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by powera 10y ago
The article seems incredibly over-dramatic of a genuinely interesting study. Saying that this is evidence of it being "more distorted than theorists expected" is irresponsible from a scientific point of view. My less-dramatic sum
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by powera 10y ago
This is literally Burning Man. Burning Man creates a 70000 person city in the middle of the desert from scratch every year. It's exactly what you want to prototype any number of urban design theories.
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by powera 10y ago
Does the EU do anything anymore other than threaten "consequences" on various countries? No wonder everybody hates it.
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by powera 10y ago
They're not fined for doing nothing, they're fined for willfully evading the requirements for having capital on hand through what amounts to magic tricks.
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by powera 10y ago
I like the idea, but it seems completely impractical. How is this possibly cheaper than boats? Also, building a floating tube in the water seems a lot harder than an elevated tube on land, because you can't possibly reach the ocean fl
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by powera 10y ago
This is where the "accredited investor" warnings are appropriate. Don't do this with your money if you aren't willing and able to lose it! In the long run, it's impossible for people to beat the market simply by
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by powera 10y ago
Do you have any arguments or just name calling? Just because the parties agree on some issues doesn't mean the system is rigged.
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by powera 10y ago
OK, I won't do it again, but considering that people lost large portions of their money in the past week, I'm not the least bit sorry for my comment.
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by powera 10y ago
I still wonder if any large tech companies (Google, Apple, etc) will endorse against Trump before November. They did on Prop 8, and Trump will similarly have an immediate negative impact on many of their employees.
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by powera 10y ago
Is this site supposed to be satire? I genuinely can't tell.
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by powera 10y ago
The attacker. Who can't say that it's illegal to block his money, and use the lack of blocking as an argument in a court of law.
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by powera 10y ago
The intent was to set up an autonomous corporation, not to be bankrupted by the first person to find a security hole.
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by powera 10y ago
This actually has happened at both online and real casinos. In general, if the player intended to exploit an issue they knew about they have to return the money, if they randomly benefited they do not.
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by powera 10y ago
You're begging the question here. He's trying to use spurious legal claims to prevent cancelling the transaction. His success at that can't make his legal claims valid.
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by powera 10y ago
I disagree the view that somebody that advocates wife beating and rape should be considered a not-all-bad part of the community because "he finances OpenBSD".
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by powera 10y ago
It is clearly theft and whatever legal mumbo jumbo he provides doesn't change that. I'd personally say the claims that this is somehow legal is the con, but I agree it's not entirely clear.
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by powera 10y ago
IANAL but I expect that anyone admitting to this will find themselves in jail very quickly, at least in the US. The legal system isn't fond of $50 million cons based on one paragraph of legalese.
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by powera 10y ago
People did lose $200 million dollars. Why is he focusing on scaling ? Edit: apparently the thefts so far are "only" 45 million.
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by powera 10y ago
It's a lot easier to have above average jobs for everyone when you only care about 20% of the population.
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by powera 10y ago
OK, a few specific complaints: * The very first sentence is horribly misleading, as intelligence (among other things) was necessary to avoid dying in wars or starving to death before then. This describes every decade in human history before
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by powera 10y ago
Was this article ghost written by Diana Moon Glampers? I disagree with basically every sentence in the article and don't even know where to begin.
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by powera 10y ago
If you have no employees and don't consider your own salary an expense, you're not comparable as a business.
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by powera 10y ago
I always thought nobody had any actual plans as to how the DAO could do anything useful. Now I guess we know it won't. Either "hackers" will bankrupt it, or all the decentralization zealots will back out (and bankrupt it).
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by powera 10y ago
Isn't this exactly what Enron did? Use some sleight of hand to hide the fact that you're using company assets to speculate on the performance of company assets? Obviously doing that turned out very poorly for Enron.
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by powera 10y ago
Is Bitcoin supposed to be an investment or a currency?
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by powera 10y ago
If it looks like a scam, it's a scam. This definitely looks like a scam. I'll recommend you wait for them to prove me wrong (by, you know, actually having a physical product for sale) before arguing this point.
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by powera 10y ago
Create a cryptocurrency that isn't designed to provide massive increases in wealth for early adopters?
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by powera 10y ago
So he's upset that something successful is happening in computer vision, at long last?
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by powera 10y ago
Good! There should be a bias against new things until the new things are proven to be correct. Optimizing science based on "what do people who want to get tenure want" seems like a great way to be bad at science.
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by powera 10y ago
How is this used any differently from a sewing machine?

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