Donzo

I stumbled upon this company at ISTE.

They outsource essay grading, similar to what you are suggesting.

https://www.thegraidenetwork.com/

I sure miss the headphone jack...

Why are you interpreting my comment as somehow anti-btc? Everything isn't binary.

Real US Dollars have a very large arsenal with unimaginable destructive powers propping up their value.

The dollars may be fake but the man with the gun who is standing behind them is very real.

600 million is probably just the start of it. Think about all those loans that defaulted...

ImpactJS is a complete, well-written, modular game development engine. I've personally used it to make a half a dozen games or so. The Ejecta project (already open source) makes it easy to Port these games and apps to iOS and the App Store.

It's great to see that Dom opensourced this gem, and I can't wait to see how the community may improve this project.

As I mentioned to above poster. Here is a source from "The Science of Trust" by Dr. John M. Gottman, foremost expert on this subject.

"As we interview these abused women, Neil and I were astounded by one consistent story about half of these women told us. They said that the best sex they had ever had in their lives occurred right after a violent beating they took from their husbands. The very thought of having sex with someone who had just hit you was totally out of the realm of our experience. Is that the combined result of dopamine and oxytocin."

There is more but really I'm at a -4 for making this post, so trying to teach people uncomfortable truths is not well-rewarded around here.

Yes. It would. Here's one from "The Science of Trust" by Dr. John M. Gottman, foremost expert on this subject.

"As we interview these abused women, Neil and I were astounded by one consistent story about half of these women told us. They said that the best sex they had ever had in their lives occurred right after a violent beating they took from their husbands. The very thought of having sex with someone who had just hit you was totally out of the realm of our experience. Is that the combined result of dopamine and oxytocin."

I suggest reading the whole book. It's fantastic.

There is actually an insane correlation between abuse and sex.

Draw what inferences you will from this, but women in abusive relationships overwhelmingly report having fantastic sex lives.

Anyone who’s been in a long-term, safe relationship may have noticed that it takes work, on the part of both partners, to keep the candles burning.

Learning stuff like this seems to defy everything that one knows, but this is the construct.

“It gives them the illusion of choice, and many women build false expectations, feeling that they could settle with any of those Don Juans, which is false.”

Why flag? Why not respond.

I think women learn pretty quickly that these “Don Juan” types will not settle with them. They learn this when they attempt to settle with these “Don Juan” types, who readily cast aside any disillusionment about them settling.

Ha ha. Yeah. What a glaring error, yet you have arrived at an even more convincing figure!

> "Roughly around the end of the Napoleonic era, call it 1815, 9/10ths of humans lives in what we would call abject poverty. today it is reversed and only 1/10th does."

There are now 80% more people (according to these figures) who now have enough food that they can worry about bees. That's a good thing if you ask me. Now about those bees...

Did down-voters take issue with my position? Please explain.

I'd love to learn more about your position. I seek the truth.

That may be why you would do it, but many motivations exist in this world. To reduce all these projects to greed-tunnels is to reduce these many motivations and over-simplify the world.

You are approaching the ICO as though there were some Boolean value as to whether they are "good" or "bad," and have returned "bad" for you. In reality, to throw them all in the "bad" bin is lazy and the opposite of due diligence.

Let me give you some examples of other motivations beyond fast cash that might power an ICO:

1. Ideology

2. Community spirit

I will not attempt to encapsulate what these motivations mean to various actors, but I can tell you that it's not "just about money" for everyone.

However, I will fully concede that most ICOs are scams. Advertising networks are not being overly cautious by restricting adbuys on ICOs. And most people are not equipped to tell the difference between a scam project and a real one.

"Every tradeable ICO is really an unregulated security."

I disagree with this claim. It depends on whether the token constitutes an investment contract. If the token has utility, was sold as a utility bearing token (rather than an investment opportunity), and if the project possesses an open codebase which token holders can theoretically modify, then I don't believe said token is an unregulated security.

Yet, the vast majority of tokens do in fact function as unregulated securities, which is why these waters are muddled.

Well I sure do appreciate you going out of your way to explain your perspective to me.

Just a couple more responses:

1. The use of blockchain is not for buzzword compliance. Julian (CEO) is a longtime Ethereum supporter/developer. This project has really been in development since 2014 or so, long before blockchain was "buzzy." So the use of blockchain here is not for grabbing cash. They actually think it's a better (perhaps harder) way forward.

2. Not only does the token allow investors to directly invest in the project, it also allows developers to "print" tokens that can be locked behind smart contracts. That way developers can be rewarded for reaching project goals with bowls of their own dog food. Not bad to eat when it's pretty much "real" money.

3. The decentralized and distributed nature of the project will allow the Golem Network to achieve goals and execute code that no centralized competitor could achieve/run. I'll leave it as a thought exercise for you to speculate what those goals/codes might look like.

Thanks for the engagement. It's great to test my beliefs through debate. Time will be the true arbitrator here though. Best wishes.

>In short, I predict they will fail.

I guess that's why we're sitting in different camps.

One advantage that the Golem team has over a centralized, proprietary solution is the open nature of the project:

https://github.com/golemfactory/golem

The Golem team doesn't necessarily need to solve every problem. Being built on top of the Ethereum Network is advantageous. If they make an appealing, open platform with potential, maybe other developers will pick up the ball and run with it to power their own ends.

In short, I predict that they will succeed.

I suppose the approach by the Golem team is substantially different because the ideology associated with it.

What you see as “trying to force what should probably just be a centralized service,” I see as “innovating a new approach to powering decentralized architecture.”

I’m not saying you’re wrong. It would be easier to solve the problem using existing tool sets and more mature protocols. Yet, I’m pretty sure that the Golem team is doing something right. So there’s that. Maybe this isn’t a zerosum thing.

Give them some time. They are solving many large, complex problems. It looks like they're pretty close to having something that works too.

Twitter is great for following popular figures and companies. Users can receive news briefs directly from these sources. Often I will read internet journalism about tweets I read a day after I read them on Twitter.

Being on Twitter is like being at an on-call press conference with all of your subjects of interest 24 hours a day. It's actually pretty bad ass. It's not all heavy with prose. It's heavy with meaning.

Unlike my Facebook network, which is almost entirely composed of friends and family, my Twitter network is composed of prominent figures, projects, and companies in which I am intensely interested

For example, I am an American and I have a passing interest in politics. I follow the President of our Great Union, who is an avid tweeter. I prefer to interpret the news as it happens, through my own unique filter and perspective. Later, I read how others interpreted it. It can be a fun contrast and I prefer to be ahead of the punch, so to speak.

Sure, so they need to improve the algorithms in this way so they produce the desired results. In other words, algorithmically driven manual actions.

The desire to remain consistent with one's previously established positions is one of the great psychological motivators:

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busin...

People will often act against their own best interests to do so.

+1

Definitely in my top ten list. The text is life-changing.

Well, you could take some kind of unique voter ID number and run it through a one-way hash. Then you could check your vote, verify that it was accurately recorded, and view how each vote was tallied. The current system is terrible and better solutions exist.

I'm with you for the long hodl.

Nano takes like 4 seconds to confirm and has zero fees for transfer. It's really a no-brainer, but unfortunately this Bitgrail thing is going to muddy the waters for a long time.

I’ve been using ImpactJS since around 2012 or so to make HTML5 / JS browser games.

I really like it, but development on the project has been stagnant, and I’m considering a move.

Can anyone whose used both speak to what Phaser does better/worse than ImpactJS?

One of the best things about working for myself is that I write all my web stuff in vanilla JS.

While I occasionally make errors, they are easy to identify, understand, and debug because the native features of JS are well-understood by modern browsers.

Sometime in the last decade, modern web development moved on without me. I can no longer recognize what people are doing with all of these package managers and why they are doing it.

I guess from a corporate stand point, it makes sense. You'd want your developers to be like widgets or sprockets, easily replaceable. Hot swappable. Otherwise these guys might build Daedalus-like spaghetti-code mazes and no one will ever be able to replace them.

As a one-man operation, I'll stick with vanilla. It's easy to understand and it works forever.

It's ok. I appreciate your position and your reply, as well as your desire to defend good things.

I think it's important to note here that WordPress is a project, not a business or a company. I don't think Google is trying to break a community supported product that powers 24% of the web. Sure, build better doors and windows to their products. I don't see that as a bad thing. I happen to like Google, as do a large number of Internet publishers. Many of us will appreciate these efforts.

They are not acquiring the company that maintains the open source CMS known as WordPress, which is also estimated to power 24% of websites on the Internet.

They are developing free, probably open source, plugins and themes for WordPress. Also they stated that they will help develop the supported AMP plugin.

That's great. Google will make it much better. It needs help right now.

I just don't understand why people are snubbing and thumbing their noses at Google for contributing their world-class resources to making free, open source software better.

Sure, their interests align with getting a foothold in this ecosystem, but I don't think their play is to poison WordPress.

Not that your wrong for being suspicious of their motives in general. They have broken some pretty cool stuff.