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by grosjona 8y ago
That actually sounds like a really good idea if it's possible. It would be a blockchain-based neural network which people can sell training data to (in exchange for the underlying cryptocurrency) and which other people can use via an A
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by grosjona 8y ago
People can create new cryptocurrencies to increase the total cryptocurrency money supply.
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by grosjona 8y ago
The Fed can inflate away the value of those transactions anytime they want and not only do you have zero control over this process, it is not even possible to predict it. The complexity of the financial instruments used by the Fed is intent
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by grosjona 8y ago
You're forgetting about the army of hackers who are propping up the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Why own weapons when you can control the people who own them? As our software systems get more complex and as we become mo
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by grosjona 8y ago
No you wouldn't be glad because most of that remaining $250K would go towards paying other people's rents... E.g. When you go to a restaurant, everything on the menu would cost more to cover their rent. The cost of rent factors in
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by grosjona 8y ago
When an authority figure says something, listeners are more likely to accept it, even if it is wrong. That's just human nature. So authority figures have an extra duty to think about the effects of what they're saying. They owe th
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by grosjona 8y ago
I agree. There is a culture that founders are special but everyone else is replaceable which makes it self-fulfilling. If a founder leaves, it's bad and VCs won't invest in the startup - However, if a top engineer leaves, no big d
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by grosjona 8y ago
She should start a PR/consulting firm which helps CEOs and executives get away with lies for as long as possible and then helps them to rebuild their career when it all goes belly up.
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by grosjona 8y ago
There is a weak correlation at best. One of my open source projects has almost 5K stars on Github so I should be preaching with the choir here but that would be disingenuous. I think that a lot of it comes down to having perfect timing... T
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> At this point, we've heard enough "rags to riches" stories in programming that it becomes difficult to dismiss this as simply "survivorship bias". I like the rest of the article but this statement is distur
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by grosjona 8y ago
Yes, I agree, it's not right that you can screw up the world and get away with it because of ignorance. It's not a good excuse. If you have power and influence, ignorance is a crime. I hope that humanity will one day become immune
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by grosjona 8y ago
It shows the importance of self-promotion. If you don't self-promote then no one will know that you exist no matter how good or even how significant your project is. It's easy to forget to self-promote when you're busy doing
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by grosjona 8y ago
Yes so true. People should spend more time thinking about the side effects of their actions and speeches before they make them.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I don't see how this changes anything; if the software is not distributed/shared/used by others, then it might as well not exist. Also in my first comment, when I said "work" I was talking about the source code, not
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by grosjona 8y ago
Right now most AI experts in the industry are financially incentivized. They are more passionate about the money that they can make than about the research. It attracts the wrong kind of experts. The real experts are those who are working f
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by grosjona 8y ago
What you're saying about not having to share your derived work with others is completely untrue. You can read the statement by the CEO of wordpress made towards Wix https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/
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by grosjona 8y ago
I find the GPL 'free software' license to be a lot less 'free' than other kinds of open source licenses in terms of what you are allowed to do as a user of the software. For example, with GPL, you do not have ownership o
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by grosjona 8y ago
There is no way that Grace would be able to save so much money if she had to start today. Now rent is higher, interest rates on savings are nonexistent, salaries for low-skill office people are lower, companies are bigger and have less grow
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that the problem with wealth is that it attracts the worst kinds of people into your life. When you're middle class or poor and not influential, the people around you are a relatively normal sample of the human population and t
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by grosjona 8y ago
The market cannot be efficient because a large portion of public information is not true. Even if all the information was true, there is still the problem that humans have very poor reasoning abilities combined with herd mentality which alm
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that one of the main problems with WAMP is that it's just too complex. The RFC is over 150 pages long... For that reason, implementing WAMP is not straight forward. I think that parts of the WAMP spec are useful to read and I&#
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by grosjona 8y ago
If a startup is able to collect enough data about their users such that they are able to monetize that data, then they aren't really a startup anymore. I highly doubt that Google is pleased with the current situation as the article imp
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by grosjona 8y ago
There aren't many good investment options available these days. Real estate is too expensive, interest rates on cash are too low and VCs have a monopoly on the startup space and the media. The most rational option seems to be to invest
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by grosjona 8y ago
I hate it when code uses weird niche features that are not obvious, are impossible to look up and add 0 value aside from saving a couple of lines of code.
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by grosjona 8y ago
That's an interesting way to look at it and probably true. Almost everything is a fraud these days. It's extremely rare to come across a product that delivers on its promises. The problem is that everyone is just too stupid to see
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that over time, big corporations like Google and Facebook tend to attract increasingly evil (greedy, financially motivated) people - It creates an environment where non-evil people feel uncomfortable and it causes them leave the com
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by grosjona 8y ago
Maybe the mussels saw a gap in the market and decided to start producing it.
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by grosjona 8y ago
There is always an emotional motivation behind what people say and write. The whole article sounds like humblebrag. OP is fishing for attention and trying to make himself famous for being famous... To top it off, he uses his position as a p
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by grosjona 8y ago
I'm looking forward to reading Snap Inc's bankruptcy filings. When the US Fed interest rate rises above the inflation rate and fiat money has value again, Snap stock is going to be the first to snap.
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by grosjona 8y ago
The past decade of 0% interest rates has had a really bad effect on the economy. It seems that most of the money in the world is flowing around in circles from one useless company to another and everyone has a useless office job to match. T

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