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by proofofstake 9y ago
> Facebook collects on you when you interact with their systems I do not think this is true. What happens with my e-mail address when someone else signs up to Facebook and shares their contact list (with my e-mail address in it)? How did
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by proofofstake 9y ago
I am in this Kafka-esque situation where I try to get an account deleted that is not even mine. I don't have and want a Facebook account, but Facebook does not agree. I few years back I started receiving mail for an account that I neve
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by proofofstake 9y ago
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v67/li17a.html is pretty good.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Scientists from fields that rely on data, like physics, often do well as data scientists. I myself like Information Science more than Data Science, but I do not care that much for semantics. There was a need to specify a role of someone who
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by proofofstake 9y ago
But that's putting the cart before the horse. You need the ICO to get enough investment to build out your platform, when you have a fully functioning platform, who still needs investment? And if a platform is a prerequisite: Just build
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by proofofstake 9y ago
See also this 1996 NSA paper "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash", predating both Hashcash and Bit gold. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/mon
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Nice quip. To stick with analogy: Some people in this thread are in the 70s, telling record companies to ignore the disco genre entirely, because it is a fad that can't last more than a decade. Instead, telling them to stick with what
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by proofofstake 9y ago
A slot machine is known to give a 200% ROI and allow a single pull each day. You play this slot machine every day for 500 days, until you notice it stops rewarding you. Then someone says: "Look I told you so, I've been telling eve
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by proofofstake 9y ago
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stratis/
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Agreed, and there probably will be a year where nearly all coins tank. It would be foolish to invest all your profits back into the market, year after year. But should this stop you (or any investment firm) to seriously look at the profit p
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by proofofstake 9y ago
I agree with: > The crypto market is still niche. There are stocks that make 100-1000% performance. But the stock market is "saturated" for representing assets, equities and companies. So its growth is limited. so I do not see
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by proofofstake 9y ago
ROI of creating an investment portfolio 1 year ago, and selling today: - All Bitcoin: ~500% - Mix of top market: ~2800% - All Strat: ~13500% Meanwhile, stock investors call 12% a good year.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> why it took them this long There is no direct business value in banning users from your platform. In fact, doing so is a short-term net negative. This is also why Twitter was so slow to ban bots: you gain a fraction of satisfaction for
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by proofofstake 9y ago
While not quite planning, announcements do occur. Found a large number of accounts connected to the attackers from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack when it was ongoing. Minutes before the att
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by proofofstake 9y ago
An example of what I was aiming at is to use ML methods like deep nets to detect early-onset diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness and at least 90% of new cases could be reduced with early detection an
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Sure there is! ML helps with medical diagnosis, cures, and treatment, ML helps automate services that are unavailable to third world countries, ML helps catch criminals, money laundering, and fraudsters, ML saves wasteful energy consumption
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Please, make it possible to directly report or ban automated DM messages from bots/apps.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
There is probabilistic vs. deterministic cross-device tracking. Deterministic assigns a unique device identifier to each device and then uses more data to connect device IDs to an individual. Probabilistic cross-device tracking uses machine
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by proofofstake 9y ago
The end result for the customer is that the ad industry will switch to cross-device tracking for everyone. Right now, you had an option to opt-out, by setting cookies to block. You were relatively safe. Now the default will become a net of
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Maybe in the short term, longer term it is no trouble. ICOs are far from the main use case for Ethereum. Speculation is driven by the price not close to matching the price if/when the technology matures. If anything, most ICOs pull mon
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by proofofstake 9y ago
From the article: > The incentive for holding OMGs, is to take part in the network validation process. We also see a long term value/appreciation in the OMG price as more and more transactions take place on the network. So you can s
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by proofofstake 9y ago
HackerNews used to be all about cryptocurrencies. I think the original Satoshi paper was posted here soon after it was released. But about your cynicism-remark, this never changed. People that jumped on the opportunity were too busy to post
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> No, don't worry, this isn't a bubble. Crypto is definitely a bubble. Perhaps one of the biggest bubbles to burst when this happens four to five years from now. > I need to start thinking of a few product roadmaps I know yo
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The first ICO unicorns are here(techcrunch.com)
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> What maths must be understood to enable pursuit of either of the above fields? None. > Are there any seminal texts/courses/content which should be consumed before starting? No. You don't need to know binary to start b
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Just wondering: If you got so rich from crypto currency that you could retire, would you retire? Start your own company? Just do fun stuff? Or keep working? I myself work, to occupy myself with interesting problems, so I would keep doing th
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by proofofstake 9y ago
For a fair comparison we should look at "energy" in an abstract manner. Time and money is energy too. Every time gold exchanges hands, it also costs energy.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> compare the cost of Bitcoin to U.S. dollars or gold All-in sustaining costs for mining an ounce of gold (worth $1,293.70) is between $1,100 and $1,200.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
GP: Maybe you are just crazy. M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true. GP: Is Eris true? M2: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? M2: Even false thi
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by proofofstake 9y ago
And if I may be so bold to add a fourth reason, gossip has always been a form of social currency. It feels good to be privy to secrets and have information that other people do not have. Gossip on the internet is a supercharged version of t

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