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what does "startup nation" even mean?

Why is the solution to everything "pass a law"? there is an ocean of possible solutions to this problem yet people somehow always jump to "pass more laws" before other options are considered. I find that rather weird.

you are vastly underestimating the ease of implementation

>We trained users to tell other users what they’re doing wrong, but we didn’t provide new folks with the necessary guidance to do it right.

What makes you believe that YOU know how it should be done? I am not saying that people shouldn't be nice but over and over and over we see these tech companies embark on social justice missions to set guidelines that end up backfiring because they underestimate the complexity of the range of possible human behavior.

At best, rules generally dont get enforced equally and at worst they become a disaster that affects the inner workings of what made the site worth visiting in the first place.

And this right here tells me what to expect will happen in the future

> the nice thing about problems that relate to how people feel is that finding the truth is easy. Feelings have no “technically correct.”

I love stack overflow and would hate to see it devolve into something that deviates from what it truly is about: code.

You might like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

I think about time in a similar manner. The delta between point A and point B is the mutation state and point A is the initial state that was mutated into B.

Awesome! thanks for the reading material :D

1) The problem supply can be tackled in many many ways.

2) The verification problem is exactly why I stated NP as a problem class where the verification process is often relatively simple and straight forward. Obviously if that isn't the case then perhaps the problem isn't that well suited for this kind of environment.

3) The bandwidth issue is not something that I had considered. Makes absolute sense when you put it that way.

This answers my question. Thanks :D

Not so serious answer: Hurray for that? :D

Serious answer: Things would obviously have to be designed differently. This isn't about distribution of "economic power to the hands of the people" or some other Satoshi notion. The thought I have is more along the lines of Folding@Home

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Thanks for the link. I'll look into it!

> you can easily adjust the difficulty.

For Prime Factorization for instance, which like you say, isn't even NP-complete. You can easily adjust the difficulty by increasing the size of the number in question.

That's not my understanding of the NP domain. Take Prime Factorization for example. Which isn't even NP-complete, or Sudoku which is NP-complete. Both of these problems can be made really hard by changing 1 small variable, size.

Edit: I understand that your argument is about the average case and not the worst case.

> Would the solving of the problem have a "difficulty" that could be adjusted to ensure that blocks appeared approximately every ten minutes

I am fairly certain you can design your problem to behave in a similar manner or in some manner that increases the complexity based on some criteria

> Is checking that the solution is valid a very fast operation?

That's the NP part in my question. Plenty of scientific problems out there that are fast to verify hard to compute. Ex. Prime Factorization

> Are we sure that there is no "final" answer which would make the calculation unusable at some point?

I would argue, and I might be wrong due to my ignorance on the subject here, that we can never "know" that. That's why P=NP is still an open question

What you just said is the "definition" of NP problems which is why I had it in my question to begin with. Even if genome sequencing is not a good problem for mining. There are plenty of other scientific problems that are. Yet mining today is not tackling any of them :/

Serious question: if the processing problems are classified as NP, then couldn't that processing be outsourced to a blockchain? Why have miners solve for useless problems that have no long lasting impact like "number of zeros in a SHA string" instead of processing data such as this? I can easily see it being the case that the mining problem in a given blockchain could be based on real scientific problems that needs solving.

I'm looking for someone to help me understand why the above isn't possible.

Quitting a top tier tech job isn't the difficult part. The difficult part is figuring out what to do next.

I quit my job as a Head of R&D for a major tech/publishing company and started https://tradedash.io (crypto desktop trading platform) with an old friend of mine who also quit his job as one of the first employees in a major fintech unicorn. For both of us, it was hands down the best decision we've ever made career wise.

For years we were depressed, working jobs that we didnt value only for nothing other than the money and stability. Even though I make a whole lot less today, I haven't had a single night where I don't sleep like a baby. Quitting our jobs was the easy part once we figured out what it is that we wanted to do.

For anyone looking to quit their job: figure out what to do next. Once you know what you want to do, everything else will become much easier.

The question we have to ask is: what classifies as a tech hub/center?

We have been using Electron for https://tradedash.io (our crypto currency trading platform) for some time now. There are some minor issues with the platform itself but there are a lot of good things too.

The JS ecosystem as a whole needs to improve but as far as Electron goes, I must say that I am pleasantly surprised with how well it has been doing even though we are handling data from multiple exchanges at a rate that is not so trivial.