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Atheros
9y ago
Same reason it took someone three years to create an altcoin. Doing so had no benefit.. until it did.
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Atheros
9y ago
There is a lot of space between 'real engineering' and 'flabbergastingly incompetent'. > It's pretty straightforward to compute the sum of all coins in your wallets, I would assume. You assume incorrectly. It
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Atheros
9y ago
Not only is it a fork of the software, it is a fork of the blockchain. Traditional alt-coins fork the software but start over with their own blockchain.
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Atheros
9y ago
Then pass the fee on to the customer.
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Atheros
9y ago
Have there been any recent developments with automated truck driving? Has anything actually happened ? We all agree that automated transportation will have an Enormous effect on society. It's been talked about a lot before. But stuff
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Atheros
9y ago
It's novel. Bitcoin hasn't had a persistent fork before. Exchanges are trading assets that represent coin futures. That's very new. Look at all the other stuff on the front page of HN right now: * Dell made a new monitor. Ya
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9y ago
Indeed. "I have put one million dollars in this safe. The combination is one of the factors of this very large number." Man factors number, opens safe, and takes one million dollars "Woah hold on there, I didn't think
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Atheros
9y ago
"he said she said" is a third party statement. For example, "Bobby was talking to Veronica and he said she said that she doesn't like you."
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Atheros
9y ago
You started out talking about harassment and abuse but then gave an example of only libel.
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9y ago
> In the US once you get off at the train station, well, you're at the train station, and now need a car to go anywhere you actually need to go. This lesson seems to have been lost for some reason but infrastructure is to be built f
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9y ago
If it cost $150K to replace a $50K/year truck driver then VCs would fund it. They'll then sell the solution to the publicly traded companies. > We are very good at creating bullshit jobs[1] to fill the gradual innovative automa
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Atheros
10y ago
[This]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter ) is a flying car.
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Atheros
10y ago
It has. It's just been like that for years.
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Atheros
10y ago
New York City will build a retaining wall and be done with it. These other predictions are written by naive people and paid for by naive people.
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Atheros
10y ago
The banks paid back the bailout money. These homeowners won't.
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10y ago
32 cm is more than enough to prevent an area from draining quickly after a storm. Sea level rise won't be what gets you directly , it'll be the fact that infrastructure, like storm drains, no longer function.
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Atheros
10y ago
He almost certainly understands that. But he is saying that he wants data that demonstrates that the economic hardship causes the depression rather than drug use causing the depression. Obviously these causes are all intertwined but I think
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Atheros
10y ago
> Where is the engineering rigor? Where is the quality assurance? Are all the edge cases handled? Security review / penetration testing? From dictionary.com and merriam-webster.com: Hack verb: - to write computer programs for enjo
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Atheros
10y ago
So let's make a list of all of the things that have a group of passionate enthusiasts who are certain it's the next big thing. I can only think of two things: * Bitcoin * Self driving vehicles
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Atheros
10y ago
That doesn't make sense.
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Atheros
10y ago
Of course it works that way. If almost all the stores close then the remaining ones can raise prices. If All the stores close, the quality of life goes down and rents go down until it equalizes with a few stores open.
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10y ago
If you retry the get does it succeed usually?
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Atheros
10y ago
We're assuming that the software in question is even aware of the potential impact. It might not have that information.
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Atheros
10y ago
This doesn't work. Users learn to ignore the message.
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Atheros
10y ago
Prices don't need to actually drop in dollar terms. They can drop slowly in real terms. That would be sufficient. No 2008-event necessary.
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10y ago
It wouldn't be unreasonable for equal treatment to be given if the service you provided was equal. It is not. That's why merchants dissuade its use.
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Atheros
10y ago
And what if the kids in question are neither?
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Atheros
10y ago
So I take it that neither you nor Elli Kaplan have home insurance?
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Atheros
10y ago
You need to read more about how Bitcoin works.
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Atheros
10y ago
They would be able to block your spends and could keep you from connecting to the network but that's it.
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