tCfD

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by tCfD 8y ago
> And then another time my statistical mechanics prof informed me that "physics is just drawing cartoons of reality with math." That came as a huge existential relief by the way. One of the most formative and sublimely influen
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by tCfD 8y ago
This could also be phrased '[...] are increasingly reduced to numbers', in order to be rationalized by algorithms. How much wealth is counted multiple times by multiple models all recognizing the same qualities under different
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by tCfD 8y ago
"a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into"
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by tCfD 8y ago
Good luck to this guy, but it seems every solution to a blockchain scaling problem is ultimately the creation of a blockchain decentralization problem, and vice versa.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Unfortunately it's a misunderstanding of alchemy and it's role in the development of modern science that causes these knee-jerk negative responses to what is in fact a useful and non-pejorative comparison. I suppose next time I&#x
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by tCfD 8y ago
Alchemy gave birth to science, this is not trolling.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Cryptocurrency is just alchemy for the internet age. Same failures, same etiology, same promise of unexpected insights in another, future form
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by tCfD 8y ago
In most if not all cases the answer is: they can't. The price of crypto, especially that of the ICO era, is propped up by the same individuals that would most want to sell it. It's their HODLing of the coin that keeps it illiquid
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by tCfD 8y ago
A centralized cryptocurrency is just digital currency. It may be cryptographically secured against unauthorized transfers/access, but if it doesn't employ some sort of game-theory based custodial sharing scheme which is intended t
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by tCfD 8y ago
tl;dr anger is a great tl;dr compression algo
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by tCfD 8y ago
The misguided belief that "if it can't be counted, it doesn't count" lies at the heart of all structural social conflicts. When complex reality is overcompressed into digestible, uniform units of account, whatever values
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by tCfD 8y ago
Expect to see this, and/or its close cousin the McNamara Fallacy, among the top blogpunditry memes of the next few years. If only it were possible to buy stock in these phrases...
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by tCfD 8y ago
Don't forget the moose! cm.org
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by tCfD 8y ago
Op may be thinking of the 'flipper' type of home buyer, where these would be investment only transactions, kept marginally in the black between sales by prior profits Airbnb etc.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Kuro5hin was built by Rusty on slashdot's codebase so I don't think it could have been prior
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by tCfD 8y ago
Sign all content and post pubkey in as many public records as possible - Would that help?
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by tCfD 8y ago
Slashdot, including the first time 'karma' was associated with digital influence afaik. Meta moderation and a cap on influence ranking was and still is the Right Way to constrain sunset score-whoring feedback loops.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Just a minor clarification - the Video Toaster was a switcher, a broadcast quality paint box, and could facilitate regular linear editing but did not have non-linear capabilities. It wasn't until much later, nearly at the point at whic
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by tCfD 8y ago
This is a valid point were it not for the fact that being structurally designed to thwart regulation (by obscuring the link between account and account holder) is the main difference between cryptocurrency and ordinary digital cash, and is
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by tCfD 8y ago
Ritual Reality
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by tCfD 8y ago
You'll still want them to be able to stack at least two units high or they will not be eligible for 90% of rail transit. Also having more than one container standard will create a different set of logistics problems for storage, reposi
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by tCfD 8y ago
That is a very good idea, though the development and standardization of the current series of intermodal containers was about a 20-year process, and that's with _enormous_ assistance from Vietnam War military logistics planners, who de
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by tCfD 8y ago
Tires blowing out are a much bigger (in terms of simple cost and the thornier problem of schedule optimization and ability to guarantee precise delivery times) and much more common of a problem than mechanical breakdowns. They're also
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by tCfD 8y ago
Although the paperwork problem will definitely be an under-appreciated obstacle to making these systems work, autonomous trucks will eliminate a significant portion of it because there will no longer be any such thing as hours of service, o
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by tCfD 8y ago
Of course this was bound to happen, the entire point of a blockchain is supposed to be that joining it is voluntary based on a set of shared values that you wish to support by contributing resources to sustain the blockchain. Forcing someon
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by tCfD 8y ago
It worked for the alchemists!
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by tCfD 8y ago
Sadly, the history of people faced with difficult, complex problems turning to opportunistc 'one weird trick' quacks out of desperation is long and depressing.
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by tCfD 8y ago
How about EcMH - the "Eventually-consistent" Market Hypothesis /s-orry Bogleheads, couldn't resist :D
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by tCfD 8y ago
Given that one of the fundamental objectives of the cryptocurrency movement is to devolve the power of monetary policy, issuance and supply leverage from the state to various 'decentralized' (weasel word of this century) groups, a
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by tCfD 8y ago
If this is Samson Mow, a well-known so called 'bitcoin maximalist', he most likely means most cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin have been overvalued. These guys always make a special exception for bitcoin when talking about the ma

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