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Comment · 6 years ago
Hey, I am interested. Have worked at Udemy(a PHP e-commerce shop at the time) where I built a lot of cool products like the course feed, notifications, wishlist and note-taking. Also built multiple e-commerce platforms on my own from scratch, one was being used on onedio.com one never saw the day light.

Also built an investment platform for cryptocurrencies. I think we might be a great fit. Can send screenshots of what I have built before. Can also send a CV. To get in touch: [email protected]

Comment · 9 years ago
how do you prove to the bank the non-existence of a clause that would void the trust if this is done(and noticed)?

the main point I tried to make above was this: in normal life there is the "human factor"; like, if you look at a situation, you can reasonably comment on whether it's a positive situation from an actor's perspective; whether the actors were engaging in fraudulent activity etc. In digital-only world, there is no such thing as "probable cause", "reasonable doubt" etc.

which makes the application of smart contracts to real life intractable(IMHO borderline impossible for complex situations for the near future[~10 years?]).

Comment · 9 years ago
1- 50% of what? Revenue into the company or dividens/salary etc out of the company? if it's the latter, then, how do we make sure that you don't spend $500.000 for trash bins for the office? Do we have to make sure every decision goes through the network? (i.e. who is the authority to decide what is reasonable and what is blatant fraud if things go sour AND is it even possible to make sure that nothing possibly can go sour[I don't think so.]. So, fraud is possible, and in the case of fraud, -say; the network retroactively decides that something really constitutes a fraud, hence is a crime- who is the enforcer of the punishment[which is most likely to be physical: like prison sentence]?)

2- How do you make sure that your child doesn't sell it in 2025 and buys a Lambo? (which is a problem you don't have with regular Trusts AFAIK)

Comment · 9 years ago
It's a sales tax, not a 'buying' tax. Say, a company sells you a $100 item for $100, forgetting to include the tax in the final price. And say no one ended up paying tax for that transaction for in that tax year. Who is the government going to go after once they realize this to collect the $8.75 sales tax - you or the company?

Edit: I think you are confusing it with income tax. What you are saying happens for salaried income in USA.

Comment · 9 years ago
Then the government taking a criminal's drug money would also be theft? Also, he took it from a government wallet, not directly from a criminal.

Edit: Just to clarify, I was just pointing out that the comment I replied to is tangential(1- he didn't steal from a criminal. 2- 'someone' can 'seize' a criminal's money without it being theft.).

He obviously stole -this isn't even a case of trying to steal; he stole, and got caught- and I don't get how he can get away with such a small punishment for stealing $10M+.

Comment · 10 years ago
Can you please send me an invite? We are building something that's going to be heavy on the server side and this looks like a really good deal. My email is visible on my profile. Thanks!
Comment · 11 years ago
you'd be better off if you mapped those 10 numbers to a number in [0:(10!-1)] interval since there are only 10! different potential answers. So you make the job of the algorithm easier (figuring out the "structure" of the function it's trying to solve for is easier when the result space is compressed without any 'signal' loss)

another improvement could be "enhancing" of the inputs: when you figure out how you will permute the numbers to sort them, create specific and randomized variations of that specific list of numbers and feed the learning algorithm with the correct results of those permutations too. for instance if you have 5 70 2 13 as a training input, the trainer algorithm could generate the following extra inputs based on this so that the algorithm will get a better chance of figuring out the sorting for a test input like 2 15 5 65:

2 5 23 70 2 5 33 70 ... 2 5 63 70 2 5 73 70 also: 2 5 14 70 2 5 13 69 etc. also modify more than 1 number at the same time(both systematically and also randomly) to generate even more "gray"-input

Comment · 12 years ago
No one cares if he will make $100M from this or not. $100M is less than %10 of the total value of all the bitcoins currently in the market and we can just think of that %10 as the one-time tax "humanity" paid to get the bitcoin system developed.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks, this looks great. Apparently they also have colocation space -- asked them how much it'd cost us. Will post here once I hear back(if I hear back soon :) ).
Comment · 12 years ago
Actually he is right - gpu instances are pretty cheap if you use the spot ones. http://ec2price.com/?product=Linux/UNIX&type=g2.2xlarge&regi...

But the thing is I am not sure if amazon keeps a spot-instance reserve (i.e. what happens if all the spot instances get turned into on-demand ones over, say, a month and suddenly your service is shut down and you keep waiting indefinitely[you'd probably wait for around 24 hours and then try to get an on-demand one - which is 11x more expensive, costing around $600/mo for a shared gpu. and if you can't find an on-demand one, you will be offline for around a week until you figure out a way of provisioning a gpu instance from another service provider, which will probably cost you a lot more, but at that point you will have to do it not to disrupt the service for so long])

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