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by a_c_s 12y ago
This isn't true: gold prices have varied wildly relative to the price of the dollar. For example, gold was at $1780/oz as of September 2012, and is now at $1326/oz, a difference of -34%. Prices for goods and services have not
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Instead of trying to fight pools, why not embrace them? Tweak the protocol so instead of miners racing to a discreet payoff, all miners get a payout proportional to all of the mining work they do.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Why should they pay more per-bit than anybody else? Compared to Comcast, Netflix is certainly the underdog: revenues of $66.75B vs $4.42B. Edit - forgot to include source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=netflix+v
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by a_c_s 12y ago
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/reference...
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Excellent advice - the converse is true too: just because a company uses the right tools doesn't mean that the company doesn't have a toxic corporate culture that makes it a terrible place to work.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Japan's per-capita GDP did surpass that of the USA for a while and it is plausible (mathematically speaking) for it to do so again: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=japan+gdp+%2F+japan+po...
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Could the company being sued start playing the same game? As soon one is sued by a troll, reconfigure the 'offending' bit into an asset-less shell company that you purchase/license/etc. things from.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
And it only takes 16.3 years to recharge!
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Thanks for the info! Is the demand for detailed knowledge 16 hours at a time, or is it more like being "on call" for when a client suddenly gets a wild idea and wants numbers to be run for it?
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by a_c_s 12y ago
How necessary are the 7am-11pm hours really? Could the banks do just as good of a job if they hired more people who worked 40 hour weeks? (Increased salary costs notwithstanding)
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I like sitting in the window seat, so I'd rather sit on the plane a little longer and not have to climb over people to get to my seat. But to each their own!
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by a_c_s 12y ago
As it is Netflix pays for bandwidth and the end user pays for bandwidth. Why should Netflix pay disproportionately more for its bandwidth than a non-video streaming service?
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by a_c_s 12y ago
If somebody has a single bitcoin they can't sell, there is nothing else they can do with it. Therefore, the bitcoin itself has zero intrinsic value. The value of the idea of the blockchain is not relevant to the value of an individual
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The huge variations in price mean that a company could very easily lose more than the few, entirely predictable, percent the credit card companies charge.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
"...it is superior to gold is almost every way" Except for the part where you can actually make things with gold: it is shiny, easy to work with and highly conductive. So worst case, if the value of gold plummeted you could still
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by a_c_s 12y ago
It reads like a proper email because emails are memos ;-)
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by a_c_s 13y ago
If something is hard to print in a legible/useful manner, somebody is likely to print it once, realize things didn't turn out right, and then try to print it a few more times with different settings until they get something that w
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Is it even legal? Yes. It sounds like you went on a short rant that makes the management look bad in front of everyone: this was a mistake. Next time if you have an issue with the program like this bring it up privately with your manager or
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Where's the conflict? Plenty of chemicals/hormones/etc. in the body follow the pattern of: too little = bad enough = good too much = bad A study showing the chronic, high levels of something are bad doesn't generalize to
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by a_c_s 13y ago
That's why I like to make the distinction between little-a agile (the non-dogmatic vision of the original manifesto) and big-A Agile (rigid, sold as a product methodologies backed by expensive certifications).
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Mercola is certainly not a credible source
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by a_c_s 13y ago
The problem is that instead, Firm B could just follow the lead and also charge $1/month for Netflix, leaving the consumer with no choice. Or they could charge $1/month for other streaming services and leave Netflix alone, so the c
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Excellent point! Being able to trade on information revealed overnight would have much greater value than being able to trade at an even smaller sub-second interval. Since the marginal value of additional liquidity decreases rapidly, I&#x27
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Isn't buying things for the military out of concern for industrial needs rather than strategic need the definition of the military-industrial complex? The sooner this 'post-Cold-War day of reckoning for military aircraft' hap
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by a_c_s 13y ago
A growing economy increases standards of living. The fact that a t-shirt costs $10 now that used to cost $20 10 years ago means that people now have more options. Some people will choose to buy 2x as many t-shirts, making them (roughly) 2x
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by a_c_s 13y ago
It is really amazing how much suburbanites like to let other people pay the price for their choices.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
What is the difference between using militarized police and actual military? If in the hands of a despot one is a problem, then so is the other. So I don't see how weaponizing the police changes this equation. (Some other commenters su
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by a_c_s 13y ago
It isn't 'trolling' if you are actually using the patents in your products. You don't have to agree with the lawsuit, but please quit diluting the term.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Thanks for enumerating this. However, for me, the amount of time 'saved' for tasks like this seems like it could easily be outweighed by having to spend even a minimal amount of time tinkering/debugging the setup of these dev
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Right now it is illegal at the Federal level. To really allow states to have a choice (instead of the current the-feds-might-look-the-other-way-if-they-feel-like-it arrangement) is for it to not be illegal at the Federal level.

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