there that reducing taxes will cause people to 'invest' m
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by amirmc 12y ago
Government is probably the only entity that can bankroll a wide swathe of basic research . That's about as 'long-shot' as it gets.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... if you ask people to follow the honor system, they tend to do it!" This is great but I think the stakes are somewhat different if it's ostensibly about jobs/hiring. I don't recall the crypto challenges
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Why worry about stock options at all?" Because they do matter and are still part of the compensation package. There's still a significant difference between a payout that equates to two year's worth of salary
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by amirmc 12y ago
UK wall sockets tend to have physical switches. Here's a pic. http://m.alibaba.com/product/1462287490/UK-Type-13A-1-Gang-P...
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... who are people of interest?" I think you've missed the part where everyone is now (effectively) a person of interest.
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by amirmc 12y ago
There's a distinction to be drawn between James Bond-style spying ("Humint" - which is the kind you're actually referring to) and the large-scale, indiscriminate, archived, mass-surveillence of otherwise ordinary people
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by amirmc 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. > "...so is economically not a good idea for them." This would imply that the trust model itself would have to undergo a fundamental shift (and likely has done). There are now entities you have t
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "The moment one becomes centralized, whether due to a flaw in the protocol or the concentration of mining power, it is no better (and probably worse in fact) than fiat money, e-gold, or any other monetary scheme which is vulnerab
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by amirmc 12y ago
The government is something of a blunt instrument. The difficulty in the proposal as described is how you can precisely define the terms such that you can reliably measure 'compliance' -- cue: lots of legalese and paperwork (cf me
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by amirmc 12y ago
When I want to know what a product does or how I might find it useful, I prefer text. I don't have to wait for a video to get to the point. However, when I've decided to actually try it out, I find the video extremely useful as
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by amirmc 12y ago
The push is that all devices will end up connected as commodity manufacturers continue to search for 'value-add' services (even if that value is dubious). In a few years, I wouldn't be surprised if 'smart TVs' were
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Eh, this can also denote synergistic group think or collective creativity." I think you've missed my point. I was mostly referring to things like meetings, where people typically are trying to reach an agreement (or d
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "We also don’t know how well speakers tune their data-compression algorithms to the needs of individual listeners. Accurately predicting the information that a listener can easily recover sometimes requires knowing a lot about hi
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by amirmc 12y ago
The missing step here is the 'internal champion'. It's usually possible to speed things up if someone within the company is able to push things. I've done this for certain suppliers when we've negotiated favourable
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think this is a great article that covers quite a lot of topics. It reminded me that we're already aware in real life of the importance of being able to 'expunge' or seal certain forms of records (e.g in law or financial j
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by amirmc 12y ago
Indeed! It's not just about privacy either. The less the reliance on someone else's servers the less likely that a subsequent shutdown is going to impact you (whether by acquisition or otherwise). FWIW I'd like to see approac
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by amirmc 12y ago
People (and programmers) have many false beliefs. Combine this with a strong desire to automate things and reduce recourse to properly trained humans and you end up with a particular form of tyranny - as we see here. I'm surprised no
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by amirmc 12y ago
I was aware of Stog but wasn't ready to try it out as it didn't seem to be quite what I was after. Seems there have been new releases since back then (and a video) so I'll give it another look.
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by amirmc 12y ago
This looks interesting and it would be cool to see more OCaml/web projects. Other webby things in OCaml include Ocsigen project [1], which is where js_of_ocaml and Lwt came from (for a while there was also the web framework Ohm, but I
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by amirmc 12y ago
Status pages as a service already exist.
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by amirmc 12y ago
You mean top companies like, say, Facebook? Or startups like, Esper? I'm not really sure what your comment is trying to say because it comes across as circular ('they're popular because lots of people use them'). Edit: s
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by amirmc 12y ago
Toolchains also matter and OPAM (the package manager) has gone from strength to strength since this post. It's the basis for the OCaml Platform which combines a number of useful tools and libs into a coherent workflow (making developme
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by amirmc 12y ago
They make products people want. Lots of people buy them. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any nefarious tactics involved (eg embrace, extend, extinguish) - so they're not trying to distort the market (pls correct me if I&#
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by amirmc 12y ago
I feel like there's some kind of rush to become the box/service that runs your smart home. None of these vertically integrated solutions is going to cover all of the use-cases or user desires, yet it seems that everyone want to
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by amirmc 12y ago
It's possible but I don't know of anything open source that exists yet. The stack I'm working on deals with the underlying issues you describe, including storage and identity/connectivity (which is the basis of the socia
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by amirmc 12y ago
This looks great and I'm always please to see products that make it easier for people run their own infrastructure without having to become sysadmins [1]. I especially like the demo video that describes how apps can be added. However,
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by amirmc 12y ago
I've been told that the French OCaml crowd have (or had) a habit of naming projects after animals. In this case, cockerel.
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by amirmc 12y ago
MirageOS is useful for creating single-purpose appliances. That fits well with how the cloud is used today (where you typically end up with one service/app per VM anyway). The autoscaling piece is only one aspect and is only in the ear
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "That simply isn't happening with OCaml." Err... based on what exactly? I've been working in the OCaml community for several years now and it's going from strength to strength. Do we have different definit

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