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by bachback 13y ago
This just shows how insane the media world is. Great rebuttal. I love this one: "It is literally impossible for another car to have a better safety track record, as it would have to possess mystical powers of healing."
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by bachback 13y ago
a timely repost. ====== value revenue profit TWTR 25B$ 0.3B$ -0.08B$ AMZN 170B$ 61B$ -0.04B$ CRM 34B$ 3B$ -0.27B$
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by bachback 13y ago
very interesting, didn't know about the 185k. Why fake non-profit? I think the whole thing is quite a mess, and there is very little analysis.
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Ask HN: new top level domains?
7 points by bachback 13y ago|3 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
I was in Berlin. What I've found is that the most famous startup in Berlin is a todo-list. Jawohl! Make sure to visit the c-base if you're there.
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by bachback 13y ago
God, that is so sad. The first thing we have to get rid of this is extremely superficial notion of usefulness. Art and culture is there to inspire, to learn new things, not to be merely useful in a world limited by thought. When calculating
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by bachback 13y ago
Bitcoin + contracts => new governments https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts Quote from Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo. "We are now entering an era of online communicatio
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by bachback 13y ago
Read Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By Nick Szabo and couple that with Bitcoin. Think of laws as being online documents with their own git layer, public repo infrastructure. "We are now entering an era of onl
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by bachback 13y ago
machine learning? because you also want to filter cats.
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by bachback 13y ago
amazing potential. but in the end - out of scope. If you go through the least each org has only few repos with little interest. One of the more interesting ones is: https://github.com/opengovplatform
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by bachback 13y ago
No, he published the Black Swan in 2008, which as a term is now part of the dictionary. He very thoughtful about the term predictions, so it is much more a framework for statistical thinking. Actual help work, as opposed to the nonsense tha
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by bachback 13y ago
Very, very interesting. There are a lot of to be announced in there, especially pricing. But as this is opensource I thank the creators of this and will hope to contribute.
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by bachback 13y ago
Fama was wrong about everything. I think Nassim Taleb should have deserved it, for actually "predicting" the crises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3REdLZ8Xis&list=PLzfJcwakFwl...
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by bachback 13y ago
I'm surprised that this hasn't popped up on HN before, AFAIK. This is very telling: "During the public comment period for the proposal to manage name collision risks, 75 comments were received4: 35 in favor of moving forward
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ICANN: Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions(icann.org)
1 points by bachback 13y ago|1 comments
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tl;dr = tl;dr(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bachback 13y ago|0 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
that's a system call/protocol layer. node is used for some of the highest performance stuff in the world. try this: http://zeromq.org/bindings:node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/144292
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by bachback 13y ago
It's not a kernel! how hard can that be to understand?
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by bachback 13y ago
here are my thoughts. there once was chromeOS, which was the idea to build an OS as a browser. more recently exobrowser is bootstrapping chrome via node. which means you can expose rendering methods. if you compare that with what different
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by bachback 13y ago
there is the docker. Yeah, it's a bit like: please develop this thing. I understand the reasoning, but.. JDI if you really want it. it might as well take years to get the knowledge required. so posting to HN is a bit like a launch. any
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by bachback 13y ago
nodeJS creates a global namespace. look at meteorJS, a revolution for webframeworks.
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by bachback 13y ago
Volatility comes from uncertainty. That is going to remain high. Which means if I hold Bitcoin there is the chance that I will wake up tomorrow losing 50% of the value. But insurance for that decline is to expensive. Perhaps one could creat
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by bachback 13y ago
You buy puts to hedge longs. Put selling puts on BTC would be pretty insane. As a whole there are no insurance sellers. Insurance will be too expensive. But perhaps there some kind of crazy solutions to offset volatility to the network or s
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by bachback 13y ago
I don't think that will work, because selling puts on Bitcoin is much too risky. Long puts and shorts are really the same thing (put has a delta and vega component). So while this is a most interesting space, I don't think this pr
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by bachback 13y ago
One important question is: could one create a short BTC contract at a reasonable price? so that when I hold BTC I'm not subject to the downsides? For every short someone holding BTC would have to find long exposure which a BTC holder w
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by bachback 13y ago
"Obviously being open and sincere about all the facts after the deception helps, but it also contradicts the very fact that you were deceitful." I don't understand how this is going to help anybody's cause.
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by bachback 13y ago
Ah, it's open. took me a while: https://github.com/benweet/stackedit
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by bachback 13y ago
very nice. what are some of the wider/long-term implications of this?
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by bachback 13y ago
I have no experience, but alternatively check out sedo.com, they have escrow too.
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by bachback 13y ago
very cool stuff. Could some subcomponents be used for the JS implementation? ( https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-server ).

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