sonoffett
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Comment · 2 years ago
Royal with cheese
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve done it (years ago). 4 managers fired in 8 months. I had to leave so I could do actual work. Seeing these Twitter reports is giving me flashbacks.
Comment · 5 years ago
I can't seem to edit my comment, but I'm mistaken. Algorand uses Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) and not VDFs at all.
Comment · 5 years ago
As an aside, the algorand layer-1 chain uses VDFs to select a validating set per block, weighting member selection by how much crypto each account owns. They call it Pure Proof of Stake. It definitely reduces the energy consumption and increases network throughput, of course with trade offs. See:
https://www.algorand.com/technology/research-innovation/rese...
Comment · 5 years ago
Sure. But last I checked nobody had more than one.
Comment · 5 years ago
What do you mean by "people with multiple Turing awards"?
Comment · 7 years ago
Not exactly what you described, but overviews DoD role in development of internet technologies and SV:
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...
Comment · 7 years ago
Best coffee in santa cruz IMO, also have an incredibly popular podcast https://catandcloud.com/pages/podcast . Their sister bakery "companion" has best croissants I've had outside of europe.
Comment · 8 years ago
As related material that folks here might appreciate: Andrew Yang’s (founder of Venture for America) recent book “The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future” lays out a compelling argument for UBI, given the rise of automation and AI, as well as current economic and cultural shifts.
Yang is also running for president 2020 on a UBI platform, dubbed the freedom dividend.
Comment · 8 years ago
You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning?
Comment · 8 years ago
Or asteroid mining