Hermel

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by Hermel 12y ago
They also forgot Vancouver, Vienna, Geneva, and Zurich, all of which regularily make it into the top 10 in such rankings. They probably argue that Munich is a proxy for Vienna and Zurich...
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by Hermel 12y ago
Drinking sweetened drinks is exactly what makes the difference for me between losing and gaining weight.
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Do you think like a robot?(docs.google.com)
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by Hermel 12y ago
This is not about Bitcoin the currency, it is about Bitcoin the payment system. The currencies used would be the traditional ones (e.g. USD coins), but the payment system would be Bitcoin. Thus, your argument does not apply.
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by Hermel 12y ago
That does not contradict shlorn's hypothesis. One hacker gains access to Satoshi's accounts through @gmx recycling. Then he sells those accounts separately.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Sooner or later, a trusted financial institution will start to issue USD and EUR as colored coins on the Bitcoin network (or another cryptocurrency). From that point on, the volatility risk will be gone, but the benefits of a freely transfe
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by Hermel 12y ago
They report correlation, not causation. What you ask for, is that they should put much more effort into researching cause and effect or not publish the data at all. But I for one prefer having data in this form than none at all. Anyone who
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by Hermel 12y ago
Maybe time travel needs some kind of tracks, like a railroad. That would also explain why we don't see any time travelers - they can't visit us as there are no tracks that lead back to 2014.
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by Hermel 12y ago
All self-driving technology I am aware of is based on visual input (cameras, lasers, etc.). I'm not sure self-driving cars can get as good as human drivers without any audio input. Noises are an extremely important source of informatio
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by Hermel 12y ago
Map 13 somehow misses Germany as the top exporter after China with roughly 1 trillion € in exports. Maybe they are netting intra-EU trade?
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by Hermel 12y ago
Yes it does, at least with additive mixing.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Maybe a merchant who mostly sells through Amazon anyway and who also has one or two physical stores?
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by Hermel 12y ago
What happened is that I wanted to register a domain using www.mediaon.com, but that failed because someone else registered the same domain in the meantime using another company. When I asked for my money back because they failed to register
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by Hermel 12y ago
There is a lot of Cargo Cult programming going on among Java developers. Why using a simple constructor when you can use the factory design pattern? Or why directly instantiating a logger using the "new" statement and the right a
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by Hermel 12y ago
> any charges can be reversed Good luck with that. It's very hard to get your money back when the merchant knows how to answer Paypal's questions. I failed at doing so when a merchant sold me something he could not deliver and
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by Hermel 12y ago
For Bitcoin to succeed as a means of payment, chains of payments need to arise. I.e. merchants not only accepting Bitcoins, but also keeping them and spending them on suppliers and paying their employees (partially) in Bitcoin. As you say,
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by Hermel 12y ago
It's legal, not technical restrictions.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Do you happen to know the reason? Are more ads being served in countries with lower prices? Or is it due to competition?
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by Hermel 12y ago
Fundamental research. For example, Karl Alex Müller discovered super-conductivity while working at IBM's Swiss research lab and later won the Nobel prize for that ( http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/nobelprize_e
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by Hermel 12y ago
This is a myth often used to justify unpopular decisions. The board has a responsibility to guide the company in accordance with the articles, but the shareholders are free to define the articles. If they think redistributing profits to emp
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by Hermel 12y ago
Dropbox is in a challenging situation. They've grown too large for an exit and without large partner, they are fighting an uphill battle againt giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. I would not bet on them.
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by Hermel 12y ago
In case you prefer retro-pixels, you could also give http://thelastdoor.com a chance (my personal favorite).
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by Hermel 12y ago
Also questionable is how the computer that sends out the e-mail can have a "good faith belief"? Especially given that their detection rates are often abismal.
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by Hermel 12y ago
I can confirm this. Function names tend to be much more reliable than comments. Here's an example from Java that can lead to security problems. Consider setSeed from java.security.SecureRandom: /** * Reseeds this random obj
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by Hermel 12y ago
> Nick Stamos has no kids, few hobbies, and even fewer extravagances. He works all the time and is consumed by his company every second he’s away from it. That of course always helps as entrepreneur. It might also be the hidden reason be
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by Hermel 12y ago
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. "Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda
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by Hermel 12y ago
No, the meta problem is power. The more power politicians have, the higher the incentive to influence them. The solution is decentralization, which disperses power, thereby automagically reducing lobbyism.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Being a jerk is not the success factor here. Without actual competence, Ellison would not have gotten far. It's being right and being a jerk in combination which is so powerful. "he read a paper published by IBM, which outlined a
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by Hermel 12y ago
Interesting how persistently Bitcoin can make it to the hacker news front page. I would have expected interest to fade over time.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Small countries like Denmark tend to have a much more well-behaved population than large countries. I.e. they queue nicer, they are more likely to return something they found, etc. (game-theoretic research suggests that such a culture is a

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