sparkzilla

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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Here's a joke Arthur C. Clarke told me about the Navajo and the moon landings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEh8nspzXw
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
You could probably make a simple social network in an hour too. It doesn't make you Facebook. Once the tech matches a market need, though, interesting things can happen.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
I just follow journalists on Twitter.
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The Baby and the Bathwater – Journalists dismiss blockchain at their peril(medium.com)
1 points by sparkzilla 8y ago|0 comments
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The Woz joins Equi crypto investment fund(prnewswire.com)
2 points by sparkzilla 8y ago|0 comments
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James Murdoch in Line to Replace Elon Musk as Tesla Chair(ft.com)
2 points by sparkzilla 8y ago|2 comments
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Edinburgh used to be known as 'Auld Reekie' i.e. 'Old Smokey'.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZyy9FZRWY
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Thanks. Good luck with your project!
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
The tags don't seem to work.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
>If an article says Trump gave a speech, how do you verify with machine learning, using a blockchain, that Trump literally gave a speech? To do fact checking you first need to know what has been reported. We verify that a source reported
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
A blog is just one kind of news application, that generally uses articles (not data) for its content. However, we propose that once news is converted to data it can be used for many different kind of applications: Trusted news feeds (filter
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
The amount of verification required depends on the data. Simple data, such as sports results -- coming from high-quality sources doesn't require much verification, and can be automated. More complex data requires human verification, bu
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Good point. We are setting up a foundation to initially run the project, but even the foundation will be deprecated as we go forward. In fact its primary role will be to enable further decentralisation i.e. to make sure that no single party
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
In its most basic form, we verify that data extracted from news articles matches what has been reported. So, when we extract the data "Trump, Speech, Alabama, Immigration" from an article, then it has to match the reporting in tha
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
My company aims to convert all the world's news into data. Please tell me another technology that will allow us to build a decentralised, failure-tolerant, censorship- and tamper-resistant archive of that data, that allows anyone to ad
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
My 'affiliation' with NewsBlocks (I'm the founder and CEO actually) has zero to do with this topic. Are you suggesting that you would add another downvote simply because it is an ICO?
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Unless they're investigating Craigslist, perhaps?
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Good point.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
>your startup is taking advantage of naive investors that want to invest in X meets blockchain. False. Please tell me another technology that will allow us to build a decentralised, failure-tolerant, censorship- and tamper-resistant arch
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
No, my comment is based primarily on the narrow scope of the publication, which to my mind, as a lifelong publisher of online and offline media, seems excessive. If they were using an ICO to raise the same amount of money for the same proje
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Value can also be gathered through subscriptions.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
ProPublica has a much, much wider brief, which should translate into why it receives $16 million in annual contributions. OTOH, I can't see how a site that covers a technology niche can support that level of ongoing contributions.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
And during that time there's no revenue? I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted: as a publisher of multiple online and offline projects it seems an extravagant amount for a publication that has a very narrow scope.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-r...
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Why the world needs a news datamarket(medium.com)
1 points by sparkzilla 8y ago|0 comments
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
"They should have sent a poet"
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Who reads an actual newspaper these days?
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What is NewsBlocks? The end of fake news?(nulltx.com)
1 points by sparkzilla 8y ago|0 comments
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Musk tweeted a Japanese flag shortly after, so unless they're delivering sushi to the moon, it's someone Japanese.

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