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by zby 10y ago
Have you used UKForex before Transferwise? How do they compare?
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by zby 10y ago
Cory Doctorow agrees: https://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/trumps-big-data-secret-sau... And a more thorough debunking: http://civichall.org/civicist/will-the-real-psychometric-tar... With
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by zby 10y ago
Yeah - indeed, remote control would be enough. There is a problem with latencies though - so you need at least some autonomy in the car. And then there is also the thing that if it is remotely controlled - then it is easy to stop it - just
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by zby 10y ago
One aspect that is not covered is armed conflict (or terrorism). Imagine what would happen if enemy take over a fleet of autonomous cars, be it through hacking or by physical attack on a control center. Another thing: imagine robbery with a
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Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping(theregister.co.uk)
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by zby 10y ago
Why everyone assumes that Uber could be allowed to become a monopoly? There are anti-monopoly laws. I understand that so far Uber was allowed to break lots of laws - but this cannot go on indefinitely.
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by zby 10y ago
There is an information asymmetry between the investor and the executive. The traditional laws were designed to diminish that asymmetry - crowdfunding wants to workaround these laws to make starting companies easier - but it does nothing to
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by zby 10y ago
I cannot fathom how people willingly put themselves under this level of surveillance. Especially if you are not USA citizen or resident and your privacy is not defended by the US constitution.
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by zby 10y ago
Some time ago I had an idea for a web presentation of WoT - I thought it would be fun to explore and also maybe present a kind of gamified incentive to build WoT. I also thought that given how old the thing is there should be good libraries
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by zby 10y ago
There is a proposal from David Chaum called PrivaTegrity: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/008.pdf As to the proof of stake algorithms - the efforts to do it in a strict way all fail - I have a feeling that it might be imp
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by zby 10y ago
Strictly speaking the requirement is not really about anonymity - it is about the system being open to join by anyone without any precondition. Is this equivalent?
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by zby 10y ago
There is no one definition of the difference between decentralized and distributed - everyone has his own. This is a huge problem when talking about this stuff.
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by zby 10y ago
The voting consensus is not about recording transactions (that is buying selling shares) - it is about governing the company by the people holding the shares.
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by zby 10y ago
Imagine that to compile your program you have to send it to India and wait two weeks. Every simple typo you make takes two weeks to be noticed. I used to work for Nestle when they were working on a global SAP implementation - all developmen
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by zby 10y ago
I think we programmers are ahead here - the general public needs sometime to think this over. The "+1 - 2" rule looks like a good start for opening the discussion.
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by zby 10y ago
Would you really like to be Elizabeth Holmes?
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by zby 10y ago
A hard problem - but what if that race condition kills someone? This used to be theoretical problem - there were not so many systems that could fail in so catastrophic ways - but we are now putting software into everything.
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by zby 10y ago
What I have seen in my limited practice with machine learning and big data projects is that it is easy to fool yourself that your methods work. And the problem is that the people who are good at this get promoted, and those who find the mis
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by zby 10y ago
Maybe we need liability for software vendors? With exemption for those who provide full source code.
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by zby 10y ago
One explanation could be the big rivers and reliance on dams, dikes and irrigation.
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by zby 10y ago
You don't need to test how well people do the easy stuff - even if the easy stuff makes up most of their work - you want to test if they are able to do the difficult parts.
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by zby 10y ago
What about Codility?
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by zby 10y ago
In other news TumbleBit[1] seems to bring good enough anonymity to bitcoin as well. 1. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/575.pdf
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by zby 10y ago
'scam developers'? A bit harsh isn't it?
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by zby 10y ago
I have a feeling that it will be this thread!
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by zby 10y ago
I think the difference is in the secrecy. In the US, at least in principle, the system is not secret - in China secrecy is the rule - the party is not supposed to be judged from outside.
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by zby 10y ago
This is perhaps getting a bit Luddite but in other news: """ if you suffer a psychotic breakdown, your odds of complete, treatment-free recovery are much, much better if you are treated in a third-world country that cannot af
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by zby 10y ago
Do you know about something that Wikileaks did not publish even if they got it? They cannot leak what they do not get. It is clear that their sources use Wikileaks to influence politics. Wikileaks could perhaps withold the information until
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by zby 10y ago
For me it also depends on the task - I never do a strict TDD - but often I like to start with some tests. Sometimes it is hard to write the tests, but it is easy to see if your code works - sometimes it is easy to write the tests, but not t
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by zby 10y ago
We need a CubesOS like system for phones.

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