FlailFast

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Situation: A Bear Miss [pdf](bitbanter.com)
1 points by FlailFast 5d ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 8y ago
Thank you, truly! Satire is my passion, and whenever folks enjoy my work I feel a deep sense of pride.
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by FlailFast 8y ago
And the one I made before the project you mention: https://ponzico.win The real fun is the whitepaper (some of my better work): https://ponzico.win/ponzico.pdf But yeah, PonzICOs are turtles all the way down.
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Stopping Fraudsters by Changing Products @Lyft(eng.lyft.com)
5 points by FlailFast 9y ago|0 comments
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The Zcash Foundation Now Officially a 501(c)3(z.cash.foundation)
5 points by FlailFast 9y ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 9y ago
Author of PonzICO white paper here (proof: https://keybase.io/cin )—thank you! Still optimistic about cryptocurrency but the impending ICOpocalypse does not bode well for anyone in the space...excepting satirists I suppose.
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PonzICO: Let's Just Cut to the Chase(ponzico.win)
4 points by FlailFast 9y ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 10y ago
Fun fact: I got an MBA and was one of the first cohorts of a new curriculum, which required an ethics course. Hilariously and sadly, some 20 students were put on probation for CHEATING in ETHICS class. I think that was the moment I realized
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by FlailFast 10y ago
It's important to consider the pros and cons about the Founder's Reward with Zcash, and I appreciate you trying to start a discussion, but I just wanted to clarify that your numbers are slightly off. 20% for the next 4 years goes
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by FlailFast 10y ago
Hm let me try. 3827Hunter2. Did you just see x's?
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You’ve Reached Your Monthly Tweet Limit(medium.com)
2 points by FlailFast 10y ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 10y ago
As someone who works at a Bitcoin/Ethereum company, and has passionately followed Bitcoin since 2011, every time I hear "blockchain" as a proper noun a piece of me dies inside. It's like saying "This Is Your Company
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Finding Bitfinex's Bits(blog.blockcypher.com)
1 points by FlailFast 10y ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 10y ago
Might I humbly suggest a project name? FFSS. For F(acebook|uck)'s Sake Syndication. :)
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by FlailFast 10y ago
Thirded to the above, and I'd humbly add Orwell's seminal 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language."[1] [1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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by FlailFast 10y ago
I have proof that all of those things are involved. Trouble is, the evidence is _in_ a computer.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrIZQDt50 [2] [2]Unrelated fun fact, that's pretty much how I code.
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What Bitcoin Core 0.12 Means for Bitcoin Developers(blog.blockcypher.com)
2 points by FlailFast 11y ago|0 comments
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by FlailFast 11y ago
True that, which is sad, because charisma can legitimately lower the difficulty of understanding complex ideas; think of your best teachers/favorite professors. I wish TED was filled with more Richard Feynman (charisma * ideas) and les
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by FlailFast 11y ago
0.14 to 15.0 changelog: - Version numbers are now little-endian
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by FlailFast 11y ago
I love this advice, and it took me a while to figure out that for me the intersection is Developer Advocacy. Math, software, public speaking, writing, comedy, business = Dev Advocate at a bitcoin company. I'm not great at any of them i
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Yeah...it's akin to saying "I believe that [extreme outliers happen], then [they define the general rule]." Their outcome is wonderful, and I'm happy for them, but it's so many sigmas from the norm they may as well
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Good ole Baader Meinhof phenomenon. True story: I learned about it after hearing "Baader Meinhof" thrown around one too many times. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Freq...
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Oh man, love it! Thanks for sharing...that Copeland theme though. :)
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Anyone else remember using ResEdit on original Escape Velocity plugins? Probably my first introduction to hexadecimal as a kid, heh. Loved the game (and meta game of discovering how to tweak things myself) and excited to try this out.
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Black Swan is still his best in my mind, but the Bed of Procrustes can be a nice entree; aphorisms were the original tweets, and can be consumed as such. Then I'd jump into Fooled By Randomness, and finally Antifragile (which is the we
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Love this idea, might copy my current novella on the web ( http://www.flailfast.com/ ) over to your platform to see how it looks. Out of curiosity: any chance you guys might integrate bitcoin donations/payments in additi
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Seems like Alphabet (Google/Page/Brin) and Facebook (Zuckerberg) are in a race to become the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet.
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Thanks! I do, but there needs to be some evolution for the protocol to adapt while still maintaining relatively low fees. Not sure if it'll be Lightning Network, bigger blocks, and/or IBLTs, but I know what it won't be: bitco
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Bitcoin Attacked, Fees Up 25x, Peaks of 200TPS: A Post-Mortem(medium.com)
21 points by FlailFast 11y ago|5 comments
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by FlailFast 11y ago
Agreed, and another thing they're doubling down on: disentangling themselves from Google. Eventually they'll stop using Google Maps, and I'd guess Google Ventures will sell their stake in Uber at their next stratospheric priv

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