Meekro

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by Meekro 8y ago
Doing a 51% attack on a major coin, and actually profiting from it, is much more complicated than this chart implies. Here are some of the problems you'll run into: 1. NiceHash doesn't have anything like the hashpower you need to
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by Meekro 8y ago
BTC's dominance in the crypto space is at record lows[1], so I would question their ability to speak for the ecosystem as a whole. Ethereum, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash have a voice as well. Each of those has a very different vision for t
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by Meekro 8y ago
> I think extortion should be defined as threatening to do something illegal unless paid. Intuitively, it seems like it should be! Compare these two threats from a worker to the company owner, and consider what kind of definition of exto
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by Meekro 8y ago
We've been re-arguing this for a long time now! Check out these 2010-2011 Slashdot stories: https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/bitcoin-rel... https://news.slashdot.org&
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by Meekro 8y ago
In 2017, before the Republican tax cuts kick in, the treasury took in $3.3 trillion, or 17.3% of GDP. Projections are that, with tax cuts in full force in 2020, we will take in $3.6 trillion or 16.4% of GDP. You're right that annual de
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by Meekro 8y ago
I've never met anyone (of either party) who thinks that stories like this are acceptable. The issue, as always, is how do we fix it? Pointing to European democracies merely shows that it can be done, it doesn't necessarily offer
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by Meekro 8y ago
I definitely agree with you that there are better states than California, but I recently moved my online company from California to Texas and discovered a really nasty surprise: Texas considers web hosting, server rental, SaaS, etc. to be s
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by Meekro 8y ago
Typical.. Equifax gets off with a slap on the wrist. Facebook talks to Congress for a bit before returning to business as usual. Nothing happens to Cambridge Analytica. But damn if they don't destroy a few small businesses to show that
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by Meekro 9y ago
I've bought ads on Google and Facebook, and they never shared anyone's personal details with me. I just told them the keywords and demographics I was interested in, and I uploaded my ad, and they showed it to people. There was nev
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by Meekro 9y ago
As a small business owner, I love the fact that I can advertise to people who are searching for a particular thing, or have a particular demographic, or whatever. I never could have launched my company without it. Clearly those people got s
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by Meekro 9y ago
> For existing customers, there's no pricing change. You just get more functionality than before for free. This is what we generally try to do: we want Stripe to continually become better value for you over time, as you get more fun
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by Meekro 9y ago
I run a SaaS company, and I'm curious why I would need a product like this. Here's how I handle things now: 1. Stripe charges my customers' credit cards every month, and deposits money into my bank account once a week. If I w
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by Meekro 9y ago
> I've spent a lot of time around lawyers and judges and I can tell you they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the tech community excels at churning out. It sounds like the smar
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by Meekro 9y ago
Any lawyer worth his salt would know that each court has its own particular rules of procedure. If your highly-paid lawyer comes into bankruptcy court and starts trying to invoke procedural rules from juvenile court, that would be pretty co
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by Meekro 9y ago
I'm as glad as anyone else to see Equifax getting what's due to them, but is anyone else bothered by the surreal quality to this story? It sounds like the rules and procedures being applied were vastly different than what Equifax&
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by Meekro 9y ago
> been one of the most open minded places in the country What if you want to ride a Google Bus to work, and have the audacity to think that you don't deserve to be shot at or have bricks thrown through your window? [1] [2] [1] http
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by Meekro 9y ago
1. I'll mostly concede this one. You're right that investors can look at this index and mirror it, but any investor who does this should be thankful that Coinbase created this fund and gave them something to mirror! 2. Coinbase&#x
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by Meekro 9y ago
Yes, what happened was the seller went through the initial setup process for the wallet and put a nice-looking laminated card in the box with the recovery key. The buyer didn't realize there was something unusual about this, and didn&#
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by Meekro 9y ago
For anyone wondering why this is better than just buying the coins yourself, here are some reasons: 1. Non-technical investors don't know which coins to buy. There are some genuinely good coins, and lots of scams, and they look pretty
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by Meekro 9y ago
If you bought the 4 currencies yourself, you'd have to pay capital gains taxes each time you rebalance.
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by Meekro 9y ago
How did Google employees making $250k/yr become the symbol of unfair distribution of wealth? Why not shoot at some CEO who makes $100m/yr? The Google employees on those buses are much closer in income to the typical protester than
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by Meekro 9y ago
I think many of us have something like this in our archives, but we lack your courage to show it! =)
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Ask HN: Finding a CPA for my startup
4 points by Meekro 9y ago|2 comments
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by Meekro 9y ago
Reading the Soviet Bill of Rights is pretty instructive because it'll show you how much such a thing is worth on its own. Here is just a subset of the rights guaranteed by the USSR Constitution: speech; press; religion (both to profess
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by Meekro 9y ago
They're not selling the product itself, but the cute Japaneseyness of it. And that's good, if they managed to target their ads to the right people. I really loved the ad, and I think I'm in the right segment: I love cute anim
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by Meekro 9y ago
I'm self-employed and I have a rented desk at the local WeWork coworking space. I go there when I feel like getting out of the house to get some work done. Using the coworking space is a surprisingly good way to meet people. Obviously
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by Meekro 9y ago
Top investor Warren Buffet agrees with this "dogma." He just won a bet that index funds would outperform hedge funds during 2007-2017. [1] Trust him, not /r/personalfinance. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018&
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Gab.ai raises $4.8M(venturebeat.com)
2 points by Meekro 9y ago|0 comments
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by Meekro 9y ago
Could you give an example of how to do what you're saying with the current testnet lightning network? Let's say I've installed the client, connected to the endurance hub (or to someone who has a connection to it) .. okay, now
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by Meekro 9y ago
The lightning network will not work. Yes, you can run a node and connect to ACINQ's lightning hub (called endurance), and you can even buy coffee at https://starblocks.acinq.co , their lightning demo site, but that demo was

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