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by toasted 12y ago
A robust reputation system using chain of trust scoring to reduce the usefulness of sybil attacks would rapidly result in reliable, friendly, safe drivers building huge amounts of positive feedback, which would then self-reinforce improved
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by toasted 12y ago
It is only a matter of time before these outfits are replaced by decentralised, actual peer-to-peer networks, either running off blockchain technology or similar decentralised databases, with no house take and the only option for government
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by toasted 12y ago
Pretty negative response in this thread to one of the only countries really making serious efforts to preserve the last few remaining tracts of rainforest on earth.
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by toasted 12y ago
absolutely love this, well done!
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by toasted 12y ago
I've stopped buying much at all off amazon because I get it all from Aliexpress. They package up and address individual items in shenzhen/guanzhou, stick them all in big containers, then when they reach the US/europe they del
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by toasted 12y ago
NZ
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by toasted 12y ago
Non-US anaesthesiologist here. I love my job and relish going to work each morning. I spend almost no time on non-clinical paperwork. I work reasonable hours, have some busy on-call shifts but am generally well supported by my department.
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by toasted 12y ago
this applies to many of the "sharing economy" businesses. airbnb seems to have a monopoly at present but as their listings become shown on competitor booking sites with lower fees customers will soon follow and the whole thing bec
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by toasted 12y ago
Of course I'm not saying expanding income inequality is better for the have nots. I'm just saying this may lead to some self-correction of relative earnings from labour vs. capital as wealth becomes more concentrated, although ov
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by toasted 12y ago
Perhaps rising wealth inequality leads to a larger proportion of money being stashed away in investments trying to make more money for the wealthy, and ultimately results in pathetic investment yields which create a self-balancing situation
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by toasted 12y ago
Alexa Global Rank 1,124 May have 30M users but engagement is pretty poor.
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by toasted 12y ago
None of this post really makes much sense...
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by toasted 12y ago
Although we are all quivering in anticipation of all these 8 thousand word essays, the fact remains that bitcoin is being used and works well.
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by toasted 12y ago
Bitcoin (& litecoin) are the sole currencies of dark net drug trade, which is a large, exponentially growing business. Bitcoin is working very effectively in the wild, and all the dorky conjecture doesn't change that. I only vague
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by toasted 12y ago
USA has 281 lawyers per 100,000, britain 94, japan 7. Lawyers will become as powerful in society as you let them become.
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by toasted 12y ago
i agree about the arms race, however block reward halving will diminish electricity requirements in a stepwise fashion and lessen the impact of this problem over time
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by toasted 12y ago
Can americans explain to me why cable companies seem to have a monopoly on internet in the USA when presumably most houses still have copper phone lines capable of running VDSL connections capable of 52mbps?
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by toasted 13y ago
In a truly competitive market, at some stage government would step in and break monopolies. For instance, they would go to Ebay and say, "look, you need to pool all your auction listings with other online auction companies, so they ha
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by toasted 13y ago
They use first-mover advantage to create long-lasting, high-margin monopolies with persisting returns completely out of proportion to the value they add. In drug patents, the company gets 12 years to make revenue from its innovation.. why s
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Does the prospect of SF startups clipping the ticket make anyone else sick?
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by toasted 13y ago
In the San Fran startup world where iphone taxi requesting and self-deleting video clips for 14 yr olds are the cusp of innovation, thank god for bitcoin and all the fun that comes with it.