BLanen

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by BLanen 9y ago
This isn't the first. Not by a long shot. I remember these 'transpararent ponzis' from years ago.
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by BLanen 9y ago
I remember this too.
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by BLanen 9y ago
20% is because of VAT, so you have to discount that from comparisons.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Overheard people in the train talking about that ponzi.
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by BLanen 9y ago
During a college course my group also did a comparison like this but specifically for handwriting and we simulated low-quality scanned images. Microsoft was by far the best at this. Google wasn't even close.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Don't short tethers. The margin rates might just eat your gains from it going to 0.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Because it's literally impossible for people to rationally 'invest' in a inflationary currency. Therefore there is no incentive to make one popular.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Audio compression doesn't work that way. It doesn't use keyframes.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Man... The author has no idea how any of this works. Other comments explain it well but damn.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Skeptical of IOTA. Build on promises that have no proof: Coordinator can be disabled, scaling. Also, it pretends to be open-source but you can't build it yourself because they won't release their real code out of fear of 'cop
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by BLanen 9y ago
People critical of increasing wealth disparity vouching for bitcoin is pretty ironic and just highly stupid.
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by BLanen 9y ago
The Friedman memo is a joke.
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by BLanen 9y ago
And their previous CEO just 'forgot' to update his twitter status for two years of not being the CEO. And the company officers are currently actually bitfinex people? Total coincidence.
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by BLanen 9y ago
What's the point of keeping it secret?
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by BLanen 9y ago
Why would you assume they'd act rationally?
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by BLanen 9y ago
The problem with researching this is that the patient can't be blind to what treatment they're getting.
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by BLanen 9y ago
I'm very pessimistic of these types of products. Mostly because there have been ideas to do this for around 40 years. In the end any non-trivial business logic is too cumbersome to make in a GUI and is build much faster in text form (
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by BLanen 9y ago
You really think that a wire transfer takes a week's household of energy(Because that's the current energy per btc transaction)...?
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by BLanen 9y ago
The fact that you believe it can change the world is the reason of the hatred.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Least important issue ever. Unicode has like a billion more spaces for characters.
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by BLanen 9y ago
That's not at all how it works... 3.5 Tx/s stays steady and the price increases the power it takes will only increase because miners will turn on more machines but due to increased difficulty will mine the same amount of bitcoins.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Every time bitcoin is proven to be bad at something, people start saying "actually, it's not even going to be used for x, it's going to be used for y". Lightning network is a joke that doesn't work.
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by BLanen 9y ago
https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
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by BLanen 9y ago
"Proven" by the "audit" I presume?
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by BLanen 9y ago
Again, nobody in the comments mentioning Tether or Bitfinex shows how little hackernews knows why the price is rising.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Preorders are a liability.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Making another new language with such a short un-search-enginable name is not a good idea imo.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Docker is not only used to solve dependency issues.
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by BLanen 9y ago
Patreon with less features but a browser extension?
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by BLanen 9y ago
Because you didn't actually read the article.

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