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by apo 8y ago
Hanging over May’s hearing was the fate of the Basin’s last big electrical customer: the Alcoa aluminum smelter, which employed more than 400 workers before it was idled several years ago thanks to competition from cheaper Chinese imports.
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Timetrap: Simple command line timetracker(github.com)
2 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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by apo 8y ago
Oddly enough, one of the selling points of Bitcoin Gold (a hard fork of Bitcoin) was its use of Equihash instead of SHA-256. The idea was that a memory-hard proof-of-work function would inoculate Bitcoin Gold from miner centralization. The
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This Guy Heated Bath Water with Bitcoin Mining and It Worked Too Well(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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by apo 8y ago
True, this has been one of the consistent criticisms of Bitcoin - Satoshi solo mined coins and therefore distribution wasn't fair. OTOH, consider the alternative. Satoshi gave himself all the money in the system, then divvied it up amo
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by apo 8y ago
Initial reactions: 1. Sybil-resistance (faking strong consensus by deploying cheap replica nodes you control) in a protocol like this is crucial. All I could find is this: To prevent Sybil attacks, it uses a mechanism like proof-of-stake t
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by apo 8y ago
The SEC has missed the point entirely. Savvy investors want proof that the ICO organizer is running a scam, and that it has legs. The SEC has merely created a playbook, not a fraud deterrent. The ICO scam is a genre of investor literature.
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by apo 8y ago
What are we trying to achieve? It’s very simple actually — all we’re trying to do is maintain a simple table of balances on a piece of paper. This table will show how many coins each of our heroes has. The trick is, because we can’t have o
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by apo 8y ago
Bitcoin caused excitement when it proposed a technical solution to a problem that previously required a trusted intermediary—money, or, more specifically, the problem of guaranteeing and controlling money supply and monitoring the repartit
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by apo 8y ago
Amid his mind-boggling defense, the investor did admit that Theranos was now in the “loser column” of his investments list, a list that also includes Tesla and Bitcoin. The Silk Road assets are likely up 10x or more: https://ww
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by apo 8y ago
The article states that parents can request the blood spot sample to be destroyed. A link is given. You do have the right to ask the biobank to destroy the leftovers after the fact, though the agency's website states it "may not
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by apo 8y ago
If you want to understand just how difficult managing cryptographic material is for the technically illiterate, look no further than Xapo. It's not "Bitcoin" that Xapo stores, but private keys. In underground bunkers. This no
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by apo 8y ago
One of the most significant obstacles against blockchain and cryptocurrency products from entering daily lives is bad user experiences. It is extremely difficult to figure out for someone who isn’t tech-savvy. This has nothing to do with
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by apo 8y ago
I'm ready to share this now: our book on Angular 2 did $400k a revenue, per year, the first two years. BUT the reason this was possible was we had a huge audience that trusted us. Helpful insights. What are the major factors you cred
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by apo 8y ago
It strikes me as odd how many of these growth hacking stories describe a web analytics tool (as in the linked article), an email subscriber system, or a CMS extensions/hosting solution. Throw a rock in any direction and you'll hit
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by apo 9y ago
The figure, reported by CNBC, comes from Credit Karma, a popular financial app through which people can view their credit score and file taxes. Of the more than 250,000 people who have filed through Credit Karma this year, a whopping 0.000
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by apo 9y ago
And I'm sure it WILL be replaceable because we are increasingly surrounding ourselves with these uniform ways of doing things. The tension between creativity and conventions is fascinating. I recently read a book about writing (osten
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Bitcoin Data Science: HODL Waves(blog.unchained-capital.com)
22 points by apo 9y ago|0 comments
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by apo 9y ago
This documentary on BBSs is well worth the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
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Peepeth: Unstoppable Microblogging(peepeth.com)
117 points by apo 9y ago|74 comments
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by apo 9y ago
Error establishing a database connection There's a Dapp for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System Interesting points: - there is no token, and so IPFS isn't as sexy as some of the s
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How the Islamic State stayed in power so long(nytimes.com)
4 points by apo 9y ago|0 comments
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by apo 9y ago
Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. This is a patent application , not a patent . The difference is significant. A patent application c
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by apo 9y ago
Not being on Facebook is sort of like not having a cellphone. As someone who has never had a cell phone, I can say that living this way in a first-world country is challenging. I've been in situations where it's assumed I do hav
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by apo 9y ago
Taco Bell Programming can lead to duct tape. You start with a simple script to do a simple job. It works - well. People want more features. You keep going until nobody can understand what you've created. Then you leave the company. Any
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by apo 9y ago
Can't help but be reminded of this: The Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan plans to walk away from its almost $2 billion investment in Rockefeller Center, the Hope diamond of world real estate. https://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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by apo 9y ago
This revised 2014 article veers off into some strange territory at the end: For the first time in human history, ALL of the philosophical, psychological, and educational frameworks and just about every technology necessary to create and su
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by apo 9y ago
It's laughable that any Facebook user assumes any degree of privacy. What's far more concerning, and what this probe doesn't appear to address, is what Facebook does with the information of non-users. https://field
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by apo 9y ago
Beware of Blockchain stories with unsubstantiated facts. The original story had many red flags, not the least of which being the use of the future tense in a quote by Gammar. “Anonymized votes/ballots are being recorded on Agora’s blo
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Our Civil Asset Forfeiture Nightmare(ir.net)
4 points by apo 9y ago|0 comments

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