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by numtel 4y ago
Wake me up when I can grow a mouse from my own body and see from its eyes. http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html
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by numtel 4y ago
Governed by "equitism?" Get this guy a copy of Jason Brennan's Against Democracy where he argues that a more competent government could be achieved by having policy decisions made by trained professionals in the same way citi
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by numtel 4y ago
Hopefully they do better than Eatsa. I miss those bowls!
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by numtel 4y ago
That's outdated reasoning. With stablecoins, you get the reliable store of value along with the transactional guarantees.
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by numtel 4y ago
Just listened to the Spectral beta launch party on discord! Very interesting. One question presented to the founders' AMA was whether this enables under or partially collateralized loans on DeFi. Their response was that it does not ena
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by numtel 4y ago
A sad day for my hobby projects. Can we list any free alternatives for hosting app servers that get very little traffic?
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by numtel 4y ago
Exactly, I don't believe one bit that they're "attracted to the pressure differential of the prop." I've swam in the ocean and boats are extremely noisy and annoying underwater. The Orcas fully understand that the b
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by numtel 4y ago
Alternatively, see John Allegro's (one of the people who worked on deciphering the Dead Sea scrolls) The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross which posits that Jesus actually was a mushroom.
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by numtel 4y ago
I'm pretty sure "Sorry to bother you" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual.
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by numtel 4y ago
James C Scott's Seeing Like a State is recommended (which is great) but surprising that they don't recommend Graeber's Debt. The following quote feels like it should have a citation to the section about jubilees: > To my k
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by numtel 4y ago
Blockchains are an alternative pricing model for data hosting. Instead of a monthly bill, the transaction fee gets the data stored forever-ish. As scaling techniques are implemented, this makes more applications suitable for storing data on
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by numtel 4y ago
How long until these kind of "[some creature] is smarter than you think" articles give way to "life at all scales has similar inner worlds and problem solving capabilities as our own?" The species specific scope of the a
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by numtel 4y ago
> Proponents of Web3, like Andreessen Horowitz general partner Chris Dixon, argue that we need to get back to what we had in the days of GeoCities—while also not giving up the advances of the Web2 years—and allow creators and businesses
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by numtel 4y ago
Yes, how much do you trust the 33 countries supported by Stripe Identity? Sybil resistance is not easy to solve absolutely, it's all about degrees.
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by numtel 4y ago
Apparently it is possible. [1] I guess I missed that when I was trying before. [1] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/38468/calculate...
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Stripe Identity is used to verify passports, it supports 33 countries (mostly NA and EU) right now. A salted hash of the country code and passport number is published on chain which allows only one instance per passport. As far as a state l
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by numtel 4y ago
Stripe Identity
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by numtel 4y ago
Alternatively, you can build a DAO on http://democratic.capital which uses passport verification as Sybil resistance.
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by numtel 4y ago
I've built a DAO tool that requires passport verification and allows voting on binding proposals with quadratic voting. Each proposal defines a series of transactions to execute on chain. https://democratic.capital
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by numtel 4y ago
In my experience with writing quadratic voting contracts in Solidity, the exponent of 2 is mandatory because there's no way to calculate an nth root in Solidity. Writing that out though, I realize that the root could be calculated by t
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by numtel 4y ago
Can't read this since it tells me I must install the medium app but it better say something about how in the US, a party that gets 5% of the vote is eligible for public campaign funding and a spot at the debates. The goal isn't fo
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by numtel 4y ago
As someone who doesn't speak French natively, I feel like its overly similar sounds make it much more difficult to pick up than Spanish where sounds are more explicit from the letters. Computer languages are read with the eyes (usually
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by numtel 4y ago
Swimming head under water with earplugs when motor boats are a few hundred meters away makes it very clear how loud and disruptive the noise is. It must be terrorizing to creatures living in the water.
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Show HN: Website hosting on Optimism Layer 2 blockchain(newgeocities.com)
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by numtel 4y ago
Yes, but why were ledgers the first examples of writing? Because it was expensive in the beginning. As blockchain data storage rates decrease, its available applications will increase. Blockchains are innovative because they change the pric
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by numtel 4y ago
So then building them as "network states" is a recognition that nation states have lost the control they had a century ago due to advances in technology and communications. Distance and locality isn't as important when the in
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by numtel 4y ago
The chronology in the first paragraph is just nonsense: > Writing is not natural: it’s an invention, a technology developed roughly 3000 years ago. This is nothing compared to human history. From the first paragraph on the wikipedia page
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by numtel 4y ago
Can somebody confirm my understanding? They're able to grow plant cells in a mold (e.g. a chair) then after the cells mature, remove the mold and have a solid piece of material that is basically wood?
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by numtel 4y ago
Seems even better than MOF-based approaches [0] The linked self-watering soil article [1] makes me wonder if the material could be used to reverse desertification. [0] https://wahainc.com//smithsonian [1] https:/
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by numtel 4y ago
Can't not upvote a discussion of James C. Scott, but I am surprised at the lack of mention of Ursula K Leguin's Wizard of Earthsea book which makes its magic emerge from knowing true names.

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