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Mark Waser
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nextcolony
game
2019-07-24 08:27
mark-waser reblogged
Transporter III Blueprints sent + new Giveaway
The giveaway is finished and all blueprints have been sent. All 116 settlers of the last giveaway, which had commented and resteemed, have just received their blueprints. You'll find your Transporter III
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-15 23:46
Divi Beta Notes: Day One
So . . . . the race for riches is ON! Or, at least, for some modest divi prizes. Our first contestant alphabetically was also the first to set up their wallet and request funds, so they have
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-14 22:48
Divi Beta Notes: The Beta Begins!
We had a great response to our call for beta participants. This was a difficult decision to make but 30 beta testers were selected and emails have been sent! Please note that the link to our private
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-12 21:46
Divi Beta Notes: Setting Up a New Masternode
A lot of Divi’s new features are enhancements to the masternodes. Instead of this making setup even more complicated, we’ve totally overhauled the process so that the previously difficult process
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-11 22:55
Divi Beta Notes: Forks & Sporks & Splits, Oh My!
As blockchains and cryptocurrencies thrive and die by market share and network effects, a blockchain split is the worst thing that can happen (short of a hostile takeover). The progress
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-10 22:06
Divi Beta Notes: Scalability II
My last post explained how the number of miners in proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies and the size of the consensus pool in proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies limit the scalability of
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-09 22:05
Divi Beta Notes: Scalability I
One of the most critical features of a cryptocurrency is how well it scales -- how many transactions it can handle, at what speed, and still maintain 100% integrity. Most of the reason
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-05-09 13:06
Divi Beta Notes: 5-tier Masternodes
Divi has entered the home stretch with our limited beta next week. Since I finally have some breathing room, I thought that I'd share some of what we've been doing and where we're going. One of Divi’s
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mark-waser
taxes
2018-04-08 15:13
Steem-related Tax Reporting for Dummies
Note: The exact details of how specific items must be reported is likely correct only for US taxes. The details on how to obtain the necessary data for reporting purposes and the 10,000-foot
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zero-state
life
2018-02-26 15:57
mark-waser reblogged
On Democracy: Value and Limits
The following post is related to Social Futurism (SF) and the Zero State (ZS), but only reflects the views of the author (Ámon Ásentír, AKA Dr. M. Amon Twyman). Within the SF/ZS sphere
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mark-waser
cryptocurrency
2018-02-01 17:08
WARNING!!! Credit Card Purchases of Cryptocurrencies Now Subject to Additional "Cash Advance" Fees
I (and probably many of you) just received a notice from Coinbase (copied in full below). It warned that the Merchant Category Code (MCC) for digital currency purchases was changed by a number of
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gstolyarovii
transhumanism
2018-01-21 19:54
mark-waser reblogged
Concrete Transhumanism - An Overview of Emerging Instantiations and the Transhuman Present Project
By Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party Transhumanism is a philosophy of lofty aspirations and universally applicable substance. Yet, when articulated at its usual level of
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zero-state
contest
2017-12-30 14:30
mark-waser reblogged
Catch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 & Win $5,000.00 USD
Catch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 and Win $5,000.00 USD (Las Vegas, NV, USA – Jan 2018) The Foundation has announced that there will be two agents on the floor of CES 2018 (The Consumer
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sotiera
gamification
2017-12-30 04:13
mark-waser reblogged
The Foundation, The Hunt, and The Cash - Can a well financed Role Playing approach improve involvement in important causes?
Recently there was a post to Transhumanity.net by a group that refers to itself as 'the foundation'. The post, (linked here: ) suggests a game to be played at a conference taking place from the 9th to
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metric.media
gaming
2017-12-20 21:16
mark-waser reblogged
Burning Houses & Gaming the Future
Back in the distant, hazy days of 1998, Futurist Douglas Rushkoff published a book called “Playing the Future” (published in the UK as “Children of Chaos”). The book’s central thesis was that people born
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metric.media
ai
2017-12-15 16:48
mark-waser reblogged
Killer AI, Black Mirrors, & Murphy’s Law
Debate over the risk and promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies can be depressingly simplistic, often polarised into two camps with views that are extreme to the
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culture
2017-12-13 19:21
mark-waser reblogged
Autognosis: Cities 1
’Cities are the Crucible of civilization’. So said Geoffrey West, a professor studying the General Scaling Phenomenon of the natural habitat of the modern human – cities. Geoffrey has spent
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mark-waser
ai
2017-12-12 21:35
MIT’s Deep Empathy: Emotional Manipulation for Social Good Sets a Bad Precedent
In the right hands, can AI be used as a tool to engender empathy? Can algorithms learn what makes us feel more empathic toward people who are different from us? And if so, can they help convince
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technoprogressiv
transhumanism
2017-12-04 13:55
mark-waser reblogged
Transhumanism’s Partisan Fault-Line(s)
The What Is Transhumanism website opens by stating that "Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent
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mark-waser
news
2017-11-29 17:12
50PH14: Slaughterbots & Fear-mongering vs. Useful Action
article contest So . . . . the Elon Musk anti-AI hype cycle has started up again. Elon Musk, Warren G, and Nate Dogg: It's Time to 'Regulate' A.I. Like Drugs Worse, we have the Stuart Russell's movie,
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