jamespitts

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by jamespitts 10y ago
I do not think that big city life should be a luxury, any more than the internet or computing should be a luxuries. While it is beneficial to improve districts, the migratory upgrading of urban areas is an economic model that may be problem
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by jamespitts 10y ago
It is true that people can squeeze by in a place like NYC with the right moves (as you have), but a configuration like this one may not be sustainable for those who want to raise a family.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
The reasons behind the housing supply crisis are many, and the situation can seem intractable. I have been assisting architect Eugene Lew with a comprehensive and audacious solution to this problem. If you are interested in reading a draft
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by jamespitts 10y ago
This is a view that will lead to a highly dysfunctional society. First off, you are dismissive of the issue with that bit of exaggeration. It is not as if this group wants all the good things in life that only a tech salary afford. Perhaps
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He omits a huge source of emerging P2P potential: cloud instances run by power users and businesses. These are currently powering the various blockchain communities and represent the next stage of P2P. Due to the security and accountability
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by jamespitts 10y ago
The nature of shareholders may provide huge incentives to continue to automate, all the way down to the most essential people required to run the design, production, distribution, marketing, etc. Top company leads, board members, and adviso
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by jamespitts 10y ago
There are technologies being developed with which consumers confirm, with a high level of reliability, the source of food items and other goods: https://www.provenance.org
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by jamespitts 10y ago
I have a lot to thank the humble and useful Wordstar for. In college, I worked at a law firm and they were still using wordstar as well as wordperfect. Wordstar had this interesting markup that I quickly learned, and it was faster to use th
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Could you explain why you think that the hard fork release means that this is a bad time to build services on the Ethereum network?
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by jamespitts 10y ago
I read Toffler's Third Wave in high school as part of a class. A lot of what Alvin Toffler talked about was over my head at the time. Still, the material was very interesting to me and I looked forward to the new world he described. On
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Convenient blockchain wallets, on the desktop and in the browser as extensions, will make this approach much more widely used by consumers.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Looking at the economy as a decentralized mechanism for processing information is just that, a way of looking at it. I am not saying that the model is the thing. But I do think that something like the economy can be talked about and modeled
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by jamespitts 10y ago
I appreciate this perspective on understanding national economies. After the big meltdown in 2008-9 I started thinking that major economic events could also be seen as information processing events. Some Tofflerian quotes from the article:
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by jamespitts 10y ago
The lack of bloatware would be something of value so I would not so quickly dismiss their effort even though the website contains hype. The community forum is where the action seems to be happening: http://eve.community/
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by jamespitts 10y ago
This is game theoretics at its best: A new game with rules that are executed reliably, huge amounts of money, huge numbers of voting participants. I think that the most reasonable thing will happen over the long run, but in the meantime the
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Windows 1.0 had a vastly larger list of why it sucked. So did the early web, early versions of DOS, early hobbyist PCs, early microprocessors, heh, perhaps even von Neumann's IAS machine. Use cases embody the most obvious value potenti
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Not to overhype the potential of Ethereum, but one can also go beyond the obvious "next steps" and start to see entire new avenues that a technology opens up. I say "start to see" because it is very hard to predict how o
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by jamespitts 10y ago
This is high art. Congrats.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
What is "want"? And why does it have to be so immovable? We can't always walk away from what we do or where we live. Car-centric, earth-wasting behavior is ostensibly what we want, because most of us engage in it every day. S
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Perfect article while the Life and Death of Cities is in mind. Apple could be a better citizen, and contribute a lot more than money to the city around it. If the company fully subscribes to shareholder theory, they will contribute only wha
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by jamespitts 10y ago
It has been a long time since the metaphor comparing apples to oranges was more apt.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Count me in. This will be a long struggle, one which starts with understanding the difficult territory. One recent and significant gain in the fight is the notion that the city must measure the economic impact of underbuilding: http:/
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by jamespitts 10y ago
It is true, we simply do need more units. And any way can seem like the way to go. But aren't these suggestions a bit like in the late 90s when you would just add more beefy servers to a really slow web site? Even if these ideas would
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by jamespitts 11y ago
This is excellent work, almost a whole book here. At Code 4 SF where I've been volunteering a subgroup has been running a series of tests/challenges using design thinking. This is a hugely effective methodology for understanding p
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by jamespitts 11y ago
It would be valuable to establish a track record for a home that might be sold in the future, or perhaps during the sales process a home could be sampled by a certified home inspector.
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The Need for a “Do No Harm” Regulatory Approach to Blockchain Technology(cftc.gov)
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by jamespitts 11y ago
I hope I am being more clear here! Let me know :)
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Heh, I saw the "able to remove modules" under Problems Trying to Solve in https://github.com/EverythingStays/EverythingStays and thought you meant that was a feature not a bug. I was definitely referring to c
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by jamespitts 11y ago
Imagine that we augmented alphago by placing a system nearby that can introspect alphago and generate abstractions of what occurred, and then provide a human-understandable narrative about alphago's simulations during a game. What if t
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by jamespitts 11y ago
How are you handling security-related issues such as user identity and IPFS namespaces, particularly as they relate to systems outside of IPFS (i.e. github)? Is there a method by which someone who has lost control over a namespace may annou

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