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Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Reports 21M Users, Up 420% Since April(decrypt.co)
3 points by sprafa 5y ago|0 comments
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by sprafa 5y ago
Many projects are in control of some actor, but decentralization is all about diffusion of responsibility. Right now tens of thousands of people voted on ALGO's governance trough their wallets on their phones. When did you ever get tha
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by sprafa 5y ago
This has demonstrated itself to be very unlikely to happen in large blockchains such as ETH because of cryptoeconomics - ie game theory 101 - if you do a 51% attack on a blockchain you're actually devaluing the entire chain. It's
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What Is Blockchain: Computers That Can Make Commitments(a16z.com)
2 points by sprafa 5y ago|4 comments
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by sprafa 5y ago
Aah your article is ok but you realise everything you want could be built - most likely by yourself - using a fork from any popular crypto token? Your dreams are in your reach. That's the beauty of open-source blockchain. You want to f
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Why Decentralization Matters(onezero.medium.com)
3 points by sprafa 5y ago|4 comments
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by sprafa 5y ago
From experience DeepMind is the #1 goal for any AI/ML person anywhere in Europe. I know people don’t necessarily want to be googlers, but Deepmind ? Yes. If you’re brilliant in the field where else would you work? OpenAI is now complet
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by sprafa 5y ago
Afaik it’s run completely independently from London, by the original founder. Distance from the mothership + founder in charge + separate goals = independence and results
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by sprafa 5y ago
Jim Simons and Bob Mercer used Ml to solve the market a decade plus ago. Good book on the topic is The Man Who Solved the Market
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by sprafa 5y ago
Renaissance Technologies, Jim Simons and Bob Mercer’s fund solved the market with ML techniques ages ago. Can’t remember off the tip off my head but they have consistent 60% annual returns which is unheard of. There’s a great book about it
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by sprafa 5y ago
World of Warcraft ?
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by sprafa 5y ago
Not even approximations - they use a bunch of assumptions, many of which don’t hold up over time, so they then proceed to invent new ones as to say “well these assumptions are obviously better” even though they will inevitably be falsified
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by sprafa 5y ago
Interesting ideas - any place one could learn more on how to think like this? Ie books or ? Basically How did you manage to get it to this simple statement, which seems intuitively correct when so much macro economics I’ve tried to read see
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by sprafa 5y ago
The UK upper class is remarkably educated and unintelligent in my opinion. You meet lots of people in the UK in some strata of society who went to Oxford yet have never really been taught how to think. UK research also appears to have large
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by sprafa 5y ago
Virtually all aspects of western society is being eroded by the “management is a job-skill” type thinking. I expect that eventually we will stop doing this simply because it’s complete nonsense and clearly counter productive. Look at the di
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by sprafa 5y ago
Wow that’s the biggest piece of evidence that the letter is accurate. 18% is abysmal
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by sprafa 5y ago
It’s a difficult question and I’m not qualified to answer it as an amateur tbh.
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by sprafa 5y ago
This is what happened with real estate in the west. It is for example, not worth owning property in some major cities as a retiree vs selling it for a fortune and moving to somewhere warmer in many major western cities. Hence we see the ex
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by sprafa 5y ago
The Toyota process says - you cannot manage a production line effectively if you don’t understand it. Agile has become a way for people with no development experience to “manage” developers and that will always be wrong. The West’s obsessio
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by sprafa 5y ago
Software engineering seems partially creative partially technical - so on the creative parts, yes absolutely teams should self define their preferences. Scrum vs agile vs whatever else IMO should be a team/org preference. However like
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by sprafa 5y ago
Pretty much.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Was told by someone in the UK trucking industry this is mindless panic as some people have moved from HGV fuel trucks to regular as the salaries on regular trucking caught up with fuel trucks (and fuel trucks are far more dangerous so peopl
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by sprafa 5y ago
Family
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by sprafa 5y ago
Who is this quote from? Im not sure I agree with you. Yes Germany isn’t Denmark, the distance from US —- German government policy is vast. Even the difference between UK and Germany is vast. What do we call that difference ? Some people mig
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by sprafa 5y ago
Depends on your definition. Capitalists have successfully ejected murderous regimes from their timeline, by saying that capitalism isn’t really real unless it’s got a free democracy associated with it. Thus imperial Japan, Belgium’s atrocio
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by sprafa 5y ago
Isn’t Keller basically a mercenary/ronin in a good way? He hunts down good projects then executes then leaves. So it’s hard to imagine a place where Su or other higher ups were not involved in bringing him in, considering he never stay
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by sprafa 5y ago
The remains?? You clearly don’t realise how successful epic is
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by sprafa 5y ago
Undervalued comment. The thing OP is criticising are already solved problems in some blockchains.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Basically it seems like having a strong inventor with a good original idea, then mixing it with other peoples influences even AGAISNT that original inventor’s intent, is a good way to get cool stuff.
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by sprafa 5y ago
It seems unlikely to me at this point that Satoshi was anyone but Hal Finney. Until someone touches Satoshi’s wallets, the coincidences are just too great.

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