drdrek

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by drdrek 4y ago
"They urge caution: gamification can steer the behavior of software developers in unexpected and unwanted directions" What do you mean unexpected and unwanted? It is the stated purpose of gamification to steer the behavior of the
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by drdrek 4y ago
But why is Bitcoin or Blockchain a prerequisite to scarcity? Can you not use any other technological method? why do you need consensus validation for validating scarcity? (Spoiler, you don't) And if you want consensus validation why d
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by drdrek 4y ago
If you have a guaranteed compounding money machine that out perform the market by 20% just let it run, sooner or later you will be able to buy out those who did not invest in you. If its just a useful recommendation engine than there are in
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by drdrek 4y ago
You are not nuts but knowing what you feel in the future is very hard while having money can almost guarantee that you will be able to take more choices that make you happy. Just heard about someone working on a passion project for two year
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by drdrek 4y ago
Answer is pretty simple, its because people without strict anti-establishment sentiment do not believe that someone like Neumann is actually better than governments.
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by drdrek 4y ago
Why not just send the Decryption key after X time has elapsed? You do not even trust yourself? If you really want to make it vulnerable to 51% attacks you can also split the cypher and send it to a lot of different people to be reassembled
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by drdrek 4y ago
Its not a case of the scientific community being unaware of this, even the Wikipedia page of "Cognitive training" has the paragraph in the summary: "Scientific investigation into the effectiveness of brain training activities
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by drdrek 4y ago
Its actually pretty sober and to the point, and pretty relevant today. I think its just the first slide that is ingrained in peoples minds.
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by drdrek 4y ago
The philosophical argument is just not relevant. If you peek through a keyhole you may mistake a TV for real people, but if you look through the window you will see that its clearly not. Inputting language models with very specific kind of
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by drdrek 4y ago
Think about it in this way: You want to open a wholesale food distribution business for restaurants in a Manhattan You want to make sure that enough restaurants will buy from you They want to make sure that enough costumers will buy from th
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by drdrek 4y ago
Saddest thing about Crypto even more than the energy cost is the human minds it consumed. I heard people saying that Crypto is what bright graduate students want to focus on and that just too bad. If you want to finance the un-financed or c
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by drdrek 4y ago
"Several of these quantities are not provided in the data and therefore need to be imputed assumed. First, the valuation of the firm at t=2 in model time is defined as the latest associated with a “late-stage” round by the end of 2020
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by drdrek 4y ago
Do you think that I mean direct influence? that they can reprogram contracts? Don't straw man me. Large miners do have power, the power to destabilize the system. The same power large POW syndicates have that delays POS will be there i
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by drdrek 4y ago
The "Move" to POS breaks the myth of the system being immutable and "governance-free". The people with a lot of stake in the system can change or prevent change to the system. One of the major reasons that POS takes so l
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by drdrek 4y ago
Ahh proof of stake, the nail in the coffin of decentralization. What did you say? the more you have of the capital the more you influence the system? what a novel concept! Monterey and legal systems based on structures that are at least par
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by drdrek 4y ago
You are absolutely correct, I was gun ho and got punished with internet shame, bellow is the correct proof. but the point still stands. Solution is even simpler: Empty case after 1 iteration (I=1) the largest number is at position 1 Base ca
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by drdrek 4y ago
He starts from the wrong axiom that its hard to prove and creates a lot of nonsense over that. Its requires just two induction proofs: - One that for I=1, after N comparisons the largest number is at position 1 (Proven with induction) its t
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by drdrek 4y ago
AWS may promote the technologies as prototype friendly but at the end of the day its built to be enterprise grade production tool. A company will not even bother with a 4000$ mistake, its just the price of doing business so there is little
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by drdrek 4y ago
Alright I'll give you another analogy that is more relevant to this specific experiment. You have a balloon in the air that is slowly descending from state A (in the air) to state B (on the ground). You measure if the balloon is in the
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by drdrek 4y ago
After many years of reading about quantum effects it's just became clear that most of the unintuitive nature of it is due to confusing language. "Measuring" is usually hitting the system with a photon. At those scales it is s
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by drdrek 4y ago
The author is a bit melodramatic. Yes there are mostly scams in the space, but that is not a bug, its a feature of less regulation. Most advocates of Crypto like most critics think about Crypto from the perspective of a consumer, which is m
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by drdrek 4y ago
I feel you, but the cycle will continue. We have been using terminals (centralized computing) before, then switched to PCs and back to cloud. If you can wait about two to three decades its gonna fix itself :)
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by drdrek 4y ago
"Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD." Lol, Great reasoning! ll happily give you 1000ETH for 100
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by drdrek 4y ago
Take some perspective, what you are saying is "Where I started was the good place". Ask 60 year olds and they will tell you C++ is where we should have stopped. There is a reason you will have a very hard time to find those 60 yea
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by drdrek 4y ago
Working in an industry that is considered shady can harm you in the long run. I have worked at one point in a gambling (So called "Gaming") company and 80% of the people there only move to other gambling companies (or even shadier
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by drdrek 4y ago
His Dilbert level insights about corporate life are very old... running a business is complex and gets less efficient with size, that is no great wisdom. Building a code project with one person is great but consider the following issues: 1)
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by drdrek 4y ago
Companies are a business and not academic or artistic institutes... while developer wellbeing can contribute its not a goal on its own. If those 20 employees work on a bullshit project that could be done in a month, but at the end of the da
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by drdrek 4y ago
I like the writer, he has a level of self awareness that many idealists lack. Even the theoretically pure anti-establishment shared-living hacker-squatter self-reliant punk that few open source contributors aspire to be are benefiting great
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