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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> Agree, but edge case. This is by no means an "edge-case" if you live in a rural area. "Sound policy" within a heavily urbanized area may be unworkable elsewhere. > Can't base sound policy at scale on the sta
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
1. Generate a phrase 2. Append "on the blockchain" 3. Launch your ICO
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Even building a cube-sat that never leaves your desk would be an interesting hobby project, really. Non-experts would certainly learn a ton from doing so, and you'd end up with a cool conversation piece, if nothing else.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'll note here that at least one "proof-of-capacity" coin already exists: http://www.burst-coin.org/ I can't elaborate either on the merits of proof-of-capacity vs. proof-of-capacity plus proof-of-time.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'll add Gridcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that rewards BOINC participation: http://www.gridcoin.us/ I really wish coins like these would catch on more than they have. Proof-of-work is, to the best of my knowledge, t
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Hi, HN. I'm the project author. I wrote this CMS a few years ago after having become dissatisfied with both Wordpress and Jekyll. `wit-cms` is an npm module that attempts to split the difference between both of the former, in that it r
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
One thought regarding monetization: I assume you're loading ads via JavaScript or something. (I didn't check.) I too saw the notice regarding blocked ads. It will be a cold day in hell before I disable my ad-blocker, but you can e
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Fellow flight-o-phobe here. > "You are less likely to be in an accident in a plane than in a car". > The above is a true statistic, but more nuance is required. Regarding the "nuance": something I've never see
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'll check it out and will keep my eyes open. Thanks :)
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> In the end I didn't end up writing anything for them I understand that you didn't write anything professionally about your trip, but did you ever write anything casually about it - blog posts or the like? It sounds like it
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Too late to edit, but: s/hand/land/
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'll concede that I'm not as economically literate as I'd wish, but this doesn't make sense to me. The "1%-ers" don't tend to store their wealth in land, do they? How would this proposal even out the wealt
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I've noticed this on many other news sites recently as well. I hope this trend dies soon. This is an immediate "close tab" for me when it happens.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'd probably watch this. I wouldn't _drive to a theater_ to watch it, but I'd watch it on Netflix.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I'm with you on this. I'd be really interested in seeing, for example, an "Open Division" in Track-and-Field, whereby anything goes, up to and including gene modification and cybernetic enhancement. It would be both a sp
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
I wouldn't worry about this for an "emergency" supply - especially for a small supply like you'd be able to keep in your car. If you break down on a hot day away from town somewhere, I'm sure you'll be glad to
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
There's Gridcoin, which, if I understand correctly, is essentially the "coinification" of BOINC: http://www.gridcoin.us/ It would be great if it ever became profitable to mine this.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Glad to help :)
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
FWIW, none of the static media (images, css, js) seems to be loading for me - I'm just getting a bunch of 404s. This is happening in all browsers on my system, including when plugins are disabled. Might be network weirdness on my end,
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children. On one hand, this sounds entirely economically reasonable (and even humanitarian).
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation. This is entirely counter-intuitive to me.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
For what it's worth, we do have PBS ("Public Broadcasting Service") over here, which is funded via a combination of taxes and donations. A lot of folks dismiss it as being "left-leaning", though.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> citizen impact per employee. Do you think it would actually possible to quantify this in a way that: 1. Accurately represented "reality"? 2. Couldn't/wouldn't be gamed? Seems challenging to me.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
It seems like they would only find out after the update has been pushed, though - ie, after the app has been broken. Unless they have relationships with the banks now, and would be given a heads-up. Perhaps that's the case. It sounds l
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> First, the lack of a real threaded comment system. > Second, the lack of a dislike/downvote, particularly an anonymous one. I don't know. I agree that Facebook's commenting mechanism is ill-suited to deep discussion,
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> Here's the remarkable thing - this doesn't seem to be affecting my feed at all. I get as much politics as ever. I couldn't tell you how many times I've informed Facebook not to show me Trump news, and it's stil
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the unclassified information, all I've heard mentioned is: 1.
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
Yeah, I had the same impression. I'll concede that I probably use my phone less than a lot of people, but this looks like a "solution in search of a problem" to me. I'm still using a Nexus 5 that's several years old
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by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> Suppose a female new grad goes to Electronconf and sees all male speakers. Suppose she goes to other conferences and it's the same story. How does cancelling the conference help anybody? The minority of women that may have otherwi

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