kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
Capitalism is a solution for allocating scarce resources. None of your other examples are solutions to that specific problem. Apples to oranges...
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think that's what the person you are replying to is arguing for...
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by kobeya 9y ago
> supremacy of capitalism Efficacy is more the word I would have gone for, compared against other systems we have historical evidence for.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The problems with large blocks are not disk space.
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by kobeya 9y ago
My point is that you cannot replace GDP with a better metric of societal "goodness" without objectivity defining "good", and that is an unsolved problem.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I assure you I am not being sarcastic. By history and by the objective metrics used by economists capitalism works and alternatives tried do not. There are two legitimate criticisms of this I'm aware of: (1) capitalism is less optimal
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Capitalism only works in optimizing those things it measures in the first place. Progress of society does not even enter into it, at all. If 300 million people had nothing and screamed in pain all day, and one person had it it all and
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by kobeya 9y ago
Because criticizing capitalism is like criticizing gravity. It objectively works as a method for optimizing allocation of resources for the progress of society, as measured by metrics like GDP per capita. Saying capitalism doesn't work
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by kobeya 9y ago
Regulation is not always beneficial.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Every single signature hashes a few kilobytes of data, on average, and there are ~10k signatures per block (more with segwit..). That's 10's of megabytes of hashing per block, even without considering adversarial transactions that
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by kobeya 9y ago
I see. I think this is my understanding of where the hashes come in -- law enforcement doesn't keep child porn around for comparison. That would be asking for abuse. They instead keep a list of cryptographic hashes of identified child
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by kobeya 9y ago
The US has a provision on the bill of rights of its constitution saying, loosely, that you can never be compelled / coerced into being a witness against yourself. E.g. "Admit you did this crime or we send you to jail for life.&quo
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by kobeya 9y ago
How does that happen? Technically I mean? This isn't full disk encryption? What terrible software leaked the hashes of what it was encrypting? This seems highly relevant to the discussion.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Ah, but it doesn't do a very good job of that. It only removed a few pairings, and made some odd choices at that. Hence why I list it as one of the issues.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Then you fail to receive broadcasted questions such as the GP listed as its feature.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Bitcoin does not meet the requirements identified by the academic community for a usable digital currency. On the other hand, it works (while nothing that came out of academia in this area ever has). Infer from that what you will. It would
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by kobeya 9y ago
The very first idea ever.
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by kobeya 9y ago
No those weren't the work of a single person. You're quoting versions of the code base that post date the public introduction of bitcoin. Some of the things you call out were written by others, and others were written in response
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by kobeya 9y ago
Even people working on bitcoin aren't fans of base58. Variable length serialization? Bignums in the serializer? Poor error detection? No error correction? Confused characters in alphabet? Case sensitivity? Lots of reasons to dislike.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Or Linus and Linux?
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by kobeya 9y ago
The economic incentives underlying bitcoin mining, the Nakamoto consensus solution to the Byzantine fault tolerance problem, is new.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Broadcasting interruptions to everyone.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Does slack really enable good collaboration? It seems to destroy productivity in every environment I've ever been in. It is the workplace equivalent of Facebook shitposting. Also, IRC and XMPP servers are cheap.
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by kobeya 9y ago
THAT is the harm. That's my point. You can't sue someone for something that abstractly maybe implies something else. You sue for damages and have to show damages.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Which would harm them... how?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Would love to use myself, except the NC-ND license means I won't even be looking at it. Please consider changing licenses.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Wow that's disingenuous. No, comments that are off-topic are noise. You want to debate something else (like you're doing now!), go do it in a different thread.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Alexa is never going to reach the market penetration necessary for that to be plausible.
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by kobeya 9y ago
So.. Facebook is okay then if they move their data centers? For average users, I mean. They don't pay a cent to access facebook.com. I'm pretty sure that's not the intent of this legislation.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It is literally changing the subject. Even supposing the new topic is more important, and priorities were misallocated, the topic is still being changed.

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