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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
Crowd-sourced content + crowd-sourced voting on visibility. It's not perfectly decentralized of course, running on a server and centralized administration, but the general structure of the data flow is many to many.
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
Neither society nor facebook is to blame. The three foundational systems of our lives have been centralized and corrupted: money, information, politics. These systems are to blame, and the answer is decentralized systems. Decentralized mone
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
This is exactly right. Too many folks assume PoW is more decentralized because it's not tied to money, but what's the difference if mining requires money? As you note, PoS lowers the barrier to entry and actually creates a more eg
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
They said "When you grow up, you won't always have an abacus in your pocket!" And yet here we are.
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
LOL "There, an assemblage of supporters yelled the players' names, and with every name, a fan resembling a member of the victorious team leaped from the bridge into the waiting canal. However, lacking a Caucasian person to imitate
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
A simple issue? This isn't a simple issue. I challenge you to cover it in 5 pages. And spending a time on something that could potentially save everyone tons of time, and improve lives? That's exactly what people should be spendin
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
Conspiracies happen constantly because people conspire to do nefarious things all the time. However nowadays the framework for evaluating those nefarious things (conspiracy theories) has been completely negated by those in corporate media c
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
NASA blaming the Challenger tragedy on Powerpoint is pretty rich.
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
Not really.. most of these companies aren't trying to evade the law- in fact the industry is mostly begging for regulatory clarity in order to be in compliance. Nobody wants to invest millions into something that may or may not end up
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
"...with regards to NFTs we will see PoW take precedence since it reduces fraud." This is a massive assumption, and likely wrong. From Ethereum to Cardano and beyond, NFT's are almost exclusively being created on smart cont
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
The Brave browser is an interesting first stab at this. Another project named Permission.io is also trying to reward users for their time and attention also (disclaimer, I work on it). But ultimately what I find most fascinating about this
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
I definitely did not miss that point. I understand the idea behind a barrier to entry. However I am pretty active. I read HN every day, and I've even written a few submissions, one of which made the front page. So wouldn't you say
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by ypeterholmes 5y ago
Dang. I've been on here years looking for a downvote capability. Apparently you need ~500 karma and I have 200. Any upvotes would be greatly appreciated.
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Time is money.. proceeds to write a 3hr read
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Missing Google's entirely? https://material.io/design
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Well, as one example, what happens to all the miners and their infrastructure? Seems like they get hung out to dry. Second, the technical complexity involved seems challenging. I'm not a dev, and I'm not saying it's impossibl
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Important paper here because almost all the next gen blockchains will be using POS. Ethereum is trying to switch mid-flight (yikes) but others like Cardano have incorporated it foundationally. If you're a no-coiner or Bitcoin maximalis
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
So is closing the account and moving to a better app.. Robin Hood is going to take this on the chin.
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Redmine is great.
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The Abstraction Machine(peterholmes.medium.com)
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Ironic charge on the heels of the FinCEN leaks. Maybe next time just file a SAR?
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
This article misses the point. These types of "cultural" issues are important but secondary- the issue is that the police are breaking laws and getting away with it because of qualified immunity. They need to be held accountable,
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by ypeterholmes 6y ago
Seems like this is a Google problem more than DoorDash or GrubHub, because it's google that allows people to advertise against your own business name. So that's the legal question- what part of your own name do you own on a third
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by ypeterholmes 7y ago
Fair enough, but then how is an entrepreneur like myself expected to get the necessary capital to create an operation?
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by ypeterholmes 7y ago
This article focuses on the crop issue, but there's another issue with the UI that is more important: broken hierarchy. Saving the image is almost as important as texting it, but texting is given 90% of the share sheet. Meanwhile email
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by ypeterholmes 7y ago
"a slip of his mouse turned an intended 50% increase to her breast size into a 150% gain." A slip of the mouse? lol
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by ypeterholmes 7y ago
Strange title for an article analyzing onboarding.
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by ypeterholmes 7y ago
To be fair, Sketch is a Mac only program, so the team may have just been unable to use it, and preferred to just move on rather than purchasing an entire new computer (and Sketch). It would perhaps been more helpful to have responded by off
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by ypeterholmes 8y ago
Exactly. But to your last point, what are feelings if not data? For example, if the system was programmed to interpret feedback threatening its higher level goals as negative data (anxiety, fear) and feedback supporting its goals as positiv
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by ypeterholmes 8y ago
A computer running pre-programmed processes wouldn't be said to have consciousness. But what if one of the pre-programmed processes was for the computer to monitor all its own sub-processes, and dynamically re-direct them as necessary

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