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by jamespitts 11y ago
From the early comments placed here, it is clear that blockchain tech needs to be put to more uses than solving money. The core of what bitcoin has solved is of course hugely innovative, important, and useful to many people. But it is also
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Add this flexible assembling mechanism to 3D printing and some traditional robotics... and you have a very interesting builder-thing indeed. Highly complex machines such as drones could be rapidly manufactured or repaired from some raw mate
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So what's up? Why do you disagree?
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Very happy to see this. MS is extending the olive branch in so many ways, and we in the open source community can learn to forgive. Still, it will be hard to get over the mutual hostility from decades past. http://www.huffingtonp
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Excellent perspective, particularly so because it comes from someone who did so much to describe where a reputation economy could go. Science fiction writing is amazing in how it gets us to imagine, be bewildered, or be alarmed by things th
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It is true, the algorithms may not seem critical day-to-day. Barriers to entry like the coding interview or ivyness of education often fail to identify the best candidates, reinforce monoculture, and could even indirectly support ageism, ra
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I think one key to understanding his work is to understand how he helped make computers more accessible. Among many things, he believed that "a computer should be just another piece of lab equipment." That they should be a basic t
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Thanks for sharing your anecdote. The greats really were -- and are -- that great.
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Definitely agree. Once any area starts to take on the characteristics of a modern megacity, it becomes self-sustaining. I would even go as far as to say that megacities attain the closest thing to a singularity that human beings currently e
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Why not another 8 million? The Bay Area could be Tokyo or London. NYC could finally become #2. More than just people, entire industries might find this a better place to operate if housing were not such a burden on workers. No doubt this is
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How much value would be realized if this massive and complex problem is fully addressed in the Bay Area (and the solver properly compensated)? $100B? The scale of it all is huge, but so is mining asteroids.
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Sound management for all of the cars, drones, and (probably) robots might be even more important than sunlight!
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I think that sunlight is highly desirable, to an extent! A building's function is to block unpleasant sun, but a window's function is to let it in and to control it. Artificial sunlight could enable more control over the sunlight
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Artificial sunlight could be revolutionary if applied with scale in cities. It could enable new, far denser forms of architecture "built for people", mitigating the ill psychological effects of being without natural surroundings.
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The screenwriters meeting with Willis Ware at RAND reminds me of how Steve Jobs would call up various S.V. legends in his youth. It pays off to make that call!
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Ok, here's some helpful criticism (not that all of this is unhelpful): Overall the presentation of your system is great. However, the documentation needs work, particularly on how to create a complete mini-MVP. Examples, even if dinky,
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See it in action in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTkL_gacvU
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MetraLabs Tory – inventory robot scans RFID while roaming a store(rfidjournal.com)
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I say the long goal is "interesting things", but doing so while minimizing destruction. Perhaps a far-future goal could involve evolving our minds and activities beyond our evolutionary orientation, yet still be able to somehow re
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Interesting-- if the pyramids took a long time (as cathedrals did) then the work and resource-use may have not had such a terrible impact on the common people.
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Thinking on it, I do hope that the current global lifestyle of productivity, consumerism, and reproduction can be wrought into something truly sustainable. Science and technology will help with this, but then again the same could create new
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Decline does not have to follow the scenario in which knowledge, capability, or even access to resources are lost. The scenario of a living hell for most people and a slow, global decline can come about simply by reducing access to the bene
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It is actually quite tragic if this dull logistics hub became the model for cities in which tens of millions of people must live out their day. The foundation may have come from Shannon, but I think that the people cities like Shenzhen know
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It depends on how you define success. The economic efficiency of how this place was developed cannot be denied. But is there a civic center in Shannon, Ireland? A downtown with people doing things? Civilization does require some centralizat
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Nice to see this; it is often difficult to convey a complex point if you leave your audience to just imagine the outcomes. A few months ago, I started looking into simulating economics while researching the housing situ in the Bay Area. I f
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Dapper Dan remixed luxury brands with the street, shut down by lawsuits(liverighteouslyy.com)
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Totally agree. Calling the game a ripoff is unfair. Ripoff is a deception, yet Powerball is completely honest about its mechanism. Participants understand that they are playing a game with a low chance of winning, but they do get a lot of v
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This article illustrates a key problem with our city infrastructure. The more I think about it, the more I believe that the first few floors of buildings should be "public infrastructure". Much in the way that farmer's market
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That he survived WWII in an intellectual sense is unfortunate. His buildings, like Albert Speer's, are a concrete rendering of the idea of 20th century dictatorship. Thankfully there was already resistance to his ideas -- even his frie
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The new TLDs allow more expressiveness and creativity. IMO, there should be even more of them. The limitations should be similar to the limitations placed on searchable results: cost, law, preventing harm, etc. It is interesting to think ab

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