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by vbuterin 13y ago
Same reason why, given a point on a 100-dimensional cube, the number of points x steps away from that point starts decreasing for x > 50.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I personally learned about Shamir over a year after I first heard the name RSA. RSA is commonplace; every first-year computer science student knows how it works, and it's the easiest example of how to do public key cryptography. Shamir
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by vbuterin 13y ago
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/02/how-med-harms.html is the one thing that immediately comes to mind.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
You would need to make living on $6000 a year practical as well. It's not as hard as people think, as if you're not working you don't need to locate yourself in a city or bother with transportation, but there are structural c
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by vbuterin 13y ago
The "51%" bit doesn't matter. Even if you have 99.99% of the mining power of the entire network you can't steal anyone's bitcoins, you can only reverse transactions. This is because bitcoins are secured by public ke
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Speed of light says 3-5 hops will always be a bad thing and there's nothing we can do about it.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> What? Your theorem doesn't even match with the basic prisoner's dilemma. Yes it does. > True, in the classic version of this game there's no communication That's why. The infinitely iterated prisoner's dille
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by vbuterin 13y ago
It's not that humans are evolving into something else, it's that the internet dramatically reduces communication costs and allows for levels of cohesion not seen since the village days, except on a global scale. If you try to deep
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> In those cases, all the "dirty" labor is done by legal/illegal immigrants that are not eligible for said basic income and thus willing to work for much less. So the introduction of a basic income would make demand for il
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> Education is (see coursera), but the "educational reputation" industry isn't. Technology isn't killing off the rep of a harvard degree. Coursera is not disrupting the reputation of a Harvard degree. Github is disrup
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by vbuterin 13y ago
IMO, the best political solution there is to maximally decouple it from "government". Obviously this would be hard to do given the current organization of society and technology since tax revenue is the only sufficient source of m
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by vbuterin 13y ago
http://5onwnspjvuk7cwvk.onion http://sheep5u64fi457aw.onion Also, if you enjoy the idea of having a space to opt out of government regulation but want the stability of having a place you can settle down, be non-anony
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by vbuterin 13y ago
That I agree with; it's really the main thing I have against Ripple.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Altruism and defaults are powerful things. In fact, they're the only thing enforcing rules about "nonstandard transactions", without which the blockchain would have been DDoSed all the way to a terabyte by now. And the checkp
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Or PPCoin for that matter: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6528/what-proof-of-stake-is-and-w...
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Here ya go: http://www.pymnts.com/briefing-room/issuers/virtual-currency...
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Not nearly optimal, but this is a start: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/5635/primecoin-the-cryptocurrency...
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by vbuterin 13y ago
People will always work; some people just want to do stuff for fun. If we can get the need for employment down to that low percentage, then we're de facto there IMO. At that point, there are several ways to fill in the missing pieces;
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Food is basically a solved problem. Priority #1 is medical care IMO. Housing is expensive, but really Japanese-style closet hotels can solve that problem for ultracheap if needed (as I understand it's mostly zoning laws preventing it r
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Here's a quick explanation: > [] [] > +[] 0 > !+[] true > +!+[] 1 Lesson: + as a prepend coerces things into numbers > 123 123 > 123+[] "123" > ![] false > ![]+[]
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by vbuterin 13y ago
It's a good thing to be scammed for a small amount at some point IMO. It's like a vaccine; makes you more careful in the future. I lost $10 to Bitscalper in 2012; amount was insignificant but it certainly did teach me the stupidit
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I assume they're checking the incoming phone number as well. So the thief needs to get your SIM card or hack the phone system. Can anyone chime in as to how difficult the latter (and how prevalent the former) is?
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I would still say it's a bug from the Bitcoin community to rely on one generator rather than XORing a few just in case. And I'm saying that as a prominent Bitcoin user and not-so-prominent developer. We undervalue redundancy.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> It seems to me the article takes the same approach to prevent someone from stealing your car. You can take certain measures like locking your doors and installing a car alarm which will thwart most thieves who are looking for an easy m
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Agreed. Here's an interesting article: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21582004-crime-plungin... Quoting: > Cherished social theories have been discarded. Conservatives who insisted that the decline
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> Also, IMHO, it would be idiotic to have significant bitcoin value stored on an Android phone, and very few people (if anyone) would do that. Correct. The standard recommendation is to store significant savings in wallets that you use a
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Actually, the key-recovery process is quite useful. The reason is that instead of having your public key be the public key itself, you can use the hash of your public key (ie. Bitcoin address) instead. This cuts the required "public ke
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by vbuterin 13y ago
That's easy to avoid - just send the money through a mixer like this one https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-shared . Or any Bitcoin exchange or gambling site. Or a combination of three or four. Or you can just bu
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by vbuterin 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Another question: why don't Indian doctors just import themselves to the US and earn much higher wages and profits by offering American customers something like the average of the Indian and American price? That's what we should b

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