jchrisa

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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   He says it's vim's visual block mode + colour post-processed in GIMP
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   If you are interested in the life of a query but in a modern distributed database, this blog post from my colleague at Fauna illustrates the data flow of a global transactional database https://blog.fauna.com/the-life-of-a-f
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   Unifying Relational, Document, Graph, and Temporal Data Models(blog.fauna.com)

   1 points by jchrisa 8y ago|0 comments
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   I gave a talk in November at GOTO Berlin about why a globally consistent transactional database is a better fit for most distributed ledger applications than a blockchain. If you are interested in the relational database approach, the middl
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   If you are interested in a similar discussion of consistency levels, write skew, and how FaunaDB allows indexes to opt-in to serializability, this blog post covers a lot of ground, but brings up index write skew toward the end: https:&#x2F
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   It's a public Montessori elementary school.
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   If my kid's school had homework I'd probably start looking for a new school.
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   by jchrisa 8y ago

   It's like the final scene in The Lawnmower Man but instead it's Florida Man.
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   by jchrisa 9y ago

   By definition it can only get worse or fail. The amount of energy spent defending the blockchain must be proportionately more than the amount of value stored on the blockchain. So if we organized the entire human economy on bitcoin, we&#x27
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    This is a fruitful investigation. If you are interested in structural impacts over the long term, you might enjoy this article on the difference between a trap and a garden: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30&#x2
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Bitcoin / Blockchain are not distributed in one important regard. A truly distributed currency would allow one to transact while offline, and allow merging subgraphs of transactions, etc etc. Bitcoin chooses consistency over availabili
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    As a west-coaster, your description of the food is exactly what makes me keep my east-coast trips to an absolutely minimum. There are a short list of survivable restaurants, but even the grocery stores are depressing.
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Does it support peer-to-peer connections among edge devices?
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    "They startled me" is a bad reason to think something is unsafe. I'd wager if you saturated the streets of any American city with "rude" ebike riders, the serious injury rate would go down pretty quickly, as drivers
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Sell your car and start biking year round. You won't be lonely for long.
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    This reminds me of a cryptocurrency approach I've been suggesting for years: allow anyone to mint coins any time, and move the scarcity into the transaction network: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    It would be cool to present both to the reader somehow. They already have it for the writer.
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    My solution to this is to embed key signing in everyday face-to-face activities. If your wallet gets signed every time you buy something, soon it will have useful identity. https://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-co
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    We started a company around Apache CouchDB, and later merged with a company build around memcached. Both of these open source communities gelled online in mailing lists and IRC. It's not quite your story but open source offers many exa
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    It's totally fine if Kekistan gets erased. The world will be a better place. Your (3) I describe as "companies that control the internet realize their customers don't want to be supporting trolls."
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Dynamo is not exactly a performant or efficient model. It's the equivalent of pulling all the distributed systems guts out and handing them to the user to deal with. And the resulting toll is quantifiable: http://damienkatz.
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    You are forgetting the diversity itself is valuable. For lots and lots of reasons. One is that that the metrics that people who ignore diversity tend to use are easily gamed: GPA, fancy degree, etc., and may correlate more to privilege than
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Driving people out of a job is a far cry from jailing them.
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    I've got a JS block-tree here. The root block is hashed from user content. https://github.com/jchris/document-coin
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Agree. I find that I learn more from my interactions with other people when I follow the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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    Persuading Algorithms with an AI Nudge: Fact-Checking Unreliable News(civilservant.io)

    2 points by jchrisa 9y ago|0 comments
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Don't travel with electronics?
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    New Research Shows That Time Travel Is Mathematically Possible(futurism.com)

    2 points by jchrisa 9y ago|0 comments
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    I was unable to glean from a quick read of the consistency documentation, does CosmosDB support uniqueness and foreign key constraints?
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    by jchrisa 9y ago

    Here's practical advice from Portland http://grist.org/biking/2011-10-14-the-fashionable-bicyclist...