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by natrius 12y ago
Googled it.
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by natrius 12y ago
Your comment reads better as disagreeing with the comment you responded to.
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by natrius 12y ago
A quick glance at Google's profit per employee disproves that. After paying for employees and everything else, Google profits $270,123 per employee. I'm not sure what would make you think that some of the most profitable companies
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by natrius 12y ago
The link to Blinkracy was especially useful for providing two things: 1. A guide to introducing Holacracy to an existing organization 2. A simplified form a Holacracy that doesn't turn off people who aren't used to reading board g
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by natrius 12y ago
Monkeypatch setInterval/setTimeout to mark people as cheaters. The more dedicated cheaters will hit the button API outside of the browser, which is pretty hard to stop.
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by natrius 12y ago
Yeah, I guess calling it a database makes it sound like a cloud MySQL service. But to be clear, it's not an EC2 analogue either. If there were demand for a distributed EC2, we could build one way better than Ethereum. Ethereum is neces
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by natrius 12y ago
Correct. But the currency aspect isn't why it matters. Nothing will outcompete Bitcoin as a currency as far as I can see.
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by natrius 12y ago
Distributed oracles exist both via prediction markets like Augur and simpler constructions like ShellingCoin.
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by natrius 12y ago
- Decentralized, uncensorable prediction markets, which publicize expertise so everyone can predict the future - Decentralized, low-margin labor markets (e.g. Uber, Postmates, etc.) with lower prices for consumers and higher profits for wor
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by natrius 12y ago
Don't confuse Ethereum for a currency that competes with Bitcoin. It's different. It's a decentralized, consensus-driven database that anyone can use. Anything that required a trustworthy middleman or counterparty can be repl
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by natrius 12y ago
Bubbles are macroeconomic phenomena. If you're discussing the likelihood of a bubble without addressing the unique macroeconomic situation the world is in—widespread quantitative easing to deal with a deleveraging crisis—you're pr
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by natrius 12y ago
The database is Ethereum (for data that needs consensus), your filesystem (for data that only matters to you), and Whisper (for ephemeral data that doesn't need consensus, like messages). You build a JavaScript app that calls into libr
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by natrius 12y ago
Do you have any thoughts on the scenario I described?
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by natrius 12y ago
That's a good point; perhaps I was a bit loose with words. Its killer app is that it's a great speculative asset.
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by natrius 12y ago
Holacracy isn't about getting rid of managers. Keep an open mind and keep reading about it.
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by natrius 12y ago
Buy low, sell high. For now, at least. Play out the end of an asset bubble in your head. Lots of people sell their assets, and now have dollars. The job of our policy makers is to make sure dollars don't increase in value at all, and d
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by natrius 12y ago
Bitcoin's killer app is its function as a store of value. It's hard to see this when there are plenty of things that are storing value better at the moment, like traditional currencies and assets. But I don't think that will
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by natrius 12y ago
Imminent inflation isn't the only problem to worry about. The main problem is investors believing that the market has topped. If we keep rates low and the world's central banks keep buying assets, eventually prices will reach a po
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by natrius 12y ago
I think this line of reasoning conflates deflation caused by a massive deleveraging crisis and deflation caused by more of the economy jumping on the train of dramatic price decreases that the technology industry has always dealt with. Our
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by natrius 12y ago
Of the four projects I listed, only Swarm and IPFS overlap in functionality. Ethereum is a decentralized, consensus-driven data store and execution environment. Whisper is a decentralized messaging protocol, which you'd use for data th
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by natrius 12y ago
If you're interested in decentralized applications, you need to be paying attention to Ethereum, Whisper, Swarm, and IPFS. The building blocks for what you're describing are being built. It will happen.
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by natrius 12y ago
This seems roughly equivalent to paying laborers with equity so they have a claim on the full benefit of their labor. One difference is that this hypercapitalism scheme spreads the claims on rents across the economy rather than just within
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by natrius 12y ago
Viewing this as a branding exercise is missing the whole picture. UberPOOL and Lyft Line will revolutionize transportation by convincing drivers to pick up passengers during their commutes to and from work to pay their gas, maintenance, and
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by natrius 12y ago
Can you give some examples of cities that don't do this? Every single city I'm familiar with does this, though Houston does it less than most places.
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by natrius 12y ago
[2013] This article has been popping up on Facebook today as well. On the plus side, not very many people get the world to pay attention to their passing twice. The social media age is weird.
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by natrius 12y ago
I'm floored by your hubris. Do you really think it's likely that someone who runs a car company and funds artificial intelligence companies isn't well-informed about this subject? Is that really the likeliest explanation of w
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by natrius 12y ago
Any advancement in avatars makes it easier for us to virtualize our real selves. You might be able to get higher-fidelity video chat if you relied more on a base avatar and sent transformations of the face over the wire. Virtual reality ava
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by natrius 12y ago
Google gets your payment data. Apple doesn't.
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by natrius 12y ago
And, for the record, it was not the news story of the decade.
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by natrius 12y ago
What.

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