Adlai

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by Adlai 12y ago
The amount of bitcoins being spent is a function primarily of the amount of bitcoins earmarked for spending by the userbase, rather than the number of deals closed by a payment processor's sales team.
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by Adlai 12y ago
Could they be stored at a low temperature until there's an actual need to use the copter?
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by Adlai 12y ago
As much as I like this idea, there's an equally strong incentive, for those who can afford to do so, to engage in "tax optimization".
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by Adlai 12y ago
"A great deal of the books' power comes from the development of Assistant Pig-Keeper Taran from callow youth to reluctant hero to lost soul to, in the end of the series, wise leader of men. But at the time Disney opposed sequels,
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Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis [pdf](federalreserve.gov)
9 points by Adlai 12y ago|0 comments
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by Adlai 12y ago
Definitely an interesting channel. Most any topic is fair game for discussion, and the channel pretty much never sleeps. Bear in mind that freedom of speech swings both ways: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll def
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by Adlai 12y ago
Ripple is to Stellar as Bitcoin is to...? My nomination: Dogecoin.
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by Adlai 12y ago
We have one of these in Tel Aviv: https://tel-o-fun.co.il/en/ It frequently suffers from what I'll call "clipping", after the audio processing phenomenon: a situation wherein a given bike station is eith
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by Adlai 12y ago
Why is set intersection intuitively multiplication? My expectation is that a set multiplication would give me a new set consisting of all pairs consisting of a single element from each set.
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by Adlai 12y ago
What's a quirky open source project, if not the communal work of collected lunatics?
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by Adlai 12y ago
This happens when the vendor has a certain degree of control over their market; however, if the market is large enough, an overly-restricted platform becomes a liability, and customers move to better solutions.
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by Adlai 12y ago
Why has nobody mentioned Obelisk? https://github.com/libbitcoin/obelisk
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by Adlai 13y ago
Andreas is the CSO of Blockchain.info, a site which takes client security seriously enough that they never touch their client's private keys, rather than "handing out IOUs to their users"; maybe we'll see a rise in adopt
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by Adlai 13y ago
Is there some robot I'm not aware of?
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Ask HN: What would you have done, in Satoshi's shoes?
11 points by Adlai 13y ago|1 comments
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by Adlai 13y ago
There's a strong enough suspicion that many people believe he has controls a large amount of funds.
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by Adlai 13y ago
Most of his fortune is directly traceable from early mining activity: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
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Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math(on.wsj.com)
2 points by Adlai 14y ago|1 comments
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by Adlai 14y ago
http://gokcehan.github.io/verification/2013/03/17/memory-lea... That sounds like a recipe for trouble... what if it runs for more than a few milliseconds?
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by Adlai 14y ago
Also, did you try checking the Events history in Dropbox? Sometimes old files are in there.
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by Adlai 14y ago
If you have some technical savvy, try http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ for ext3/4 filesystems, http://ntfsundelete.com/ for NTFS. If you're using something other than than one of those two filesystems, you should probably know how to
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by Adlai 14y ago
He doesn't touch on the arguments that technological progress is a bad thing, in and of itself. Two extreme examples of that would be that agriculture has led to a massive rise in population density (compared to hunter-gatherer societies),
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by Adlai 14y ago
Your attitude is what drives the organizational experience. MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks". They're not giving away freebies to win people over; they're building an environment where you can focus all your time and ener
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by Adlai 14y ago
Surprisingly good quality, considering his method. You get the best sense of his method when it goes a bit wrong, in photo 27: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_c... My favorite picture is #15, the cathedral: htt
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by Adlai 17y ago
SnapTwitter is a service to dynamically filter and respond to Tweets. You can use a user-friendly interface to define conditions under which a Tweet is Snapped up. These Tweets are organized according to the conditions under which they we
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by Adlai 17y ago
Congratulations on the Ironman. I don't think that article is really about Ironman-type goals, though. By the time you are preparing for the Ironman, I'd imagine that you would be quite dedicated to your training. As I understood it, that a
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by Adlai 17y ago
I don't doubt the video itself (the footage, not the CNN commentary). However, it's quite a hazy circle (wider at one end, almost nonexistent at the other), and it seems to me as though Denna Smith was re-imagining it as something more "per
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by Adlai 17y ago
I think he means reconstructing a conversation by looking at quoted text (all the "On XYZ day, Joe Shmoe said:" stuff). If one person had been getting all the reply-alls of a conversation, he could create a discussion on your site, and forw
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by Adlai 17y ago
I meant to say, in the last paragraph, that I'm also not sure about AD(H)D being a real medical condition. Doesn't really change the sentiment of my post, though.
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by Adlai 17y ago
I think the idea is to track discussions through email as threads, rather than just a long list of messages. That said, you bring up a valid point about reinventing the wheel -- GMail does this already with conversations. So this app would

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