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by asynchrony 3y ago
How does limiting the timeline to 5,000 years enhance our ability to predict the future?
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by asynchrony 6y ago
This isn't how short selling works. If I short a stock, I borrow the share and the sell it on the market. If I loan the share to someone else and they sell it then it is still only sold once. In my opinion it's more likely that pe
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by asynchrony 6y ago
How does it handle symbols that aren't legal javascript identifiers? Is that on the user or are the some safety conventions in place in the compiler?
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by asynchrony 7y ago
6) Liability.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
Doesn't it centralize control of the encryption and data to your company and your authentication provider?
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by asynchrony 7y ago
So the only decentralized/blockchain part is authentication?
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by asynchrony 7y ago
Can you provide any details as to how it will be free, scalable, and decentralized? The word blockchain doesn’t inspire my confidence.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
Being able to discern large scale themes and patterns in data, then using those findings distill the original data input to minimally redundant messages, is similar to the goal of an AGI that can comprehend any input data.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
Only the citizens who like to keep inert piles of cash buried in their back yard.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
What is the value of the society that raised him and all the research and effort that came before him?
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by asynchrony 7y ago
I interviewed at Facebook with the intention of getting an offer letter I could use as a bargaining chip with my first choices. I was rejected, but fortunately got into my first choice anyway. Despite all the perks and compensation, I would
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by asynchrony 7y ago
It's not pronounced from the throat like the German "ch" but otherwise it's as close as it gets.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
I suppose leveraged betting is done best when backed by worthless collateral.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
If and only if you got your btc out of mtgox.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
It works that way if he transferred the private key and then they murdered him. Blockchains and meatspace have different rules.
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by asynchrony 7y ago
Employees are normally forbidden from trading any derivatives, short selling, or even buying shares in a margin account. I’m not sure about the case of an employee that has left the company, but I expect that it would still qualify as insid
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by asynchrony 8y ago
Real Estate has a certain real world utility.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
You don’t think that these two things are correlated?
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by asynchrony 8y ago
Last year Alexis O’hanion predicted BTC would be 20k and ETH 1.5k by this time too. Many executives seem over enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies to me.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
Legislation is stuck at the money-in-money-out mechanic.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
Can we all get smarter? Children easily become experts at any modern device. If we automate everything and pour resources into cheap and scalable education could we make the majority of the population into information workers? Just a though
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by asynchrony 8y ago
I was a lifelong night owl. Six months ago I decided to start going to the gym and meditating every morning in an effort to completely reprogram my habits. Now I look forward to the mornings and find myself going to bed as soon as I feel li
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by asynchrony 8y ago
Ethereum does seem to be the platform of choice for odd gambling games.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
There are clear guidelines about civility. This is not reddit. If you're being downvoted it's not because people disagree with you. It is though very likely that many people disagree with you.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
So to be clear you're confirming that nothing works now and that not only use cases but also working tech is still entirely speculative?
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by asynchrony 8y ago
I only see rational disagreement. Sorry that this discussion is making you emotional.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
If the courts cannot control it then they will not recognize it as a source of truth. It's very binary.
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by asynchrony 8y ago
If these tokens are truly regulated by the state and the ledger is editable by the courts, then there's nothing decentralized about it and it provides no advantages over the current system. All of this talk about decentralization and c
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by asynchrony 8y ago
I know people from Ethereum Foundation personally and it only strengthens my negative view of the space. You can believe whatever you want, but I'm interested in results and actually useful products. Currently there are zero. There are
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by asynchrony 8y ago
I’m not sure that the creation of an asset bubble is a good metric for success. How do you feel about pets.com and tulips?

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