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jarradhope··on The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com
or you know, change your business model to suit your market.
jarradhope··on PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
DNA? You didn't mention price :)
jarradhope··on Show HN: Barter Hack – trade your technical skills for other people's
Not all skills are equal - they have no innovation in terms of quantifying time/skills? I feel like they'll end up re-inventing money and markets in order to do so.

For this reason I'm doubtful of this sites longterm future.

This is not a nice idea.

jarradhope··on A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function
If you're interested in this you should check out Chris Eliasmith's lab - they have a Neural Engineering Framework and NENGO, which in it's current implementation is like a Python to neural network compiler.

http://www.nengo.ca

jarradhope··on A New Form of ID Allows You to Be a Citizen of the World
They don't take their idea far enough.

You can remove representational democracy and voting from the core. Instead replacing it with independent policymaking and voluntary agreements of smart contracts, you implicitly 'vote' by your use of a contract. Common Law in a real sense becomes the most popular contracts for any given period.

One-size-fits all policies won't be a thing in the future and we will have very different cultures operating under very different laws occupying the same physical space.

It's not about utopia but it certainly makes things far more liquid, transparent and cryptographically secure (unbreakable promises). It opens governance right up for innovation so we can at least iterate faster in a voluntary manner.

jarradhope··on WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal
Well, isn't the bounty is crowdfunded? So it's the public asking for this, via WikiLeaks. The press value of this move puts the issue in the media spotlight which also good for the issue in public favour, WikiLeaks using it's name makes more sense from a media perspective as opposed to "some random assortment of people".

Really, the TPP should be public, shouldn't we be questioning the trust of the Governments?

jarradhope··on Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work?
goat simulator.
jarradhope··on Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders
Well the problem is that policy making is completely institutionalized and only serves the 1%, which is why software like Ethereum is going to be so important in the future. It will democratize policy making and put it in the hands of everyone. As well as means to articulate any other form of meetings of the minds.
jarradhope··on An Experiment That Changed How We Think About Reality
Just tried finding this book you recommended.

I think it's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Texture-Reality-Penguin-...

jarradhope··on Ethereum pre-sale hits 12.7M$, still 27 days to go
Ethereum isn't about distributed servers. It's not like a VPS. Like Bitcoin is to banks, Ethereum is like to any contract or transaction in the meeting of the minds.
jarradhope··on Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
any recommended resources?
jarradhope··on OpenCog – Open Source Artificial Intelligence Framework
Last time I looked at it the Atom space db was single threaded and a nightmare to change to be non blocking. We tried.
jarradhope··on Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
Relies too heavily on Prisoners Dilemma, should read Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
jarradhope··on Freelancer.com Pays $3.2M To Buy Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum
I've noticed that there is a big "can do" factor in Indian culture - until you find out there it's more like "never done it before but willing to try and you'll have to pay me for my time writing spaghetti-surprise code"
jarradhope··on Freelancer.com Pays $3.2M To Buy Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum
Hi Matt - I'm an employer from RAC and quite frankly I've hated freelancer ever since you acquired vworker.

I had so many "points" from my rac account usage I could buy time to skype call the freelancer CEO - so I did - and it was never fulfilled, even after me trying to contact support about it multiple times.

The gamification angle? please it just gets in the way (although the new site design it's less obnoxious)

The quality of freelancers is garbage and freelancer.com just doesn't have the same level of targeting rac/vworker had to weed out the useless people.

Sorry for such a negative post, I could say worse, but it's just been very painful experience for me ever since that acquisition. To the point where I barely post jobs anymore and find alternate ways to hire.

jarradhope··on 4chan demands 4chan.com domain name
> The supply of domain names is effectively infinite

If you don't mind going to places like, adjkdhad3fnnkjd.com for all your future services, at which point domains lose their intended use, you might as well just remember and type out the ip number.

jarradhope··on A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
Found paper: http://www.cnd.mcgill.ca/~ivan/age-reversing-compound.pdf
jarradhope··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
Senior Android Engineer?

I wonder if they'll copy AetherAR?