"Too complex." This. Developers really must spend a lot more time and mental energy on UX if they intend things to be used by anyone other than developers with lots of time in their hands.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe that's enough of a reward for you, but personally I work because I like to get paid. The fact that I enjoy my work immensely is just a happy accident. There are things I enjoy doing even more than my work - much more so! - and if I did not need to get paid, I'd be doing those things instead.
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 this, regardless of my wealth.
Wealthy enough to really never work again? Yes, I'd absolutely "retire." I'd still "work", in the sense that, say, angel investors work, or people own real estate; I'd also still write software in my free time.
But for the most part, no I wouldn't continue doing what I do now because I'd stop consulting and I would never again be an individual contributor. I'd probably devote "professional focus" to investing and academic research in math and cryptography while traveling all over the world like Tom from Myspace.
I think in conversations like this the dimension people like myself are talking about is freedom. I'd still work on what I'm passionate about even if I was wealthy, I would just cease doing it in a way that I don't have total control and direction over my work. That circles back to my original point - my passion for my work is not nearly enough of an incentive for me to do it if I'm not doing it with total autonomy.
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#103Wait wait wait isn't Storj what Pied Piper ultimately turned into, plus a cryptocurrency for extra hype?
Life imitating fiction imitating life...
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#104bookchin: https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/6llxpn/so_long_frien... I followed the storj reddit for a while, since I bought into the crowdsale with Bitcoin. (Since sold. There was some kind of pump the other week on bittrex.) After the crowdsale, they appeared to be really rather disorganised. They took the $30m, sent everybody receipts, and then... nothing. No newsletters, no mails, no nothing, aside from occa…
With $30M shouldn't they have dozens of people polishing their product?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Greed appears to me to be fundamentally intrinsic to human behavior and culture. I don't think it's realistic to try to get rid of it. Rather I think it would be more effective to use it as an incentive and actively limit its negative externalities.
There are lots of "fundamentally intrinsic" harmful elements of human behavior and culture but civilization is slowly getting them under control.
But there is a vast difference between getting something under control and getting rid of it.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only give power to people who don't want it.
There's an SF writer I really like for his books in the vein of this. His name is L. E. Modesitt, and some of his books that discuss this are the "Parafaith War" and probably the best "Adiamante."
In Douglas Adams's books the president of the universe is completely powerless because anyone who wants to be president should absolutely not be given any real authority.
The real ruler is a man living in a shack in the middle of nowhere who only cares about his cat and an occasional glass of whiskey.
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#107Does anybody here know of a good video/tech-talk that gives an in-depth introduction to blockchain technology? Something at academic level, and good for a Sunday afternoon? Thanks in advance!
This is much more basic than academic level, for which you could maybe start with the original Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin white paper? - but this video is a fantastic introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_160oMzblY8
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are lots of "fundamentally intrinsic" harmful elements of human behavior and culture but civilization is slowly getting them under control.
But there is a vast difference between getting something under control and getting rid of it.
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#109I'm still curious as to how is this profitable to whoever created it. There is a shit ton of code in this project - this same amount of code written for an employer or commercial project would net the author quite a bit of money - so what's the benefit creating this abomination (that doesn't even work) versus just working on something actually useful?
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#110bookchin: https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/6llxpn/so_long_frien... I followed the storj reddit for a while, since I bought into the crowdsale with Bitcoin. (Since sold. There was some kind of pump the other week on bittrex.) After the crowdsale, they appeared to be really rather disorganised. They took the $30m, sent everybody receipts, and then... nothing. No newsletters, no mails, no nothing, aside from occa…
With $30M shouldn't they have dozens of people polishing their product?
The ideas men are working very hard on the documentation, and totally not spending their time spamming Twitter and Reddit to try to counter this story. e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/6w5q1f/youll_be_p...
(yes, they actually bothered trying to promote their thing on /r/buttcoin)
Pay no attention to the glaring lack of actual dev work behind the curtain!