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I made essentially this argument in the thread for the google announcement about beating stockfish and was down voted mercilessly. I think neural nets and deep learning systems are…

Those are all valid points. I don't disagree at all. My comment was meant to present the hypothetical case where Bitcoin's governance model turns out to have better longevity than …

> Of course, you can make a case for gold or similar because it could make easy run away to another place, but that it's not the argument they are pushing normally. I think this is…

I have no idea whether that will happen, just trying to express what I think the rational case is for investing in Bitcoin today. Goldbugs / conspiracy theorists have a line of arg…

True, but those arbitrage opportunities will stabilize the price and make other similar opportunities less profitable. I suspect that the real reason these haven't all been ironed …

These are all good points except for the idea that it won't be used like normal money. The speculative environment and price volatility resulting from that, is all by design. The m…

Short term betting (for or against) Bitcoin is unlikely to result in much profit.

Any price is just the amount someone is willing to pay. This is why prices change even for things that do have intrinsic value like food commodities, oil, etc. More specifically, p…

Mine too. I am not attempting to let regulators off easy in this comment, merely pointing out that regardless of their specific motivations or their specific level of human integri…

As others have pointed out, the actions taken by the financial firms' employees were not illegal. In hindsight some were harmful and perhaps should have been, but the question shou…

It's great to see Sam calling attention to this problem. I'd argue that it's not really about ideas as much as it is about the public being much more accepting of authoritarianism.…

Apparently this story is one such thing, as it has been flagged.

I was going to make this point in a post, but saw that you had already done so. Using the pan repeatedly as a griddle will result in a superbly seasoned pan that does not need much…

I wish more science were taught using this kind of thing as a starting demo to provoke a lot of wonderment.

Maybe we learned that coinbase can't scale its website, but that has nothing to do with the ability of BTC to scale.

Wouldn’t the companies offering flight searches have a strong incentive to include this information? I’ve been burned a few times after booking a flight that did not disclose the h…

I've noticed that the automated buys I have set up typically fail when the price is low and succeed when the price is high... according to Coinbase this is due to my bank. But now …

It's interesting to consider what it means when the AI can succeed without using brute force. Suppose at every turn there are n possible future states of the game based on the rule…

More evidence that Google is hurting financially. Thus far, Google's major platforms have had roughly the same longevity as a typical series C startup. I will keep this in mind the…

Ironically, both of these firms are strong advocates for "net neutrality" while they practice such childish behavior. My personal view as a user of both companies' hardware and sof…

This story is meant to make the American public more willing to support an attack on NK. Americans are generally happy to support strikes that we view as high tech and not targetin…

There are two relevant things to realize about this: 1) Student debt is much different than normal consumer debt in that it is not dischargeable if the holder declares bankruptcy. …

Dai seems like a clever idea, but I'm not convinced it will ultimately be necessary. For one thing, the idea that dollars are stable is illusory. And the volatility we see in BTC t…

China has been bravely dealing with a rampant "fake news" problem for decades, and should serve as a model for US regulators and social media companies.

I think you could equivalently argue that the long-term effect is that the toddler learns to tune out all the noise and focus on one thing.