Unoeufisenough

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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
There is also a big difference between "some deflation" and run-away thousand percent exponential deflation. The Austrians may not have been contemplating the later. Or not have been contemplating that any sober person would propose a curre
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
A thousand times this. A currency that is designed to be radically unstable in value is not a currency. Out of control deflation is just as bad as out of control inflation. Bcoin is nothing but a bunch of runaway tulip bulbs. Have fun if yo
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Mars is pretty far, but 240 days doesn't sound so bad. In the age of explorers, the first human sailors to circumnavigate the earth took 4 years to do it. A handful of them even survived the journey!
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Flawless, zero-latency voice recognition under those conditions is rather implausible. Otherwise though, an impressive vision of the promise of AR. For all the doubters here, notice the enormous number of comments generated already. Even th
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
I heard it first originally as an engineering joke. And also horses instead of cows. You know you're an engineer when: You'll assume a horse is spherical in order to make a math easier. Funnier with horses. Horses are less spherical. They w
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Such aggressive prosecution has a lot do with the elected nature of sheriffs and DA's, a peculiarity of the US system. The political nature of enforcement and prosecution seems to change incentives towards maximizing conviction rates and pu
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
You don't integrate the game hardware into the device. It's relatively easy for the cableco to give you fast, low ping bandwidth to a local cable switch within their network. That's where you put the game hardware. You create a new gaming p
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
The vector is the same as for QR codes, paste a different tag overtop of a legitimate tag that takes the user to a URI with a browser or other application exploit. Or physical world version of phishing. Again it is the application that is t
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Actually most (depending on the card, the great majority) of those fees end up going right back to the cardholder. Those fees are what pays for all those airline points, cash-back discounts, guarantees and liability protections, purchase in
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Exactly. This is the point I am trying to make.
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
@moonchrome is right. One of the world's large credit card networks processes on the order half a trillion dollars in a typical 30 day period. So bitcoin has a way to go yet before it's volume is significant compared to other ubiquitous ele
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
It's not about consumer protection. That's just a smoke screen. It's entirely about government revenue. Municipal taxes, sales taxes and government fees. Hotels and taxis and the like have to pay them and AirBnB and private rental models ty
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
Is storing energy against the rules? for example pedaling for an hour or two to store up say mechanical energy in a flywheel, spring tension, hydraulic pressure or other means then just put the rotors in gear to lift off?
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by Unoeufisenough 14y ago
I also can recommend a MUCH better way to input text into your apple device that works today. It looks a lot more like this: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/