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by grog454 5y ago
>In the digital world, everything can be copied. There is no ownership. Actually I think you've got it backwards. In the physical world, molecules are fungible. I can take one carbon atom out of the Mona Lisa painting, replace it wi
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by grog454 5y ago
I used the example of property tax to challenge the idea that I had (and assume a lot of people have) of "ownership". With blockchains, you own an NFT. Period. With literally every other form of ownership in this world: You own th
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by grog454 5y ago
It would eliminate 1. forfeiture without volition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... ) 2. title theft/fraud ( https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments&#x2
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by grog454 5y ago
I don't follow. "They" can do just about anything they want. They can make their amendment. They can declare the blockchain null and void. They can hold a gun to your head and tell you to sell your NFT. They can even pull
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by grog454 5y ago
It kind of sounds like you're arguing that since the blockchain can just be ignored it's somehow less meaningful. But I'll bite: Then the people with guns now have to expend resources to maintain and enforce those amendments.
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by grog454 5y ago
> That doesn't describe a problem though, it describes a technical solution. I'll present a problem that that solution solves. That cryptographically backed record establishes a closer approximation to the abstract idea of &quo
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by grog454 5y ago
On the other hand that same legal system can decide you are no longer entitled to said property and that same police force can come and drag you out of it. That physically (as far as we know) can't happen on a cryptographic blockchain.
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by grog454 5y ago
>Even now, almost everything is led by a white person. Even in animation, almost everyone is white. Or look at sci-fi movies, where there are often as many or more alien species as non-white humans. If not "almost everything [was] l
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by grog454 5y ago
> But my point was anything less than this is a complete waste of time and useless as a product because until you are completely hands and attention off, you have to be completely hands and attention on/ready...no matter how good or
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by grog454 5y ago
> The answer is usually "one person every 400k sessions". But you control that to some extent. If more people are aware of the command and believe it will work (I wouldn't) then you'll probably get higher incidence ra
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by grog454 5y ago
> But this is silly because as these tools get better, the driver will inevitably monitor less. And for good reason. The main benefit to FSD, as I see it, is the ability to do something more productive with my time while getting from A t
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by grog454 5y ago
I agree with your assessment of the importance of trust in this example and the issues that go with it. I suspect similar issues crop up with non crypto systems as well but that's not really what I want to discuss. NFTs still seem pote
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by grog454 5y ago
Your knowledge of NFTs is likely greater than mine so correct me if I'm wrong. Pointing to a URL is fine if you trust URL digital signatures. Hypothetical situation: I'm a famous artist X. I produce great painting 123 and want to
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by grog454 5y ago
I thought "the real" NFT is determined by what people decide "the real" one is. This is not actually a problem. NFTs are (or at least can be) a certificate of authenticity within a cryptographic framework. You can forge
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by grog454 5y ago
"It’s the digital age. My digital items are my possessions. This dichotomy in your head between the “real” and the “digital” doesn’t exist for the younger generation." That's a weird way to put it. It may not exist "for&
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by grog454 5y ago
>This was a fair comparison - the same exact thing was true of Hughes and Rockefeller. Agreed, but then Hughe's et al net worth are wrong imo as well. If you or I give a two week notice our net worth probably doesn't drop a cen
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by grog454 5y ago
Not a retroactive solution but for the future, it seems like an obvious solution is serial number tracking. Make it illegal to purchase or sell a catalytic converter (or really anything of sufficient value) without a legible serial number,
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by grog454 5y ago
> Musk, with a wealth 100x that of Hughes at $290 billion I've never really understood this kind of net worth valuation. Since most of that value is tied up in Telsa stock, he's only worth that as long as he keeps doing what he
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by grog454 5y ago
most humans find it less than scintillating to devolve ALL their activities to some sort of spreadsheet or algo optimization. Happy to be the exception that proves the rule: as an undergrad my friends and I would often have to resort to a
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by grog454 5y ago
What is your interpretation of "toil and trouble"?
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by grog454 5y ago
Sort of, think image recognition based fish bots in WoW. More recently in WoW classic I wrote a simple multi-boxing utility that let me play 5 characters at once using a combination of keystroke replication and repetition. Importantly I nev
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by grog454 5y ago
That would possibly work for 3D first person games that do some kind of frustum culling of game data, which is an interesting idea. But Nebulous is a 2D top-down game so its not really applicable. That said, I vaguely remember a similar sou
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by grog454 5y ago
Do you ever stop to think about whether what you are doing is wrong? I understand and am not surprised that there are businesses built on cheating (see Blizz vs. Glider), but it's pretty striking to me that you never even mention ethic
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by grog454 5y ago
Just playing devil's advocate: So I or someone else can continue to effectively make the computer do work.
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by grog454 5y ago
This made me chuckle because occasionally, for some things I buy, return policy might be my primary concern (more important than even having the item in the first place). You're reading way too deeply in to signals that could mean anyt
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by grog454 6y ago
I see I made the erroneous assumption that your living was based on your personal / business projects. I too was a wage slave at a relatively chill software engineering gig until my business became financially successful. The "alw
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by grog454 6y ago
It's interesting to me that you think you don't have the personal skills to "sell" yourself yet most of your business is centered around consulting and app development as a service. How can these be successful without co
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by grog454 6y ago
The pseudo kepler implementation is live, along with energy magenticism proportional to the number of radar upgrades you have, plus a couple smaller additions.
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by grog454 6y ago
Magnet sounds good. You're the second person to mention Kepler haha. In my initial planning the movement was going to be realistically simulated but I quickly realized it would be difficult to tune the movement the way I wanted for gam
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by grog454 6y ago
Fleet is an io type game set in an infinitely large, procedurally generated universe with stars, planets, and the like. As the title says the game is built using pure dart for the servers and dart+flutter for the cross platform client on An

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