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by zby 10y ago
I assume that the DAO hack involved some signed operations.
812.
by zby 10y ago
It is signed - has anyone checked the signature?
813.
by zby 10y ago
Most software does not constitute a contract. If I run an internet connected computer I don't enter into an agreement with anyone on the internet to use my machine even if its OS has security holes enabling this. The DAO was supposed t
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by zby 10y ago
The interesting question for now is - is that illegal what that unknown party does? If The DAO code is the contract - then using the code in this way would be like using some fine print clauses in a contract.
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by zby 10y ago
It looks like more and more Pirate Party ideas are moving tech mainstream.
816.
by zby 10y ago
A great article. One addition - the answer to the question why 'disruption' became so popular should include that it is so ego stroking.
817.
by zby 10y ago
I guess this is not a surprise to anyone here. The techniques are well known and cheap. Now the question is - what can we do? We probably cannot get privacy back when there are internet connected sensors everywhere. The data is there and go
818.
by zby 10y ago
I have not read the whole article - but I don't think he argues against automated testing in general. Unit testing is only one type of automated testing.
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by zby 10y ago
If PGP was managed by the browser we would be able to sign everything we post on the web, not just the emails.
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by zby 10y ago
Electronic computers as we have them now are different in many aspects from our brains - right. But they are also similar in many ways and surely we can have some metaphor that would fit both. What he forgets is that information processor i
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by zby 10y ago
I used to think that these problems would kill ETH - but after reading this I am changing my mind. This will be a hell of a game for hackers! Like Core Wars for money.
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by zby 10y ago
Maybe we don't need bigger drives? For installing software disk size has been irrelevant for some time - we always have space for software. Maybe after we have always space for films - then there is no other thing to fill up the disks?
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by zby 10y ago
How does it relate to Elinor Ostrom ideas? I find her "Design principles for Common Pool Resource (CPR) institutions" much more applicable than just CPRs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
824.
by zby 10y ago
BDFL is actually very primitive model - it is really very much alike some ancient kingdom system - it only works because it is counterbalanced by forking.
825.
by zby 10y ago
Hmm - so what he says is that the charisma of US presidents can only grow?
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by zby 11y ago
"Participants who worked had their mincome supplement reduced by 50 cents for every dollar they earned by working." - that is not Universal Basic Income. "... found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially les
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by zby 11y ago
It is kind of confusing to use the terminology from bitcoin on solutions unrelated to the element that was the technological breakthrough in bitcoin.
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by zby 11y ago
All these articles completely disregard the cost of the system - and this is not a trivial problem. The bitcoin blockchain is subsidized by the speculators. Eventually I think that the solution will kind of relax the 'permisionless&#x2
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by zby 11y ago
There are other options - first of all debt financing. Equity is tricky because of the principal agent problem. The manager or whoever contrlos the company can easily keep the profits low while paying himself or his friends much. There are
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by zby 11y ago
I recently tried to read 'The denial of death' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death ). I did not manage to go too far - but one of their theses, maybe the main one, was that we are basically craz
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by zby 11y ago
Go to the source Luke: http://www.piratar.is/policies/?lang=en
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by zby 11y ago
It is strange how he mentions that one of their goals might be: 2 Only get the developers that are interested enough to perform their test in a ordered and timely manner. and then dismiss it so lightly: I've already expressed inter
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by zby 11y ago
The quote is about 'privacy' and your user story is about 'speed' - these are different criteria and 'privacy' is much harder to specify in a user story.
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by zby 11y ago
My theory is that he thinks that variables are an imperative language feature - so he tries to avoid using them to make it all functional. He is partially right - variables are imperative. What he does not know is that he can use his variab
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by zby 11y ago
Can anyone explain why it is: var newState = drawManuel( drawBackground( processInput(state))); and not: var newState = processInput(state); drawManuel(newState); drawBackground(newState); When I read the
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by zby 11y ago
So they do something like this: Let's choose a human in random - he is more probable to be from Pakistan than from Slovakia. (OK) Now let's choose a country - now an average country like Slovakia is more probable than a country as
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by zby 11y ago
Thanks for the links. Still apparently the whole argument is only in video: >>> [Edit: I’ve greatly expanded on these ideas in a 45 min. video.]
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by zby 11y ago
Why is it all videos? Text is so much better for evaluating arguments. When reading you can spend variable time on different parts to skim the obvious and go deep into the more difficult stuff, you can random access it later to refresh your
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by zby 11y ago
Looks like another illustration for 'software eating the world'.
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by zby 11y ago
"we sent to candidates a functional test suíte, a binary that when started would try to connect to the candidate’s server implementation, open lots of sockets, sends lots of messages, and verify the results against what the problem des

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