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by zby 9y ago
My mistake - I would delete this comment - but now I cannot. Your source is also not quite on the spot - it is about hard forks - but there were also soft forks.
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by zby 9y ago
The main thesis of the article is outdated and now wrong - as someone pointed in its comments: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/a3c41256984bf11d95a56... All the rest might be interesting to someone com
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by zby 9y ago
OK - so what is the take away for startups? It is common that investors don't want to sign NDAs. And it is mostly OK, because in most cases the investor does only investing and he cannot use the ideas on his own, so his best bet is to
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by zby 9y ago
I think you did not read the article - did you?
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by zby 9y ago
But maybe there are no universal laws that govern AI like physics governs bridges? AI is something that finds universal laws in stuff - there is no meta level over this - all the meta is AI itself.
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by zby 9y ago
Programming is making the detailed plans - the building phase the one that is analogue to the brick laying or hammering nails is done by the compiler. Of course this is not an argument against making less detailed, more overall sketches -
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by zby 9y ago
OK - by where is the code? This looks like something that would be great to tweak the parameters and code and experiment on your own. There was a similar work by Axelrode, it goes back to the 80s - but it also has some results that stunning
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by zby 9y ago
Also there is a whole industry of developing new substances - the law process does not keep up with this.
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by zby 9y ago
These are features that are useful only after you accept that the coins have some value. If they don't store any value - then there is no use in security, privacy etc. But the point is that it is the same with all money - people don&#x
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by zby 9y ago
What is a bubble? """ An economic bubble or asset bubble (...) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value. """ from wikipedia https://en.wi
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by zby 9y ago
I would like to publish an output from my reading as RSS channels - then other people could subscribe to those channels making a full circle. I don't know what these channels would be - we could start with simple 'liked articles&#
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by zby 9y ago
RSS gives the user maximum control - but it lacks the social features. What we need is a way to connect our RSS feeds together.
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by zby 9y ago
With the help of all the awesome new crypto algorithms isn't it possible to create a protocol for authentication via a central server without disclosing to the central server where the login goes?
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by zby 9y ago
Maybe the point is that it is not about gathering information - but rather about negotiating how much the company would bend to the customer will.
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by zby 9y ago
How do the chatbots work? If they only gather information to fill in a form - then I would prefer filling in the form myself. The other role of the chatbots might be discouraging people from doing actions that the company does not like - li
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by zby 9y ago
I believe originally they thought they might make a fresh squeeze. This story is similar to Theranos - the founders/executives just did not want to accept the reality. Juicero founders eventually gave up - and devised some crazy compro
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by zby 9y ago
"Personally I am applaud" - looks like a Freudian slip. But yeah - you are right - on personal level it is pretty obvious.
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by zby 9y ago
I would be surprised if such a fundamental behaviour would not have an evolutionary advantage.
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by zby 9y ago
When people choose to meet at Central Station it is also in their interest - this is the same mechanism. It is a case where it is beneficial for people to choose the same thing - and people choose something because they believe others will
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by zby 9y ago
Then it is a Schelling point to use the standard software.
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by zby 9y ago
Those transactions are ignored because nobody will attach to that branch - and they don't attach to it because it is a Schelling point to attach to a valid branch.
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by zby 9y ago
It is not a proof. Come on! This is a complex thing - there might be many factors involved. I don't say that nothing happened in 1980s - and your theory about video-games only moves the problem to another area, why women don't lik
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by zby 9y ago
'yes but'? What you are saying is true - but it does not contradict my point in any way. The choice is between making an valid or invalid block - and the Schelling point is making a valid block. Another case is if you see a fork w
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by zby 9y ago
Similar to the diagnosis by Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eieVE-xFXuo Personally I think it is oversimplification - the thing is that - yes there is a root cause in biology - but than that root cause is m
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by zby 9y ago
"It has nothing to do with Schelling point or bounded rationality, because that suggests you can tell that a block is a "forked block" the moment it's created, but you can't." - if you mine an invalid block you
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by zby 9y ago
The tying to a smart contract is what is important - otherwise the token would not have any value. This is like paper - which is a commodity (product) and ink which is also a commodity (product) - versus a security written with the ink on t
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by zby 9y ago
I cannot find it on-line - but I have received a following message from Coinbase (<no-reply@coinbase.com>): """ Dear Coinbase Customer, The User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) is a proposal to increase the Bitcoin block siz
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by zby 9y ago
What are you really asking about? What is historical value store of bitcoin? The value stored in bitcoin is still orders of magnitude less than that stored in gold. Sure the exchange rate of bitcoin has grown much - but it does not make it
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by zby 9y ago
I can imagine a situation where the transactions are of such a big value that even the 7 transactions per second are enough to pay for the whole system sustenance. But yeah the system currently burns resources on a level comparable to gold
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by zby 9y ago
If you don't change the rate of block creation - then the rate of blockchain growth is proportional to the block size. If you increase blocks - then the blockchain will grow faster. This is kind of obvious. But yeah - the size of the b

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