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901.
by 21 9y ago
> There is no traditional way to analyze this investment and figure out its real worth. Is that bitcoin's problem or a traditional economists problem? Behavioral economics does have frameworks for thinking about bitcoin price, but
902.
by 21 9y ago
The Iraq journalist kidnapings from a decade ago showed that all governments negotiate with, and pay terrorists.
903.
by 21 9y ago
On TV there were some instructions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfvju0sBXgc
904.
by 21 9y ago
How many people do you think will be able to secure their access? And what happens if their computer is hacked, the credentials stolen and the accounts emptied? It's not hard for me to imagine developers saying, "hey, we all know
905.
by 21 9y ago
You would need 3 leds on the display - AM/PM, noon, midnight
906.
by 21 9y ago
Right. And what should I do if I'm a digital clock with limited space?
907.
by 21 9y ago
It seems like there is a single exact fungus which is causing the trouble. Can someone explain why it is not possible to create some sort of targeted fungus killer, maybe using something like CRISPR?
908.
by 21 9y ago
The GPS signal in below thermal noise at ambient temperature [1]. Using your logic you would say that then it would be impossible to extract. However, with clever math you can extract a signal which is below the noise floor. Particle physic
909.
by 21 9y ago
So, we already have organic soap, probably also toothpaste, raw milk is a thing, as is bottled mountain air. What about raw clothes? Growing 3-4 sheeps, getting the fur, and making some clothes with medieval technology. But because we'
910.
by 21 9y ago
As Taleb would say, debate the best possible version of your opponents argument, not the one most convenient to attack: "Take for instance the great Karl Popper: he always started with an unerring representation of the opponents positi
911.
by 21 9y ago
Nate Silver himself admited that his early Trump "probabilities" were just gut numbers with nothing scientific behind them: "Unlike virtually every other forecast we publish at FiveThirtyEight — including the primary and cauc
912.
by 21 9y ago
Nate Silver is a terrible example. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/762032883414556674 The math: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06351 Explained for everybody: https://www.quora.com&#
913.
by 21 9y ago
How is Greenland different from the little islands owned by France/UK in the Caribbean Sea? US doesn't dream of touching them, sure, Denmark is not exactly UK/France, but still...
914.
by 21 9y ago
I'm not sure who would recognize Greenland if it unilaterally declared independence. EU probably not. It's not like there are human rights violations or anything going on in there, so they kind of lack a serious reason to split. T
915.
by 21 9y ago
Not selling the biggest island in the world for $2.4 bln in today monies was a mistake? That's like the price of two London skyscrapers. Denmark has a 305 bln GDP. That money would barely register. Sure, today Greenland is not very use
916.
by 21 9y ago
There are 100 MB of transactions which want to get in the next block: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=all But the block is only 1 MB. So 100 times more transactions want in than there is space, thu
917.
by 21 9y ago
They go to the miner of the block, which is incentivized to pick the highest paying transactions to put inside the limited block. So yeah, you bid with your fee against everyone else wanting a transaction in.
918.
by 21 9y ago
No mention of how much of the plant energy budget this uses. If this uses let's say 20%, what are the implications for the plant? Will it be less adapted to the environment and die more easily?
919.
by 21 9y ago
Because in US money speaks: Between 2006 and 2015, Purdue and other painkiller producers, along with their associated nonprofits, spent nearly nine hundred million dollars on lobbying and political contributions—eight times what the gun lob
920.
by 21 9y ago
This is very normal in the financial services industries. I've done it for stock brokers, forex brokers, even money transfer services. Bitstamp is one of the more legit exchanges.
921.
by 21 9y ago
I was never discussing what AAPL or Bitcoin is worth or not. Just the claim that "you can't put dollars into Bitcoin, because there is a seller on the other side which takes the dollars" somehow applies to Bitcoin in a specia
922.
by 21 9y ago
Those "assets inside" AAPL are still dollars. User payed dollars for AAPL share which ended up in a dollar account or a treasury bond. Stop being so obtuse. Otherwise I can also say the same thing, that you can literally put dolla
923.
by 21 9y ago
My reading of this is that anyone who "just want's to see the world burn" needs to pay $40k to Experian and then post this data on the web.
924.
by 21 9y ago
They say they split the audio in "80-dimensional audio spectrogram with frames computed every 12.5 milliseconds". The picture from the post supports that. For 24 hours that would be 7 mil frames of 80 values ~= 500 mil data points
925.
by 21 9y ago
Please explain how issuing/buying back shares destroys dollars.
926.
by 21 9y ago
> Fun aside, as being forced to house soldiers on your property is enumerated as forbidden If you want to take it literally, USA is not Trump's property.
927.
by 21 9y ago
Or an empty address.
928.
by 21 9y ago
You can say the same about many (most?) things. Every USD "put into" AAPL is simultaneously taken out by the person on the other side of the trade. Very few things truly destroy money, and I'm pretty sure all of them are done
929.
by 21 9y ago
Should twitter also ban the accounts of the president of Russia and the president of China, because of their support of policies which violate human rights? (LGBT, Tibet, democracy, the list is long, pick your favorite). What about the acco
930.
by 21 9y ago
Well, self defense is a generally accepted case of good violence.

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