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541.
by ahi 15y ago
A much better article. Techcrunch is useless. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444780457641... heh. Just realized the wsj article is 2 days old. Still better than TC's.
542.
by ahi 15y ago
Not really. Walmart's difficulties are because it's a real business. Typically, non-banking entities are not allowed to own banking entities. There are some very good reasons for this, primarily that if the non-banking entity struggles they
543.
by ahi 15y ago
I wonder, not relevant enough or is the liberal arts education of hackernews so lacking we don't know Shakespeare when we see it?
544.
by ahi 15y ago
JACK CADE. Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hoop'd pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all th
545.
by ahi 15y ago
Compared to doctors and lawyers, engineers have pretty crappy salaries. If you are smart and in it for the money, you don't go into engineering.
546.
by ahi 15y ago
Providing the password is an admission of knowing the password.
547.
by ahi 15y ago
How is that not a breach of fiduciary duty?
548.
by ahi 15y ago
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Not sure if this is what you were looking for or the particular hash bitcoin uses, but a $110 Radeon 5830 can get you around 250Mhash/s
549.
by ahi 15y ago
The pop-stars aren't real now, they just happen to be played by flesh and blood actors.
550.
by ahi 15y ago
Not sure that's possible. "R in a Nutshell" is 640 pages for a reason.
551.
by ahi 15y ago
Jesus christ what an asshole. He got scooped by his source so he drags her through the mud. I won't air her dirty laundry, but please speculate and spread rumor amongst yourselves.
552.
by ahi 15y ago
Didn't they try that once? And instead of fixing things they ended up with two sets of broken data structures? I could be mistaken.
553.
by ahi 15y ago
Not sure I agree with any of it, but I definitely object to claim that btc lacks liquidity. Most of its liquidity problems are caused by the crappy USD banking infrastructure. The #2 exchange, Tradehill, is adding traders like crazy. It tak
554.
by ahi 15y ago
Same here. My email is my name, so they got my name, email, and username. Fortunately, it's a relatively new username I haven't used much.
555.
by ahi 15y ago
Fortunately they all look like test accounts.
556.
by ahi 15y ago
Straight east of Madagascar.
557.
by ahi 15y ago
2 years ago I had a class where the lecturer was working in a visual ide. I'm not that good with vim, but it was painful to follow along. Half my time was spent waiting and watching him click around. 1 year ago I was teaching a class and ha
558.
by ahi 15y ago
Wait, what? SXSW is so hip and popular it's no longer hip and popular. It's been written up in Parade Magazine for fucks sake.
559.
by ahi 15y ago
I was thinking just the opposite. When it comes to frameworks, opinions are good things. But you kind of look like an undependable jackass if your opinion changes every 5 minutes.
560.
by ahi 15y ago
Very cool, but it seems they had some trouble counting to 5.
561.
by ahi 15y ago
A mark's gullibility does not absolve the scammer.
562.
by ahi 15y ago
I suspect #4 Getting Money In or Out is the only one that matters. There have been problems getting USD into Mt.Gox for most of the week. Now with the weekend upon us the trickle of new funds has become a drip. There are no shortage of peop
563.
by ahi 15y ago
It's taken me the better part of a week to fund a MtGox account. 10 minutes to send bitcoin around the world. 5 days to complete a damn USD money transfer.
564.
by ahi 15y ago
At the moment it's mostly pyramid scheme. While useful, it's clear Bitcoin's value has become disconnected from it's utility as a currency. Perhaps a more interesting question, can a new global/digital currency gain widespread adoption with
565.
by ahi 15y ago
There is no shortage of human milk. For every mother that can't produce enough there's a mother dumping extra down the drain. Back when we had functional communities these problems sorted themselves out.
566.
by ahi 15y ago
It's not particularly difficult to find local milk share groups.
567.
by ahi 15y ago
Agreed, but then those people and the people gambling in Vegas aren't approaching it as though it were a rational investment strategy.
568.
by ahi 15y ago
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Today's exchange rate range is 16.45 to 19.23. That's pretty typical, and some days are a lot worse. In the forums, the consensus seems to be that any attempt at economic analysis is largely a waste of ti
569.
by ahi 15y ago
Bitcoin is ideal for the 3 P's: Porn, Poker, and Pharmaceuticals.
570.
by ahi 15y ago
That is the main/only reason I am making a long term investment in Bitcoin. Given the volatility I think the people speculating in Bitcoin purely for financial gain are nuts.

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