Minecraft was sold in 2014, so that is 5 years ago. The continued references to Notch as "The Creator" is more and more offensive to the TEAM behind Minecraft today. Notch was responsible for the early days of Minecraft, but we are approaching the break-even point between Notch's cumulative time and the Mojang team's cumulative time.
It's an appropriate point to begin to define Notch's contributions appropriately in context of the total time of Minecrafts existence.
There should always be a barrier of effort or cost to some "public" documents. Our laws surrounding what's public and what's not were built during times when there was a level of effort in place to get such records; you had to go to the court house or the clerks office to get that information. This was an in built privacy fence that was ASSUMED while our society was deciding what should be public and what should be not.
Cause it's not really fully PUBLIC, it's PUBLIC and put in some effort to get it.
If we build systems that lower the bar to retrieve information from certain repositories that before had a level of effort requirement to get information, we may accidentally cause huge problems.
do we want credit agencies to have unfettered access to all court records in the whole country? fuck no. what about facebook? i dont want that future. court records should always have a level of effort requirement. they arent just public documents.
Amazon, we don't want you to run a non profit, we don't want you to involve yourself in our schools. we want you to pay taxes so that we the people can decide what to do with the tax revenue.
The framing of this in the media and everywhere I read about it is very interesting to me. Everyone wants to talk about it like its a copyright issue when I don't believe it is.
Epic Games stole a PERFORMANCE, not a DANCE. what i mean by this is for many of the dance moves in Fortnite, you can clearly tell that the moves were motion captured from source material. All Epic had to do is hire a performer to dance the dance then motion cap that, and keep evidence that that is what they did. but they didn't do that. The Carlton and Poison are both PERFORMANCES FOR HIRE by the actors.
If anything, Epic owes licensing fees of some sort to the rights owners of fresh prince of bel-air and scrubs. and then i would presume those entities should find a way to get some money back to the performers as well, but that would deal with their contracts with the production company.
If we let Pluto be a planet, then our solar system will also have to start officially calling all the other minor planets, planets. i don't think that's reasonable or important. its simply not worth it. Pluto is a an object, we know its there, but it doesn't need to be on a list that includes the 8 major planets. i don't care how you categorize it, we simply cannot have a never ending list of planets to include in our definition of the solar system.
with a globally aware sigint full take system, NOTHING is anonymous.
so long as their is signals, there will be intelligence. the only way around it is to create a protocol that is so noisy that the signal is obfuscated. even that is counterable though of course.
The anti microsoft bullshit here at slashdot is very tired. what a lazy writeup this is about a real technology. poopooing machine learning as though its nothing when its most definitely not. lame journalism.
its plausible that bitcoin may be an asset class that accidentally becomes relevant through the early adopters efforts.
so if you hold bitcoins, you have an incentive to increase its value, so you manipulate the market to increase its value, but then adoption takes off. so adoption takes off, people buy some, lots of people buy some, when do you sell? how do you sell? if you sell over a long enough time and manage to not tank the market, if demand is steady and its sound money system, then naturally it will go up again. so the early adopters liquidated themselves out of a system that us subject to exponential networking effect growth...
interesting that what started as a scam may not be a scam at all.
I appreciate your thoughtful comment, and I agree with you. I think it's a very wise observation that you make about 1-2% of people have half the BTC market and that this reflects the global economic reality of where the wealth is also.
I think this is a great insight and very useful in thinking about the future of our global economy and whether bitcoin plays a role in it, and if it does, what that role might be. i am hopeful a sound digital money like bitcoin will help fix the rules from outside manipulations that are accessible with fiat currencies, but as you said, thats another discussion
this is a disingenuous post. It doesn't mention the analysis is about the 2013 mt gox event until the second paragraph yet somehow infers during the first paragraph that bitcoin is a highly manipulated market subject to the whims of 1 or 2 individuals.
i don't believe that's the case in 2017. the market is completely different in 2017 vs 2013 yet a naive reading of this post may infer conclusions are being drawn about 2017/18.
we should have an economy that is far more equal. i do not advocate for a perfectly equal economy, but the highest earner should be much closer to the lowest earner than they are today. wealth and income inequalty break the ability of the government to compete in the marketplace.
which is probably the point that's happening here, our government is being usurped completely by people who have found a way around it because they have the power and control
the problem becomes not just guessing the privkey but the resources it takes to attempt a transaction on the network. you can't verify the privkey without attempting a transaction, so an attack on the priv key of a bitcoin address is difficult for that reason.
yeah but now you need an office app with cloud services integrations to get anything done and libreoffice will never do that.
businesses and orgs dont want to run servers, they just want shit to work. Microsoft realizes that and is positioning their business to provide that service.
the post all-time-high "crash" isnt a "crash" because it's a profit taking exercise that gets the currency in the hands of new adopters.
The people who held the currency before the spike realize gains and cash them out. This causes a retraction as new adopters buy in, and then before long its time for a new series of gains, and then profit taking occurrs again.
this will happen multiple times as bitcoin has the potential to become a world wide relevant and daily traded store of value.
article has fact errors about location of dwarf planets.
Article states that all dwarf planets are beyond neptune but that's not true. Ceres is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. the rest of the dwarf planets are indeed in the kuiper belt beyond neptune.
that's not a quote, that's a derivation. i want a literal quote, a literal translation, of a russian official with the authority to do so literally saying "We are going to block exchanges"
this article seems rather dubious itself. it doesn't quote the russian authority figure in saying what the title says, just him saying that bitcoin is dubious and russian households should be protected from the risk. it doesnt contain a quote that says russia is going to block exchanges.
Bitcoin will go through many boom bust cycles on its way to being a globally relevant store of value. As early adopters realize they have assets that amount to "life changing money", they will sell a portion of their holdings to exchange it for other assets, houses, business investments, cars, education for their kids... whatever.
Each one of these will trigger a minor panic and send the currency tumbling, before it reaches a low point where it will grow again to the next point where early adopters say "Holy shit i have some money here im going to spend it"
this will happen several times over the next decade as bitcoin may be on its way to a global reserve currency and trusted store of value.
of course, bitcoin might NOT be, that's always a risk. Governments and central banks may interfere with it enough to kill it before it can get to that point, but if they don't, then this is a pattern that will happen many times
I think this is bullshit. This isn't "We're skipping 2 and going straight for 3", this is "2 sucks, and we need to work on it more, so we're going to keep working on it and what we were going to call v2 is now called v3 since it conveniently slots into v3 release cycle"
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choose your poison?
i dont think its about expunging.
Minecraft was sold in 2014, so that is 5 years ago. The continued references to Notch as "The Creator" is more and more offensive to the TEAM behind Minecraft today. Notch was responsible for the early days of Minecraft, but we are approaching the break-even point between Notch's cumulative time and the Mojang team's cumulative time.
It's an appropriate point to begin to define Notch's contributions appropriately in context of the total time of Minecrafts existence.
There should always be a barrier of effort or cost to some "public" documents. Our laws surrounding what's public and what's not were built during times when there was a level of effort in place to get such records; you had to go to the court house or the clerks office to get that information. This was an in built privacy fence that was ASSUMED while our society was deciding what should be public and what should be not.
Cause it's not really fully PUBLIC, it's PUBLIC and put in some effort to get it.
If we build systems that lower the bar to retrieve information from certain repositories that before had a level of effort requirement to get information, we may accidentally cause huge problems.
do we want credit agencies to have unfettered access to all court records in the whole country? fuck no. what about facebook? i dont want that future. court records should always have a level of effort requirement. they arent just public documents.
Amazon, we don't want you to run a non profit, we don't want you to involve yourself in our schools. we want you to pay taxes so that we the people can decide what to do with the tax revenue.
The framing of this in the media and everywhere I read about it is very interesting to me. Everyone wants to talk about it like its a copyright issue when I don't believe it is.
Epic Games stole a PERFORMANCE, not a DANCE. what i mean by this is for many of the dance moves in Fortnite, you can clearly tell that the moves were motion captured from source material. All Epic had to do is hire a performer to dance the dance then motion cap that, and keep evidence that that is what they did. but they didn't do that. The Carlton and Poison are both PERFORMANCES FOR HIRE by the actors.
If anything, Epic owes licensing fees of some sort to the rights owners of fresh prince of bel-air and scrubs. and then i would presume those entities should find a way to get some money back to the performers as well, but that would deal with their contracts with the production company.
So how many planets do you want?
If we let Pluto be a planet, then our solar system will also have to start officially calling all the other minor planets, planets. i don't think that's reasonable or important. its simply not worth it. Pluto is a an object, we know its there, but it doesn't need to be on a list that includes the 8 major planets. i don't care how you categorize it, we simply cannot have a never ending list of planets to include in our definition of the solar system.
-Jeff
with a globally aware sigint full take system, NOTHING is anonymous.
so long as their is signals, there will be intelligence. the only way around it is to create a protocol that is so noisy that the signal is obfuscated. even that is counterable though of course.
jesus christ, what is this, comment on things you know nothing about day?
The anti microsoft bullshit here at slashdot is very tired. what a lazy writeup this is about a real technology. poopooing machine learning as though its nothing when its most definitely not. lame journalism.
its plausible that bitcoin may be an asset class that accidentally becomes relevant through the early adopters efforts.
so if you hold bitcoins, you have an incentive to increase its value, so you manipulate the market to increase its value, but then adoption takes off. so adoption takes off, people buy some, lots of people buy some, when do you sell? how do you sell? if you sell over a long enough time and manage to not tank the market, if demand is steady and its sound money system, then naturally it will go up again. so the early adopters liquidated themselves out of a system that us subject to exponential networking effect growth...
interesting that what started as a scam may not be a scam at all.
I appreciate your thoughtful comment, and I agree with you. I think it's a very wise observation that you make about 1-2% of people have half the BTC market and that this reflects the global economic reality of where the wealth is also.
I think this is a great insight and very useful in thinking about the future of our global economy and whether bitcoin plays a role in it, and if it does, what that role might be. i am hopeful a sound digital money like bitcoin will help fix the rules from outside manipulations that are accessible with fiat currencies, but as you said, thats another discussion
what? the 24 hour volume of bitcoin is 12 billion dollars, where are you getting your figure?
this is a disingenuous post. It doesn't mention the analysis is about the 2013 mt gox event until the second paragraph yet somehow infers during the first paragraph that bitcoin is a highly manipulated market subject to the whims of 1 or 2 individuals.
i don't believe that's the case in 2017. the market is completely different in 2017 vs 2013 yet a naive reading of this post may infer conclusions are being drawn about 2017/18.
we should have an economy that is far more equal. i do not advocate for a perfectly equal economy, but the highest earner should be much closer to the lowest earner than they are today. wealth and income inequalty break the ability of the government to compete in the marketplace.
which is probably the point that's happening here, our government is being usurped completely by people who have found a way around it because they have the power and control
the problem becomes not just guessing the privkey but the resources it takes to attempt a transaction on the network. you can't verify the privkey without attempting a transaction, so an attack on the priv key of a bitcoin address is difficult for that reason.
yeah but now you need an office app with cloud services integrations to get anything done and libreoffice will never do that.
businesses and orgs dont want to run servers, they just want shit to work. Microsoft realizes that and is positioning their business to provide that service.
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the post all-time-high "crash" isnt a "crash" because it's a profit taking exercise that gets the currency in the hands of new adopters.
The people who held the currency before the spike realize gains and cash them out. This causes a retraction as new adopters buy in, and then before long its time for a new series of gains, and then profit taking occurrs again.
this will happen multiple times as bitcoin has the potential to become a world wide relevant and daily traded store of value.
article has fact errors about location of dwarf planets.
Article states that all dwarf planets are beyond neptune but that's not true. Ceres is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. the rest of the dwarf planets are indeed in the kuiper belt beyond neptune.
that's not a quote, that's a derivation. i want a literal quote, a literal translation, of a russian official with the authority to do so literally saying "We are going to block exchanges"
this article does not have that.
this article seems rather dubious itself. it doesn't quote the russian authority figure in saying what the title says, just him saying that bitcoin is dubious and russian households should be protected from the risk. it doesnt contain a quote that says russia is going to block exchanges.
if there's a natural disaster or power outage, i have bigger problems than being able to transact in bitcoin.
if our society suffers some sort of calamity that renders bitcoin unusable then my pile of USD will likely also be rendered obsolete.
It was only kind of a bubble.
Bitcoin will go through many boom bust cycles on its way to being a globally relevant store of value. As early adopters realize they have assets that amount to "life changing money", they will sell a portion of their holdings to exchange it for other assets, houses, business investments, cars, education for their kids... whatever.
Each one of these will trigger a minor panic and send the currency tumbling, before it reaches a low point where it will grow again to the next point where early adopters say "Holy shit i have some money here im going to spend it"
this will happen several times over the next decade as bitcoin may be on its way to a global reserve currency and trusted store of value.
of course, bitcoin might NOT be, that's always a risk. Governments and central banks may interfere with it enough to kill it before it can get to that point, but if they don't, then this is a pattern that will happen many times
lol, 12 hour stretch shifts? man really burning the midnight oil on this one clem.
I think this is bullshit. This isn't "We're skipping 2 and going straight for 3", this is "2 sucks, and we need to work on it more, so we're going to keep working on it and what we were going to call v2 is now called v3 since it conveniently slots into v3 release cycle"
horse shit lies, lol