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it's a really simple problem honestly. Make a standardized test, but don't put an hour time limit on it. If you gave the exact same algorithm test with a 24-hour time limit vs. a 1-hour time limit then had a 1-hour interview explaining the solution to the problem you would be testing for something closer to programming acumen than memorization. I have no idea why tech companies find this so challenging.

This is the interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte alluded to in the blog post. It's really extraordinary to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw

The Brave web browser

I heard Peter Thiel make an interesting comment on this recently: that banks avoid political scrutiny because they fund both political parties, whereas Google is overtly biased towards one side (the blue side). This makes the red side hate them, and the blue side neglect them because they think of them as easy money.

The only way to survive political scrutiny in a two-party system is to support both sides, or at least have a plausible threat that you could support the other side if over-regulated.

What are you even talking about? Bitcoin is super liquid with high trading volumes. You can literally convert 100 Bitcoin to $1,000,000 USD in seconds, 24/7, anywhere in the world, without moving the market very much.

try pasting in the link to outline.com

If you're buying stuff on darknet markets it's nice to be able to do it with freshly mined coins that don't have transaction histories associated with them.

"If you change what he said it sounds worse" lol, is that seriously your argument?

MDMA is Schedule I also even though it's proven to be a breakthrough treatment for PTSD at dosages that are completely harmless to the body. "No medical benefit" is a complete clown.

I think it would be interesting to build a reputation system like this on top of Ethereum, where each Ethereum address has a reputation associated with it and the darknet markets simply read that reputation into their UIs. That way even if the market gets shut down and loses their database, the vendor reputation system would still persist.

Check out Nick Szabo and Elaine Ou's talk from Scaling Bitcoin about broadcasting Bitcoin blocks over shortwave radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYXPJMqBNk&feature=youtu.be...

I went to my sisters graduation at Northwestern where Stephen Colbert was the keynote speaker. I don't see a difference between the antics of Colbert and Yiannapoulos other than what tribe they represent. One is a keynote graduation speaker, one has riots that prevent them from speaking on campus.

Just off the top of my head in the last year or so:

Social scientist Charles Murray was censored then physically assaulted at Middlebury because he wrote a book about the correlation between intelligence and success [https://youtu.be/a6EASuhefeI?t=19m25s]

Biology professor Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College had himself and his family physically threatened because he refused to participate in a protest that asked all white people to leave campus for a day [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4Y87idawk]

A professor at Diablo Valley College smashed a dude with a bike lock just because he was on the different side of the political spectrum as he was. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug34vogS3Fw]

Everything that Jordan Peterson had to go through at University of Toronto because he publicly opposed a draconian bill to forces professors to use specific pronouns when referring to students [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsG71YrB_Nw]

Lindsay Shepard at Laurier University had to face a star chamber from a 'diversity committee' because she showed a video clip of Jordan Peterson in class [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFUvfAvKs4&t=1m18s]

And then there were the psychos that literally lit University of Berkeley on fire when Milo Yiannopoulos went to give a talk there [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi_vX0tknJM&t=4m45s]

etc...

etc...

I'm a believer in this approach as well. in-browser proofs of work can serve as anti-bot/scraper/spam filters as well

Coinhive has already been successfully deployed to mine $XMR in browsers. I haven't used it yet, but they claim to get pretty close to native CPU performance also which is pretty incredible.

https://coinhive.com/

>Bitcoin has solved exactly zero problems

Sending an infinite amount of money anywhere in the world 24/7 in less than an hour from your command line for a couple of dollars.

I bought a round-trip plane ticket to Shanghai China for $900 to attend the Ethereum developers conference when I was completely broke. The conference inspired me to get involved with Ethereum development. Even though it was a lot of money for me to spend at the time, it ended up as one of the most rewarding decisions of my life.

It could have easily been the same person transferring money to themselves though, for either PR or money laundering purposes.

Even more interesting with full-scale vertical integration IMO. Game developers can raise funds to build their games by pre-selling provably rare digital assets or doing ICOs for in-game currencies that can be used on betting markets etc...

> But then the question becomes what do these guys offer which Patreon doesnt?

Patreon censors conservatives off their platform. [Context if you don't know what I'm talking about -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw]

To some non-trivial minority of content creators that is reason enough to not use it. As someone who makes youtube vids and is thinking about scaling a brand, I want nothing to do with a tech platform that believes it should be the sole arbiter of who can and cannot solicit p2p donations/payments for their videos. I want a politically-neutral technology / payment mechanism.

Brave seems to be more ideologically aligned with myself, so I would rather go that route. Even though the current iteration has quite a few centralized stop-gates, I think it's feasible that Brave and the BAT system could ultimately provide a way for me to monetize my video content directly from users with BAT tokens and not have to deal with Jack Conte's moral grandstanding as a single point of failure for my revenue streams.

The internet isn't run by the government, it's mostly run by private companies. These private companies want to create and enforce a sort of tax policy around internet consumption. Companies can tax you in multiple ways (slowing page load speeds, censoring content, denying access to services etc...) and they can do it for multiple reasons (business interests, lobbying from their friends, censoring dissent etc...) Net Neutrality is the idea that private companies should not be able to create tax policy on core internet infrastructure, and instead it should remain tax-free for all users.

The ultimate irony here, is that this battle is pitched as Silicon Valley vs. the U.S. government, with Silicon Valley fighting for a free and open internet and the government trying to pass legislation to pave the way for private companies to enforce tax policy. But in actuality the battle for a free and open internet has morphed into the people vs. Silicon Valley, with tech companies as the villains in the story.

The arbitrary censorship on social media sites (such as Facebook, and Twitter) has gotten really bad. Platforms like Youtube for content-hosting and Patreon for fundraising have begun demonetizing and delisting their political opponents. Lower level infrastructure such as GoDaddy and Cloudflare have even now begun to enforce political delisting.

Wake up. Private companies are already enforcing a tax on your internet consumption if you are guilty of wrongthink. Whether it's Verizon, Twitter, Patreon or Cloudflare, who cares, it's the same thing.

What about Kickstarter? A $500 million+ company that takes a 5% vig on all transacted funds can effectively be replaced with a few lines of code.

If total ETH sent to contract address by date X > Amount Y then send the ETH to the fundraiser, else return the ETH.

They've already fucked it up.

Here's an hour long interview with Patreon's CEO, Jack Conte, where he goes through some ridiculous mental gymnastics trying to justify why it's ok he is kicking conservative journalists off his platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw

Business model for you: Host a node yourself, and charge a micropayment in ETH to make SQL queries against the DB.

A kickstarter clone, that could be implemented in a few lines of code on top of Ethereum..

If there is > 1,000 Ether in this contract address before timestamp x then send the Ether to the project lead, else refund all the users.

Bitcoin also only has one client with one development team whereas Ethereum has multiple clients with multiple development teams. Tell me more about that legendary Bitcoin decentralization.

Curiously you don't mention censorship of conservative accounts, shadow banning, and hashtag manipulation as major problems of the platform.

10-minute block times make Bitcoin unusable as a transactional currency in it's current state (don't shoot the messenger).

The flaw in their plan is that the intersection of people capable of figuring out how to pay a ransom payment in Bitcoin, and people still using Windows XP, is pretty small.

I think you're missing the really obvious explanation that Assange (and the entire Wikileaks staff) speak English and not Russian.

I've always wondered what Uber is going to do when their self-driving cars can legally drive in Saudi Arabia, but women can't. Seems like they're going to run up against that pretty soon.