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by tCfD 8y ago
Wasn't the main character in Avatar a wheelchair user?
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by tCfD 8y ago
Were they pulling out compute resources they knew in advance were not being used or part of the active partition for that particular job? Or did they let potential customers do the pulling themselves?
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by tCfD 8y ago
This is how it's done, and has been done, with rail-shipped containers for 70-80 years. The intermodal industry already has all the complex contractual plumbing and logistical framework to handle this with ease, but it's an extrem
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by tCfD 8y ago
The trucking industry and rail freight industry overlap extensively, in the form of intermodal freight
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by tCfD 8y ago
You could work with them the same way intermodal rail container operations function, where trains carrying hundreds of containers are last-miled by specialized drayage companies that pick the containers up at rail yards and bring them to co
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by tCfD 8y ago
The problem with blockchain is actually rooted in hazy, unexamined assumptions about the viability of 'decentralization' that are are used as if they are conclusions rather than premises for justifying the technology's utilit
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by tCfD 8y ago
I think this would be a truly powerful tool if the promises were only able to be removed/declared complete by someone else , who would partner with you as a kind of integrity escrow agent. You keep my future self honest to my present
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by tCfD 8y ago
It's about a need to control the conversation and a corresponding fear of losing that control.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Scientology 'works' too
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by tCfD 8y ago
All this will do is encourage the proliferation of innumerable bespoke blockchains, created by parties interested in stamping legitimacy on illegitimate content. Each of these blockchains will be presented as equivalent to "the blockch
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by tCfD 8y ago
Yup, people who use the terms interchangeably tend to overlook to custodial and coordination problem solving paradoxes of decentralization and instead think of it only as a trendier-sounding variant of distribution.
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by tCfD 8y ago
The part that doesn't scale is not delivery (which can be parallelized independently among nodes), it is the custodial directory function -the tracking, location, identification and availability of high quality seeds and hosts. This is
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by tCfD 8y ago
The internet is so much more than a bunch of peering agreements. You can make a peering agreement with a network that you can't get transit to all you want, but if the underlying physical layer operator says no, you are out of luck. Ma
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by tCfD 8y ago
Distributed and decentralized mean different things. distributed implies a distributor, which is itself a centralized function and in fact the internet has several of these centers of decentralisation that make sure that the grand partition
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by tCfD 8y ago
'decentralisation' should not be a design goal, or at least should not be advertised as one, because it is fundamentally unsustainable. It is best understood as a transitional phase between centralized regimes, not an end in and o
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by tCfD 8y ago
It's somewhat important to note that this is the only Maya city with an urban grid. The city of Teotihuacan, as pointed out in the article, was much bigger and also had a planned urban grid system. It also was founded several centuri
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by tCfD 8y ago
Sounds like he's still fine tuning his acceptance speech for the lifetime achievement award from The Center For Decentralization
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by tCfD 8y ago
If these coins are so straightforward to attack, then what's stopping people? What's defending rational actors from doing the rational thing and squeezing their networks for all the guaranteed real returns of real money they suppo
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by tCfD 8y ago
Not suppressing inertia is indeed a problem, unless the message the kind you intend to be understood primarily by virtue of its infinitely inverse ratio of complexity to fidelity.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Presumably you would just load up the your Alcubierre station wagon with a bunch of backup tapes and send it down the interstellar highway. You could restore your backups before the original data is written!
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by tCfD 8y ago
> Ask HN: How to challenge trends without appearing like a luddite? Wherever possible try to have ready an alternative answer to the need, niche or opportunity vacuum into which the trend is growing. It's very difficult to get peopl
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by tCfD 8y ago
why wouldn't a private cohort of unelected and in most cases anonymous individuals with significant and arbitrary leverage over the value of the Bitcoins in your possession be effectively the same (worse, because there is no accountabi
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by tCfD 8y ago
It does help that when you are one of the first to latch on to a trending research area, there is relatively little in the way of competition for attention, funding and publishing priority. Also, in such scenarios domain specific standards
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by tCfD 8y ago
Any blockchain scaling problem can be solved by creating a blockchain centralization problem.
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by tCfD 8y ago
It is not clear that the Teotihuacanos had no writing system despite the lack of durable preserved forms (Stelae, etc) that other contemporary cultures used. In fact, the city of Copan was a client state of Teotihuacan and Copan had ample
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by tCfD 8y ago
Around the same time there was also Flooz, famously promoted on national TV by Whoopi Goldberg, backed by proof of celebrity endorsement
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by tCfD 8y ago
I would say it's impossible to know unless you actually run and operate the exchange(s) through which they ran all of their 'sales'. The exchanges are often complicit in listing these coins and make money from a fee which the
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by tCfD 8y ago
I suspect it may apply torque from the drivetrain to the mechanism with the most optimal geometric leverage against both the mechanisms internal frame and the contact patch on the ground during transition into and out of tread mode.
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by tCfD 8y ago
IIRC Scott Adams intended (and accordingly named) the Dilbert Principle to be understood as a kind of Peter Principle 2.0
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by tCfD 8y ago
'everything is legal if you scale it up' Wish I could recall the months old thread I found that in. I believe it was also blockchain-related

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