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541.
by beaner 8y ago
If you wait for everything to get cheaper or better, you'll never get anything, cuz likely there's always something better coming next year. I think when making purchases, it's helpful to be able to ask "is this a fair t
542.
by beaner 8y ago
Is there local regulation or NIMBY-ism that prevents the market from providing new housing?
543.
by beaner 8y ago
I don't think starting a podcast means you want to be pulled into shitstorms.
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by beaner 8y ago
Not everyone, if put in Bill Gates' shoes, would have been able to take advantage of such an opportunity. Can you say that if you were there, you'd have done the same? And executed as well afterward, into a multi-billion dollar co
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by beaner 8y ago
> those who have the sway to control the fate of the technology have largely used it to pursue their own personal enrichment over the health and success of the system as a whole You say this like it's a fact but I feel like it'
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by beaner 8y ago
For every piece of fake news in the_donald, it legitimately calls out five examples from liberal sources. It's a combination of meme factory and watchdog group. It's a little crazy because it has to be. When you can't speak a
547.
by beaner 8y ago
What evidence do you have that Trump's election was the result of fake news?
548.
by beaner 8y ago
If this were being applied to the media, where the links come from, we wouldn't need to apply it to tech sites, where the links are shared. This doesn't cover all cases but it's offloading the responsibility from "journa
549.
by beaner 8y ago
I don't think many people are opposed to that way of thinking. But as a responsible team member you still have individual duties and you need to be able to explain them.
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by beaner 8y ago
I dunno if that's accurate. "Lots of development + Amazon" is more than "lots of development." Amazon not being there doesn't necessarily mean there will be more of something else.
551.
by beaner 8y ago
Why do you have that in quotes? They did not say senior roles are special. They're just saying: acknowledge team wins, but you still did something individually, be able to explain what that thing was in detail.
552.
by beaner 8y ago
But in how many cases has a CEO of a multi-million-user site done it themselves, off the cuff? It means there's no oversight. Oversight isn't expected if you're using Joe Schmoe's 2 person game forum. It's expected
553.
by beaner 8y ago
Even if the user got it wrong, you can't edit a user's speech and claim to be a place for free speech. Speaking incorrectly is a part of free speech.
554.
by beaner 8y ago
It doesn't suggest anything unless it was adopted.
555.
by beaner 8y ago
Yeah, but the point is sort of that the interesting ones are not simply "code is law," since there is an element of trust involved in them. They're code + human oracles.
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by beaner 8y ago
IMO the major shortcoming of smart contracts is that they have no tie to the real world, so the only thing they can really govern is other contracts, which themselves can only do the same thing. They can't be very interesting without o
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by beaner 8y ago
One thing I never understood is, how does a black hole evaporate, even via hawking radiation? Doesn't the matter it ejects just fall back in?
558.
by beaner 8y ago
It's sort of in between, it's not as clear cut as you make it sound. All of these processors ultimately depend on their banks, who are super strict. Banks are super strict because money is an insanely regulated industry. Banks are
559.
by beaner 8y ago
It's going to be speculated on as soon as exchanges list it.
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by beaner 8y ago
Or if the devs decide to just hard fork the money back.
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by beaner 8y ago
I'm pretty naive about this stuff, but wouldn't an easy solution for storing energy to be, just use energy to lift something very heavy into the air, and then extract energy when it's lowered?
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by beaner 8y ago
> Facebook asked users for permission to grant the apps the permission to send messages, and then when the users approved that request, implemented that access by white-listing the applications to give them carte-blanche access to a depr
563.
by beaner 8y ago
That's like saying "Apple is already the biggest company in the world, they have no motivation at all to keep making new, good products." Obviously they are under continuous threat of not being the marginal best.
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by beaner 8y ago
Most POW mining is powered by renewables, and the fraction that isn't is continuously motivated to power-optimize by innovating in either computing or power efficiency.
565.
by beaner 8y ago
Didn't even realize founder's equity vested. I thought since they created the company, they owned it since day 1.
566.
by beaner 8y ago
If you were unqualified relative to other candidates, in what ways do you expect this series of events to have played out differently?
567.
by beaner 8y ago
Have you tried it? It works today.
568.
by beaner 8y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think this is worse than having the whole network have a permanent history of a direct transaction between addresses?
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by beaner 8y ago
The Lightning network addresses all of his privacy concerns with payment channels, onion routing, and multi-path payments. Snowden seems to have similar criticisms. Neither of them seem to be up on the latest technology.
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by beaner 8y ago
Your vacuum manufacturer probably has a monopoly on vacuum bags for it's machine because it's niche enough for nobody else to care about making alternative bags. If someone decided that they wanted to, they could. This isn't

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