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by aazaa 6y ago
He claims what "we" want is: 1) Currency w/o a government 2) Stable/reliable for contracts 3) Inflation indexed store of value -- basket of items representative for me. 4) Rapid transactions Of these points, only (1) or
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by aazaa 6y ago
Some observations: 1. Armstrong was so concerned about privacy that he used a throwaway, but ended up giving his identity away anyway. 2. Those responses! The negativity on Bitcoin has been there from the start on HN especially for some rea
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The Launch (2019)(story.californiasunday.com)
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Coinbase Posts Record $1.8B in Revenue(forbes.com)
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by aazaa 6y ago
Not sure why this isn't on the front page. These kinds of numbers are remarkable regardless of your views on Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.
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by aazaa 6y ago
For those who don't know, Ray Dillinger is one of the first people to review the Bitcoin source. He collaborated with Satoshi prior to the first release: > In November of 2008, I did a code review and security audit for the block ch
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How to Conduct an Annual Life Review [2018](schlaf.medium.com)
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by aazaa 6y ago
The points don't make a compelling argument to me. > 1) For 95% of applications you can just distribute a single SWF file A single HTML file can hold HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. > 2) You have a robust authoring tool that is animat
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... but they have been working with them for years. True - in vitro and in limited human studies. But not at scale in human subjects. That's just this year. Studying this kind of thing is new as far as therapeutics go.
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The new nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines are chemicals that have been almost fully disclosed. They incorporate a trinucleotide cap 1 analog ((m27,3′-O)Gppp(m2′-O)ApG), contain N1-methylpseudouridine instead of uridine, and encode an o
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by aazaa 6y ago
> “Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230!” Trump said in a statement Sunday. “Voter fraud must be fixed!” Taken at face value, this statement links two issues that many people wouldn't think are linked. The president is b
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by aazaa 6y ago
This is awesome in the older, atomic bomb sense of the word. It could turn out wonderful or horrible. The way this breaks has everything to do with the lessons people have drawn from past mistakes with technology. It's an unsettling th
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by aazaa 6y ago
Most sources put that at Ripple and/or its two top execs. They obtained these positions by virtue of the Ripple consensus protocol, which conjured the coins into being and granted the network creator (Ripple) sole ownership. AFAICT, th
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by aazaa 6y ago
The most surprising thing is how little this announcement has moved the USD exchange rate (~$0.25). That rate is about where it was last month. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/XRPUSD/?exchange=BITFINE... Yes,
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by aazaa 6y ago
The Intercept did an in-depth series on this: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti... Truly despicable behavior from one of the world's largest and oldest companies.
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by aazaa 6y ago
Reminds me of JavaScript: The Good Parts by Crockford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook Strip away an older language's bad features. You end up with a sub-language with the advantage of portability and bet
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The documents published in The Lancet confirm that the error lay with the Oxford researchers. A common emulsifier, polysorbate 80, used in vaccines to facilitate mixing, had interfered with the ultraviolet-light meter that measures the
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by aazaa 6y ago
> It’s likely, Miller thinks, that capitalism, “with its isolation of individuals and its accelerating generation of choices and chances,” has increased the number of our unlived lives. “The elevation of choice as an absolute good, the e
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The tiny tweak behind Covid-19 vaccines(cen.acs.org)
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> "She's our Betty Crocker. She's our symbol of excellence," Joe Abrams, one of Mavis Beacon's creators told VICE in an interview. Abrams was one of the founders of The Software Toolworks, the company that design
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by aazaa 6y ago
That is funny.
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by aazaa 6y ago
Very surprised to see no Warren Buffett (90).
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by aazaa 6y ago
The case revolves around the question of whether XRP is a security or not. The SEC has given the definitive guidance on the topic, which is based on the Howey case: > The U.S. Supreme Court's Howey case and subsequent case law have
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by aazaa 6y ago
Ironically, this could increase the exchange rate for XRP. Ripple controls a large block of uncirculated token that it sells. With this legal action, I suspect that supply will no longer be entering the market. Unlike Bitcoin, which issues
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by aazaa 6y ago
> “There is no current evidence to suggest the new strain causes a higher mortality rate or that it affects vaccines and treatments, although urgent work is underway to confirm this,” [England’s Chief Medical Officer] Whitty said. That e
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by aazaa 6y ago
From the getting started tutorial,[1] I notice that (certain) functions appear to have the method "system" added to them. For example: > Note the hello_world.system() function call. This is a "trait extension method"
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Fair use or not? Parody vs. satire in copyright law(lizerbramlaw.com)
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Some clinical work has been done with mRNA vaccines as treatments for other diseases, including cancer. Nothing has made it to Phase 3 yet (other than for Covid-19), but on this page you'll find links to a slew of clinical trials over
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by aazaa 6y ago
That would require the kind of understanding of viral vulnerabilities I'm thinking of. The same applies to any virus, of course. To my knowledge, that kind of understand does not exist because coronaviruses have been largely ignored hi
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by aazaa 6y ago
> They identified the sequence for the spike protein, plugged that into their vaccine platform, and voila – an mRNA vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Moderna zeroed in on the spike protein thanks th large amount of previous research

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