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   by synctext 9y ago

   > Now, this sounds kind of pyramid-y Unlimited money creation is never sustainable, history shows. An online attention coin can't change economics. The future of television probably is not build on a high inflation economy or destru
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   by synctext 9y ago

   > Also worth noting that the whole steem platform on the currency end of things is completely centralized This is a central Youtube-like clone it seems. I can't scale in bandwidth and has a central governance model. Plus the coin is
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   by synctext 9y ago

   broken link. This works for me: https://t.co/zY26IgXKMA
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   Researchers Use a Blockchain to Boost Anonymous Torrent Sharing(torrentfreak.com)

   14 points by synctext 9y ago|1 comments
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   Laws for Creating Trust in the Blockchain Age(degruyter.com)

   4 points by synctext 9y ago|0 comments
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   by synctext 9y ago

   Fascinating in-depth answer. thnx! > clients will pay you only if you have provided a proof of having offered a service. Sounds like a good approach. You need to make trade-offs in your design for storage providers I believe. You can bia
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   by synctext 9y ago

   Hi, Tribler dev here. awesome to see everybody here.. Do Sia and Filecoin take into account the "oversupply problem"? Filecoin devs nicely explain their sybil-attack strategy with growing your identity. However, how can you earn c
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   by synctext 9y ago

   > never managed to ship anything after getting multiple multi-million-dollar golden showers. It's more then just linking hard-disks. It is really hard to build the incentives and market part. Read for instance about our operational
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   by synctext 9y ago

   Please don't alter our title. I'm the second author and tenured staff member of TUDelft, associate professor.
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    by synctext 9y ago

    other author here, no ICO investments. We're actually working for many years on a similar system, non-profit non-ICO based. We know this scientific area a bit (see my other comment).
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    by synctext 9y ago

    [Author here] short answer taken from our .PDF file: "Considering that Dropbox [53] currently holds around 500 petabytes of user data [54], one could argue that Filecoin is overvalued." Study we conducted with a master student at
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    The Blockchain Age: Awareness, Empowerment and Coordination(researchgate.net)

    2 points by synctext 9y ago|0 comments
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    by synctext 9y ago

    > While G2 lacks any trust mechanisms there are a few projects working in the problem space of trusted decentralized stacks Search engines need to solve the spam issue. Without central control you lack any solid ground for eradicating sp
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    by synctext 9y ago

    Agreed, there are red flags. All their data comes from this smartphone app (717,527 users): Download Argus now! Join MILLIONS and download the world’s ONLY free all-in-one health & fitness app that uses JUST your phone (no cos
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    by synctext 9y ago

    tl;dr: OTA firmware update was hacked. "Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) attack against the CCM encryption mode used to encrypt and verify firmware updates" Fascinating work. Working direct .PDF: https://pdfs.semanticsc
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    by synctext 10y ago

    This goes beyond teaching for bsc, msc and phd students. Scholar.google.com is becoming the central hub of science. My university is using Github for several CS classes. We have one course where you need to fix problems in a Github-based re
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    by synctext 10y ago

    At Delft University of Technology we're working on this also for about 2 years. Currently 8 (big) banks reverse-engineered, the smartphone way (no scraping). Besides universities there are not many non-profits that will have the legal
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    by synctext 10y ago

    > Apart from implementation details of hardware platforms and runtimes The platform described to share all this knowledge and code is beyond what humanity can build today. The manifesto described that we share "All cells exist in a
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    by synctext 10y ago

    Just to get back on track.. Faculty positions are very hard to fill. As a tenured professor in a department looking exactly for this type of "Hacking Professor" I can tell you it may take a year to find talent. Positions in Europe
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    by synctext 10y ago

    Impressive. What seems to be the underlying science: Berger, T.W., Baudry, M., Brinton, R.D., Liaw, J-S., Marmarelis, V.Z., Park, Y., Sheu, B.J., and Tanguay, Jr., A.R. Brain-implantable biomimetic electronics as the next era in neural pros
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    by synctext 10y ago

    The code underlying the OP research: https://github.com/vivami/grey_fox "The grey fox is a kernel extension for Mac OS X that logs performed system calls by any process running on the system. Research for my maste
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    by synctext 10y ago

    Exactly, all we need is: keyword search, adversarial information retrieval, and semantic clustering. The incentive alignment problem for helping others find info is insignificant compared to actually uploading HD videos or helping other wi
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    by synctext 10y ago

    Yes, you asked the cardinal question. Tor and I2P critically rely on donations. Incentive design has been an unsolved problem for decades. Bittorrent advanced the field with a very simple and effective T4T. There is a famous blogpost from 2
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    by synctext 11y ago

    Their architecture doc, http://forum.botlibre.org/forum-post?id=11890569 : 'The Bot's Mind is defined by its Thought processes. The Mind receives input objects from its sense, which are queued in the Memory's
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    by synctext 11y ago

    "There are no import statements allowed. All code has to be home-grown and Amerian made." Would be extremely funny if he have no chance at the nomination.
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    by synctext 11y ago

    They actually put money in development of strong encryption, €0.5M. Here are the details from the government ordering to support OpenSSL: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-34300-XIII-10
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    by synctext 11y ago

    impressive facts.
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    by synctext 11y ago

    correct prior news.ycombinator link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517936
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    by synctext 11y ago

    Paper author here... In our main project we implemented an onion routing stack compliant with the Tor protocol specification. Key issue is we avoid using any central server, like directory servers. It uses UDP (not TCP like Tor itself), run
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    by synctext 11y ago

    Clearly shows the need for a reputation system, not locked into 1 company. Reviews need sharing.