kybernetikos

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by kybernetikos 14y ago
> it's not even a good reason, because it forces me to spend money. It doesn't force you to spend money, it does however attach a cost to you hoarding your currency. This makes sense, because you're harming the system as a whole by
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
Might work nicely for diseases that take a long time to kill you, but insurance companies have no incentive to find a cure to something that kills you quickly and cheaply .
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
true, they'd be a little hackerish if it was a closed community of zero people with an exploit to get in...
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
I find it strange that people talk about ray tracing as if it is the solution when in fact it's not even the best of the approximations to the rendering equation that we have. For example caustics can't be adequately represented with ray
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
Closed communities are not very hackerish.
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
Headstart over whaat? Even ie10 has it.
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
do you have a citation for that? I don't really believe that fake leather makes an app more approachable or easier to use. Of course, if there are usability studies that prove me wrong, I'm happy to revise my opinion.
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
> "Write-once run everywhere" has zero value to the end user. They want the best Facebook/g+/Twitter/whatever experience possible on the platform they use. Exactly, and if Mr Enduser X can get it on his weird platform because it runs HT
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
The way I use the word, I usually intend it to mean covering a completely new idea. For me, execution, no matter how superior can never be innovative. It can of course be important, world changing, profitable, etc. If I say that the ipad
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
> In your computation certificate proposal, would you be able to trade certificates? If so, each grid network would be able to trade counterfeited certs (generate certs for which no work was performed). Yes, you'd be able to trade certi
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
In particular the note is pretty innovative (in the apple sense) in it's own right.
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by kybernetikos 14y ago
It amazes me that the initial bitcoin set up was basically a pyramid scheme and this doesn't seem to put anyone off. Not to mention the fact that all that computing work is wasted doing nothing useful . I'd much rather see grid computing n
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Monad as a design pattern(kybernetikos.com)
3 points by kybernetikos 14y ago|0 comments