grandalf

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by grandalf 9y ago
> do things that are technically allowed, but have unexpected downsides Unexpected downsides for whom? Smart contracts cease to be smart if we have to rely not on the VM but on a small group of human overlords. If a smart contract exist
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by grandalf 9y ago
> outside of the blockchain The blockchain offers characteristics (immutability, consensus, distributed backup) that allows entities to trust each other efficiently. But when you introduce a non-trivial smart contract, there is a chance
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by grandalf 9y ago
Point taken, but chances are the amount you can liquidate to dollars is much higher than you might expect. There's widespread institutional participation and I'm under the impression that $50M to $100M would not be farfetched, al
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by grandalf 9y ago
Not really true. Nothing has to be perfect if there is insurance infrastructure. People should not use contracts they have no reason to trust. As a contract becomes more important it should be viewed/vetted/trusted by as many ent
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by grandalf 9y ago
While your statement is true and funny, it also illustrates the conservative stewardship that a large stake engenders. Not really a bad thing.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Sounds like typical Fed guidance :) Don't get carried away, focus on fundamentals, think long-term and don't get caught up in the hype/froth. While I'm a big fan of ETC I think his statement is a beneficial consequence
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by grandalf 9y ago
Could someone post a link to the article (paywall)
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'd say that if you don't want your packets inspected, use encryption and only trust specific certificate authorities. A regular HTTP GET is meant to be cacheable and meant not to be considered private. If you want private, use SS
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by grandalf 9y ago
Only the worst performing ISPs don't already provide what you are suggesting.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Is this a limit of photovoltaics or a design optimization? Or other?
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by grandalf 9y ago
Exactly. There are many schools (in the east in particular) where privileged children end up who didn't get into the Ivy League, Stanford, U of Chicago or U of Michigan. The value of the alumni and professional network of these lesser
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by grandalf 9y ago
Would these panels capture energy from the signal being radiated by my mobile phone? What about gamma rays? In other words, is a solar cell something that captures energy from photons and converts it into usable electricity? Or from some s
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by grandalf 9y ago
I've never thought of it that way before in terms of a contract. Very interesting.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Which is a problem. If an ISP chooses to oversell its bandwidth for a given segment of its residential customer-base, then it's already in the business of deceiving its customers. If the ISPs didn't do this (or at the very l
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think you are misunderstanding what a residential type of circuit is (compared to a business class circuit). A residential circuit is shared bandwidth and is sold with the necessary caveats to allow the ISP to apply its arbitrage strateg
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Plenty of startups that make it big, Comcast doesn't get to add their tax on that success That's one way of looking at it. Note that I do not think Comcast would successfully turn off youtube for any customers without creati
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by grandalf 9y ago
You are arguing both that Comcast invested heavily in infrastructure to support demand for increased bandwidth, and also that Comcast's investors are getting way above market returns on that investment given the amount of risk that exi
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by grandalf 9y ago
Google has gotten out of the fray a bit, perhaps because it feels the battle is lost. But Google did a big disservice to the tech community by promoting net neutrality zealously a few years ago.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> that should be left to each customer to decide for one's own allocated bandwidth Bandwidth cannot be conceptualized without a notion of time, which is the essence of QoS. Traffic shaping over time. I'd argue that consumers c
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by grandalf 9y ago
I dealt with this issue as a young boy when trying to pay for some candy at the local bodega with a large sack of pennies. The clerk simply refused my business. I was outraged and asked some lawyers in my family to look into it. Turns out
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by grandalf 9y ago
If you include cable, DSL, and wireless providers most non-rural consumers likely have 2 or three to choose from. If there is need for antitrust action then an ISP behaving in a non-neutral way would seemingly provide the perfect evidence t
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Could someone make a pro-repeal argument that doesn't boil down to caring more about which bureaucrat enforces the rules than the rules themselves? Net neutrality is the idea that there should be a specific QoS setting required by
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by grandalf 9y ago
True, however that is one incident and conceivably Teo thought it had served as a sufficient warning and that problematic behavior had been rectified. I certainly think it would have obviously been in Teo's best interest to behave tha
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think that's exactly the right solution. Even if the lines that are drawn are not exactly right, having them clearly drawn will help all parties evaluate their own behavior (and that of others) more accurately.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> At this point, he looks either 1) complicit, or 2) incompetent. Well, he obviously had to trust Caldbeck's word a great deal to want to do business with him in the first place, so maybe Caldbeck lied. Would you consider Caldbeck&
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by grandalf 9y ago
I agree based on your link that skepticism is in order. I'm sympathetic to the idea that certain topics should be 100% forbidden in a work environment, but then I catch myself and realize that ultimately a lot of what is deemed appropr
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by grandalf 9y ago
If you know the whole story, you are right. I don't know the whole story so I'm reserving judgment. I'm curious what you think Teo should have done? Should he have resigned at the first indication that Caldbeck did anythin
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by grandalf 9y ago
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/369434 On the other hand, AM is simple and cheap and usable worldwide without significant investment.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> you can't see that that's what you're doing My point is not that Caldbeck ought to be exonerated. I think the embarrassment he's facing and reputation costs are likely well deserved. The issue is that by painting Ca
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by grandalf 9y ago
My intent is not to minimize it. I think that assuming that the problem is one person being a major psychological outlier is actually an unhelpful shortcut to solving the problem in a more thorough and lasting way. The problem is not one ba

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