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by natrius 11y ago
http://pliny.rice.edu/ http://www.darpa.mil/program/probabilistic-programming-for-a...
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If you're fine riding with other people, then a self driving car is just a Lyft Line with one extra seat available and without driver wages to pay. I think they're going to drive down the costs of a ride to a level where buying a
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"You pick eight entities; they may be your friends, your employer, some corporation, nonprofit or even in the future a government, and if anything goes wrong a combination of five of them can recover your key. This concept of social m
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PayPal collects fees. They also restrict access to their platform and funds held on the platform. I am not talking about currency. Let's pretend the world will run on dollars indefinitely. Blockchains grease the skids of trade. You wil
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You're in for a treat, then. A blockchain is a world computer. Each program on the computer has its own storage that nothing else can write to, so anyone sending a transaction to the computer knows exactly what the result will be. (Mos
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There are lots of uninformed claims here about Bitcoin's scalability. If it's a topic you're interested in, you should do some reading on your own. In particular, the Lightning Network proposal is a promising approach to dram
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Glad you found it useful. The census bureau itself shifted to tract weighted density with the 2010 census, but I couldn't find a good city ranking on their site.
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My point is that it's wrong to think of Los Angeles as the epitome of sprawl. It is not. It is an outlier of density compared to most American cities. "So yeah, if you head off from urban areas and include their low density suburb
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by natrius 11y ago
Your understanding of Los Angeles is incorrect. The average Angeleno lives in a denser neighborhood than in all U.S. cities except New York and San Francisco. http://www.austincontrarian.com/austincontrarian/2012/0
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I'd rather look up an identity to find what they've published rather than looking up a name to talk to a server that will hopefully give me what they've published. Luckily, cryptography lets us do that. http://ipfs
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http://ipfs.io/ The web is being decentralized. Pseudonymous expression will not die. It will flourish.
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Augur is currently pre-alpha, and built on top of Ethereum, which is pre-beta. However, everything's developed in the open, so you're welcome to get set up and see how things look. Email me if you run into any roadblocks. niran@ni
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Augur's key differentiator is that it's decentralized. It runs on Ethereum, a programmable blockchain. There is nothing to shut down: it runs on thousands of computers around the world. Prediction markets are a well-defined intera
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How Augur Works [video](augur.net)
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Changing the name makes sense to me. Type safety isn't want people are looking for at the moment. The trend they're most related to is reactive programming, so they want a name that evokes that. It's a smart move. When Automa
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I'm really not trying to talk down to you. I think this stuff is fascinating, and I want you to keep an open mind so you can share in my fascination.
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The direct lineage matters because my point was that it's hard to convince people that a new currency is worth something. It's easy if you promise to redeem it for something people already value.
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Give an example. The fiat currencies that people actually save in have a direct lineage from gold, or are linked to such a currency by monetary policy. Tax value alone has never given a new currency stable value.
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Bitcoin's political alignments are a distraction and I encourage you to ignore them if your goal is to understand what's happening in the world. No one buys game currencies to hold. They buy them to spend. If you don't unders
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Governments all believe that the supply of money must be managed for the sake of the economy. This might be true, but any currency built on this belief will be valued lower than a fixed-supply currency. It's hard to create and distribu
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Men are used in these statistics because the labor participation of women in the workforce varies over time due to varying birth rates and cultural change. If you're trying to look at economic trends, it's easier if you start by i
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There seems to be a general sense that short-term rentals make housing unaffordable. I disagree. We came up with the technology to scale a given piece of land to hundreds of residents at a low marginal cost a long time ago. Unfortunately, w
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This is very cool, and the content-addressable web is going to be a huge leap forward for permanence and publishing without needing to run a server. Lots of people are working towards this future. In particular, you should look into IPFS.
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The first units of such a currency are "issued" when someone takes the other side of the bet. If I think bitcoins are going to be worth more soon, I can offer to pay the system $100 worth of bitcoins to generate 100 cryptodollars.
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To the extent that blockchains have a killer app, it's going to be fungible contracts-for-difference. They make this sort of asset-backed cryptocurrency irrelevant. Even while cryptocurrencies are unstable, you can build stable derivat
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While employees should definitely get their own therapists, I'm not sure it's a bad idea for a company to offer one for free while encouraging them to find their own. Removing the barrier to entry and the stigma by making it a sta
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If the cost of an SSL certificate is a barrier for you to compete, you should probably do something else.
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This great comment would be better without the needless insults. Consider omitting them next time.
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I suspect that there's a way to identify the latest content built into IPFS, but if not, it's easy to build that on top of something like Ethereum. If you're new to Ethereum, it's a global, trustless, blockchain-based co
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I want to make sure people don't overlook this IPFS link as just a decentralized GitHub. IPFS is building a content-addressable web. Think about how BitTorrent magnet links work—it's a hash of the actual movie (or Linux distributi

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