douglaswlance

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by douglaswlance 4y ago
You already can render markdown. It shows as what it is: text. If you want to render markdown as something else, you need to define what that other thing is. If you're suggesting we render it as a webpage, well webpages are made of HTM
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Claiming they're the fastest is a big marketing edge. It doesn't matter if they're only the fastest by 0.00001%.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
How could it be possible to encapsulate the perfect optimization of all possible processes in "a few blog posts" or "a couple hours" ?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Do you use the shadowy currency popular with criminals known as the US dollar? USD is by far the most popular currency used for crime. It has stable price, accepted everywhere, and lacks a public ledger.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
It cannot be shut down. The contract is immutable. It's still live, and it will still be live for decades to come, with new duplicates of the contract being published every day.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
You don't need more keys, if you have layers.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
It's possible store billions of humans as embryos that are grown and raised by robotic parents upon arrival. And it should also be possible to genetically engineer those humans to be better suited to that new planet's environment.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Not sure how this is relevant. The more automation, the more free time, the more people are able to be social.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
So automate what can be automated to free the teacher to care more.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Why isn't education highly automated? Why do teachers across the country teach the same way we did before we had high-powered computers and information networks?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Why do you need to plan/grade ? Why isn't that automated?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
There's a problem with GitHub lists that accept PRs. They accumulate over time. Almost nothing is removed. No one wants to remove someone else's contribution. This list needs heavy editing, and some form of feedback mechanism by w
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
The laws of physics aren't written by people. They exist outside of human understanding. They're built into the the fabric of the universe.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
We can build systems that are better than us.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
There is no behavior in our universe that exists outside the laws of physics. So whatever we are, it is a product of our physical form. If that's true, then we can build something else that also exhibits our same behavior but is a pure
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
How do you ingest the data for inspection over time?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Do they share code between desktop and RN?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Why would they use a public, transparent ledger to launder money?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
It's not hard to understand the difference between something accruing wealth to the owner or not, being able to be taken down or not, or being able run your own node or not. People might not care about the technical implementation deta
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Which distributed database systems would serve this function?
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
That is assuming it scales linearly, which is not necessarily true. It would only be true if the value of BTC went up such that more miners were incentivized to join the system. In BTC, there isn't a 1:1 direct correlation between ener
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
All popular Ethereum clients are open-source. If you really want to know how it works, go read the code.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Just set intelligent defaults with the ability to override with customizations. Bam. It's DRY and you don't lose flexibility.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
It's not all possible users. It's all actual users. Facebook isn't valuable because anyone on Earth could use it. It is valuable because people do use it and its value has the network effects. Coins trading at 0 USD have
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies have inherent value. Would you say there is value in having the capability to transact with someone else? There is some value there, no matter how many alternatives and how little that value is. That value scales exponentia
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
In web3, the "curation fee" is gas fees.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
>it needs to be better in every way It only needs to be better in enough ways to persuade enough people to adopt it such that it hits a tipping point and becomes the de facto standard.
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
He does BJJ and has comedian friends, so he went on the Joe Rogan Podcast and established a fanbase. In podcasting, the discovery system is quite low signal to noise; because there are so many podcasts and the content itself is hard to insp
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Do you use VSC extensions? People extend the web-based editor to make it easier to build web applications and share those tools on the web. Using a web-based editor to build web applications is a self-reinforcing, positive loop. I can see w
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by douglaswlance 4y ago
Can you sustain your own life without society?

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