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by Xixi 9y ago
And they are entirely right to claim that Mt. Gox is responsible for their loss. Writing "scam" on a giant red flag in front of your door is not a valid waiver of responsibility.
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by Xixi 9y ago
My first thought was CryptoKitties. It might be a kind of game, but there's nothing wrong with that. It's not like blockchains are proving all that useful for anything else...
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by Xixi 9y ago
Don't forget mercurial: it's not used much for FOSS due to GitHub, but has a pretty strong hold in private companies. It's better than git (historically, not sure if it's still true in 2018) at dealing with Windows and h
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by Xixi 9y ago
Indeed, but I posted it to spark a discussion as to whether their claims sound credible or not. Obviously hard to prove, but maybe crypto-traders here have substantiated doubts. Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Legolas, and have abs
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How exchanges manipulate the price of Bitcoin(medium.com)
6 points by Xixi 9y ago|2 comments
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by Xixi 9y ago
I'm actually thinking to add currencies besides only USD and EUR. At the end of the day we don't have any particular love for either, since our costs are all in JPY. The biggest issue is to not clutter up the interface...
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by Xixi 9y ago
"Boeing made a bet on the 787. However, as you note, that's an easier bet to make when you already have the 747. Boeing already had a jumbo." It's also easier to make this bet when the passenger version of the 767 is str
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by Xixi 9y ago
The success of the 747 was wrongly analyzed by Airbus: it was not successful because it was big, it was successful because it could fly further than anything else. It is however because it was big that it could fly far: if I remember corr
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by Xixi 9y ago
The box subscription business model is getting harder and harder as competition increases. I can relate on two points with my own Japanese tea-of-the-month subscription ( https://tomotcha.com ): - At one point customs were very sl
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by Xixi 9y ago
Indeed, I was specifically talking about batteries. But there are many other ways to store energy. They don't even need to be as efficient as batteries, as long as they are cheap/scalable. Found an interesting study after some goo
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by Xixi 9y ago
I'm not quite sure how to precisely calculate the need, however I'm afraid that you are over-estimating battery capacities. Tesla's Giga Factory planned annual battery production capacity is 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh). Assuming
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by Xixi 9y ago
There definitely was a virtual world craze, with tons of VC money, the like of IBM investing, and Second Life clones popping up left, right and middle. Putting "Virtual World" in your pitch was a near-guarantee of raising funds. G
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by Xixi 9y ago
It's 1000 wallets, not people: there can be a lot of people behind a single wallet (exchange cold wallets, for instance).
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by Xixi 9y ago
Futures were initially invented for hedging: imagine you own 1000 BTC and for any reason (liquidating, etc.) you don't want to make any P&L (profit and loss) on these => you sell futures contracts for 1000 BTC. What you gain on
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by Xixi 9y ago
Bitcoin has the same issue as gold in that regard: it's not that easy to hold it securely both from third party attackers and from your own stupidity. You can encrypt everything behind a password, but what if you forget that password?
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by Xixi 9y ago
Rather heavy Python user here, though a little bit less over the last year: I think the whole thing is largely overblown. I've fully migrated to Python3 three years ago, was expecting horror given all the articles and 2vs3 drama, yet i
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by Xixi 9y ago
I fail to see your point: Paypal, eBay and Amazon are also under the obligation to adequately monitor and prevent money-laundering.
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by Xixi 9y ago
It's not a zero-sum game: value can and will be created and destroyed. If a crash of tether causes a distrust in the whole crypto space (which is not a given at all, granted), and people rush out of the whole space, all of it will cras
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by Xixi 9y ago
Bitfinex is conflating Tether (USD₮) and USD: “Bitfinex lets you receive USD₮ from a Bitcoin blockchain address and treat them as a USD deposit. Similarly, you can withdraw funds to a Bitcoin blockchain address as USD₮.” [1] Whether they ar
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Optimize your website in less than two hours(shiningpanda.com)
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by Xixi 9y ago
Quite true. Though western countries didn't attack Gaddafi before he gave up nuke either. The speculation I've heard (on radio, so I cannot paste a link) is that NK analysis is roughly: NK's regime is safe as long as China se
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by Xixi 9y ago
Had Gaddafi developed a working nuclear bomb with the necessary delivery mechanism, would France/UK/US have launched a campaign that ultimately ended with his death? We will never know, only speculate, but North Korea is betting t
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by Xixi 9y ago
It's trust: if people in general stop trusting Bitcoin its value will very rapidely converge to nil. Because there's nothing to back up its value, it will stay there and never recover, and will be remembered as the 21st century tu
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by Xixi 9y ago
Capital being held in "state-controlled inflationary currency" would be unusual. Capital would usually be composed of real-estate, stocks, ETFs, bonds, gold, commodities, maybe an art collection. Arguably US treasury bonds are not
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Toshiba Develops Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Battery with New Anode Material(toshiba.co.jp)
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I would think the average user visits Facebook through the Facebook app, not through Safari, so that should very much affect them. Google is a different story...
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The problem is not if Patreon is making enough profit to satisfy investors. The problem is if they don't. The reasoning goes as follows: VCs are chasing the next Google, and if Patreon cannot grow enough there is a real risk that it wi
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by Xixi 9y ago
In your example if Ireland Co makes 30% of its sales in France, then it would have to pay taxes on 30% of its profit to France (at French rate). That limits the reason to go to Ireland in the first place, which is why Ireland is largely aga
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by Xixi 9y ago
Even if Germany is late to this game, it doesn't change much if enough countries ban ICE. The German auto industry will have to follow: as you probably know Mercedes (and Volkswagen, BMW, etc.) export a lot, so they simply won't h
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by Xixi 9y ago
Per https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/ it's either 2 and 4, or 1 and 3 (and 7). The iPhone 8 supports all [1]. That would confirm that the Apple Watch uses more specialized cellular chips. [1] https:&#x2F

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