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by asciimo 9y ago
The author glosses over the true source of the magical, "free" fertilizer: "some fish food." You have to feed the fish. I have never seen an aquaponics zealot do the math on the cost per unit of fish food versus the cost
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by asciimo 9y ago
I think a better analogy would be if Steve Wozniak started a new company called Apple Electronics back in the middle 80s.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Why do some people call Bitcoin Cash "Bcash?" It seems to accompany critical statements. I'll assume you're not doing it to save 6 letters, because later you refer to Bitcoin as BTC. You could have saved more letters by
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by asciimo 9y ago
And all the armored trucks, the parking meters, the security staff and equipment, the phone calls, the faxes, the mailed documents...
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by asciimo 9y ago
This is the "intrinsic value" the media claims does not exist.
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by asciimo 9y ago
I would love a reading room with a projector that turns a blank wall into a bookcase. It could interact with software on a tablet to "pull" books off the shelf and browse them on the tablet. It could even be responsive to gestures
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by asciimo 9y ago
The books are on https://www.gdax.com/ , Coinbase's exchange intended for big trades. Coinbase is more of a consumer retail site. I assume the latter is what is going down, but it's hard to tell as they both seem f
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by asciimo 9y ago
The difficulty increases or decreases proportional to the effort expended, so that new coins are minted every 10 minutes. The 21 million coin limit is hardcoded. To your question about spending deflationary money, one theory is that people
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by asciimo 9y ago
They should be kept in a space-cold vacuum.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Yes, it gets complicated and takes diligence to keep accurate records. It will be interesting to hear audit stories. Fortunately, unlike conventional financial institutions, crypto exchanges often provide APIs to help customers automate t
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by asciimo 9y ago
It used to end with "... and this is what what happened." I would prefer "...and it saved my business" or "...it made me quit." Even removing that clickbaity suffix makes me feel better.
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by asciimo 9y ago
That's a pretty bad title and I'm not going to click on it on principle.
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by asciimo 9y ago
You see no value in sending $1,000,000 across the world in 10 minutes for less that $4? No value in date-stamping documents on the Blockchain, and proving asset ownership? No value in locking your wealth cryptographically among several keys
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by asciimo 9y ago
Your assertion that bitcoin is "a vehicle entirely for speculation" is false. It provides convenient methods for transferring and storing value. Even if it were merely a vehicle for speculation, that is not the criterion for bein
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by asciimo 9y ago
I played with this at the Samsung Developer Conference and it was the highlight of the show for me. It wasn't enough for me to buy in to the Samsung ecosystem, but it was enough for me to pay attention to what they're doing.
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by asciimo 9y ago
By "use VR..." do you mean that use a VNC client in VR mode? How is the resolution?
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by asciimo 9y ago
The fee size is relative to the amount of competition to get transactions into the next block. Because the block size has been capped at 1MB, not every transaction in the preceding 10 minutes will fit. So miners sort by the fees attached to
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by asciimo 9y ago
Fascinating story. In the end, I'm happy to have learned about a new maker hero to follow. (Naomi Wu, not Dale Dougherty.)
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by asciimo 9y ago
What's the go-to community online for ininteractive fiction writers and tools?
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by asciimo 9y ago
Countdown the the busiest day of a procrastinator's life.
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by asciimo 9y ago
The energy consumption of the incumbent financial infrastructure is extremely difficult to measure, and so it has never been seriously considered a "problem." There hasn't been an alternative. What does it cost to put a roll
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by asciimo 9y ago
Do you have a citation for your understanding? Seems plausible but this is the first time I've ever heard this part of the mythology. I'm especially interested because Craig S. Wright went on and on about how uncomfortable it made
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by asciimo 9y ago
> Those who do not become computer scientists to the second degree risk turning into programmers who will only implement the ideas of others. The horror! Maybe this was truly a terrible fate in 1997.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Thank you for the nand2tetris reference. This looks fantastic.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Sorry for this metacomment, but how can you tell if someone is getting downvoted?
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by asciimo 9y ago
Bitcoin Cash was forked to handle the cup-of-coffee use case. It looks like a diverse ecosystem is forming, where the consumer can choose to transact with the best currency for that transaction, rather than the "best currency."
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by asciimo 9y ago
Looking at synthetic celebrities is unsettling. They're all familiar. They're obviously celebrities, but it's impossible to remember their names.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Hey, Tom. I'll be right over with my laptop that I don't care about. You still on Green St.?
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by asciimo 9y ago
I think it's fair to demonstrate that you actually know how to teach adult humans, regardless of the subject matter. A license is a fair standard to measure. Maybe the license criteria need to be modernized?
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by asciimo 9y ago
Me too. I wondered if it was related to this discovery about China's revulsion to that fragrance. http://www.npr.org/2017/07/29/540214689/chinese-buyers-don-t...

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