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by natrius 11y ago
Isn't that having it both ways? Either Uber takes a 20% cut, or it's taking less than that to lower fares. I don't have facts, but I don't think Uber is paying its drivers more than the fares it collects over a significa
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by natrius 11y ago
That surplus wouldn't go entirely to the driver. Competition would drive down prices. Drivers will make more, but not the whole 20%.
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by natrius 11y ago
Imagine that we could eliminate Uber and connect drivers directly to riders with the same experience as Uber's app. Nothing has changed about the nature of the driver's work, but there's no entity to be an employer in the fir
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by natrius 11y ago
I think you missed Dart. In any case, everyone agrees at this point that compiling arbitrary languages to Javascript or a Javascript-derived compile target is the way forward. Write ClojureScript.
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2013: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023045495045793203... 2014: http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-s... 2013 caveat: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2
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by natrius 11y ago
You're strongly implying that Greece didn't cut its spending, which is very incorrect. Greek spending is no longer the problem. https://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8870257/greek-crisis-myth-aust...
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Years of primary surpluses are clear evidence that Greece is capable of funding its own ongoing spending. This year is an aberration due to the crisis. If the debt were forgiven, I don't think Greece would need outside funds in 2016. G
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"Its deficit is still like 9-10% of GDP." This is very wrong. Greece has run primary surpluses in recent years. They will probably miss that goal this year, but not by 9-10% of GDP. Forgiving Greek debts would solve the proble
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This is not the same at all. Greece has seen several years of economic depression on the order of America's experience during the Great Depression. Many people are leaving already to find work. A Greek threat to emigrate is not empty.
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"Our job is not to just build Facebook, our job is to make the world more open and connected — and we in Product Infrastructure are tasked with giving the whole software industry the tools to help us accomplish this mission." If
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Just sharing a concrete example that exists today. Yes, a download is still required.
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The licensing page lists three buckets of free, open source licenses for various parts of the project. I don't understand. https://ethereum.org/licensing
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Browser-based, serverless apps are what Ethereum is all about. You run a daemon on your computer that maintains a blockchain, messaging system (Whisper), and content storage system (Swarm). That daemon exposes an RPC interface so local proc
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by natrius 11y ago
To me, decentralization isn't just about avoiding control. I think that the network effects that decentralization yields are the only way to compete with an established network. It's hard to get people to agree on which centralize
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by natrius 11y ago
Persistent pseudonyms seem to be required for voting-based communities to work. Without them, what is a vote? Whose votes do I trust? Distributing reddit is a hard problem, but making it anonymous is even harder. It'll be easier to sta
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by natrius 11y ago
The fix for any deflationary concerns is to denominate prices and contracts in the price level, not a currency. If Bitcoin deflates and increases in value, Bitcoin-denominated prices and wages go down automatically. If you wanted to save fo
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by natrius 11y ago
I agree with your prerequisites. I think they can be achieved.
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Next to arrow functions and optional arguments, better object syntax is one of the big reasons you should be using Babel today. You know how sometimes you need to precalculate values that are going to be returned in an object, so at the end
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by natrius 11y ago
As someone who loves reddit, this dichotomy is the clearest sign that it has no future. Anyone who values freedom of expression and knows how to program can help build a decentralized reddit that no one controls on top of platforms like IPF
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by natrius 11y ago
What exactly is bad about ES6's `class` from a classical inheritance point of view?
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by natrius 11y ago
"Facebook likes to think of names as a one-to-one mapping. You have one name, and that name is how people refer to you at all times. It’s a very WASP notion of how names work, and the reality is far more complex." Nope. Not inap
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by natrius 11y ago
Sure. Think of Ethereum as a global computer that coordinates human interactions. On top of it, you encode the rules that those interactions should follow, and a mechanism for recording who has been following the rules and who hasn't.
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by natrius 11y ago
Engineers have built new methods to secure blockchains that don't require mining. Maintaining a blockchain can be almost free. You could do it using an unnoticeable fraction of your computer's power and bandwidth. To clarify, I wa
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by natrius 11y ago
You're missing the point. Since 2009, people have been thinking about what blockchains are good for. The first answer was just money—Bitcoin itself. Today's answer is that we can use blockchains to mediate all economic activity in
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All of those transaction costs can be handled by decentralized communication backed by reputation systems. Blockchains are great platforms for reputation systems. We will soon see that while it's hard to get systems off the ground that
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by natrius 11y ago
I am not talking about Bitcoin in particular, nor am I talking about transaction fees . I am talking about transaction costs and blockchains in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost
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Blockchains. Distributed consensus is incredibly powerful. It will allow us to rebuild our society around individuals instead of corporations and governments that formed because economic transaction costs were so high that economies of scal
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Prediction markets are being decentralized. They will be uncensorable. http://www.augur.net/
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That used to be true. It isn't anymore, because people are working on decentralizing the web. This makes the web uncensorable and permanent. The two most promising projects in this area are IPFS[1] and Ethereum's Swarm[2]. When we
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by natrius 11y ago
I somehow hadn't come across Twitter's Effective Scala guide, which is a great companion to this presentation. https://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/

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