floatrock

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by floatrock 12y ago
The barrier to creating an unlimited number of facebook accounts is a half step above creating an unlimited number of gmail or hotmail accounts. No, the whole point of connecting with facebook is to focus on the UX of making electronic paym
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by floatrock 12y ago
...wait, so you mean you use this stuff for like real work instead of intellectual exercises in creative incentives for burning electricity? ;)
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by floatrock 12y ago
One current gold-rush topic is ASIC-resistant bitcoin mining. Bitcoin works by generating a particular type of SHA256 hash -- you take some fixed inputs (transactions), a random input you can change (a nonce), and together they need to SHA2
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by floatrock 12y ago
> including crowdsourced project screening and fund-locking such raised funds are programmatically unlocked as founders achieve certain milestones. Both great ideas to get something into production, but how does this provide equity? Spec
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by floatrock 12y ago
You're right, it's a self-reinforcing loop: incumbents win most elections, so they raise the most money, so they run the most effective campaigns, so they win the incumbency. The solution is to chip away at this self-reinforcing f
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by floatrock 12y ago
Candidates with the most spending win 8 of 10 senate races and 9 of 10 house races. It's there in the data: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/big-spender-always-... The reality is money buys elec
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by floatrock 12y ago
> It does not say that the government cannot prevent candidates from taking unlimited amounts of money for their campaigns. Correct. Hence the "+/- independence" comment. Sure, they're just making a documenta
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by floatrock 12y ago
There's literally what a case decides, and there's effectively what it allows. Effectively it opens the door for unlimited campaign spending by anonymous donors. Have you ever donated to a campaign? How much? $20, $100? Perhaps
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by floatrock 12y ago
Mayday is run by Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons fame (the guy also did a lot of work with Aaron Schwartz). He has very specific plans on what he wants this PAC to do. Check out his March TED talk for example: http://www.te
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by floatrock 12y ago
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by floatrock 12y ago
> I'm no lawyer, but I think it's compatible with contract law... There was a neat talk from the silicon valley ethereum meetup a few months ago where a lawyer dives into the technical definition of a legal 'contract'
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by floatrock 12y ago
More importantly, Ethereum and some of the other "Bitcoin 2.0" protocols are tackling the technology behind distributed consensus and trust (using crypto blockchains for something other than payment), but there's the additi
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by floatrock 12y ago
Highcharts might be up your alley. Highcharts.com It's not D3-based, but it's one of the most popular JS charting libraries out there because it's has a well documented API and it's very customizable. We've had a
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by floatrock 12y ago
The API could use some work. To implement the simplest example, I need to remember patterns like: > eventContract.dispatchTo(goog.bind(dispatcher.dispatch, dispatcher)); imho, there's a problem if you need to dust off your gang of
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by floatrock 12y ago
There's also the time 10 years ago when we used a design like this on another freakin' planet: http://marsrover.nasa.gov/technology/is_autonomous_mobility-...
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by floatrock 12y ago
Or do the opposite: scrape facebook to get all the names of people at the school and train an insult generator. Flood the site with random rumors about random people, but let everyone know that's what you're doing so no one knows
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by floatrock 13y ago
> So are we at a point right now where an increase in n has no value (say market information gets processed on the order of nanoseconds instead of the current microseconds)? What's the cutoff point? My intuitions want to say the poi
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by floatrock 13y ago
But it gets the target audience to perk up and be interested for more.
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by floatrock 13y ago
Opposition to turning our police into paramilitary troopers looks like this: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/were-building-a-domes... After a decade long (non-)war, the US government has a lot of surplus mi
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by floatrock 13y ago
How did the people who read that paper get to the point that they are able to quickly decipher what the authors had written? Brute force repetition. Back in high school I played a musical instrument. I practiced my scales, was quizzed on