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781.
by 21 9y ago
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the header image is incorrect? In that the distances between vertices are not all equal. See for example the blue node just beneath the outermost red node on the left side.
782.
by 21 9y ago
I can tell you one thing going on: legendary stop hunts. But I don't think it's the exchanges who are behind them, but other big players.
783.
by 21 9y ago
I'm pretty sure a bunch of big finance players were involved, but at least some of them I bet were not in the way you implied. If I were a big fund or HFT shop I for sure want as much insurance as possible that my bitcoin trading funds
784.
by 21 9y ago
You could also have an evil twin brother that you don't know of that might have committed the crime, thus let's throw out photographic evidence. Somebody might also put on a fake license plate number matching your own on an car wi
785.
by 21 9y ago
Or maybe just in an unpassworded MongoDB instance somewhere in Amazon, because agile.
786.
by 21 9y ago
You are somewhat right, I've seen it when reading about ELF (English as Lingua Franca). But respected native English linguists were arguing that "English does not belong to native speakers"
787.
by 21 9y ago
Was the 'meme' word ever used before? The first time I remember seeing it ten years ago was exactly to describe the modern internet phenomenon.
788.
by 21 9y ago
And by "SSD" you mean the storage on the phone.
789.
by 21 9y ago
This reminds me of those insisting that drones are not drones, but quad-copters (what about those with 6 propellers?) Language is defined by it's usage. Taken to extreme, I've seen serious linguists argue that if a lot of differen
790.
by 21 9y ago
So some days ago there was this article how todays teenagers are bored to death on their phone, and constantly swap between social media apps looking for some engagement. There was a video to. The most amazing thing to me was that none of t
791.
by 21 9y ago
The article asks about detecting an industrial level civilization. But what about a former civilization which only rose to the level of the Roman Empire lets say? Could we detect that?
792.
by 21 9y ago
Bayesian statistics, there are different priors. The probability of a convicted person to do something criminal again is not the same as the risk of an random unconvicted person, just like the risk of a flood reoccurring in a previously flo
793.
by 21 9y ago
What's good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. Him getting a job is good for society, but I don't want to be the one shouldering the risk. For the individual it's a high risk / low reward situati
794.
by 21 9y ago
Criminals always follow the path of least resistance. Like how they steal bicycles because they know police don't have resources to bother with that. Or how the steal phones from your hand in London for the same reason. Now imagine if
795.
by 21 9y ago
There was a plan B even if he didn't turn around, but yeah, he made it easier.
796.
by 21 9y ago
NSA has very strict power filtering rules for their Red/Black systems. Their building is covered in a copper Faraday cage. They also have a double outer shell, with space between the two walls, where speakers play white noise. All this
797.
by 21 9y ago
That's not how it works. Most of that liquidity it's anchored at a specific distance away from the price. When the price moves up/down, that liquidity will move with it. Thus you need much less to move the market, because the
798.
by 21 9y ago
> In such a market the price of any coin may not even be set by a plurality of participants. Since you can take/give physical delivery of the coin that is not entirely true. Meaning that if you force the price to an unsustainable le
799.
by 21 9y ago
It's not the exchanges who are behind those spikes. Source: someone who is working on a bot doing that kind of things And because of the way the market works, there is no need to coordinate with anyone else doing it (ie: those spikes a
800.
by 21 9y ago
But it will tarnish your ability to do virtue signaling, which is the basis of many peoples identity today.
801.
by 21 9y ago
There are 2 other major ones in 2011 and start of 2013, so sample size 4.
802.
by 21 9y ago
One important thing to know that many are not aware, is that banks don't trade on their public research. Because it's useless. Nobody made any money trading banks research ever. If you have a real investment idea, you don't b
803.
by 21 9y ago
If the Internet is a series of tubes, well, Bitcoin is a series of bubbles.
804.
by 21 9y ago
Given how few natural things glow under UV light I would venture to say that those chemicals are not particularly common or more useful than others in general.
805.
by 21 9y ago
And money. This is what happens when a lot of money is thrown at a problem.
806.
by 21 9y ago
Funny, Nassim Taleb, a worldwide (if controversial) risk probability expert, would say that you are the one which is being very bad at reasoning with probabilities, because you are putting Ebola and terrorism in the same class of risk as fa
807.
by 21 9y ago
> But our President is ignoring the issue. And therefore, neither you nor I can do anything about it. Actually we could do something about it. People don't want to buy from companies which use child labour or which destroy the envir
808.
by 21 9y ago
The fact that you or I don't value an asset doesn't mean that that's asset value must therefore be zero. I wouldn't pay 5 million dollars for Michal Jackson's glove, but some people did. That in itself makes it more
809.
by 21 9y ago
> Neither you nor I determine the course of the national discourse. Only Mr. Trump has the power of the bully pulpit I'm not sure what's you point here. This is what the US president does (unlike other countries) - has a lot of
810.
by 21 9y ago
Requiring Amazon to pay some taxes in US is a bad thing? We all know how the big tech companies pay basically zero tax by elaborate international tax reduction schemes.

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