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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
Where's exp(), log(), sin(), cos()? He did the bare minimum amount of work and left all the interesting functionality out. We have relatively fast ways of dealing with these in IEEE754, but I see no equivalent here. I really don't
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
This has no advantage over reimbursement in BTC. If gox owes "pencils", they will legally be required to give pro-rated pencils back to its creditors. Mastercoin is a solution in search of a problem...
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
There are gift limits set by FINRA: http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/series-26/supervisory...
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
Zoning is politics, not finance.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
Then put your money where your mouth is. There are bitcoin derivative markets that let you short it. Hell, PM me and I'll personally bet against you on a 6 mo time horizon.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
Why should new systems avoid RSA?
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
All of these examples work in Haskell's canonical text library, 'text'! It's the only language I know of that works.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
How do you go about finding this contract work?
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
The freedom to quit is vital to maintaining a non-exploitative workplace.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
Student. Functional programming (OCaml + Haskell). High-performance low-latency C++. Finance.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
If that truly becomes an issue, people will use Tor.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
It's the same editor whether you pay to use it or not. The tiny hassle at the beginning of clicking "OK" is just to remind you to finally pay for it when you move from hobbyist to professional. :) And if you work in a big com
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
ref-counting should be more than sufficient to deal with the standard multi-thread model of "read from concurrent queue, process, write to different concurrent queue". This covers a huge majority of cases where you'd want a GC. You only nee
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 13y ago
If you pay well enough, finding good developers isn't that hard. Many "good" programmers I know would very likely jump ship at their current job for 600k/year. You've just got to find a better middle ground.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
His point was that there are better things in life to worry about. An example is chemical plants. To paraphrase his letter -- your actions should not change based on the events these past few days. Decisions should be made off of data and a
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
Breaking SHA256 does not allow any party to "print bitcoin". It lets them be more successful at mining it, but the same amount per block will be generated, and the difficulty still adjusts to 1 block every 10 minutes. All they'd be doing is
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
Why would he sell real bitcoins for fake fiat? This is Satoshi we're talking about, not your average joe. To him, USD is riskier than BTC.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
They create a more efficient market. Ensuring, for example, that the future price of a commodity matches the spot price when the future expires. They provide an anonymous financial service.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
It might also be that you're looking for a PHP developer. Quality people tend to stay away from PHP.
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by NkVczPkybiXICG 14y ago
Bitcoin isn't that deflationary, and won't be at all until 2140. When 2140 comes around, and all the bitcoin is mined, then it will only deflate at the rate which coin is "lost into the ether" from people losing their wallets, etc. I highly