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by flunhat 9y ago
I want to believe this argument so badly, but it's been 7 years and we still don't have a widely used application related to it. How much longer do we have to wait? While we're on this topic, why are all Ethereum projects so
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by flunhat 9y ago
The context here is super important - Joe Ricketts, who owns DNAInfo and Gothamist, just shut them down today entirely, firing everyone and taking all their content offline. Worth noting that this happened after employees voted to unionize.
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Facebook Q3 profit climbs nearly 80% to $4.7B(techcrunch.com)
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by flunhat 9y ago
Perhaps open source projects might use it as their governance model?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Your comment reminded me of this quotation (it's from Lord Bryce's "The American Commonwealth", describing urban political machines in the 19th century): > An army led by a council seldom conquers: It must have a comm
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by flunhat 9y ago
This is the first Ethereum based project I've seen that seems halfway interesting (and I'm one of those "cryptocurrency doubters"). It doesn't somehow recursively relate to Ethereum, doesn't over-rely on blockc
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by flunhat 9y ago
Because you need it to pay taxes in European nations?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Anyone ever play clash of clans? ICOs that don't confer any securities-type value on the buyer (no ownership stake, entitlement to a share future profits, etc.) are basically just gems from clash of clans. You buy them in order to inte
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by flunhat 9y ago
I might be reading this wrong, but nothing in the article says that the SEC supports ICOs that are not obviously securities. Instead, the more reasonable conclusion is that the SEC will go after the most flagrant violators first, which is
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Ask HN: Google Chrome memory usage?
1 points by flunhat 9y ago|2 comments
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by flunhat 9y ago
One can logically believe both - that HRC was a flawed candidate who should not have run, and that the allegations of Russian interference (mainly through an intense, mostly false propaganda campaign in favor of one candidate) are troubling
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by flunhat 9y ago
China bans a great many things, even if those bans can be circumvented (access to certain political websites being a notable example).
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by flunhat 9y ago
Very nice! If you wanted it to save to disk instead of living wholly in memory, how would you do that in C?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Hardly overlooked, though
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by flunhat 9y ago
A fair point. But if it's been 3-4 years since then (and 8 years since inception), how much longer until bitcoin/crypto become the revolutionary technology that was promised?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Bitcoin is definitely hyped, though. Sure, on this site it gets a healthy dose of skepticism (as it should, I would argue, but that's a separate point), but cryptocurrency in general is currently increasing in hype, not decreasing. Jus
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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000(nytimes.com)
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by flunhat 9y ago
I totally agree with you about Solidity. If you're interested in developing a better language for smart contracts, check out Viper ( https://github.com/ethereum/viper ). Although development is kind of slow right no
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by flunhat 9y ago
The problem isn't that they wrote the blockchain in JavaScript, it's that the language they chose for user-written contracts and dapps (out of all the languages in the world, mind you) was JavaScript. Meaning that in the future, i
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by flunhat 9y ago
> ...Even though JavaScript is a weakly typed language it doesn’t mean that it is inherently insecure. Yes, the programming language used plays an important role, but at the end of the day it is the developers obligation to write secure
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by flunhat 9y ago
The point is that they're not at level 5 capability yet, and won't be for another 3 years at least (by their deadline, 2020).
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by flunhat 9y ago
Waymo's self driving tech is definitely not anywhere near level 5 capability (if that were true, they'd rule the world right now and we'd all be using their tech). From Waymo's Wikipedia article: >As of 28 August 2014
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by flunhat 9y ago
I've always had a hunch (and mind you, I have no proof of this, I'm just talking here) that the software required for a level 5 self driving car is, on some mathematical level, equivalent to the software needed to pass the Turing
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by flunhat 9y ago
Obviously your effort is appreciated, but in this case it really does seem that the story is the site itself and not your article (which is just 3 paragraphs and contains no new information).
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by flunhat 9y ago
You could argue that high sugar diets are just a proxy for obesity, so if obesity has been ruled out as a cause for this new increase then high sugar diets can be ruled out as well. Plus, no real reason it would be confined to young white p
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by flunhat 9y ago
That's what I thought, too, but then I read this [1]: > “The honest truth is nobody knows 100 percent why there is an increase,” said Dr. Mohamed E. Salem, an assistant professor at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown
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by flunhat 9y ago
Google isn't discriminating on the basis of race. It's not saying "These people cannot host their domain with our service because of their skin color". That would be illegal, but that's not what they're doing
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by flunhat 9y ago
Yes! That's the point of free speech - private entities can accept and reject ideas they like or dislike. The founders knew this, and they omitted any mention of private entities in the first amendment: The text of the first amendment
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by flunhat 9y ago
In the United States, you only have a right to free speech in the public space - the government cannot punish you for it. But not in the private space, with a few clear legal exceptions. I think a source of confusion in this thread is a lac
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by flunhat 9y ago
We've been through this debate before - businesses can't discriminate against anyone who is in a protected class. Otherwise, they can pick and choose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

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