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by api 11y ago
So in other words it was a "work making" handout to the financial industry. Bravo.
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by api 11y ago
I've thought for a while that SarbOx created the unicorn. In the end all it accomplished was to exclude the public from the best growth stocks. The problem with SarbOx is complexity, overhead, and ambiguity. It would have been possible
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by api 11y ago
The Western practice of using a house as an investment vehicle and a bank account is partly to blame. Once a person buys a home they instantly become a NIMBY as they are now leveraged into a scarce asset and have a vested interest in keepin
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by api 11y ago
I've wondered before if one "great filter" might not be utopia. Species achieve a very pleasant steady state, adopt some form of epicurean philosophy, and then sit there until they fade away or something kills them. The filte
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by api 11y ago
We are possibly one such emergent behavior in an agent based system, as are bees and fish and trees and whales. So yes. :)
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by api 11y ago
Come to San Angeles. Not cheap by any stretch but costs are kept in check by the simple fact that there's so much of it.
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by api 11y ago
Someone should tell Silicon Valley about this global telecommunications network that lets people connect in all kinds of ways to cooperate over vast distances.
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by api 11y ago
> if you have a wide breadth of skills in the field, a startup is often the only way (I've found) to finally gain the freedom to use all of them. That's a great point, and is a major factor that led me into startups. Doing a st
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by api 11y ago
Universities are taking measures to trim faculty pay and job security, and meanwhile tuition is increasing at a rate much faster than inflation and has been for a long time. It's disgusting.
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by api 11y ago
It's enough to give me the impression that MS and other tech companies (Google, Apple, Facebook) are leveraging superiority in certain areas (with user experience and UI being chief among these) to try to ram privacy invasions and ot
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by api 11y ago
Wow. Very, very nice! If anyone from MS is listening: All you need to do to potentially convert me from a Mac user is to address some of the privacy/security and "user exploitation" concerns around Windows 10. When I heard th
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by api 11y ago
Funny that GWB got away with such a blatant bit of Keynesianism. A Democrat would be crucified. This is actually the pretty well known "only Nixon could go to China" effect.
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by api 11y ago
Wouldn't the EU also rank if considered collectively?
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by api 11y ago
Oh yeah... once we have Windows and Linux we will finally have a single paradigm for GUIs. It's enough to make me actually love Facebook.
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BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security [pdf](static.googleusercontent.com)
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by api 11y ago
Really would love this in Orange County, CA. I think it would work very well in SoCal where there isn't a lot of transit but many routes are fairly deterministic.
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by api 11y ago
I've had similar thoughts and I'm very curious about the HN community's thoughts on this. Something definitely needs to be done to make OSS more sustainable and equitable. Right now it's very hard to build a business wit
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by api 11y ago
Meta question: to what extent is the present-day "tech crash" or tech funding crunch scare a reaction against this particular high profile implosion vs. a more general sentiment?
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by api 11y ago
This is the future if everything has to be free. Since you can't make money by creating content for readers, you have to instead create content for advertisers and propagandists.
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by api 11y ago
Interesting... and I wonder if the best option would also be to concentrate mining rewards. Mining gives you a chance to win very big. In that case it would become equivalent to the lotto, and would result in a financial system sustained by
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by api 11y ago
Competitive advantage for the currency's speculators or for its users? The latter I'd say are better served by a currency that encodes a price stability algorithm rather than a hyperdeflationary one. The former on the other hand..
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by api 11y ago
Learning there was such a thing as IPv6 NAT wasn't quite as depressing as learning about a forgotten historical genocide, but close.
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by api 11y ago
I have a hard time imagining a proof of work based distributed system that isn't guaranteed to be monopolized after a sufficient amount of time. Work -- any form of work -- is subject to industrial scaling effects and economies of scal
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by api 11y ago
Why implement NAT for IPv6 at all?
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by api 11y ago
Most humans don't pass that test.
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by api 11y ago
I see things that look alarmingly like industrial control. Who leaves wide open unpassworded VNC?
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by api 11y ago
Could we have with OSX a... gasp... stable platform that is just really good at doing desktop type work? IOS would have to evolve a lot and in many ways to take over desktop. Maybe it will. Android N seems to be moving there so maybe that&#
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by api 11y ago
I don't think a super detailed object permission model would be less complex than bail and patch. Bail and patch is after all just the ad hoc input and adjustment of rules. It's an AI hard problem because the complexity just is an
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by api 11y ago
Seems like a complexity explosion. Un-forgeable references can be created using crypto. In a way things like Bitcoin addresses or cryptographically authenticated network endpoint addresses might qualify.
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by api 11y ago
Security in a complex interdependent software ecosystem is untenable. Period. NodeJS/npm is in no way unique here. Apt, yum, gem, Homebrew, Docker hub, etc. are just as bad if not worse, not to mention "git clone" followed by

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