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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Taxes, primarily. Everyone needs to pay taxes and they need to pay taxes in their national currency (see: Modern Monetary Theory). This makes everyone seek out their national currency. Additionally, countries have a very different goal when
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Yea, even more so that mining is being dominated in countries with the cheapest electricity which are usually the worst in terms of environmentally friendly energy generation. Enjoy that Bitcoin, it contributed to the awful air quality in C
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
You need some semblance of stability though. No one is going to agree to pay me 1 BTC per week if they're implicitly giving me a 30% raise in week 2. Just the same, I would not be happy to get paid in an extremely inflationary currency
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
It seems really disingenuous to talk about market caps in cryptocurrencies. The US dollar doesn't have a market cap. No currency does. Market cap is the markets valuation of a company. The term is used to contrast it against their actu
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
I was really waiting for them to explain in the article. It's like, no one understands what they do and you won't either cause we're not telling!
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
The article lists the malware family as Sakura but the breaches appear to involve to a RAT called Sakula. [1] There does appear to be an exploit kit named Sakura, but it not associated with any APT campaigns. 1. https://www.crowd
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
>At Gusto, we rely heavily on the ACH network. For example, when a company runs payroll, we’ll use the ACH network to debit the company’s account to fund their employee’s pay. Once we’ve received these funds from the company, we’ll again
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Actually, taxation plays a large role in giving a currency value. The US government only accepts payment in US dollars. They require everyone to pay taxes in US dollars, which means we all seek US dollars. Add onto that the fact that the go
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
They're less vulnerable to market fluctuations because they're backed by nothing besides speculative demand and the online drug trade.
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
"invest"
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Bike racks! I thought about doing an ALPR project for a while which got me to start looking at plates. I always laugh when I see a bike rack that totally obscures the view.
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Twitter really feels like a broadcast / subscribe network to me. Unless you're a celebrity, you aren't getting significant interaction on there, and interaction is what I use social networks for. Whenever I log in there it is
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Hey, author of the SMT attack here. There is probably a clever way to go after XorShift128+ as well, symbolic execution using an SMT solver is basically a brute-force solution. I'll have to give this challenge a shot later.
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Great post. I just disabled my Facebook account. It was my most visited and least enjoyed site. It is really refreshing to not be constantly opening it. This article really helped frame how I'm feeling about it. I think it's time
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
I absolutely hate those emoji. It's the gradient and outlines, it looks like bad enterprise design. The flat blobs were great.
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
>Twitter is the worst way to have this debate but that’s where it mostly was taking place (with a sprinkling of medium posts and malformed news pieces to complement it). This is why I really appreciate HN. The discussion here was fairly
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
I'm celiac and my symptoms* can best be described as hyper sensitivity to addictive foods. I suspect this is more common than has been studied [1] as my main symptom was daily sinus headaches. The first thing I cut out was gluten. Glut
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Yea, downvote buttons are a massive detriment to discussion on social media. The comment isn't hidden for me, and it wasn't light grey when I replied. HN is a little better in that they are more sparsely used, but it can still be
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Like many online echo chambers, /r/the_donald bans people who dissent in any way. It is not a place where it is possible to engage in discussion. In fact, reddit is a horrible place to engage in meaningful discussion, as users can
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
I've actually cut out all products with added sugar (and foods that are naturally high in sugar like fruits). You need to read labels but it is not so difficult. It still leaves a pretty great variety of meats, legumes, dairy, corn, ri
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
>To invoke Goodwin's Law, perhaps we should be more sympathetic to the viewpoints of Nazis? How about white supremacists? Honestly, I would argue yes (with a big asterisk on your word choice of sympathetic). You need to engage with
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
It's amazing how much personal experience affects how we interpret messages. I read the original document and, while I thought it was stupid that he was suggesting roles based on gender or genetics, I did think he brought up important
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Heads up. Bitcoin is likely to be forever deflationary until it fails. There are no capital controls to increase the supply which means as people lose their wallets it becomes more and more constrained. I agree that it's a trash fire t
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Not if it's a 5 bedroom house, as stated above.
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Baltimore too. Housing is affordable and there are a good number of tech jobs due to the government presence.
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We call those ground leases in the US. It's usually a longer term lease for decades, where the lessee builds some property and uses it over that time.
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A ton of benefits. It's a very good habit to pick up. Not a wonder drug though. >In 2013, researchers at Johns Hopkins identified 47 studies that qualify as well-designed and therefore reliable. Based on these studies, they conclude
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Submit ideas to conferences. Get accepted. Panic. Make slides. Practice. Give talk. Learn from your mistakes and repeat.
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Considering either selling my house or keeping it as a rental. Trustworthiness and reliability of the management company are my greatest concerns. Will they be available when a tenant has an issue? Will they provide receipts when something
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by TACIXAT 9y ago
Yea, the basic idea is you cut out most foods that people have issues with for a few weeks then slowly reintroduce them. Usually that means living off of chicken and rice, but if you plan it out you can get some more variety in there (veges

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