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Flight Delay DApp – lessons learned(medium.com)
1 points by kpi 10y ago|0 comments
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by kpi 10y ago
I think the design space is much larger than what we have today, and blockchain applications surely have interesting features it might be worth exploring in that space.
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by kpi 10y ago
also note that there is an easy workaround to limit this which essentially is the difference between a bet and an insurance: check if the user has a valid ticket for the flight.
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by kpi 10y ago
Finding the right balance of incentives needs some trial and error. The discussions are not new and well known e.g. with generic prediction markets like Augur or Gnosis. I think we will find a way to deal with those issues. Experiments like
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by kpi 10y ago
I am a big fan of heyguevara, and happily disagree with you on regulatory approval and access to re-insurance markets: these need to be addressed, and we are happy to have discussions with insurance brokers and regulatory bodies to do that.
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by kpi 10y ago
thanks, very good point. this is great feedback and a really valuable discussion for us. we need to have more experiments with decentralized applications and insurance markets to explore that. we are looking forward to address these questio
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by kpi 10y ago
it isn't yet. the current implementation relies on the flightstats API and oraclize.it to call the API from the contract. I think we are still far from truly decentralized applications, and it needs experiments like this to slowly get
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by kpi 10y ago
the total amount of payouts per flight is limited as well as premiums and individual payouts. there is a non-negligible legal risk of such action and the payout limits in the end will converge to the price of the risk someone is going to ta
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by kpi 10y ago
airhelp is one of many services which deal with compensation claims which are mandated e.g. by EU regulation and take a good cut of the payout for trying to make a really cumbersome process less bad. the customer experience of claiming comp
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Flight Delays Suck(fdd.etherisc.com)
3 points by kpi 10y ago|0 comments
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You’ll love to be late for devcon two(medium.com)
2 points by kpi 10y ago|0 comments
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by kpi 10y ago
note that we just released a first demonstrator for devcon2 https://fdd.etherisc.com some more information on https://medium.com/the-future-requires-more/youll-love-to-be... and some discussion on reddit h
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by kpi 11y ago
I wonder how exactly it works. t0 are not very specific about implementation details. If they are using the bitcoin blockchain it should be possible to point out the actual transactions there.
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The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision(blog.ethereum.org)
1 points by kpi 11y ago|0 comments
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by kpi 12y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3461482
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by kpi 14y ago
Please make it fly.
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by kpi 14y ago
Interesting thought but browsers should not interpret javascript inside an image. I would expect image rendering to be separated. Can someone with an expertise in browser design tell us how this actually works?
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Study on the effects of the One Laptop per Child Program(iadb.org)
2 points by kpi 14y ago|0 comments
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BufferBloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by kpi 15y ago|0 comments
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Good-bye, Wheelchair, hello Exoskeleton(spectrum.ieee.org)
6 points by kpi 15y ago|0 comments
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Top Tech 2012(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by kpi 15y ago|0 comments
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by kpi 15y ago
Looks like a useful tool. I get an "Oops, something went wrong ..." when I enter "shop". Besides that I really like the concept of http://stylate.com/ to find domains for startups.
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by kpi 15y ago
Great use case for QR codes.
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by kpi 15y ago
Harvard, don't lock in your content! Other courses in many formats are available on http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative Why should this one be iTunes only?
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by kpi 15y ago
We are using qmail with ezmlm and while probably outdated now, this has been rock solid for years. When starting a new SMTP server I use postfix. Keep in mind that sending out newsletters from a new IP needs a lot of extra effort to keep th
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by kpi 15y ago
Reminds me of Joel's post on streamlining a shipping process http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HowToShipAnything.htm...
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Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet(cacm.acm.org)
55 points by kpi 15y ago|9 comments