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by edraferi 10y ago
Look at the compass rose in the lower right corner. When there's another detail slide below, the down arrow is dark. If you're at the bottom, it's grey. Basically you're navigating a grid and the arrows tell you if the c
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by edraferi 10y ago
ShapeShift is super vocal about this. They halted business in New York after the bitlicense was required. Nice to see the application process finally stat moving though.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Doesn't Conda help with that problem, allowing you to precompile rust extensions just like C extensions?
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by edraferi 11y ago
There is some very interesting work happening in this area. Specifically: how can we make money by preserving & building health? This is the foundation of the whole pay-for-outcome revolution pushed by the ACA. They want to pay doctors
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by edraferi 11y ago
They have an excellent comparison FAQ: http://infinit.sh/faq?q=&hPP=20&idx=infinit_sh_faq&p=0&is_v=... Maidsafe isn't on there, probably because it hasn't really launched yet, but Storj, IPFS, Wual
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by edraferi 11y ago
That's a great article, thanks! I feel like I understand the tradeoffs between voting methods much better now.
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by edraferi 11y ago
Right, but what if you want to combine your test commands, their output, and comments? Share that with other people? Let them change things and re-run the examples in the same place? NOW you're cooking with notebooks.
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by edraferi 11y ago
These examples highlight the importance of tact. Communities are well within their rights to set proceedures for addressing sensitive issues, eg the spoiler alert. Problems arise when these efforts stop being precise tools to facilitate dis
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by edraferi 11y ago
Once IPFS gets into browsers you could use it like this. Just publish an HTML document into IPFS and share the link on the microblog. The page is a stand-alone object, hosted by anyone that views it, with a canonical, content-derived IRI.
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by edraferi 11y ago
Not entirely true. You can't use a DVD for a public showing, for example.
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by edraferi 11y ago
You should check out the Distributed Library of Alexandria. It doesn't solve the promotions piece, but does make it much simpler to sell direct.
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by edraferi 11y ago
I wonder how much of that is simply due to an explosion of supply driving prices down. It's so much cheaper to record and distribute music that there's no scarcity at all.
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by edraferi 11y ago
I think the way forward is something like the Distributed Library of Alexandria. The artists distribute their own content for micropayments, p2p networks provide the CDNs. Done properly there's still room for real value-add services in
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by edraferi 11y ago
Incorrect. This client knows both the WebTorrent and BitTorrent protocols, bridging the two networks.
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by edraferi 11y ago
It's a lot simpler to throw money at technology than actually face policy / culture problems.
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by edraferi 11y ago
Thanks Obama!
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by edraferi 11y ago
You get improvement by returning a restricted feature set, but yes.
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by edraferi 11y ago
You're correct to point out that this debate is about a change in the staus quo: law enforcement used to be able to access the dominant communications system with a lawful order, proper crypto removes that capability. It is inevitable
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by edraferi 11y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. Even if the objective function is win probability, it's used to order all potential moves. Thus given a menu of bad options, it should choose the least-bad one, not start choosing at random. I think
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by edraferi 11y ago
My guess is it's doing the same thing it does every move: look at the state of the board and calculate the next move. A person might memorize standard openings and play them by rote. The computer _could_ do that, but it would just be a
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by edraferi 11y ago
How so?
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by edraferi 11y ago
Perhaps Go playing is on it's way to being one of the first white collar jobs to be lost to AI. I don't think people will pay to watch Go Bots square off, but I think this example of "obsolete education" is a great remin
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by edraferi 11y ago
"Technical correct... the very best kind of correct!" The bigger question here is: do you really want law enforcement to hack into things as standard procedure? They certainly don't. It's difficult, expensive, slow, and
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by edraferi 11y ago
The executive branch is a big organization. Each agency has a different mission, culture and authorities (legal powers). The cryptowars are a complex issue, so it makes sense that the agencies have different takes on it. I agree that thr go
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by edraferi 11y ago
I hope your right, but I'm concerned that blockchains still rely on the core developers. Very few people really understand the protocols, and even they don't audit their nodes' code. You don't have to trust a central dat
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by edraferi 11y ago
Can you expand on that? As I understand it blockchains allow you to use a private key as your master identity, but don't inherently provide tools for connecting that key to a real-world identity. Are you envisioning a system like Keyba
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by edraferi 11y ago
I generally agree. I like companies that enable me to do most things independently online, then quickly connect me with a competent human when I call about complex issues I don't understand.
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by edraferi 11y ago
usually I'd agree, but I think academic publishing is different from purely artistic work. Research is funded up front by grants. The resulting product is a piblic good, and should be made available to the publoc with zero margin. If t
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by edraferi 11y ago
I hate that sites fail to render without JS and dozens of calls to third party sites. At least degrade gracefully back to a readable page!
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by edraferi 11y ago
The parent comment wants to efficiently mirror the content to prevent it from disappearing in the event of a successful take down operation. This can be done by scraping an API, but bulk methods are faster and less likely to degrade service

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