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by apo 9y ago
“Anonymized votes/ballots are being recorded on Agora’s blockchain, which will be publicly available for any interested party to review, count and validate,” said Gammar. The details on this vote have been extremely scarce. The use o
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1666
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Each transaction spending the locked funds bears the signature of the party making the payment. The other party can then provide the counter-signature making the transaction valid on the Bitcoin network. The main security problem to solve i
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For those who may not know the context, this has to do with long-term scaling of the Bitcoin network. The very first public response to Satoshi's announcement of Bitcoin was an expression of doubt about scalability: We very, very much
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According to this article, one reason LBOs are attractive derives from the US tax code: A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a financial transaction in which a company is purchased with a combination of equity and debt, such that the company's
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Some will look and this and say, "big deal, people can't do math in their heads." There may be more to it. Consider the recent "riddle" in which a man buys a horse, sells it, and buys it back again, then sells it. T
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iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy(variety.com)
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Toys 'R' Us will close or sell all US stores(money.cnn.com)
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Nerve agent attack on spy used ‘Novichok’ poison(cen.acs.org)
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Russia has motive, means, and opportunity. So do many other groups. ... it's entirely possible the decision to blame them is based on non-public information like travel records, surveillance data, etc. Based on the information rele
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who would want this person dead. Among that group would be those trying to foment conflict between NATO and Russia. And it's a pretty big group.
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British intelligence have labeled the poison as “military grade” and “of a type developed in Russia.” I've seen no evidence whatsoever that the alleged attack was carried out by Russia. Novichok agents were developed in the 1970s, ha
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This shouldn't be a partisan issue. I'm talking about the disintegration of the rule of law. The new Commander in Chief failed to hold those under his command accountable for their immoral, illegal acts that put our democracy at r
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The inevitable result of illegal activity going unpunished: normalization. The Obama administration had eight years to do something about this and instead decided turn the other way. All we got was a mealy-mouthed admission that "we to
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That was one of the best film critiques I've ever seen. I especially like the fact that: - the original movie was explained because I had never heard of it; and - a short version of the re-edited movie was spliced together so that you
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I'm using the definition of house in wide use: the profits you make on gambling or a trade. See: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Im-playing-with-house-money-... The idea that one should factor the origin of the money p
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There doesn't appear to be any new information here, and this quote sums it up pretty well: The SEC staff has concerns that many online trading platforms appear to investors as SEC-registered and regulated marketplaces when they are n
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The author quotes Taleb: ...Unless you engage in strategies designed by traders and rediscovered by every single surviving trader, very similar to what we call, something called the Kelly Criterion, which is to play with the house money. .
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Thought the same thing as well. Ship of Theseus.
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Water in the American West is one of those topics that sounds boring on the surface, but gets more interesting the further down you go. A good introduction is the "Cadillac Desert" documentary: https://www.youtube.com&#
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Bizarre. The article doesn't explain much about why the author hates design patterns. The best I could come up with is in this passage: Perhaps I’m being unfair to Design Patterns, but those articles [about design patterns] seem like
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Fake cryptocurrency lists 'Ryan Gosling' as its graphic designer(cnet.com)
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I've seen nothing to suggest that a LN operator would be considered a money transmitter. Whats your best reason for thinking so, and why does your definition of money transmission not include miners?
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I'm surprised this article doesn't mention General Electric, which has taken a series of financial hits lately due in large part to sagging demand for its power generation equipment. https://www.nytimes.com/2017&#x
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I'm generally pessimistic about the desirability and utility of block chain voting systems. Spend any amount of time around Bitcoin beginners and the one of the recurring themes will be lost private keys. And "lost" includes
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"I didn't think I'd ever want to buy a pallet of mini cinder blocks, but now that I see it, I really need it." The weird thing about this is that I now suddenly want a miniature palette of miniature cinder blocks, but
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Black Mirror takes Frederik Pohl's advice in directions I've never seen it taken before in a series: A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
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You brought up the PhD silliness. I quoted the author's about page, which says nothing about block chain research. That quote happened to mention a PhD, which I could not care less about. Much more important is the fact that the bio
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With PayPal now closed to her, she [Elbakyan] simply turned to bitcoin donations to keep feeding Sci-Hub’s growth. ... One 2017 PeerJ study estimated that Sci-Hub owned $268,000 in unspent bitcoin as of August 2017. (Though Elbakyan has
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I'm not sure how you conclude that the PhD has been earned. The about page uses the future tense, there has been a lot of time to update it, and there's this: With luck, my thesis will be complete in late 2017 – only three years

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