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Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals(theguardian.com)
19 points by hudon 8y ago|2 comments
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Diversity quotas suck. Here’s why(blog.alinelerner.com)
97 points by hudon 8y ago|95 comments
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Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers [video](youtube.com)
1 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
> People use cryptocurrency too. For value transfer, and to a more limited extent, for dapps like Augur. Soooo, buying drugs and illegal gambling? Sure, I'll give you that one. My argument rephrased: "Because cryptocurrency inv
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by hudon 8y ago
1. What if we put "beginning" as in "before it was even called the Internet"? Indeed, ARPANET, which came online in 1969, saw fast growth in the United States in the 70s. Nodes came online to use it , not to make a quic
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by hudon 8y ago
As per your citation, ARPAnet came online in 1969 and emails were being exchanged by 1972, barely 3 years later. Blockchains have been around for 10 years now and every year they cause bigger problems without actually solving any.
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by hudon 8y ago
Yes, another source is here: http://www.rolldice.club/cryptokitties/ It's worth noting that at its peak when CryptoKitties transactions hogged the Ethereum network and made it barely useable, CryptoKitties had onl
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by hudon 8y ago
You can see the state (volume, # daily users) of some of these promised "dapps" here: https://dappradar.com . It is indeed a barren wasteland. And when a new popular ICO comes along, the Ethereum network struggles and
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A Bitcoin Dummy Has Questions(lastwordonnothing.com)
3 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
Hi Craig, I'm sure you know that it only takes 1 or 2 Chinese Bitcoin mining pool CEOs to get more than 51% of the network's hash rate [0]. Mining hasn't been decentralized since 2013 unless your definition of "decentral
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by hudon 8y ago
I believe it's the latter, given the last two paragraphs of TFA: > In order to protect civil liberties without hampering innovation, lawmakers should require public input before surveillance tools are deployed and ensure that facial
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Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People(cato.org)
326 points by hudon 8y ago|197 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
Preston Byrne has a good series on why the DAI and stablecoins in general make unsubstantiated claims and can only work while the price is going up. 1. https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/10/stablecoins-are-doome
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Introducing GiveCrypto.org(medium.com)
5 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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Proof-of-Work’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently(davidgerard.co.uk)
4 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
This reminds me of another paper about proof-of-work blockchains called The Blockchain Folk Theorem [0], which has a similar conclusion (aside from the main conclusions): > Another issue relates to the negative externalities arising in
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U.S. Secret Service: Action Needed to Address Anonymous Cryptocurrencies(forbes.com)
1 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Decentralized Storage Will Never Work(blog.dshr.org)
2 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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The Paperclip Maximizer(bitcointalk.org)
2 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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Arithmetic for Austrians(coppolacomment.com)
1 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
This article would make more sense if crypto currencies were actually decentralized... that ship sailed maybe five years ago? Today, only a handful of corporations control the majority of the proof-of-work hashrate [0]. What’s more, develop
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by hudon 8y ago
There is another--less talked about--way to double-spend: developers can cause forks and double-spend during the confusion. In 2013, the network forked unexpectedly [0] and the Bitcoin network had 2 chains for about 4 hours. During those 4
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UK Digital Currencies Inquiry: Evidence Submitted by David Gerard(data.parliament.uk)
2 points by hudon 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
What does that mean? How is it different than Google being an Internet-wide bug bounty?
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by hudon 8y ago
One example that the US government's OFAC is considering is blacklisting addresses and tainted UTXOs [0]. Miners would be forbidden by law to confirm a transaction related to a tainted UTXO. This means if the transaction is spending a
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by hudon 8y ago
Do you have a website with more information? On your blockchain, if a new consensus rule is being disputed or if a bug in the consensus rules causes a fork, who has the final say, the developers or the miners?
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by hudon 8y ago
> There are no ways of accepting payments digitally without a third party. 1- I agree. Bitcoin is no exception here: I must buy Bitcoin through GDAX. Then my transaction must be confirmed by Bitmain. And they're all running software
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by hudon 8y ago
- Can you show me one of these blockchain-based mesh networks in production? How many users do they have? - As for voting and trade records, how do you deal with the fact that developers can fork the chain and invalidate past transactions l
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by hudon 8y ago
> - Signed, someone who wishes they didn't dismiss Bitcoin the first time they heard about it. Ugh, that is so presumptuous. I've been in Bitcoin since the "Bitcoin 0.3" announcement on Slashdot. I was an engineer at
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by hudon 8y ago
Chargebacks protect users from fraudsters, which is exactly what the featured article is saying is a major problem in the cryptocurrency space. Millions of people getting scammed with no legal recourse is a problem. Retailers dealing with c

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