killerstorm 31 points32 points33 points ago
<form class="usertext" action="#" id="form-t1_celcujercc" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')">Well, the thing it, it works, in a way many bitcoiners have not anticipated.
Alt-coins are not scams, they are a part of 'free market'.
p2pool was supposed to be a solution for Bitcoin... If it fails, we have Litecoin which has more decentralized hashpower (anybody can mine on GPU). If it fails, Peercoin with its proof-of-stake might take the lead.
We also have NXT and Ripple...
It is survival of the fittest. It's not guaranteed that Bitcoin is the fittest, it is the first cryptocurrency of this kind, not necessarily the best.
we are actually going to have to change our societal structure because there really aren't going to be enough jobs.
Within 10 or 20 years quite a lot of the application/plugin configuration work now being done by programmers and even much of the custom software development will be done by interactive AI programs.
The reason I can say that confidently is that we have such a rich ecosystem of for example open source web applications and plugins that have already been developed. More than half of all software projects are minor improvements in areas where problems have been solved dozens or hundreds of times. With such an ecosystem of existing solutions and most problems already solved the level of language understanding or general intelligence required is low and either already accomplished or will be within our reach shortly. A
i understand. <3 </3
it has sincerity.
i like how you think about that. a lot of grungey normative code dicates and messy algorithms could get good help on hackernews etc to have some genuine programmatic thinking (and unit tests pllzz!) to shoulder its threads forming cognitive bias. .