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Technological primacy(jcfrei.com)
1 points by jcfrei 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 9y ago
"Capitalism" is such a general term I find it hard to know what exactly you mean. A liberal or free markets based economy doesn't need growth at all. The problem is that a lot of companies and a lot of state-run institutions
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Agreed. This one and the earlier article "War in the womb" posted in 2014 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8155153 ) fundamentally changed my understanding of pregnancies.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
We mostly played soccer. But there were running days and the occasional 12 minute run (which was really exhausting). There were also one or two compulsory lessons where we had to work on the parallel bars and the same also for gymnastics on
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I firmly believe that PE in high school is the most important class you'll ever take. Getting to know the limits of your body and learning to push and exhaust yourself is probably one of the most important lessons in life. PE teachers
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Wehe: Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations – Meddle(dd.meddle.mobi)
3 points by jcfrei 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Ah, I see now how the terminology is applied. Thanks for the clarification.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Are there future plans to add smart contracts (with a "Turing-complete" virtual machine) to Stellar? I think that the Stellar consensus protocol with its speed would be perfect for overcoming the current limitations of Ethereum.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
> There's work being done (which I personally believe is the right way to go) in using a leader election-based system that works like a lottery (Algorand[0] is an example). Probably what you meant but I still wanted to mention it: B
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by jcfrei 9y ago
The problem I see with tech like this is that it muddies the water for everyone. I find it very strange that technologies like the internet appear to have created a world with more ambiguity and less transparency than we've had before
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by jcfrei 9y ago
What's your opinion on frequent batch auctions as outlined by Eric Budish ( http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre... )? He has some strong arguments against continuous time limit order
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by jcfrei 9y ago
All of your proposed use cases depend on the authorities approving your actions. Governments can and will at some point request standard AML procedures when you are depositing large sums of crypto currency into an exchange. If a state decid
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A statistical analysis of smartphone reviews(smart-phoney.com)
1 points by jcfrei 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 9y ago
They don't. It only seems that way due to a self-selection bias that occurs in internet forums. Negative opinions get overwhelmingly upvoted. Typically a user that just got disappointed by a game will upvote any submission or comment
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by jcfrei 9y ago
How did you test comprehension in the study? With a test on a screen, paper or verbally? If I recall correctly similar environments in test taking and learning have a big impact on your capacity to remember (and probably also on comprehensi
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Cryptocurrencies: Beneath the bubble [pdf](ubs.com)
2 points by jcfrei 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I think the author summarized his hypothesis quite well in the title: The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything [... are too high compared to the costs of bandwidth, etc.]. If you introduce a bidding market for every computational reso
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by jcfrei 9y ago
You could adjust it based on income.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
What's the point of storing your bitcoin with a super node? Kind of runs against the idea of decentralization - or am I missing something?
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Can't read the article because the site is down. But it seems like a reminder why countries join supranational organizations like the EU: To increase their collective bargaining power.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Bitcoin certainly has an intrinsic value (because it is a globally accessible medium of exchange). However just like gold its value is also most likely way above its intrinsic value. The intrinsic value of gold primarily consists of industr
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by jcfrei 9y ago
If I understood the workings of the intelligent tracking prevention correctly ( https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... ) then this looks painful for ad networks which don't serve thei
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Isn't disabling third-party cookies common already? Are advertising companies alarmed because this "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" is on by default?
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by jcfrei 9y ago
It's always interesting to see which parts of our lives are incompatible with free markets (at least for a majority of society). It's a very peculiar moral that you mustn't evict people from their homes after they've liv
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by jcfrei 9y ago
The following explanation is probably implied but I still want to mention it: When a movie (or any form of media really) discusses such a polarizing issue like climate change doesn't the rating always lose its meaning? When a film, boo
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Regulation is only on the surface about investor protection. The main driver is usually taxation (only what's regulated can be taxed). If these investment schemes become too liquid allowing anyone to invest in anything in large sums, t
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by jcfrei 9y ago
In my opinion a big problem in developing as well as developed countries is the idea that farming should be a family business. Here in Switzerland the government is very slowly introducing legislation that favors big farms over smaller ones
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Whether it is more expensive or not is irrelevant. If a majority of the network (either in hashing power or number of tokens) decides to collude and start modifying network states for their own benefit then they will ultimately succeed. You
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by jcfrei 9y ago
PoS as well as PoW depend on the assumption that a majority (either in terms of value invested in hashing power or invested in tokens) of the network is following the rules. If you try to double spend in a PoW system you are betting your cu
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by jcfrei 9y ago
The purpose of PoW is to reduce the number of forks and also making double spending attacks very expensive. Why can't the computing power of the entire network be used to just verify the integrity of all transactions and skip the nonce

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