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I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was referring to the fact that the core Bitcoin dev, basically the guy in charge of the network, joined the board of one company in Silicon Valley. If I have a competing business, what do you think his preferences are going to be? So if this continues there will be a fork, so that devs of the protocol are prevented from selling out. I think the core bitcoin devs are really going in a very wrong direction with their affiliations.

The major news here is that Bitcoin is corrupting itself by affiliating with major corporate interest. Silicon Valley thinks they own Bitcoin - they will be proven wrong. a fork is becoming more and more likely. Gavin is not treating his responsibilities well and should find himself a well paid job if he wants to make money. there is something wrong with incentives here. Bitcoin is global, not a US owned network.

here is my manifesto: react to everything and you're slave. create reactions and you're ruler. balance action and reaction and you're a master.

huh?

It's 1994 on HN: Exclude all Web articles. Can't here it anymore.

The guy who was wrong about EVERYTHING makes another prediction. what else is new?

also, the internet is worthless. just photos of cats, you know.

Well, I've studied under a pupil of Grothendieck, so, yes inaccessible cardinals are at the heart of his category theory. When you study this long enough, you will discover they essentially perform the function of what in computer science is the class concept (which why these structures were called 'universes'). But Russell already developed a type theory around 1900. Most mathematicians have never cared to really study Gödel for instance. Because you then would have to read Russell's principia mathematica and Frege's concept script.

Thanks for that link. I very much agree. Meteor is going to be massive.

I'll side with Poincaré and there is not much to say other than that.

"The objections to Cantor's work were occasionally fierce: Poincaré referred to his ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor#cite_note-daub266-...

puppet isn't how things are supposed to be. for starters the initial learning curve is steep. salt is more powerful and easier to get started.

Very unlikely. Much more likely explanation is that Satoshi was influenced by him and uses similar terms. AFAIK Szabo is a lawyer / historian.

I took the web dev course by the founder of Hipmunk and it was absolutely great!

This was going from "best thing ever" to "lousy idea" in light speed. That is the downside of big ideas if they haven't been validated early. Not only investment of time and resource, but psychological energy. This is really the story of all change. It it unlikely, extremely hard and often at the wrong time.

Wonder how rich these guys are now. The exchange will not survive, because it is horribly architected.

No, it is my impression that 99.999% seem to believe the same. No upvotes on HN, and only dirty jokes about it (how original). Quite amazing given that this is one the major changes of the internet's naming infrastructure. Think about use cases for example where a person or company owns a TLD and assigns sub-domains to products. That is tremendously powerful. Or use-cases where it improves search capabilities. For instance if every .lawyer would be assigned only to "registered lawyers", .lawyer would be meaningful. Alas the way it's going down is not optimal, but we will see.

I think I disagree. .com is mostly a historic artefact. how about my.startup?

No - if pizza is owned by one TLD registrar www.pizza and great.pizza would be two separate subdomains under that TLD. I'm not sure there are limitations to the subdomain under the TLD (to prevent collision with www). Someone can register www under .com and make a www.www.com.

good points.

In terms of the semantics: in the end it's up to people using it. I'm more worried about profiteering than confusion. But it's for the market to figure it out.

I don't think the traffic is significant. caching is very easy - you don't need to have all 10^12 - 10^15 domains on disk and even if the size per record is tiny.

Bugs are less significant than possible collisions and fraud.

Definitely agree with the sentiment that ICANN is broken.

This just shows how insane the media world is. Great rebuttal. I love this one: "It is literally impossible for another car to have a better safety track record, as it would have to possess mystical powers of healing."

a timely repost.

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value revenue profit

TWTR 25B$ 0.3B$ -0.08B$

AMZN 170B$ 61B$ -0.04B$

CRM 34B$ 3B$ -0.27B$

very interesting, didn't know about the 185k. Why fake non-profit? I think the whole thing is quite a mess, and there is very little analysis.

I was in Berlin. What I've found is that the most famous startup in Berlin is a todo-list. Jawohl! Make sure to visit the c-base if you're there.

God, that is so sad. The first thing we have to get rid of this is extremely superficial notion of usefulness. Art and culture is there to inspire, to learn new things, not to be merely useful in a world limited by thought. When calculating machine came along people thought they were "useful" for replacing human beings called computers.

Bitcoin + contracts => new governments https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts

Quote from Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo.

"We are now entering an era of online communications and software "literacy". The "physics of cyberspace", studied by computer scientists, are radically different from the properties of paper, to an even greater degree than paper was different from string, clay, and metal. "

Read Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo and couple that with Bitcoin. Think of laws as being online documents with their own git layer, public repo infrastructure.

"We are now entering an era of online communications and software "literacy". The "physics of cyberspace", studied by computer scientists, are radically different from the properties of paper, to an even greater degree than paper was different from string, clay, and metal. "

machine learning? because you also want to filter cats.

amazing potential. but in the end - out of scope. If you go through the least each org has only few repos with little interest. One of the more interesting ones is: https://github.com/opengovplatform

No, he published the Black Swan in 2008, which as a term is now part of the dictionary. He very thoughtful about the term predictions, so it is much more a framework for statistical thinking. Actual help work, as opposed to the nonsense that is currently economics.

Very, very interesting. There are a lot of to be announced in there, especially pricing. But as this is opensource I thank the creators of this and will hope to contribute.

Fama was wrong about everything. I think Nassim Taleb should have deserved it, for actually "predicting" the crises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3REdLZ8Xis&list=PLzfJcwakFwl...