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by _red 9y ago
Its an all around bad design. Not really a UI problem, its more of a state / workflow problem. Its levels upon levels. You keep having to drill 2 or 3 levels down, but then lose the context of the higher levels when you do. For instanc
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by _red 9y ago
This will require lots of study. Mark should probably build another wall around his mansion in order to allow him to concentrate.
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by _red 9y ago
You could potentially print gold via nuclear fusion / fission reactors. However the cost would be several orders of magnitude higher than few grams of gold produced. All successful forms of money share the following characteristics: co
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by _red 9y ago
Because you can't print gold. The fundamental question is: Should we represent the value of real finite things (carrots, oil, land, etc) using an abstraction which is also finite or one that is infinite? Exponential growth curves can&#
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by _red 9y ago
Yes it bound the states...and its obvious intention was to forbid the promulgation of fiat throughout these "united states". Moreover, the First National Bank of the US was forbidden from both buying US treasuries and issuing debt
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by _red 9y ago
AES256 + 40-char passphrase is more secure than any physical structure ever built. Just encrypt your wallet and save on multiple USB sticks / S3 / Dropbox / etc.
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by _red 9y ago
Technically a FRN (Federal Reserve Note) is backed by a US Dollar. These are distinctions which seem odd today, and describe the odd system that we now have. A "US Dollar" is defined constitutionally as being "gold or silver&
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by _red 9y ago
There are ways to find analogs for their demand, particularly if they are using your software directly to make money. For my company, we try to target our monthly pricing to be between 1-2% of what our estimated costumers revenue is for the
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by _red 9y ago
I agree she opted in. However, for your "Forbes" example the law makes a distinction between a public person and a private person. Many many "private" people successfully sue Forbes to get off their annual "kidnap a
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by _red 9y ago
>I have often wondered why human colour vision is not evenly distributed across the spectrum of visible light. Instances of color-blindness is different between men and women. One reason hypothesized why women have lower incidence, is sp
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by _red 9y ago
...and taxpayer funded Grants are the selling of "religious indulgences". Each $10M we provide, they agree to move the clock back 30 seconds.
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by _red 9y ago
If there is no basis for being higher risk, why wouldn't an insurance company want to make more money? Are you suggesting that their "inherent racism" is causing them to forgo shareholder profits?
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by _red 9y ago
My good friend is a material scientist for Exxon. He is employed to find "the next oil". As he says, its all about "joules of energy per $1 landed cost" everything else is just noise. Currently, $1 (retail price) of gaso
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by _red 9y ago
>High-end art prices aren't "manipulated" in some kind of nefarious way, Laundering Drug Money With Art ( https://www.forbes.com/2003/04/08/cx_0408hot.html#1da16d3e66... ) Valuable as Art, but
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by _red 9y ago
Fully agreed, its uncanny when you see it in person. It makes sense from a genetic perspective: Similar how to allocate investment funds (primary funds in safe conservative investments, additional funds in more speculative 'moonshot&#x
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by _red 9y ago
How would that work? unpatched VM can escape the patched Hypervisor? Is that possible? What would be point of patching hypervisor if guest can trivially escape?
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by _red 9y ago
Goldman Sachs hasn't yet setup their own Bitcoin trading desk, but they are building it. No doubt Buffet is trying to temper enthusiasm until their trading platform is built. Once it is, suddenly he will "Understand it".
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by _red 9y ago
Because of the immense amounts of money involved, there will always be some nation which will allow crypto exchanges back to fiat. In fact this is the problem the "big boys" have in regulating crypto...create a tight noose and a s
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by _red 9y ago
>ideal scenario I'm not actually advocating one way or the other. Its understandable why the ACoE did what they did. I'm simply saying this is the result of that decision.
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by _red 9y ago
No mention of the cause: Diverting the Mississippi River. In the 20's / 30's The Army Core of Engineers built a series of levees to redirect the Mississippi to flow east of its natural course. Before then, the river would sea
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by _red 9y ago
These things are cyclical: * Early computers (1960-1980s): Dumb Terminal - Remote Server * Early PCs (1980s-1995): Local Processing - Remote Storage * WWW (1995-2010s): Dumb Terminal - Remote Server * JS/ASM/Etc (2010s - near futu
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by _red 9y ago
Typical for "got ya" style responses there is a lot more details you should consider: 1. They have been bailed out numerous times. Yes, they paid their debt back but it was lent at a preferred rate by congress to an entity that no
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by _red 9y ago
>Due to the unbalanced pricing policies of the United Postal Union and subsidies from the U.S. Postal Service, it costs people in China virtually nothing to ship small packages to the U.S. I'm so happy my tax dollars are going to su
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by _red 9y ago
>3. Bitcoin remains the main store of value I think this is probably right. And I would add 2 things (a) The size and the hash power of BTC give it a HUGE advantage. If you want "immutable proof that you own this specific decentrali
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by _red 9y ago
Yeah, its so intuitive for the average person to type: about:config in address bar and scroll through hundreds of oddly named parameters to turn off spyware. Comments like yours are illustrative of a certain mindset. When you encounter the
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by _red 9y ago
Do you remember this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-... US Gov sent $14B in cash, on pallets, shrink wrapped. All went missing...whoops. Nothing was done, nobody cared
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by _red 9y ago
I hate the fact that Firefox increasingly makes me jump through all sorts of hoops to find all the hidden options to turn off their various spyware attempts. Its the Win10 of browsers...
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by _red 9y ago
Its says balloons<1BTC and blimps>1BTC....however that appears wrong, looks like it should be 100BTC as conditional.
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by _red 9y ago
> But many students, scholars, and general readers want even more from this literary character: they want her to fit the ideal of an empowered woman. It is comforting to subscribe to the notion—as Daniel Mendelsohn does in his recently p
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by _red 9y ago
Coinbase can't print money.

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