The dark side of digital finance: On financial machines, financial robots & financial AI
> If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy. Otherwise we could be left with increasingly alienating, exclusive and unaccountable financial surveillance states, presiding over increasingly passive and patronised users.
Your 1M transactions/second blockchain solution is useless, if it relies on trust. The point is zero-trust consensus. http://
Best journalism taxes can buy: "whoever sits on their data or hides behind privacy laws is complicit [in terror]". https://
Also, you have no right to people telling you to f*** off in a polite way, when you send them that as a first response.
"our trademark lawyers are going to be banging on your door and taking down your accounts" is hardly "trying to be reasonable" to OSS devs.
In comments on Brussels, Erdogan just blamed Kurds for the Ankara attacks, but Turkey had blamed ISIS until then. Read carefully these days!
Every time you make fun of potential AfD voters, you assure them that it's the right choice. Similar to the church accepting all sinners.
I wonder how many journalists the Turkish gov has to jail, how many civilians they have to murder, until it's called the "Erdogan regime".
Why "smart city" shouldn't just mean making existing city systems and structures more digital: http://
WANT: leak site for hidden updates from crowdfunding campaigns where people run away with the money.
So apparently the creator of upcoming.org collected $105K to re-launch it a year ago and last update is from July 2015. https://
... which kinda restores the balance for perfect steaks in restaurants costing $8 and half-hour Uber rides costing less than $3.
TIL: A 256GB MacBook Air (2012) flash drive is $923 in Medellín. Flying to the US and back to buy one is cheaper than purchasing it here.
.@lanyrd is still in read-only mode, so basically dead. What to use next? Maybe sth more like #indieweb until blockchain (d)apps are viable?
Can anyone point me to resources about how @ethereumproject stores data on its blockchain and how that's supposed to scale? #ethereum
If you own a new-ish car, you might want to get this book: http://