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by mbrock 9y ago
https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0 A protocol token is part of the Colony roadmap, but they won't do a token sale until the product is ready, to minimize the risk that their token will be conside
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by mbrock 9y ago
To me it seems like a viable and interesting idea to have decentralized internet-based organizations with people doing work in exchange for crypto-tokens. Sure, it limits the appeal, but a lot of viable and interesting things have limited a
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by mbrock 9y ago
It looks basically just like a Git repository. Mining is like competing for a chance to merge a bunch of other people's commits (because you get a "commit fee" for each of them). And you always want to merge into the longest
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by mbrock 9y ago
Imagine someone asking "Could APIs revolutionize healthcare?" Well, yes, they certainly could, even though that's an extremely vague question from someone who might not even understand what they're asking. If you're
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by mbrock 9y ago
This is a really complex topic that I don't really understand, but I think there's quite a lot of interesting nuance to the deflationary cryptocurrency question. For example, you could consider Bitcoin as being like a "specie
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by mbrock 9y ago
Let is a much nicer keyword though. It just reads better. I almost never use variable mutation in JS, and I use let almost everywhere. That lets me use the let/const distinction in a way that to me seems even more informative, namely t
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by mbrock 9y ago
I'm not sold on the idea of the master log as a readable narrative. If you really want to maintain such a narrative, it would be possible to do it separately, in something like a changelog. You might even hire someone to do that, a kin
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by mbrock 9y ago
It's also called "continuous integration." As in everyone continuously integrates their changes, and you strongly discourage divergence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration In software
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by mbrock 9y ago
> Git, one of the inspirational technologies, is in theory distributed as well and in practice hyper-centralized to only a few major providers. Git repositories are replicated all over. My laptop has mirrors of all my work's project
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by mbrock 9y ago
How does Markdown or Asciidoc differ from Org in this regard?
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by mbrock 9y ago
Cilia is an understandable CI server that's made only for one relatively simple task: building and serving web frontends defined with Docker Compose. It has a very simple hook system and it can show Browserstack videos inline. The one
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by mbrock 9y ago
Testdown.org Cilia.io
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by mbrock 9y ago
I'm the ancestor, and yeah, I do work through my own firm and there are some monthly bills and bookkeeping that's not automatic. I also live overseas and pay my utilities and rent via EU bank transfer.
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by mbrock 9y ago
I don't have an employer that cares about my schedule. It's literally never come up. My daily productivity has increased noticably since this regimen, and if my employer didn't understand that as a benefit, they'd be sil
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by mbrock 9y ago
It's less about distractions and more about never having the feeling of having done enough. Being done with work by lunchtime is a way for me to be more social, but that's a matter of situation. I do "go out" sometimes;
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by mbrock 9y ago
You probably should stay away from comment threads about personal productivity then?
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by mbrock 9y ago
TL;DR: Basically getting up early and doing 4 hours of deep work has changed my life from really stressful and bad to really productive and nice. One thing really fundamentally helped me, as someone who works from home on a large project in
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by mbrock 9y ago
Those two properties seem to go hand in hand. How do you imagine an ICO taking place without a blockchain? It seems like a contradiction in terms: the "C" means a blockchain token.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Trump is kind of paving the way for this type of corporativism, no?
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Where else?
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by mbrock 9y ago
The joy of decentralization to my mind is not a total avoidance of centers, it is resilience against those centers becoming obnoxiously or harmfully authoritative. Because Git is already thoroughly decentralized in its architecture, I'
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by mbrock 9y ago
It says so in the feature list so I guess they probably do.
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by mbrock 9y ago
That's exactly my assumption, and it's one of my standing questions for people I encounter who align themselves with libertarianism, and I'm always genuinely curious. It's because I find it a very interesting and difficu
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by mbrock 9y ago
I'm curious about your thoughts on reconciling libertarian ideals with the desire to limit the power of corporations.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Sabotage is a venerable tradition, but I basically don't think it's better for anyone to be murdered by a knife that's rusty.
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by mbrock 9y ago
It seems to me that the basically religious concept of "evil" causes a lot of confusion. What Google, Facebook, and Amazon are is primarily extremely powerful . The U.S. government, say, does a lot of nasty, undesirable things; i
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by mbrock 9y ago
People are very strongly repulsed by what they perceive as excessive novelty: Lisp parentheses, Haskell monads, Urbit jargon. Maybe because it comes off as antisocial. I somehow really enjoy all those things.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Often it's a really nice and interesting exercise to approach a problem by thinking along the lines of: "This shell script is a bit complex. Instead of rewriting the shell script in another language, is there some simple and stand
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by mbrock 9y ago
It is great indeed, but operationally, dynamic libraries have their own problems and horrors.
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by mbrock 9y ago
You could create just as much fear, uncertainty and doubt by pointing to the lack of clarity around the notion of an implicit patent grant.

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