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by guscost 9y ago
> whenever "the market" would believe that the usage growth is going to stop If you're talking about transactions-per-second, how could the market not already know that this is the case? Computers have finite resources, an
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by guscost 9y ago
> A cryptocurrency that scales it's size in rough proportion to its trading and thus keeps prices in check with maybe slight inflation would be interesting. These already exist, with all kinds of incentive schemes and target inflati
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by guscost 9y ago
Do you have an example of a flaw in all existing cryptocurrencies? I've heard about the current scaling challenges with Bitcoin.
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by guscost 9y ago
To be honest I'm a bit baffled. Are you claiming that once these flaws are revealed, the perceived value in Bitcoin will be destroyed? If no, what purpose does the word "fatal" serve? If yes, couldn't you answer my origi
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by guscost 9y ago
That's a wispy rhetorical straw you're grasping now, but I won't deny it is a real straw. Fair enough. The phrase "limiting flaw" would be less confusing.
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by guscost 9y ago
This isn't consistent with your original claim ("fatal flaw" implies that the perception of any existing value will be destroyed), but OK. I'll check back in ~25 years.
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by guscost 9y ago
> bitcoin (and the other cryptocurrencies in existence) seem to have quite a few fatal flaws going forward from just our understanding of normal economics How long would Bitcoin have to survive these flaws before you start to question yo
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by guscost 9y ago
The EVM is Turing-complete, so this will be a risk with any language that compiles into a smart contract. Solidity doesn't appeal to me because its goal seems to be on-boarding JavaScript programmers. But new languages that compile t
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by guscost 9y ago
Bell's inequality suggests that reality must be either non-deterministic or non-local. To the GP: You still aren't "due" for a win, that's silly.
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by guscost 9y ago
Cool thanks, I'll check out Flowstone! And I agree with all of your second paragraph. I'm probably still going to be skeptical of any "general purpose" flow-based IDE, but who knows, as programming matures over the next
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by guscost 9y ago
It's more that functional buttons shouldn't just disappear like that. Why not have it change to "Convert to Kgs" when the input is in pounds?
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by guscost 9y ago
Nice work and nice idea, a clean and functional UI can be motivating in and of itself. But definitely rework this part: > To convert from kilograms to pounds, enter the weight in kgs and hit the convert button. To re-enable the button de
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by guscost 9y ago
These other products are the reason Tesla's valuation is in the stratosphere right now. Whether or not this was the original plan, they are a battery and silicon company, not a car company. Investors are betting that markets for premiu
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by guscost 9y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by guscost 9y ago
Just to confirm, this is being developed in the main TensorFlow repo?
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by guscost 9y ago
I wasn't trying to belittle the complexity or versatility of audio software at all. For brevity's sake I didn't mention other input/output formats, because my point isn't that the domain is limited to "stereo&q
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by guscost 9y ago
> this is what all IDEs will eventually look like Audio signal processing software generates a stream (or set of streams) of samples which should eventually cause speaker cones to vibrate. General-purpose programming isn't like this
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by guscost 9y ago
> you aren't Google, they have Google problems, you don't have Google problems Don't underestimate how hard it can be for developers to accept this. The hacker community can become a tedious game of one-upsmanship at times
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by guscost 9y ago
> Insisting that a URL change with state is taking it too far. It's not how I understood what Tim Berners-Lee and others were saying at the beginning. I would be interested, however, in articles that espouse this. I'm referring
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by guscost 9y ago
Quantum Mechanics is a well-defined subject. "Artificial Intelligence" certainly is not. You could say that the builders of the Antikythera Mechanism were pioneers of artificial intelligence, long before Babbage, Lovelace, or Turi
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by guscost 9y ago
You could say that internet access makes it possible for anyone to be a content owner, so I guess I agree in a way.
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by guscost 9y ago
That's an encouraging thought, but here are two problems with it (sorry): 1. In my understanding many Trump supporters were reacting to their own suffering since the end of the 20th-century manufacturing boom in America. I'm ske
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by guscost 9y ago
Preserving the gains we've made with telecommunications is critical for our future as a civilization, but this still bothers me. The lobbying efforts by ISPs will keep it a monopoly, and the best we can expect is for the government to
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by guscost 9y ago
> akin to quoting Einstein to begin an article on quantum mechanics This analogy doesn't work - Einstein discovered the photoelectric effect .
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by guscost 9y ago
That's a really interesting idea.
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by guscost 9y ago
This is all solid advice, but there's something that still bothers me about URLs: From one side I hear that hypertext should be the engine of application state. This implies that the URL router should control just about everything, and
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by guscost 9y ago
Wrote this recently, kind of an answer to this question (if you don't mind another disgruntled JavaScript rant): https://guscost.com/2017/06/19/future-driven-development/
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by guscost 9y ago
Random people will make different choices because it's real money, for one.
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by guscost 9y ago
Hey if you really feel this way, you might like my new "framework" even more, it does declarative UI in < 100 lines of UMD JavaScript: https://github.com/guscost/protozoa Performance optimizations, cross-b
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by guscost 9y ago
Isn't the CMBR remarkably uniform in all directions? Does that matter?

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