scottmp10

My first thought was that it was part of Google Fiber's efforts to make running cable cheaper. Looks like another moonshot though.

Compared with cash, digital currencies are much harder to launder. It will be obvious when you try to cash out that the money went through a tumbler. With cash, you always have plausible deniability unless you were physically seen receiving it in some illegal manner.

"We’re looking for one researcher who wants to work full-time... who are driven and talented but come from poor backgrounds." (please read the entire paragraph to understand the context of this)

The combination of hiring researchers that come from poor background with the author's stated belief that a basic income would likely be a good thing makes the entire set up seem very biased.

I like the idea of promoting research into the subject but I don't think this is the right way to do economic research.

I bought the TechMatte 2x USB-C to Micro-USB item that he gave two stars for use with my 5X. At least one of the items I got was actually defective. The other worked but charged very slowly. I wish I had seen his post before buying!

Now I am nervous because I subsequently bought a cable that he hasn't reviewed yet...

This has me wondering if there is some way to incentivize good reviewers. There is Consumer Reports and some more tech-specific sites but there is still a long tail of products that you have to buy without good reviews.

I think the right avenue is to keep the license GPL but provide a permissive as-is use license. The idea is that you want people making improvements to the algorithm to contribute those back for the public's benefit rather than charging people for their "upgraded" version. A separate unmodified-use license could be much more permissive in the use of algorithm as-is for compressing and decompressing images.

Yes same Scott. Unfortunately my first installation attempt for NuStudio was unsuccessful but I will try again soon. David has been very involved and it is great to see projects like that that make it more accessible.

This is a Bitcoin-like, distributed, secure payment system WITH a federated protocol for gateways/exchanges. A federated exchange network allows anyone to participate, similar to email servers. But since trust is so much more important in this case, I think that network effects will result in a relatively small set of gateways that anyone will actually interact with.

This is not a particularly informative article but I see great value in owning a Twitter botnet. As one example, imagine negative news about a major public company starts trending. That would certainly be a money-making opportunity. There are also hard-to-disprove rumors that you could blackmail high profile people with. Celebrities probably don't want to be trending on Twitter for having an affair, even if it is a fake report.

So I am not at all surprised that people are investing in building up tons of what appear to be legit, active accounts.