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by altoz 13y ago
It's interesting to note that this guy NEVER gets more than 30 hours. This is most likely to make sure the employee can't be considered full-time. I'm sure Google would rather hire 15 guys at 40-60 hours instead of 40 guys at
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by altoz 13y ago
Please spare us the lecture on what an investor should and should not do. What someone does with their money is their choice and the consequences of what happens with that money is their consequence.
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by altoz 13y ago
The author of the article is obviously schilling for Cleveland and other rust belt cities that no longer have the manufacturing jobs that they used to. Cleveland is one of the most heavily regulated and wasteful cities, as is Detroit. I wou
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by altoz 13y ago
I know all too well. But, as the Paypal compliance department has told me umpteen times, their policies are not the same and are under different laws. So, eBay will let you list any physical good you want that conforms to their policy (basi
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by altoz 13y ago
ebay is not the problem. it's paypal.
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by altoz 13y ago
The author specifically claims that to understand bitcoin usage, you only need to look at the trading activity. That is what I'm disputing. No, you can't understand bitcoin usage without actually understanding the protocol. In you
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by altoz 13y ago
I wouldn't say "just a tool". It's an enormously powerful tool that has backups everywhere, is not corruptible without at least 50% of the hashing power on the network, and has a consistent, decodable, verifiable format.
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by altoz 13y ago
> Understanding the trend towards Bitcoin usage is less in understanding the caveats developer Amir Takki employs: i.e. “a pure form of money with a mathematical basis,” and more about the social behaviours of those playing the system,
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by altoz 13y ago
The actual number of public addresses that correspond to the generated group from the elliptical curve function is not 2^256, but slightly lower, since the cardinality of the group needs to be a prime number. Hence, if it's in that sma
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by altoz 13y ago
This is especially true of 4th down plays. A surprise play-action pass on 4th and 1 can go for an especially long gain and thus should have higher expected value. There's also the fake-punt scenario, which I suspect tends to be more su
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by altoz 13y ago
I think statistically, if you punt from the 9 yard line, the other team is going to get excellent field position (around the 50 yard line). The difference between failing on 4th and 1 from your own 9 and the other team getting the ball arou
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by altoz 13y ago
> They should be easy to create (bitcoins are) BUT ALSO easy to destroy if demand declines; You can provably destroy bitcoins by sending them to an address with no private key (this is provable). Believe it or not, this is actually usefu
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by altoz 13y ago
could have used http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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by altoz 13y ago
I can't help but think a lot of these "experts" can ONLY see from their narrow perspective. Bitcoin the protocol is just scratching the surface.
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by altoz 13y ago
tl;dr author compares bitcoin to tulips, argues it's all mass emotion or something.
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by altoz 13y ago
> a lot of energy is going to waste now. Is it? How much does Bank of America spend in energy to keep up its servers? Backups? disaster-recovery setups? That's a significant energy cost, too.
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by altoz 13y ago
tl;dr silicon valley isn't the liberal utopia and therefore not a meritocracy.
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by altoz 13y ago
Someone wanted to be on the bitcoin 100 richest list.
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by altoz 13y ago
You learn more about yourself going alone.
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by altoz 13y ago
This seems a great way to steal other people's credit cards. You can literally duplicate someone's card on your "coin". Now there's a super easy way for someone working in a restaurant to get your credit card inform
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by altoz 13y ago
There's another part of the article where this vendor is required to open their network to competitors.
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by altoz 13y ago
> LA expects the fiber buildout to cost $3 billion to $5 billion, but the cost would be borne by the vendor. > The new fiber network would offer free Internet access of 2Mbps to 5Mbps (possibly subsidized by advertising) and paid tier
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by altoz 13y ago
Article strikes me as too much rationalization and not enough reflection. To one person, a $2500 bag may signal that you're middle class. To another, it may signal you're really bad with financial decisions. I don't think tha
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by altoz 13y ago
Hopefully, they get these things all over the place. The feature that interests me a lot more is being able to WITHDRAW money from the ATM. This can replace your regular ATM card.
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by altoz 13y ago
> Correct me if I'm mistaken Some corrections about the US: - Abortion is legal as is birth control. - A very few crazy people blame gay people for earthquakes but I'm sure such people exist everywhere. - Very few people carry
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by altoz 13y ago
Bitcoins are reaching lottery-level payoffs. In 5 years, will be see a lot more of these stories?
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by altoz 13y ago
$30/month for cell phone? If you go pre-paid with a provider like ptel, you can easily spend less than that if you're not using too much data or using too many minutes.
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by altoz 13y ago
This is an example of policy devoid of cultural context. East Asian societies, and Korean societies specifically have a history of examination as the main way to move up in class. During many dynasties of the past, if you could do well enou
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by altoz 13y ago
Interesting you would say this. The other major paradigm to dating is, of course, arranged marriage. The main advantage that arranged marriage brings is that third parties are involved in price discovery, hence setting much more realistic e
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by altoz 13y ago
"criticism is not tolerated" These are the people doing research and peer-reviewing? No wonder the quality of research is so bad. Criticism should be encouraged, not suppressed.

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