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by beefield 8y ago
My "hate" for cryptos is not because it is a different way to solve a problem. It is because cryptos are trying to disrupt financial industry by adding technology to medieval monetary policies that we have long history showing tha
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by beefield 8y ago
Somehow I think that at 3 year anniversary of ICE people had some actual real world use cases for ICE where ICE was still somehow better than steam engine and animals, even if ICE itself was objectively terrible?
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by beefield 8y ago
I think we can be quite sure that there exists a trend of increasing unequality in US regardless how you decide to measure it. We can also be quite sure that that trend will stop one day (if not before, when one person holds all wealth). If
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by beefield 8y ago
Weird. Libertarians keep on saying that government is less efficient in producing practically all possible services than private sector. Why would that not apply to service "collecting and using private data for gain"?
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Britain's safest car revealed, with no road deaths in 16 years(telegraph.co.uk)
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by beefield 8y ago
I don't recall "trustless" being one of bittorrent's main selling points? Further, to accept crypto as payment very much requires trust (or faith or belief or whatever you want to call it) that you later find some third
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by beefield 8y ago
> but it is much more decentralized than other systems By which measure? There are more than six thousand banks[1] in US, all of which are perfectly capable to create significant amounts of USD currency. My understanding is that even if
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by beefield 8y ago
Disclaimer: I do not recall my bank undoing my transaction. Ever , that is. But, yes, I assume that banks do undo transactions somewhat regularly. And I do see a difference. With regards to the banks, there are regulatory bodies with neces
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by beefield 8y ago
> If they want to change history to help a privileged group of people, they should have a generalized mechanism and process for doing so. Maybe I am just blind and a luddite, but if such generalized mechanism and process would exisit, w
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by beefield 8y ago
> we are probably not even close to insect-level intelligence I think the problem is that we do not have a slightest clue what is (even insect-level) intelligence (or consciousness, which is often mixed up in the discussion).
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by beefield 9y ago
> The ultimate objective is to continue the decentralised crowdfunding opportunities that are similar to ICOs, only this time, with improved functionality and without restrictions imposed by regulatory bodies. Emphasis mine. Why do the
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by beefield 9y ago
Well, somehow getting rid of the monopolies (patents) faces significant resistance.
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by beefield 9y ago
I calculated a couple of free years in the beginning as per my original post. But I may also have missed by one or two years in my no more existing spreadsheet
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by beefield 9y ago
Frankly, I have thought this more around books, music and patents than software. Obviously there should be some way to accommodate changing work, then.
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by beefield 9y ago
Well, let's grant an exception to GPL type licenses, then?
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by beefield 9y ago
How many 20 year old pieces of copyrighted work you know where the copyright holder would be willing to pay 130 Million USD in taxes to keep the copyright one more year? I can't think of a single one.
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by beefield 9y ago
Did you calculate how much tax would be payable after e.g. 20 years? I guess it would be a very rare piece of work that anyone would be willing to pay the tax for longer than 20 years.
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by beefield 9y ago
I have lately been fond of the idea of not abolishing, copyright, but setting a copyright tax that increases heavily over time. Say, first two years tax-free, third year USD 1000 and doubling after that each year. Once copyright holder fail
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by beefield 9y ago
Possible that people researched something instead of falling victim of confirmation bias and internet memes? Unless you mean by researching something very different than me, you even thinking that is possible makes me guess your sample of
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by beefield 9y ago
Creatures? Why the plural, would not one be enough? I mean, what makes you think that this piece of text is written by a sentient human being instead of some buggy and crappy text generator script written by a school kid somewhere in the va
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by beefield 9y ago
What I would like to get is a travel search engine for which you give you give origin, destination and luggage specifications (how many pieces, weight and special luggages). Then the system compares total cost and time for the journey, not
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by beefield 9y ago
Really? What is the facebook-only internet providing on top of the sms and phone calls of feature phones that would make you pick that flood of targeted advertisements? Remember that you can't e.g. follow the shared links on your feed.
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by beefield 9y ago
I'm not sure what you consider as "no useful output"? Is it the offering your services for a fee instead of ads or guaranteeing the privacy of your users' data? Because to me, both are quite useful outputs. The first one
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by beefield 9y ago
I agree that I do not exactly like forcing business models to companies. But I think especially facebook and google are currently so difficult to avoid that their users should be given a fair choice on how to pay for their services, with mo
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by beefield 9y ago
I think we are currently beyond the point where most people actually can choose whether or not to use some services. So I think it would be appropriate to have the option to pay for these services while keeping the privacy.
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by beefield 9y ago
I am confident that facebook makes much more money on the ads it shows me than what is any reasonable margin on the actual cost of serving me the pages and storing my status updates. So in this case this guaranteed cost plus is much less
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by beefield 9y ago
To not create unnecessary barriers of entry.
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by beefield 9y ago
I can think of three relevant regulations for (large) internet companies 1. Strong anti-monopoly regulation. There is no reason for Facebook owning Whatsapp & Instagram. 2. Once your revenue exceeds x million USD on ad supported service
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by beefield 9y ago
I think there would be space for a middle ground solution where you could define a sheet "type" to something like "datatable" that would enforce data types on columns, only allow data entered a row at a time and if calc
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by beefield 9y ago
I would not be comfortable making such assumptions on the topologies of fitness functions in high-dimensional spaces. I think it was not so long ago when I read an article here at HN about how weird the high dimensional spaces are, but can&

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