ericb

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by ericb 8y ago
> You can't "fork" a scarce resource. A fork gets you nothing on the original chain, just like inventing "new dollars" gets you nothing except what the market decides "new dollars" are worth. Digital sc
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by ericb 8y ago
I can't really understand this point of view. Digital scarcity is finally invented, but people feel like it will have no use-cases? Automated finance bots (smart contracts) that work without keeping a server up has no use-cases? All fi
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by ericb 8y ago
I don't think it is at all clear that an engineering solution here is a priori a bad idea. It is possible that an organization that can land rockets standing up has better than average engineers.
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by ericb 8y ago
That's not the reasoning I critiqued. You can apply the ole "oh, but if only said human effort was directed toward charity" line of thinking to every activity, which means it isn't a very useful line of thinking.
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by ericb 8y ago
I wonder if you donated the time spent writing your comment to a worthy cause what could have been achieved? /s That line of reasoning is snarky, but not particularly useful.
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by ericb 8y ago
Arguably, this is why this may be a foolish move for them. If the next 100xer avoids them based on a history of penny pinching on non 100x deals, they've been penny wise and pound foolish.
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by ericb 8y ago
He says he spends the majority of his time on engineering, actually.
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by ericb 8y ago
I don't think there was a "scam." I think they learned that in order to issue tokens and get exchange listings, they needed KYC in the new environment by the time they were done. There was a definite screw up in the initial g
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by ericb 8y ago
I think you have the wrong impression. This is one of the more well thought out projects in the space. Don't let the cover (marketing schlock) mislead you.
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by ericb 8y ago
It will be interesting to see how the $200 million+ Tezos warchest affects the popularity and development of OCaml. That seems to be a fairly large amount in relation to the size of the current OCaml ecosystem, and the whole purpose of the
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by ericb 8y ago
While I don't practice it, and think it backfires, calling spanking abuse in order to shame its practitioners is an exaggeration that helps neither the abused, nor the parents you wish to stop the practice.
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by ericb 8y ago
That means they are managing cash flows and taking high margin orders first, not running out of demand. Further, I expect the number of people who can put down 1k and wait with no new car for a long time is but a small fraction of those who
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by ericb 8y ago
I would argue that the number of companies who have gone bankrupt sitting on this dollar volume of preorders is and will continue to be, 0. Worst case scenario, they can issue stock or sell a chunk of the company. Even easier is to dial bac
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by ericb 8y ago
Then he willed it to land standing up. On a barge. In the ocean. And an assembly line. In a tent. From a bunch of scraps.
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by ericb 8y ago
Tezos is fairly unique in that it had something working before the ICO rather than just a whitepaper. It took them a while to polish it, but all along, they had something working. Tezos is also atypical in that since the ICO, it has flown e
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by ericb 8y ago
Tezos Libre was announced long before the KYC requirement occured. It is a scam, based on an ethereum token. They have not even succeeded in finding the github "fork" button for Tezos yet. There is no there, there except a scammer
737.
by ericb 8y ago
I have a hard time seeing Shopify and Github as anything other than "web scale."
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by ericb 8y ago
So long as the printing press keeps running, the solution is to print yourself another 14000 in tether, convert to BTC and sell the BTC for 14000 in real USD.
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by ericb 8y ago
No no, if you can acquire a $6,000 bitcoin for $0 and sell it, your scam has a 100% margin. It is still profitable whenever you can run the scam, at whatever price above $0.
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by ericb 8y ago
Instead, think of it this way. If a coin wins, it must necessarily be 100-10000x larger to "hold" the value of the monetary supply. If there's a 20% chance of "some coin winning" and you have 10 equally probable sus
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by ericb 8y ago
> I believe that negative outcomes are greater when someone goes to a "patient mill" vs a good doctor The highest correlation to surgical success is number of that type of procedure performed by a surgeon. I'd be intereste
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by ericb 8y ago
If I was building this, I would upload millions of hours of data from actual Tesla drivers, and I would have autopilot releases step through data and flag the variances from the behavior of the actual drivers. I'd run this in a massive
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by ericb 8y ago
> sell my data I think you're justifying a really extreme reaction based on the worst behavior of a few companies. GDPR doesn't just go after data-resellers. It targets how a well-intended company can use and keep your data eve
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by ericb 8y ago
Because it is two orders of magnitude less effective. Putting an ad for a blender in front of someone recently searching for blenders is 100x more effective than putting it in front of a random person. This means the revenue they can charge
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by ericb 8y ago
> I Understand Americans are afraid of fine and lawsuits, but please don't be afraid. I think GDPR is short-sighted from a game theory perspective and will short-change European citizens. When I sold software online, Europe was <
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by ericb 8y ago
It includes liability for any and all data handed off or handled by 3rd parties. In other words, google analytics, facebook ads, salesforce customer data, mailchimp, constant contact, that really useful startup. How can you guarantee they a
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by ericb 8y ago
In terms of the electrification, in each case I keep seeing that the dealers are using it to check a box, but sales will push you away from them. They mostly seem to look like compliance cars. If you're seeing differently, I'm int
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by ericb 8y ago
I think your prediction ignores the historical trend of incumbents ignoring incoming paradigm shifts to their peril.
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by ericb 8y ago
For anyone wondering, it took about 2-3 weeks of no eating after 6 for the problem to disappear for me.
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by ericb 8y ago
Mine went away so long as I don't eat after 6pm.

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