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by briatx 8y ago
That's not fractional reserve, that's just fraud. Exchanges are not banks.
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by briatx 8y ago
> number of users (proxied as active addresses) New wallets cost nothing to create and manipulation in this sector is rife. The assumptions are flawed from the start.
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by briatx 8y ago
> QE was the impending inflation that was going to happen QE backstopped the inflation that already happened during the credit boom. By supporting housing prices (and other associated bad debt) they essentially prevented a deflationary s
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by briatx 8y ago
Well, how well does that work whenever the AoA sensors are faulty? All it really had to do was decrease the sensitivity of the controls not override it. Once the manual controls were pulled back all the way the computer should have disenga
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by briatx 8y ago
> Well "fighting" sort of begs the question For instance, if the computer is attempting to pitch the plane down, while the pilot has the yoke all the way back. It should be possible to detect without too much mind reading.
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by briatx 8y ago
Even if training would have prevented the crashes it's still bad design for a critical change in flight control. Computers should never overrule manual controls. If the autopilot is on and the pilot makes an manual adjustment to the y
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by briatx 8y ago
> The whole industry is just selling snake-oil, and (I think?) people are buying it. No, not people in the sense of end user customers. The industry is selling snake oil and some investors have bought into it and subsequently promote it
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by briatx 8y ago
> Naming the Config parameter config is redundant. We know its a Config, it says so right there. > In this case consider conf or maybe c will do if the lifetime of the variable is short enough. This seems petty. Is it really that p
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by briatx 8y ago
I've been pretty happy tracking billable hours with Grindstone.
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by briatx 8y ago
It's not. Bitcoin has a history of huge factional schisms over changes that should have been a no brainer (increase block size to increase tx throughput). Instead political wars have been fought as the Core dev governance gridlocked an
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by briatx 8y ago
> No, you can have 30K BTC in your brain, but unfortunately the USD value fluctuates so wildly that as a store of value, it's useless. No, this is an important distinction. Bitcoin isn't liquid enough to count as actual money
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by briatx 8y ago
Paying a penalty for getting caught breaking a law sounds a bit like a bribe to me.
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by briatx 8y ago
> I really like where the iPad is going. You mean becoming more and more like a Surface Pro?
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by briatx 8y ago
Like a lot of the crypto currency space purse.io is shady and likely promoting thinly veiled money laundering. Ask yourself if the discount is worth the risk of experiences like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin&#x
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Six years later, Star Citizen is still raking it in(eurogamer.net)
84 points by briatx 8y ago|62 comments
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by briatx 8y ago
So that's basically an appeal to authority. If 90% of all startups fail, that means VCs like those you listed are only right 10% of the time. There are many objective reasons to take the other side of the bet: Bitcoin will not succeed
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The Roman 'Brexit': how life in Britain changed after 409 AD(phys.org)
21 points by briatx 8y ago|12 comments
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Oldest evidence for animals found(phys.org)
2 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Elite-College Admissions Are Broken(theatlantic.com)
3 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Rolls-Royce Wants to Fill the Seas with Self-Sailing Ships(wired.com)
1 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed(theguardian.com)
3 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared(nytimes.com)
3 points by briatx 8y ago|1 comments
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Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July(cnn.com)
44 points by briatx 8y ago|10 comments
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Stephen Hawking’s final paper published, tackles famous paradox(arstechnica.com)
1 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Crypto Industry on ‘Brink of an Implosion,’ Researcher Says(bloomberg.com)
3 points by briatx 8y ago|1 comments
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The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms(bloomberg.com)
52 points by briatx 8y ago|22 comments
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The next recession(economist.com)
150 points by briatx 8y ago|92 comments
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How Hurricane Michael Got Super Big, Super Fast(wired.com)
2 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Nearly $13B wiped off of cryptocurrency market as major coins plunge(cnbc.com)
2 points by briatx 8y ago|2 comments
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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens(techcrunch.com)
64 points by briatx 8y ago|46 comments

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