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by scribu 9y ago
One difference between ponzi schemes and games of chance has to do with impartiality. Even if casino games are tweaked to give better odds to the house, once you roll the dice, neither you nor the dealer can influence the outcome in any way
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by scribu 9y ago
What a useful breakdown! It seems like the narrow definition of “explicit” that the author uses is equivalent to “deterministic”. If that’s true, then “explicit” could always be replaced with a more precise alternative.
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by scribu 9y ago
Yep, the domain name doesn’t help with disambiguation either.
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Economics of Minecraft(alicemaz.com)
642 points by scribu 9y ago|112 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
For anyone else wondering what that site is about, it’s pseudoscience: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe
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by scribu 9y ago
I love it! From a hobbyist perspective, making something equivalent using a Raspberry Pi might be more fun, but just putting an old Android phone on a table and starting the app is so much easier. The fact that an app so “obvious” is only n
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by scribu 9y ago
The apparent contradiction can easily be resolved - “We don’t want to allow crypto tokens, unless we control them.” A sort of “We are pro change, as long as things stay the same.”
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by scribu 9y ago
Huh... that seems like a separate category from the domestic speculators I was thinking about. But then, how does an influx of a large number of fad buyers strengthen cryptocurrencies in the long term, if these buyers just completely forget
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by scribu 9y ago
> much of the bitcoin is owned by people who can't quickly cash it out for USD or EUR because it's either illegal, not taxed or going to face big taxes. That's certainly an interesting aspect, but I thought you were talkin
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by scribu 9y ago
> Unlike tulips which wither, these people are not likely to sell their bitcoins even if there is a correction. [citation needed] Even long term investors in traditional securities often get panicky during bear markets. They sell their h
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by scribu 9y ago
Better than asking them what they would pay, ask them to actually pay a token amount, with the promise that they’ll get it back if the product never comes to market or doesn’t meet their needs.
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by scribu 9y ago
Yahoo Finance says yes, it can be safely ignored: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-implode-wouldnt-big-d...
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by scribu 9y ago
Why do you assume that monetisation was the main problem? This wasn't a startup that needed to return 10 times the initial investment in 5 years. The impression I got from the postmortem was that they just got tired of the format and w
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by scribu 9y ago
It looks like the creators weren’t interested: > We didn’t care about cheap or fast, we cared about it being good . [...] > If we sold the channel to another company, or partnered with some network, then we would no longer control th
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Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting(medium.com)
42 points by scribu 9y ago|1 comments
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So You Want to Be a “Radical” Philanthropist?(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
> shouldn't you just charge whatever you think something (a product, your time) is worth? How exactly do you, as a programmer without knowledge of the employer’s or client’s business, determine what a piece of software is worth to t
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by scribu 9y ago
If you have an illness, who’s opinion would you like to hear most? That of a random internet person or that of a medical professional? If you don’t have an illness and just want to read random stuff, instead of some other leisure activity,
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Unit Testing Affects Codebases in Surprising Ways(blog.ndepend.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
I would certainly be interested to read a comparative analysis of service lifetimes of various appliances, as long as it’s backed by hard data. Otherwise, it’s just survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survi
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by scribu 9y ago
From Troy Hunt's article: > given the processing power to actually observe and interpret eye movements in the split second within which you expect this to work, this would be a really neat failsafe. Apple highlights this as "at
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Face ID beaten by mask(bkav.com)
281 points by scribu 9y ago|237 comments
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Fungus controls ant’s body without invading its brain(gizmodo.com)
3 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
> Having 4 individual motors would be a first (I think) for a production car It looks like the Mercedes SLS Electric Drive already had it back in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_SLS_AMG#SLS_AMG_...
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Face ID fails to distinguish non-twin brothers(macrumors.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
If you’re hoping to use a lispy language professionally, I would suggest looking at Clojure. It’s a much smaller language than Common Lisp and has a very active ecosystem. Leiningen is the standard build tool: install dependencies, run tes
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by scribu 9y ago
> From a human point of view, the data is all we care about: my pictures, my mail, my documents. I don’t think it’s that simple. Consider messaging apps: do users care about their own messages? No - a list of sentences is meaningless whe
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by scribu 9y ago
Using Prompt to occasionally run a command on a remote server might be tolerable, but I’ve found it very annoying to work in as a Vim user. I’m sure it’s not even the app’s fault, but rather a consequence of how iOS and SSH work.
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Pollution kills 9M people each year, new study finds(bostonglobe.com)
3 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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Hedge Fund Managers with Psychopathic Tendencies Make for Worse Investors(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments

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