david_ar

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by david_ar 11y ago
Is there a particular reason why it's not supported?
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by david_ar 11y ago
http://hyperboot.org/ solves some of these issues
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by david_ar 11y ago
IPFS also allows IA to not just be a backup, but to help distribute the original content itself. There's no longer a distinction between origin hosts and backups.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Yeah, this is a common source of confusion, and the ipfs.pics tagline doesn't really help the situation. Personally I'd change it to "where you can ensure your pictures will be available forever". You shouldn't re
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by david_ar 11y ago
That sentence is not talking about MWI, it's talking about wavefunction collapse interpretations.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Interpretations affect how you apply that math to model reality, and hence the predictions you make. Math does not make any predictions about the outcome of an experiment on its own, it's just a formal system.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Splitting is just a metaphor for a superposition of macroscopic states. There's no extra mechanics involved.
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by david_ar 11y ago
a) Nobody said "unforeseeable". Macroscopic superpositions are entirely foreseeable, we just don't have the technology to keep them in a coherent state. b) The link only says that some people have argued that position. I thin
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by david_ar 11y ago
My understanding was that MWI allows superpositions of macroscopic objects (the universal wavefunction), whereas the Copenhagen interpretation doesn't (macroscopic objects cause wavefunction collapse), which is in principle testable [1
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by david_ar 11y ago
Qt's C++ heritage isn't any more relevant than WebKit's C++ heritage. I agree that the ecosystem needs to improve, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.
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by david_ar 11y ago
This! I don't particularly care what technology people use to write apps, so long as it works well . As others in this thread have said, you can immediately spot a web-app-pretending-to-be-native because it doesn't work well . Q
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by david_ar 11y ago
Not that I'm a big fan of Java, but it really feels like people threw Java under the bus only to reinvent it all in JavaScript.
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by david_ar 11y ago
It would probably be possible to build a system like this on top of https://ipfs.io/ , see https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues/10 for example
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by david_ar 11y ago
Peanut butter probably isn't the best example...
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by david_ar 11y ago
Indeed, people even offer explanations when tricked into believing they had chosen the opposite outcome to the one they actually picked [1]. [1] http://researchgate.net/publication/6745688 > participants fail to n
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by david_ar 11y ago
> In the face of metahuman science, humans have become metascientists. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v405/n6786/full/405517a...
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by david_ar 11y ago
> Telstra, which controls approximately 50% of the market, and was traditionally the monopoly telecom provider, charges some of the highest transit pricing in the world PSA: This is why you don't privatise public infrastructure
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by david_ar 11y ago
I never claimed that nobody was at least a little selfish, I was simply arguing that it isn't illogical that most people aren't sociopaths.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Prisoner's dilemma may be an exaggerated example, but it's a strawman argument to conclude that game theory isn't applicable to real life.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Just to be clear, I'm not saying selfishness doesn't exist, or that cheating the system doesn't work for some people. My point is that altruism is not "illogical", and it doesn't require "a faith in some G
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by david_ar 11y ago
Exactly, I've been thinking for a while that the lack of a package manager is really holding back qml adoption.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Not really, Nash equilibria aren't necessarily the best outcome for any individual (cf the prisoner's dilemma). Cooperation is usually better than every-man-for-himself for everyone involved, hence why social animals evolve altrui
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by david_ar 11y ago
There's been some talk of collaborating with those projects, so it's definitely a possibility. IPFS is more about tying together all the existing components in a nice way, rather than trying to reinvent everything itself. Please g
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by david_ar 11y ago
Integrating with the existing web is definitely one of the goals, see https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
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by david_ar 11y ago
Huh, ripple has changed since I last looked at it, could have sworn it used to be based purely around debt cycles.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Note that bitswap isn't purely a tit-for-tat system, but will also include a credit system like you suggest. > I have designed a protocol that allows nodes to transfer credit to cancel out 'cycles of debt'. Awesome, sounds
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by david_ar 11y ago
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/2
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by david_ar 11y ago
https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37
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by david_ar 11y ago
You're right, this isn't the only possible incentive system, and ideally IPFS will be compatible with multiple ones. Could you link to the other projects you're talking about?
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by david_ar 11y ago
1) Whilst it can be used to make a profit, it can also be used as a system to allow you to trade storage space on your own computer in return for replicating your own content on other people's machines. The more storage you provide, th

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