jbpetersen

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by jbpetersen 8y ago
Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen. Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt. There's a lot of people who understand the larger vision around the
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by jbpetersen 8y ago
You could always move to where things are booming and see your salary double overnight.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Spamming at least one private telegram channel for upvotes without contributing anything.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
You might try looking here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
There does need to be some sort of sane standard for determining whether something counts as a threat/incitement if they're not going to be permitted. Say I'm very popular on twitter, and say I don't like somebody for wh
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
On the other hand, targeted subsidies can push economies of scale to tipping points of self-sustainability. If there's lots of low hanging fruit then a broad tax/subsidy makes sense, but if you need high levels of investment into
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Having played around with building exactly that, the conclusion I came to is that REST is nice for not having the additional setup step of establishing a websocket connection as well as having the considerably better support for simultaneou
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Tried this on coinmarketcap.com and it broke horribly. You've got some bugs to work out but this is a very fun and useful idea.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Now you've got me curious how much people have experimented with making AIs play "incremental" games where there's literally nothing but build order planning.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Unapproved third-party APIs.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
A journal made up of both digital logs and a physical notepad, a graph of associations between things, and a wiki for deeper details on specific topics.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
If you dig into the origins of a buzzword, it's highly likely there's a very valuable concept hiding underneath the accumulated cruft. Had I known this sooner it would've sped me along considerably towards finding a lot of co
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
What were each of them in a nutshell?
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
So what's preventing market saturation from everyone lobbying until the ROI drops to something sane?
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Network effects of people who held one that skyrocketed then diversifying into others and news around any given one skyrocketing drawing people to the space in general. Not to mention that every single one is an experiment that feeds back i
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
I believe Animats was referring specifically to disruption of industry incumbents and failed to clarify that.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
I'm trying to get an online community together over the next few months for some of the same stuff. More generally for learning through collaborative experimentation. My email's in my profile if you're interested. You might t
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Seen https://blankslate.io/ ?
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
I'm really just curious what everyone's using for any given situation. I don't move much around myself, but I anticipate that changing and it's nice to have a broader picture of what's out there.
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Ask HN: How do you move files between computers?
4 points by jbpetersen 9y ago|5 comments
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
"Of course, the Internet doesn’t remember that he worked on cryptocurrency almost 20 years ago (with Zooko of ZCash) before he started BitTorrent." Citation needed.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
And then there's Urbit, the unusual suspect.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Abstract: According to one common view, information security comes down to technical measures. Given better access control policy models, formal proofs of cryptographic protocols, approved firewalls, better ways of detecting intrusions and
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Thank you for this. I wish there were more people (or bots) like you who made thoughtful highlights.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Unfortunately having a flashy website seems to beat out good UX when it comes to attracting the 8 digit sums regularly being thrown at ICOs.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Better yet: Short their stock, then write a scary blog post about the problem.
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
To clarify I mean cases where someone who didn't vote in one election may change their mind in the next if the right candidate shows up. If you're slicing a higher-dimensional space and can only slice so far from a point you start
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by jbpetersen 9y ago
Already there if you count inferring things people would prefer to keep private by looking at probabilities given their visible activity.

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