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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> if battery tech improves enough, I think there's a compelling case to be made that the spike energy is better sent there than to mining rigs. I don't exactly disagree - with better storage tech, we could put the energy to mor
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
While the energy usage of Proof-of-Stake systems like Bitcoin does seem embarrassingly excessive at first glance, I think there's more nuance here than it first may appear. One of the problems with renewables is that they are spike-y a
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> how does one voxel communicate to the neighboring voxel what to update without passage through ‘stuff in between’ that doesn’t exist? Heh That kind of reminds me of the 'aether' that was once hypothesized as a medium of trans
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
Interestingly, Medieval Iceland had a polycentric legal system where you could sell the wrong done to you to someone who had more money to prosecute. There's an interesting discussion/description in "The Machinery of Freedom&
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> There's nothing that makes this capability unique to NFTs or crypto Yeah, you're probably right here. This is a slight pivot in discussion but - you're right, the proper license agreement (if enforced) would give a simil
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
You're not wrong. It's an imperfect solution right now; but it is a step in exploring what's possible. And exploratory steps are really helpful for iterating on a good solution.
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
It's possible - if not common - to setup the underlying smart contract to send some amount of funds back to the creator when an NFT changes hands. So that turns selling a piece of art once to pay the bills into selling it once and then
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I have pretty mixed feelings about NFTs in general. But I am intrigued by the use case of allowing a large number of individuals to patron a given artist (and give them recurring income on subsequent resale of their work). All else being eq
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I think that's a pretty good analogy. I'll add a few other details to color the picture. DAOs can also be built to support fund disbursal through a m-of-n multisig - ie, a certain number of members have to vote on a transaction. I
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> This sounds like just a more expensive, difficult, and resource intensive way of running a lambda function... It definitely would be for some applications - but probably not all. It's all about engineering trade-offs. There&#x27
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> - The only applications anyone is implementing on progcoins are exchanges and/or gambling. So far, dApps are a circular argument. There's an argument that that's okay for now - the finance applications are effectively
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I think a lot of discussions around the utility of blockchains misses (or just ignores) a really subtle but important point: smart contract networks (like Ethereum) could be thought of like public utilities that are implemented via markets.
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I would question how much of the layperson's trust is due to bank regulation and how much is due to familiarity.
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
Allowing some/any assets from other games to be available in a specific game would be a design decision. Just another game mechanic that game developers could incorporate. > This only makes sense for like gambling games / other
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I think that's right locally - you can of course make your local software ignore the ownership of nfts. But if the crypto/ledger doesn't line up, then other better behaved clients can (and arguably have an incentive to) just
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> So far I don't think democracy has ever existed except at tribal scale (below Dunbar's Number). All former and current attempts are oligarchies with a degree of democratic veto power or a democratic facade. I've not read
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
mindcandy's comment sums it up well, but I'll just add that the loot is worthless without the game now - that's the point of vendor lockin. But if items and their properties are stored in a public-by-default way, then othe
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> NFT is useless for implementing IP without some other legal enforcement. From a real-world legal perspective, you're totally right. But as a means of acquiring an object in one virtual environment and maintaining access to it in o
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
The neat thing about using NFTs is that you can represent the ownership on a public blockchain and that gives you some nice possibilities: 1) storing virtual property rights on a public ledger means that it can be shared among different &#x
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I have absolutely no knowledge about this domain, so this idea 1) might not be viable and 2) is not a full developed product idea - but I thought it would be fun to get your thoughts. Could you put some sound sensors inside of some mechan
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I think we're making baby steps in that direction. I don't know the details as much as I like, but Certified B-Corporations are a thing https://bcorporation.net/
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
Almost this exact thing launched in the last couple of weeks - https://klimadao.finance/ In a podcast, I heard one of the founders describe it as a first step at creating a 'non-extractive' economic system.
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Why3: Where Programs Meet Provers(why3.lri.fr)
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I'm curious about the Fortran aspect - I've never worked with it (though I've always been a little curious). Care to elaborate?
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I'm still wrapping my head around the concept of Coin Mixing, but I wonder how helpful that would be - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I kind of wonder if HN will block me for posting the same comment, but it's so frequently relevant. > By definition, bitcoin transactions are not traceable, right? Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, has some things
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
Can't recommend Watts enough - Blindsight is one of my top 3 favorite novels. He periodically drops hints about his progress on the sequel to Echopraxia. For quick recommendations, I'd single out two of his short stories (which ar
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
> it's a pretty well known that it's used that way. Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, has some things to say about the use of BTC in crime: > Based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I wonder how useful The Solitare Encryption Algorithm would be here - https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
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by joshmarlow 5y ago
I actually have the same impediment but never knew the term `rhotacism` - thanks!

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