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by lifty 8y ago
The new app store in Mojave seems fast and snappy. I agree about the previous version though.
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by lifty 8y ago
I really hope https://handshake.org will catch on. It has the potential to solve a few very hard problems (PKI and online identity) without fundamental changes to the way the Internet works.
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by lifty 8y ago
I am not sure I follow your reasoning. Taking into account the low interest environment that we have gone through in the last 10 years how can it be a creditor’s paradise?
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by lifty 8y ago
Are housing, healthcare and education costs included in the inflation numbers?
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by lifty 8y ago
It seems like the cheaper money is leading to other classes of assets like housing and stocks to go up. It's a value transfer between these classes of assets and a great play for those that own houses and stocks, but the younger genera
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by lifty 8y ago
Do you have an opinion about what caused this situation where people are in a constant chase to keep up with their expenses, especially in Netherlands? I have my opinions but I am really curious what is the perception of a middle class west
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by lifty 8y ago
Consul just became a service mesh. It’s in the release notes.
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by lifty 8y ago
I don't have full conviction that the situation I described will lead to better outcomes but I am not convinced by the current system either, and it's worth considering how the system could work with the newer tools that we now ha
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by lifty 8y ago
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are easier to store securely compared to bunches of cash, which would lead to less pressure to store them in a bank. Deposits would be incentivised using interest rates (set by the market). That and the ba
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by lifty 8y ago
That outcome is certainly possible. But even that scenario would be quite a departure from what we have now, where banks have almost no reserve requirement and they can create as much money as can be absorbed in the economy, which in turn i
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by lifty 8y ago
Perhaps one fundamental difference between the normal financial system and the more popular cryptocurrencies is in the way the money supply is managed. In the traditional system money becomes very cheap in specific periods, coincidentally o
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by lifty 8y ago
I know and contribute through https://opencollective.com , but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more platform like this.
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by lifty 9y ago
I received the Flickr announcement email 11 times. Am I the only one?
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by lifty 9y ago
They recently received 200k from the Dfinity project
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by lifty 9y ago
One reason is to move from being the product to being a user, so that your attention is not sold to the highest bidder and your behaviour manipulated in such a way that it produces the highest value. Of course, paying with your attention is
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by lifty 9y ago
You can do that fairly easy when you are trading on a 10k account. It is more difficult with a 100 million account when you are a bank.
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by lifty 9y ago
One very good resource are the writings of Aphyr where he tests various distributed databases: https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen . Jepsen is the framework he wrote to test them. Next would be formal verification but you ge
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by lifty 9y ago
I just checked and you are correct. It seems that at the moment, peers can only sync directly on a local lan and in order to sync over the internet peers need to join a pub. But that is a technicality that will hopefully be solved in the fu
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by lifty 9y ago
Scuttlebutt is p2p, and pubs are not mandatory but are helpful for replicating messages among users when they are online at different times. Each user could run their own pub if they wanted to, for maximum decentralisation while maintaining
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by lifty 9y ago
Scuttlebutt is a pure p2p social network. Active and lovely https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
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by lifty 9y ago
Scuttlebutt is open source and peer to peer, but not paid, because there is no one to pay. I recently joined, although I knew about it for a long time, and I was pleasantly surprised on how well it works. The communities have a very nice fe
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by lifty 9y ago
You say "all in one mail server(SMTP & web & IMAP) binary". Any chance that code is open source or available somewhere online? I think we are sorely missing some more integrated e-mail solutions that are easy to manage.
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by lifty 9y ago
Sounds like you did the SNE master. Is it so?
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by lifty 9y ago
I would pay for such a service as well. In addition to that, I would love if this service would allow companies like Apple and Google to maintains their own lists of IP's and update them regularly, so you can be 100% sure that an IP be
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by lifty 9y ago
Are you suggesting that the rise of the middle class in the Far East was caused by monetary policy? If you do, then I would have to disagree with you. It seems to me more likely that it was caused by the increase in global trade and the mas
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The Three-Body Problem in Investing(epsilontheory.com)
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by lifty 9y ago
An over the counter(OTC) trade with a firm that specialises in high worth trades. They quote you a mid market price and they fill your whole amount at the same price.
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by lifty 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the IT department explained to him that they are using some kind of consensus based mechanism (zookeeper, etcd, consul etc), that works just like a blockchain, to manage the bloomberg infrastructur
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by lifty 9y ago
$12 million worth of electricity every 10 minutes is indeed mind boggling. I don't expect that BTC will be valued at $1 million anytime soon, but if that would happen, and a large percentage of the world population would use Bitcoin, i
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by lifty 9y ago
Can you go into more detail as to why that world would be terrifying? Is it because the implications predicted by orthodox monetary theory?

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