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   by bb88 9y ago

   Exchanges came into existence so Bitcoin could have value. Otherwise it's not worth anything more than an expired poker chip.
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   by bb88 9y ago

   > This is not what you are claiming. You are claiming that BTC is only worth something if it can be exchanged for a local currency through financial institutions. Nope. Look at the top of thread. I made it clear there. > If I can e
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   by bb88 9y ago

   I'm quoting this from one of the articles I linked above in the gp: "With the announcement that it plans to block all websites related to cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings – including foreign platforms – Beijing ha
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   by bb88 9y ago

   So your snark aside, China and India have already banned BTC [1] [2]. That's over a third of the world [3] right there. [1] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2132119/beiji... [2]
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   by bb88 9y ago

   Thanks, I appreciate that. I will avoid the LA area when finding my next gig.
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   by bb88 9y ago

   Are you saying he would have been better accepting a job in SV instead of LA? Is the culture difference between the two places that big?
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   by bb88 9y ago

   > when I think of embedded code I don't think of 12 MB. That's one thing for creating a one off or prototype, but when a company creates millions of devices, the BoM becomes more expensive than developing a C version of the co
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   by bb88 9y ago

   > Do we shut down the open source project? Do we make the algorithms illegal and have a repeat of the fight of whether or not mathematics and programming is free speech? Actually, it's quite simple. The SEC and IRS could go after
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   by bb88 9y ago

   Illegal cash still has to be laundered before it can be safely used. The more of it, the harder it is.
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    The truth about Apple's engineering(youtube.com)

    3 points by bb88 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > Well, of course working for a single hot company at 22 doesn't mean your career is set for life. What, did he think he was going to retire at Snap? Isn't that the promise of silicon valley? That there's so much money to
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    by bb88 9y ago

    I remind myself and others that they wouldn't have a "Human Resources" department if companies didn't believe that humans were resources. It's not "feelings management" or "people support", it is
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > This is a contributed post by Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital. That doesn't mean his points aren't valid. There's no membership required to make anti-bitcoin arguments.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    Pipenv is not bad. I switched to it in about 30 minutes. To start a new project: pipenv --three To add packages: pipenv install <package> pipenv install -d <development packages> pipenv install -r require
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > ... but to share the simple fact of going somewhere with our networks and getting validated by them. I think that's the bigger issue here. This isn't a new phenomenon. We see this in the form of companies branding strategy.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    To be honest, in the fine print in of that XKCD it says "See: ..., instant messaging".
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    by bb88 9y ago

    That's exactly my point. Thank you for making it for me.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > Whatsapp, Telegram, FB, iMessages are NOT standards. They're closed systems controlled by a single company. That's what the term "Defacto Standard" is for.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    They wouldn't. And so I have to have 20 apps to chat with all my friends. And that makes me a sad panda.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    Because people want party parrots. And there isn't a standard to send party parrots through XMPP. /s Okay, a little snarky, but it makes a point. Chat programs have a lot of proprietary features that won't translate throug
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    by bb88 9y ago

    Allo take up has been low, and there are better (or similar) alternatives. So they're not losing much.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    Years ago 1998ish(?), there was a fight to open up chat applications AIM, ICQ, YIM, etc. We had to have 20 apps to chat with each other. Fast forward 20 years, and here we are again, FB Messenger, Kik, WhatsApp, Allo, Signal, Telegram, SMS
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    Boehner Benefits from Pot. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It(nytimes.com)

    3 points by bb88 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bb88 9y ago

    The newspapers and magazines have had advertisements for at least the last two centuries to help subsidize the cost of the subscription. If you had to pay full price for a subscription, you probably wouldn't have it because the publis
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    by bb88 9y ago

    I actually wonder about this a bit. Wisconsin gave huge tax breaks to get that company in. So now in order to buy the land, they have to evict the land owners by marking the property as "blighted", because apparently they can&#x
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    by bb88 9y ago

    A simple rule for this is that if the claims are incredible, the proof needs to be incredible too.
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > The Home Pod, and Siri more specifically, simply cant compete in the "Home Assistant" space on either a technological nor price front. I'm not big on Apple products these days, but I disagree. Today's Apple is as m
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    by bb88 9y ago

    > That's because having these hot microphones networked in your house is such a creep concept, and feels extremely far from useful. No. I use "Hey google, turn off everything in the garage." all the time. It's remar
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    by bb88 9y ago

    So, has anyone ever been to svnhub.com? >>SVNHub Isn't necessary because GitHub supports Subversion!
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    by bb88 9y ago

    Counterfeiting has been a problem in China for years. Companies like Walmart have in the past used Chinese companies fairly responsibly, e.g. forcing them to use new brands that are no one else's, or selling under Walmart's brands