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by rms 7y ago
not a YC company? they maintain a monopoly on job hiring posts on this site, you can however make the "monthly" hiring thread and post there
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by rms 7y ago
Appeasement card: https://i.redd.it/n9zqxbbhfar31.png https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dexong/cool_new_car...
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The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings(wired.com)
73 points by rms 8y ago|94 comments
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Meritocracy and Doublethink(rationalconspiracy.com)
2 points by rms 8y ago|1 comments
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Gravitropism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rms 8y ago|0 comments
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by rms 8y ago
Right. I imagine a future where AI capital entities just hold bitcoin and never do anything with it other than hold it forever to secure the things they're doing on the advanced financial platforms of the future.
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by rms 8y ago
In the USA at least, it still exists, and it's called cash. If cash were invented today, it would be illegal. For most small payments if not large transfers, in the USA consumers actually have the right to transact anonymously. Trackin
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by rms 8y ago
The white paper says it uses the Stellar consensus protocol but doesn't specify that the coin is on the Stellar network.
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by rms 8y ago
For what it's worth, we also trust the NSA to have written and verified our most important cryptographic hash functions, leading to the first rule of crypto -- never roll your own novel hash function. I see this as the start of a commu
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by rms 8y ago
Bernie Madoff is reportedly quite popular in prison, if anyone was wondering.
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by rms 8y ago
I lost a bank account last year and was unbanked for a little while. I really hate my customer service interactions with banks and would be quite happy if I could unbank myself. Life pro tip: If your Charles Schwab broker emails and says th
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by rms 8y ago
Consumer micropayments is one of the most basic possible applications of this technology and that it hasn't been implemented yet is sad. I'm not a fan of the customer experience of Venmo and Paypal and Apple Pay that require me to
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by rms 8y ago
Your github led me to https://turtlecoin.lol/ which makes your point and undermines it at the same time. Turtlecoin launched with an incremental and a catchy name and no ICO and on the surface sounds like it achieves a lot
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by rms 8y ago
Pessimistically, they won't. Optimistically, they solve consumer micropayments by allowing the unbanked to send and store money via WhatsApp.
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by rms 8y ago
The main difference is that MobileCoin trusts Intel's SGX to create a platform that should be able to scale quickly on mobile. It also has a solution to allow for private key recovery in case you lose your phone. Zcash is more provably
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by rms 8y ago
I don't see nearly as much use case for humans and cryptocurrency as for AI and cryptocurrency. I think in the future, the average technologically savvy person will be just as confused about what bitcoin is and does as they are today a
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MobileCoin has raised $30M for private mobile payments(techcrunch.com)
48 points by rms 8y ago|49 comments
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by rms 8y ago
I see cryptocurrency as a harbinger of AI, which is the real revolution. Blockchain is just a tool. People get really confused trying to understand and develop pricing models for the current state of the world but I see a lot of cryptocurre
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by rms 8y ago
Summarized on boingboing as "Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the Roman roads are still paying dividends" https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/romanes-eunt-domus.html
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On Roman roads and the sources of persistence and non-persistence in development(voxeu.org)
2 points by rms 8y ago|1 comments
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by rms 8y ago
I think it may be healthy to reset dopamine by doing this occasionally for a week or so at a time, but I like the cheap dopamine and connectedness of my social media connections.
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by rms 8y ago
I've been pretty happy using Wire lately
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by rms 9y ago
It just won't be the same without San Pel's bubbly sweet kick of uranium, not safe for children under two years of age.
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Is SegWit activated yet? Yes :)(segwit.co)
1 points by rms 9y ago|0 comments
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by rms 9y ago
43 bitcoins.
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by rms 10y ago
We got those with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
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by rms 10y ago
Really? I tried doing this search and can't find much. I'm pretty up on the state of the scientific literature on kratom, because I'm in the industry, curious, and have been actively working at improving the dreadful wikipedi
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by rms 10y ago
Absolutely. Propaganda from both sides of the debate results in confusing and sometimes harmful information. I don't claim that kratom is without harm. I claim that from a public health perspective, kratom reduces harm by trading off w
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by rms 10y ago
Tobacco and alcohol are unusually dangerous in the scheme of drugs. I don't disagree with your intention to relax restrictions behind drugs, but if this logic was followed, nearly every drug would be legalized, which is not the goal of
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by rms 10y ago
The DEA has the power to schedule newly developed, dangerous synthetic drugs without immediate congressional oversight, the idea being that chemists can design and bring to market new, dangerous drugs more quickly than Congress is able to a

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