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by calafrax 9y ago
> CAPTCHA solution is the most robust one captcha solving services are very cheap so captchas are basically useless for anything of value.
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by calafrax 9y ago
There are a variety of methods that can be deployed: 1) request fingerprinting - browser request headers have arbitrary patterns that depend on user agent. matching user agent strings with a database of the request header fingerprints allow
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by calafrax 9y ago
That is good advice from a technical standpoint but from a legal standpoint creating security features that prevent scraping gives you a clearer cause of action against scrapers so if someone starts making a lot of money off your content yo
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by calafrax 9y ago
Ultimately people guess and judge each other based on what they think each other's salaries are even if they don't know. Hiding information only creates confusion and prevents markets from operating efficiently. There is no legi
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by calafrax 9y ago
Right. Ethereum is just a medium for recording a contractual agreement. Using ethereum should not make contracts any more enforceable in the eyes of the law. In many cases I would assume the opposite will occur: plaintiffs will claim that t
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by calafrax 9y ago
Do you have used cars in Europe? The US is flooded with used cars and you can get something much better than this for $4000.
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by calafrax 9y ago
> The Swarm City Core team is more committed than ever to the development of Swarm City. The real value of our token lies in the community, and the technology the developers are creating. Black hat hackers, vulnerabilities, and bugs will
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by calafrax 9y ago
> You achieve reliability with erasure codes, not with more replication If nodes are not trusted then replication has to play a major roll. It doesn't matter how you mix up the data. You still have to store it somewhere and if that
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by calafrax 9y ago
Yeah, you are getting paid a few cents to act as a proxy for criminals. Somehow I don't think this will catch on with the general public any time soon.
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by calafrax 9y ago
There is another macro-economic issue here: With a decentralized trustless system you have to assume a higher failure rate for nodes than with a central trust based system. If you assume a higher failure rate you have to replicate data more
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by calafrax 9y ago
right, and releasing the source code is giving a map to criminals to allow them to hack it. The "no security through obscurity" theory is not entirely true in the real world. When you push up the cost (money and skill) of a hack t
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by calafrax 9y ago
It is interesting that no one with money believes that democracy is a credible way to run a business and yet people still believe it is a credible way to run a government. Fun fact: the US Constitution has exactly ZERO uses of the word &quo
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by calafrax 9y ago
None of these companies is anywhere close to a monopoly on food. Cargill might be big at 100B+ revenue (global) per year but US food expenditures are 1.5T+ per year, so even a company as huge as Cargill is capturing < 10% of the US marke
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by calafrax 9y ago
Yes, waste is reduced on the consumer side, but there is also enormous waste in the supply chain and retail. https://www.wired.com/2016/07/us-throws-away-much-half-food-...
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by calafrax 9y ago
The packaging waste with some meal kits is a negative but they also eliminate a lot of food waste which is a positive. The traditional food distribution system is massively wasteful but all of that waste is hidden so it is easier to ignore.
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by calafrax 9y ago
> I think over next few years we would see a total implosion of meal-kit industry I don't think so. Meal kits are a niche business fighting against mass market competitors already so nothing changes with the Amazon entry. If anythin
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by calafrax 9y ago
Not unemployable but less likely to be employed. Long term employment is very important to increasing productivity as a software engineer. The first 6 months is just learning existing systems, so from 6 months to 12 months doubling producti
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by calafrax 9y ago
This attitude is horrible just like the Forbes article. This situation is only happening because of bubble cash and a lot of inexperienced leadership with too much money on their hands. Once the bubble pops you will see all of these people
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by calafrax 9y ago
My point is that in this key area it is impossible to do better than nature since nature is already perfect. I am suggesting that the assumption that humans are generally able to do 1000X better than nature may be flawed if nature can alrea
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by calafrax 9y ago
It is important to note that this is the launch retail price. AMD's design is cheap and high yield so they can cut prices a long way.
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by calafrax 9y ago
The key thing that this hits on is that it is bad engineering to replace a simple system with a vastly more complex system for the same task. The correct approach, which the author points out, is to leave the simple system in place and then
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by calafrax 9y ago
> humans will eventually do it a thousand times better. From an energy conservation perspective nature is perfect. It is impossible for humans to do better than nature when it comes to conserving energy, which is a pretty key problem, so
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by calafrax 9y ago
This is a kind of "end of history" argument that assumes no further advances can happen. I just don't buy it. We will invent new things to do. Or, god forbid, maybe just spend some time relaxing and enjoying life instead of w
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by calafrax 9y ago
There is good reason to think that ML style techniques won't work. The problem is that computers have long since surpassed human computational capabilities by orders of magnitude but the increased computational abilities don't mak
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by calafrax 9y ago
My argument is speculative except that technological progress has always led to increasing generalized prosperity in the past. The adjustment periods have been on the scale of generations though so you can definitely have localized decrease
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by calafrax 9y ago
> automation is eradicating our jobs. But — unlike in the past — new ones aren’t being created to replace them He presents no evidence to support this claim, and it is most likely false. If you remove resources from some sector, and peop
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by calafrax 9y ago
> But... we will that is a belief. not a fact.
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by calafrax 9y ago
These things are not "intelligence" though. they are gimmicks that can only be applied to a very limited range of problems. These advances are advances but they do not prove that general ai is possible.
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by calafrax 9y ago
I am not saying that the business is not profitable. I am just saying that Yandex is going to take it all. If Yandex can take Uber's stake, which is worth billions as you say, they would be stupid not to, and they can, so they will.
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by calafrax 9y ago
They own a minority stake in an entity that has to pay Yandex for infrastructure, licensing rights and advertising which Yandex controls. So this entity racks up a lot of debt (to Yandex) while making transfer payments to Yandex and then in

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