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by kauffj 8y ago
- Why blockchain and not something else? I'm not aware of any other system can provide the permissionless and censorship-resistant aspects of blockchain while still maintaining a coherent, single view of the network, though I admit I&#
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by kauffj 8y ago
I'm fairly certain that Wikipedia does not allow anyone to upload a video or image and to my knowledge (though I'm less certain) the Internet Archive does not either. My second point would apply to both of those entities, regardle
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by kauffj 8y ago
The ability to repost content without payment required is already true of every existing digital media distribution system. We do not claim to improve this situation. LBRY does not provide IP enforcement. The primary reasons people pay for
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by kauffj 8y ago
What single company do you suggest can be trusted to maintain a listing of digital content that anyone can contribute to without censoring or interfering with the listing in some way? We already know we cannot trust Google, Facebook, Apple,
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by kauffj 8y ago
1. That's good feedback though to be clear this portal is specifically for developers/engineers not creators. The spec available at lbry.tech/spec should provide answers to those questions. 2. Depends on what you mean by DRM.
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Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of This Blockchain Use Case?
67 points by kauffj 8y ago|86 comments
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by kauffj 8y ago
> For the record, here is a small sample of other communities where black people are strongly underrepresented: > Runners (3%). Bikers (6%). Furries (2%). Wall Street senior management (2%). Occupy Wall Street protesters (unknown but
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by kauffj 8y ago
As I posted previously when this topic came up ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079526 ), it makes little sense to regulate these companies while there are still federal laws on the books actively encouraging the cent
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by kauffj 8y ago
I'm not claiming it's sufficient. Perhaps it's not. But it seems mistaken to use anti-trust regulations to break up or regulate companies when there are still laws on the books that help facilitate market dominance. Repeal th
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by kauffj 8y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. I'm not proposing that Facebook be _forced_ to allow third-party access, which would carry the risks you've pointed out. I'm simply proposing the federal government not aid them in their
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by kauffj 8y ago
You don't need new regulation; you just need to get rid of existing regulation. It is currently illegal to build third-party applications once the first party tells you to stop. Craigslist actually was involved in the court case that c
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by kauffj 8y ago
Rather than trust busting, why not start with relaxing the federal laws which forbid the development of third-party applications? The limits on third-party apps are legal, not technical. It is not technically challenging to build an applica
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The Fish Rots from the Head(pedestrianobservations.com)
1 points by kauffj 8y ago|0 comments
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Five Corrections to The New York Times(reich.hms.harvard.edu)
107 points by kauffj 8y ago|58 comments
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by kauffj 8y ago
Yes, it is. But if you're designing an algorithm that assesses credit risk and you do this, you will lose money compared to a company that does not do this.
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by kauffj 8y ago
There is no design of AI that can be simultaneously utilitarian, procedurally fair, and representatively fair. I'm going to repeat this again, since many people struggle with this. It is _literally impossible_ to achieve the best utili
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by kauffj 8y ago
Indeed it is! We have a wonderful mechanism that handles this situation: a free market. We've already seen far greater market share from a browser. That browser lost it's market share when it stopped serving consumers. It lost it
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by kauffj 8y ago
Perhaps there was a time when the New York Times could be trusted, but that era ended at least several years ago. Off the top of my head: - The New York Times fired Quinn Norton basically for being willing to talk to weev ( https:/&#x2
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by kauffj 8y ago
I'm the CEO of a company (LBRY) that deals directly with these issues. I'm approaching six figures in legal bills and have spent hundreds of hours on this issue. Here's the truth: no one knows. Not a single person. No one kno
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by kauffj 8y ago
"Deserve" is going overboard, but there's certainly a moral difference between something that happens due to one's own choices, vs. something that happens because it was compelled. It's reasonable have more sympathy
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by kauffj 8y ago
You're correct. I edited the parent.
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by kauffj 8y ago
(On edit: below comment is retracted. At least for 2015 to 2016, the decline is not attributable to Simpson's paradox. See Table 4 in the CDC report linked below.) This is either incompetence or maliciousness on behalf of the CDC, WSJ,
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by kauffj 8y ago
StackOverflow being a wiki is at substantial odds with the way answers are selected. If StackOverflow is a wiki, then the best answer to a question should be determined by the community, not the asker, and needs to be able to evolve and cha
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by kauffj 8y ago
A quick attempt to find costs for 4 degrees C found ~7% of GDP, which would be inline with the figures from my original post. Source (first result for "gdp global warming 4 degree celsius"): https://phys.org/news&#
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by kauffj 8y ago
That's a great point! Global income inequality has been dropping steadily: https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality
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by kauffj 8y ago
My understanding is that the IPCC estimates put the costs of climate change at ~2% of world GDP, and more aggressive estimates still have it under 10%. Is there a reason that cost would eliminate all of the gains cited in this article? Or a
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by kauffj 8y ago
Macroeconomics is a tour of either a cemetery or a construction site. http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2010/09/living-dead-thoug...
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by kauffj 8y ago
This is outrageous, but it's outrageous because it is legal to describe something as unlimited that is in fact no such thing. The reasonable thing here would be to simply require companies to be honest and state the actual bandwidth th
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by kauffj 8y ago
Since this article specifically cites Milton Friedman, it seems apropos to consider his son David's point that if workers were interested in owning their firms it would be fairly trivial to do. Excerpt from "The Machinery of Freed
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Is This an Image? Or Is It a Gun?(github.com)
16 points by kauffj 8y ago|3 comments

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