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by m-i-l 8y ago
> On the plus side, it's remote. It is actually relatively accessible compared to the other two proposed spaceport sites, which are both on relatively remote islands: Unst on the Shetland Islands, and North Uist in the Outer Hebri
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Sorry, was just a sarcastic comment about the limitations of blockchain tech. If it is about a distributed network in general that makes much more sense. Have checked it out.
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> The sci-fi book that anticipated what rouge blockchain like programs can do. It would have to be a fantasy book to truly go rogue - if it was sci-fi it would get bogged down in network congestion or high transaction fees, or consume
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> There is a lot of trust involved in a cryptocurrency transfer. You have to trust your technical competence to securely mount your wallet. You have to trust the wallet you're sending money to is the wallet it's supposed to go
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by m-i-l 8y ago
There's fairly strong evidence that the rise from $6K to $18K was primarily the result of market manipulation [0], so in some senses it isn't a crash more like returning to normality. Although there is so much market manipulation
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by m-i-l 8y ago
"Evolution is brutal, it requires death" The problem here is simple: people have too much money at stake now. The solution is not so simple, given this is a technology about money. But I do feel that it may be possible to learn
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Interesting to see Ferranti mentioned a couple of times: "the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer" and "Tim Berners-Lee was the son of an engineer who worked at Ferranti&quo
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Welcome to the real world:-) In my view, that's where interesting side projects come in. Either "side of desk" projects at your company, if you're fortunate enough to work for one which encourages or at least recognises
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by m-i-l 8y ago
These are just cities in the USA. Suggest the title be adjusted accordingly to reflect that.
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by m-i-l 8y ago
NEO was one of the first, but there are many now. The dual token model is also popular with commodity tokens and stable coins. The separation of concerns does help prevent certain conflicts of interest. I'll try to check out the mobile
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by m-i-l 8y ago
That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn't go into an Apple Store to buy an
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The strawberry-picking robots doing a job humans won't(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 8y ago|2 comments
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by m-i-l 9y ago
The BBC article the original article links to[0] says he was disqualified for 18 months, which means he is banned for driving on any road for that time and has to reapply for his licence at the end of that period[1]. [0] http://w
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by m-i-l 9y ago
If you've 130 million dollars worth of bitcoin it isn't good practice to keep it all in one wallet. Satoshi's estimated 1 million bitcoins are distributed among many thousands of addresses for example.
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by m-i-l 9y ago
First thought that sprang to my mind when I read the headline, which wasn't addressed by reading the article, was "ebay ledger nano scam"[0]. I don't see how you can be sure strangers don't have copies of your keys.
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by m-i-l 9y ago
Rather that developing robots that fit into existing strawberry farms which are designed to make it easier for humans to harvest, they should be developing new types of strawberry farms which are designed to make it easier for robots to har
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by m-i-l 9y ago
Sounds great. Given that in stock market investing you are better off on average with passively managed tracker funds, there does seem to be a big gap in the market for a crypto asset equivalent. Having a crypto equivalent of an ETF as sing
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by m-i-l 9y ago
Also https://buyandhold100crypto.com/ .
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by m-i-l 9y ago
There are a couple of cryptocurrency inheritance management startups: https://www.digipulse.io is up and running and https://safehaven.io at the pre-ICO stage. Disclaimer: I haven't researched thoroughly so I
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by m-i-l 9y ago
In summary, I'd say some are either pointless and/or exploitative, e.g. because they don't understand the space or they're trying to issue securities without have to comply with IPO regulation. But some are genuinely tra
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Tech companies are the new investment banks(ft.com)
2 points by m-i-l 9y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 9y ago
So are Berkshire Hathaway shares not investments, because you need to sell them to end up with money? What about a savings account with compound interest, or an ETF with automatic dividend reinvestment - do they not count as investments eit
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by m-i-l 9y ago
Some cryptocurrencies generate the equivalent of "dividends", especially those based on Proof of Stake systems. For example, holding Neo generates Gas equivalent to a 3-6% annual return[0], and Stellar (given free to HN readers a
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by m-i-l 9y ago
The only PoS system in live and large scale active use from I have read so far (still got a lot of reading to do though so could be missing lots) is NEO, and from what I can gather the validator nodes need a stake of 1000 GAS which is curre
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by m-i-l 9y ago
The validator pool sounds very interesting. Any experience of validator nodes for existing live PoS systems, in particular the costs of running (bandwidth costs, likely datacentre hosting costs, etc) vs rewards?
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by m-i-l 9y ago
With a mining pool people could lose their coins which were mined but not transferred to their own wallets.
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by m-i-l 9y ago
It is claimed Satoshi has around 1M BTC[0]. But this is only "worth" something if the private keys haven't been lost, forgotten, or intentionally or accidentally destroyed, and given the lack of movement there is no evidence
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by m-i-l 9y ago
You are not alone. I suspect some of the strongest opponents of "technology" are now "technologists", i.e. people who work in technology can be the most opposed to what the general public see as technology. In my view it
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by m-i-l 9y ago
> I think the most surprising vulnerability for Google is web search Is web search still the main problem, now so much content has moved off the web and into apps and walled gardens? Could the big challenge for Google be a startup that
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by m-i-l 9y ago
> you can't do anything to enjoy equities hanging on your wall. I can't imagine a half a billion dollar painting being hung on anyone's wall. In fact I can't imagine it bringing much enjoyment to anyone, given it is

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