Hermel

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by Hermel 13y ago
If filling up your tank takes 2 minutes (1 minute filling + 1 minute overhead), you can tank 350 miles per minute. The Tesla S gets 265 miles in 1.5 minutes, which is 175 miles per minute. So your car can be refilled twice as fast as the Te
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by Hermel 13y ago
I find a single person standing on the shoulders of giants quite plausible. A single talented person can achieve much more than most committees.
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by Hermel 13y ago
To be fair, you should use the much smaller revenue of the US branch to campare it with a US punishment. Taking global revenue is bindende, even though US lawyers push this nonsense as well.
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by Hermel 13y ago
They do not need a reason to dismiss the board, a majority vote suffices. The shareholders own the company, so they can install whatever board they like for whatever reason they like. I'm not aware of any board that got dismiseed for not ag
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by Hermel 13y ago
Bullshit. I'm sick of hearing this myth to justify immoral behaviour of corporations. The owners of a corporation can freely define its purpose. There is no legal obligation to maximize profits. And in most countries (I can't speak for the
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by Hermel 14y ago
A better comparison than tulips would be silver. Tulips are a bad store of wealth (they rot, anyone can grow them, are not divisible, etc), whereas Bitcoin and silver can be stored and easily divided into smaller units. It still could be in
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by Hermel 14y ago
People who are that easily scared normally don't have Bitcoins to sell.
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by Hermel 14y ago
Who do you have in mind? I don't see anyone who wants Bitcoin to crash desperately enough to spend millions on inflating a bubble and then pop it - which is a very risky and costly plan. More likley would be a scenario in which someone who
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by Hermel 14y ago
German?
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by Hermel 14y ago
You are saying that there won't be any growth because people will hoard all money because they want to participate in the (non-existing) growth? Isn't that self-contradictory? I think you are wrong. Imagine living in such an economy and fac
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by Hermel 14y ago
I.e. the USD has fallen below 10 mBTC.
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by Hermel 14y ago
If you slightly modify the setting and say pile A is an eternal worldwide monopoly on gold, then it might be preferrable to B.
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by Hermel 14y ago
In uncertain times, there is big demand for storing value. Whereas tulips are a horrid store of value (they rot, anyone can grow them, are not divisible, etc), bitcoins are an excellent store of value. It is divisible, transferrable and eas
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by Hermel 14y ago
Moving from EUR to USD or to CHF does not make much of a difference. Western national banks don't allow for much fluctuation and if one of them starts printing, the others follow. Bitcoin is a currency that does not correlate with them, so
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by Hermel 14y ago
> It's so hard to actually get bitcoins This is something that can change. The question is, would it be enough to make people use Bitcoin? Also, if it is "only" used as an investment, that would still be a huge success.
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by Hermel 14y ago
The point is that a language should not add features that make it easier to write bad code.
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by Hermel 14y ago
I don't think there are technical reasons behind, but rather philosophical ones. - Getters and setters are bad design. In clean object-oriented code, the internal state of a class is not exposed to the outside. Thus, getters and setters sho
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by Hermel 14y ago
Actually, it is only less for a sub-average investment. If you invest something with an above-average return, you'll be better off investing.
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by Hermel 14y ago
If you have good business ideas, zeeder.ch might be able to help you and get you connected.
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by Hermel 14y ago
Generally, he is right. But he gets this point wrong: > Comments are the only way to capture the intent of the code at the time of writing. The main and most important way to express intent is meaningful naming of variables, fields, and
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by Hermel 14y ago
Pitching to a large client puts you at risk of becoming a contractor for that client. This is a dangerous trap if your goal is to sell a scalable product.
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by Hermel 14y ago
TDD is overrated. It's main benefit is that it forces the developer to express the same things twice in two different ways. It is like entering your password twice for verification. You get immediate feedback if there is an inconsistency. O
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by Hermel 14y ago
No one is disputing that Bitcoin is deflationary. What's less clear is how damaging that actually is. If you are looking for a way to preserve value, then being deflationary might even be beneficial. There are plenty of things that are defl
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by Hermel 14y ago
By the end of the year, it will either be at 400 or back to 4. Interesting bet.
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by Hermel 14y ago
Mega as well as Bitcoin have both a very liberal philosophical foundation by strengthening personal property rights. Bitcoin helps preserving and moving wealth without government intervention and Mega helps preserving and moving data withou
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by Hermel 14y ago
opera is very strong on Mobile phones (incl. old Symbian Nokias). 300 million is a lot, but within the possible. this comment was written in opera.
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by Hermel 14y ago
Yes, the Germans value degrees. But Ms Shavan having to step back has nothing to do with that. This is not about her degree, this is about her having cheated. The Germans are very sensitive in this regard. A few years ago, a minister got in
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by Hermel 14y ago
> Classes are the the creation of complexity by unnecessarily fusing code with data. No, classes discourage unnecessary complexity by fusing code with data -- leading to a better separation of concerns. In the end, the question is about
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by Hermel 14y ago
You can keep your shares. I picked Google 5 times out of 5.
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by Hermel 14y ago
I'm Luzius Meisser, cofounder of Wuala. Yes, some trust in Wuala is still required, namely trusting us that we won't put a backdoor into the client. Much more trust is required in services without client-side encryption. Adding a backdoor w

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