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Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen. Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt. There's a lot of peopl…

You could always move to where things are booming and see your salary double overnight.

Spamming at least one private telegram channel for upvotes without contributing anything.

You might try looking here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/

There does need to be some sort of sane standard for determining whether something counts as a threat/incitement if they're not going to be permitted. Say I'm very popular on twitt…

On the other hand, targeted subsidies can push economies of scale to tipping points of self-sustainability. If there's lots of low hanging fruit then a broad tax/subsidy makes sens…

Having played around with building exactly that, the conclusion I came to is that REST is nice for not having the additional setup step of establishing a websocket connection as we…

Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.

Tried this on coinmarketcap.com and it broke horribly. You've got some bugs to work out but this is a very fun and useful idea.

Now you've got me curious how much people have experimented with making AIs play "incremental" games where there's literally nothing but build order planning.

Unapproved third-party APIs.

A journal made up of both digital logs and a physical notepad, a graph of associations between things, and a wiki for deeper details on specific topics.

If you dig into the origins of a buzzword, it's highly likely there's a very valuable concept hiding underneath the accumulated cruft. Had I known this sooner it would've sped me a…

What were each of them in a nutshell?

So what's preventing market saturation from everyone lobbying until the ROI drops to something sane?

Network effects of people who held one that skyrocketed then diversifying into others and news around any given one skyrocketing drawing people to the space in general. Not to ment…

I believe Animats was referring specifically to disruption of industry incumbents and failed to clarify that.

Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.

I'm trying to get an online community together over the next few months for some of the same stuff. More generally for learning through collaborative experimentation. My email's in…

Seen https://blankslate.io/ ?

I'm really just curious what everyone's using for any given situation. I don't move much around myself, but I anticipate that changing and it's nice to have a broader picture of wh…

Title says it all. EDIT to clarify: I'm just curious what kinds of setups everyone has for their own situations vs. looking for answers on what to do in my own. I'm currently using…

"Of course, the Internet doesn’t remember that he worked on cryptocurrency almost 20 years ago (with Zooko of ZCash) before he started BitTorrent." Citation needed.

And then there's Urbit, the unusual suspect.

Abstract: According to one common view, information security comes down to technical measures. Given better access control policy models, formal proofs of cryptographic protocols, …