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by siosonel 10y ago
Same here. For example, I was not planning to pay for Andrew Ng's class. But at the end, I've learned a lot and enjoyed his style of teaching, and figured that by paying I was helping support his mooc course for others to enjoy as
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by siosonel 11y ago
A team's reputation does not need to involve divulging personal information about its members. Although, if a team is small enough, there's a good chance that generalized transactions reported between teams may still be matched to
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by siosonel 11y ago
Do not accept payments from teams who have budget balances that are way beyond typical. The Tatag platform provides accurate and current summary statistics about the paying team, so a reputation engine could factor those metrics to evalua
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by siosonel 11y ago
I agree regarding the importance of fungability, but not all the way. If a majority of reputation engines only advised rejection of payments as offered by the bottom 1% of ranked teams, then 99% of teams would still experience the fungabili
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by siosonel 11y ago
I had to dig a bit which founder you were referring to. No controversy here, but just want to give a background: I always think of Ryan Fugger as the person who initially proposed the network of IOUs idea and used the name Ripple for it, an
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by siosonel 11y ago
The approach I prefer is to let each market participant or team decide which reputation engine they want to use when evaluating a payment offer. So there does not have to be a global consensus on what reputation engine everyone should use.
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by siosonel 11y ago
I like the idea of being able to reliably track how money was earned or used at the time that it is being offered as payment. However, it seems (to me, at least) that there is no practical way to do this for physical currency notes, for var
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by siosonel 11y ago
I think the best way to address the issue of how reputations are determined is to let "sellers" or payment recipients decide on who they want to benefit from their goods and services. So, in the digital currency system that I have
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by siosonel 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I think by "central bank", the article just meant a non-decentralized currency system. It's good that you pointed out the possibility for scores to go down in that system, and I assume that would
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by siosonel 11y ago
You might be interested in this idea of routing payments through a trust network, http://p2pfoundation.net/Ripple . I'm just a curious onlooker and not directly involved with the idea, but there is a blockchain related
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by siosonel 11y ago
"... Citizen Scores are a near-perfect expression of reputation economics: like most other forms of currency, they are issued by a central bank that uses them to try and influence social outcomes." It seems to me, and I could have
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by siosonel 11y ago
Tatag is platform that (1) guarantees a team's funding via its planned budgets and (2) encourages market participants to refuse payments from disreputable teams. This approach inverts the typical dynamic of competing for scarce funding
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Show HN: Budgets-as-currency: less crypto, more data science(tatag.cc)
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by siosonel 11y ago
Simple, appropriate, low tech solution for the sewer issue - sawdust toilet: http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html