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by jsutton 8y ago
Making judgements about people with whom you're doing business with based on their values and actions is perfectly fine. What isn't fine is making those judgements based on identity or on a general swath of people.
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by jsutton 8y ago
'Believed' is a loose term, you'd have to be deluded to believe something like that.
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by jsutton 8y ago
Covering news is much different than exposing the private communications of a political party.
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by jsutton 8y ago
Tell us how you can trade stock derivatives without a intermediary like a broker.
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by jsutton 8y ago
Oh come on, that is not easy to read. There's no reason to go back to the 1990s, minimal styling and good typography with reasonable margins and spacing are absolutely worth it for readability.
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by jsutton 8y ago
If they just switch jobs, they lose the ability to change the culture.
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by jsutton 8y ago
This seems like generally good advice, except for having to spend every waking moment using your brain for work. Balance is important. Spending some of that free time on learning engineering is good advice, just not all of it. Make sure you
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by jsutton 8y ago
You are misinformed, at least in this case.
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by jsutton 8y ago
How would you like useful, open source tools that can be deployed once and only once (for everyone), and used freely (minus processing fees) forever without having to worry about (a) deploying an instance of it on your own environment or (b
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by jsutton 8y ago
MySQL doesn't guarantee message integrity, so anything involving shared data among separate entities that could be attractive for manipulation would be better solved with blockchain tech than MySQL.
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by jsutton 8y ago
There are flaws in every evolution of the web, but none that can't be mitigated and presumably the good that each evolution brings to the world far outweighs the bad.
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by jsutton 8y ago
What worked for me was making it a habit to 'reality check' (looking at my hands/fingers, doing a double take on a clock) every day for several weeks. Then, entering a lucid dream state worked best when taking an afternoon na
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by jsutton 8y ago
> they've more or less openly abandoned any pretence of political neutrality There's an enormous federal investigation into the political operatives of only one party. The counts of corruption are far higher for one party. When
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by jsutton 8y ago
Ever try to share a conventional database between multiple different companies or organizations? It's not practical. It seems more complicated than going with a blockchain solution (or will be as blockchain deployment tools mature). T
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by jsutton 8y ago
Building complex systems is far from limited to the backend.
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by jsutton 8y ago
> However, I find it extremely challenging to be optimistic about security and trust in the Internet. This is what blockchain is good for. Security and trust. As the ecosystem matures, there will be boundless opportunities for innovation
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by jsutton 8y ago
They don't have a 'horrible track record'. LastPass has always had some of the fastest response times to security issues. They've had certain breaches in the past, but nothing that has exposed any users' passwords.
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by jsutton 8y ago
> what's taking so long This technology is combining software, hardware, game theory, monetary incentives. It's going to take a long time, and it hasn't even been 10 years. Picture years from now, and the big buzzword trif
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by jsutton 8y ago
> Real estate, oil and gas exploration/drilling/royalties are all things that have existed without problem for many decades. Really? I find that unbelievable. Ever try to procure data on real estate? It's almost impossibl
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by jsutton 8y ago
Why is this sad? It's just like the startup boom we had in tech, and while most flamed out, we were left with many that changed the world (for better or worse).
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by jsutton 8y ago
Depends on how much censorship protection you want. Journalism of dangerous topics? Store it on a decentralized solution like IPFS, Swarm, Sia. Just want to store ownership records and transactions related to that data? Use AWS and store th
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by jsutton 8y ago
In a strict technical view, that's correct. ETH is the continuation of the original coin, however, which most of the community (including the most important members/developers) decided to support.
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by jsutton 8y ago
Not necessarily, non-hashing consensus seems to be where most blockchain projects are going. So these would require a stake of assets or similar, instead of wasting computing cycles.
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by jsutton 8y ago
Trump cannot claim that his personal twitter account is solely his personal opinions and thus can do whatever he wants with it, whilst at the same time using it as a platform for public policy announcements and political speech. If instead
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by jsutton 8y ago
The key takeaway for me: "Make sure that whatever you do is very modular. Make everything as module as possible. Because you know that some of your ideas are going to endure, and some are not. The problem is you don't know which o
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by jsutton 8y ago
Your view seems to be to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The crypto space is full of scams, PnDs, etc. The crypto space is also full of world-changing technologies that will affect our economies and societies significantly. Both are
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by jsutton 8y ago
Key Management Systems will be an extremely lucrative business if anyone can come along and get it right. Coinbase could be a leading candidate to operate one, but the opportunity is there for a small player with top tier security talent.
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by jsutton 8y ago
You make it sound so easy, just open up your wallet and get the majority mining capacity! Tell me, how would someone with near-unlimited money go about doing that? Will they just conjure up the hardware needed to make 15 Trillion hashes per
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by jsutton 8y ago
End to end encryption, content rich messages, very fast, and it can be especially hard to leave if most of your friends that you talk to also have iMessage.
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by jsutton 8y ago
In the case of dating, meeting 2000 potential partners is likely past the point of usefulness, while 3 is probably too little. There's an optimal number in between there that's different for everyone. The Secretary Problem[1] come

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