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by riprowan 10y ago
At what price? When autonomous cars are ubiquitous, the price of insuring your thrill ride will be roughly equivalent to the hourly price of an amusement park.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Came here to say what you said. Insurance companies will force the change. Starting, as you pointed out, with trucking. The trucking industry will be forced to automate. As soon as it is demonstrable that automated trucks are far safer -
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by riprowan 10y ago
Say what you want about DRM, but at least in the audio world, the best software is still DRMed, even after more than a decade of horror stories. In 1999 I reviewed the Waves ( http://www.waves.com/ ) Native Gold audio plugi
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by riprowan 10y ago
This is a great idea, but is there an analogy in meatspace?
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by riprowan 10y ago
You see a shortcoming of solar, I see a shortcoming of energy storage technology. (I understand your actual point, and agree with it)
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by riprowan 10y ago
Wouldn't surprise me: as I recall, there was a fund raised for him by some people in the community as a gesture for having been a victim of "Bitcoin blowback."
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by riprowan 10y ago
> The USD and the Euro are backed by the fact that the government will only accept payment in those currencies. If you limit the use-case to "within the borders of a nation state" then its not easy to make a strong case for Bit
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by riprowan 10y ago
If there's one thing you can fault Gavin for, it's maybe being too kind and trusting of others in a particularly hostile, dog-eat-dog tech space (Bitcoin).
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by riprowan 10y ago
I agree that the phenomena are not purely constructed, however I disagree with the idea that the phenomena are purely emergent. Maybe they are "curated emergent phenomena?"
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by riprowan 10y ago
> It puzzles me that American are not more aware of the problem. Most Americans do not travel outside the USA extensively. They have no basis of comparison. > How can so many be so convinced that America is a country with so much fre
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Because American companies can't make diesel cars? If they can, they're keeping it a secret. My family bought a 1982 GM diesel. It was an absolutely atrocious car. Everyone that bought these diesels got burned. Lessons wer
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by riprowan 10y ago
Terribly naive view. "Shoot the messenger" is the norm not the exception in a bureaucracy.
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by riprowan 10y ago
The idea that waterfall and agile paradigms aren't compatible is incorrect in my opinion. They are orthogonal. Waterfall is just a paradigm that people comprehend because it maps to reality: 1. First you have to initiate something and
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by riprowan 10y ago
Your proof is found in the entire canon of software engineering prior to the late 1980s, when the concepts of "prototyping" and "RAD" became feasible. When code was written by hand with pencil and paper, then translated
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by riprowan 10y ago
The problem I have always had with agile is that it's held up as an "alternative" to waterfall, when in reality it's orthogonal to the two areas where waterfall excels: top-down project planning and contracting / ex
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by riprowan 10y ago
Compare to the period 1970-1980 when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...
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by riprowan 10y ago
Fortunately Bitcoin is immune to such things /s
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by riprowan 10y ago
It looks to me more like the Hunt Brothers' attempts to corner the silver market from 1970-1980, and the fallout thereafter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...
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by riprowan 10y ago
Isn't this a fundamental change in the economic expectations as proposed by the system's creator, who planned to increase onchain capacity as far back as 2010? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#
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by riprowan 10y ago
Was there a noticeable impact on performance or efficiency?
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by riprowan 10y ago
Surely they can resell them outside the EPAs jurisdiction.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think the overall point of this article is spot-on: the goal is to iterate over the understand - design - build - use cycle, with each iteration working from the known to the unknown - by pinning down those design and architecture dec
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by riprowan 10y ago
It would be interesting to know total sales of the leading mining hardware, and who the customers were.
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by riprowan 10y ago
This is exactly correct. All the hashpower in the world provides zero security if 51%+ of it is not "honest". http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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by riprowan 10y ago
> I have faith that this problem will be solved By what mechanism do foresee this happening (ie. users change PoW, much greater diffusion of mining hardware, order-of-magnitude crash in price, etc?)
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by riprowan 10y ago
Bitcoin is like a case study in how profit-seeking creates centralized systems: Start with a system whose explicit goal is to create a decentralized, bottom-up P2P cash. End up with a system governed hamfistedly by a handful of developers
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by riprowan 10y ago
Great point - in the USA, wealth doesn't "trickle down" it "leaks out"
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by riprowan 10y ago
> engineering programs throw you in the deep end right at the beginning I started as a EE. My diff EQ professor literally did the stunt "look to your left, look to your right, of the three of you, only one will pass my class."
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by riprowan 10y ago
This was an insightful comment. It's about time we take advantage of social platforms and synergy to better our platforms against predatory users. Publishers absolutely need to unlock their strategies and adapt to a framework more suit
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by riprowan 10y ago
> There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony. Right, because every incident that they have to report and log is additional work and justification for budgetary increase.

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