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by nora4 9y ago
Very much second that; one prof I worked for at MIT as TA kept insisting that s/he (and we) have the best job in the world. Quite ridiculous, as s/he later was denied tenure and had to move and their research was quite stuck and u
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by nora4 9y ago
The OP was being sarcastic
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by nora4 9y ago
The problem is not PoW. The fundamental problem of cryptocurrency is scalability . In my understanding, a system is called scalable if adding 1 unit of resource to an existing amount of resource m, improves the performance by roughly (m+1)
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by nora4 9y ago
I see maybe, I misunderstood. So do you mean whitelisting messages (tweets, posts, any other atomic units) based on content? I think white listing based on content may be hard, especially say images or videos, in a decentralized network. So
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by nora4 9y ago
I liked your answer. But you didn't answer his/her other criticism: "...It's almost 10 years old and today it's actually less useful than it was a few years ago due to runaway fee growth. The feedback system works i
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by nora4 9y ago
Last time I checked whitelists don't work in permissionless networks (and no real identity). Do you have a fix to that?
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by nora4 9y ago
Why do you say interest rate is fixed at 0. Isn't the whole bond mechanism supposed to introduce an adaptive interest rate?
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by nora4 9y ago
> I believe that the Eth rocket is just about to launch. I mean look at this sentence. What kind of arguement can I have with this? So in this case, the strawman was a harder adversary and I was actually making it harder for myself by go
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by nora4 9y ago
Are you sure it's a simple solution? If it's so simple, why fake news is a problem with social media right now? (And what about revenge porn, child pornography, etc.? Merely you not seeing it through your filters, it doesn't
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by nora4 9y ago
The logic is usually that decentralized system allow greater innovation, faster development, third-party integration. By taking no centralized control, allowing everyone be partly owner of the network, they will have much greater network ef
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by nora4 9y ago
Right, a decentralized marketplace is also going to have the customer service and delivery speed of Amazon too. Because blockchain...
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by nora4 9y ago
In my view what you are saying is a libertarian pipe dream. A fully decentralized world (mostly I mean web) will be a nightmare. People are already mad how Reddit/Twitter are so abusive as platforms. And these are still centralized sys