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Yeah, that is probably pretty important. It looks like a lot of people aren't testing their changes, and any one could have a small syntax error.

I didn't know it was disabled, thanks.

No, I'm actually just manually counting votes and accepting/rejecting the PRs. I have become the bot until the limit resets :/

Incorrect, the point of a corporation is to give its directors protection, and to give the corporation itself legal liability.

The bot is in a state of emergency, it has reached Github's API rate limit and can't do anything.

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Laws change. I'm just trying to make a statement about this exact issue.

If an entity on the internet can't directly be controlled by anyone (kind of like Bitcoin), who is liable for its actions?

Maybe it would hold up if the bot was decentralized. For instance, it could be run on many servers around the world, administered by various people. Those servers could come to consensus in some way to define bot behavior, and could even send/receive money (e.g. Bitcoin multisig).

I don't think any court could take jurisdiction over an entity that lives in many countries. And even if one server got shut down, many more would still be active.

Feel free to create a PR that adds a judge system!

The bot is just running on a DigitalOcean VPS.

The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as autonomous entities are starting to become a real thing. This project probably won't become skynet though.

As time goes on, YC will continue to attract the best people in the valley (both founders and investors). It's a talent singularity.

It already is more likely to go off the higher your speed is. :P

One thing is is fundamentally different than your examples: the money is coming from advertisers, not the users.

The description clearly says "Your phone is able to detect strong radio signals, just like the ones directed at your car by police when measuring your speed.", and the reviews show people expect it to work by radar detection, not crowdsourcing. Many comments are police officers that tested it with their radar guns (and they of course realize it is fake).

An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random).

The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off! 5/5".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vox.radard...

It's funny to see it up in the top 20 of the Transportation category on Play, alongside companies that are heavily VC funded. https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/TRANSPORTATION/c...

I assume it's because there is a much higher submission volume on Fridays, so the new posts to hit the frontpage are backlogged in a queue.

Looks like some journalist at Wired recently watched Interstellar.

Actually, Bitcoin can handle micropayments extremely well by using micropayment channels.

https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments

In short, the payer sends a signed transaction to the payee every time they want to increment the payment, but the payer does not broadcast the transaction to the network until they want to finalize it. To prevent double-spending, the payer and payee first set up a 2-of-2 multisig, so all transactions must be signed by both parties.

This lets applications send many instant micropayments, and only one transaction fee is paid.

By transparency, I mean for example Reddit manipulating the ledger if it was on a central database. They could take away someone's shares, or give someone extra shares, and the community would have no way of knowing. If they issued someone more shares on the blockchain, everyone could see it happening and prove it. Anonymity isn't a factor here.

The point I was making on KYC is that with blockchain-based shares the government doesn't even have an idea of how to regulate it yet, and Reddit can probably sidestep the KYC entirely. Anyway it's not them managing the books, it's the Bitcoin network doing it for them.

In favor of Reddit managing the ledger centrally? That doesn't allow for the public transparency that they would like, and it would probably be much harder legally (they would be stuck doing a bunch of KYC/AML stuff, which doesn't really make sense for a company like Reddit to need to deal with).

They will probably be using colored coins (assets issued and exchanged on the Bitcoin blockchain), not their own blockchain/altcoin. Otherwise, they would have to worry about keeping enough miners to make their blockchain secure.

Colored coins also offer some cool features, such as trustless trading. It's possible to construct a transaction that sends Alice's Reddit shares to Bob, and also send's Bob's Bitcoins to Alice. Since they are in the same transaction, either both sides of the trade happens, or neither do.

The fact that you're giving it to users isn't what raises questions, it's that you're first issuing it to yourself so that you control who gets it.

The reason is strictly for fundraising. They have Naval Ravikant as an advisor and he is a proponent of using that model to fund a project. It's a viable model, but I don't think you can call yourself a nonprofit and use it.

Calling yourself not-for-profit doesn't make it true. I'm not so sure why they needed $3M for something that only needs to pay for a few developers, and why they need to be in control of the issuing of the currency (unlike Bitcoin).

Storj doesn't make any technical innovations, their plan is essentially "make some nice looking web apps and let other people worry about inventing the things we need". Storjcoin is a standard blockchain, but actually isn't even neccessary at all.

Filecoin actually addresses the technical challenges in building something like this, and maybe Storj will end up using it in their stack.

The game wasn't actually rigged. This twitter account just posted lots of potential outcomes and deleted the inaccurate ones after the game.

Double spends would be hard enough that it is not worth it for low-value transactions. The operator of Ghash would have a 30% chance of pulling it off, but that problem would be solved if hashpower/pool concentration gets solved.

Not necessarily. If the installer of the machine checks that it downloaded the "real" blockchain, it would be expensive to forge new blocks to send to it.

Right, and the full blockchain via radio plus SPV via the internet would allow full nodes to use this without trusting the centralized broadcaster.

That's a really smart hack, I didn't realize comments were included in the output of Function#toString. You could do other cool things, e.g. an annotation for type checking:

  function checkType(f) {
    return function(a) {
      var type = f.toString().match(/\/\/(.*)\n/)[1].trim();
      if(type !== typeof(a)) throw new Error('Invalid type');
      return f(a);
    }
  }
  
  var halve = checkType(function(n) {
    // number
    return n / 2;
  });
  
  halve(4); // returns 2
  halve('string'); // emits error

You'd have to be a genius to spell that correctly.