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by chubs 10y ago
Is it possible to do HFT with bitcoin, given it has a 7 transactions-per-second maximum rate?
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by chubs 10y ago
I wonder if this could be used to upscale, say, a 1080p movie frame-by-frame to 4k? Could be fantastic if so. Imagine if it could be built into an FPGA and done in real-time by high-end TVs. Very impressive!
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by chubs 10y ago
Does anyone know if "it still relies on the central banking system" means it can be inflated away to worthlessness by a poorly run government?
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by chubs 10y ago
I'm a taxpayer: I am paid electronically, so I must be scrupulous. My neighbour is a tradesman (americans would say 'contractor') - hence, all his invoices are cash. He has two brand new ford wildtrak's in his driveway:
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by chubs 10y ago
If you want this to be a good Slack competitor, please make a native mac client which doesn't perpetually take 15% of my CPU the way Slack does - i'd convince our team to switch on that basis alone (all else being equal).
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Swift 3 migration(splinter.com.au)
1 points by chubs 10y ago|0 comments
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by chubs 10y ago
Related: Can anyone recommend any golang ones?
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by chubs 10y ago
Big factories can be retrofitted in times of world war to build tanks/guns/etc. It's seen as a national security thing.
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by chubs 10y ago
The timing re the iPhone 7, which is coming out in a few days, is terrible for Samsung. I imagine customers will have to return their Note, and then many will strongly consider the new iPhone. If this happened even a month ago, that would b
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by chubs 10y ago
Hey - i made that kickstarter! Unfortunately it doesn't seem there was much interest so it went nowhere. I still think it's regrettable how resource-hungry the official client is, but doesn't seem that too many people share t
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by chubs 10y ago
I see a common theme here is resource usage by Slack on the desktop. I also share this concern, and proposed a Kickstarter to build a native app: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2137936555/taut-the-fas... Unf
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by chubs 10y ago
There's a lot of low-hanging fruit there. They could copy some Play Store features such as: * Auto-refunds if you delete the app within 15 mins (this de-risks the app purchase) * Suggestions for apps that your friends have used * Bette
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by chubs 10y ago
The phenomenon is known as a 'market for lemons' - freakonomics did a story about it and how it applies to the used car market, but the same principles apply: free markets go bad if one side is low-information.
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by chubs 10y ago
The place to watch re battery tech, in my opinion, is the RC hobby scene. Eg hobby king will sell you, for $10, a lithium graphene battery which will pump out 60C (eg for a 2 amp-hour battery, it'll give you 120A!). It's incredibl
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by chubs 10y ago
Sounds like 'supply side economics' to me. Great to see Hayek relevant again!
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Show HN: Cocoa native Slack desktop app (kickstarter)(kickstarter.com)
4 points by chubs 10y ago|5 comments
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by chubs 10y ago
The country that gave us the Magna Carta, literally the manuscript for limited-government liberty, has done it again, on (almost) its 800th anniversary! Super interesting days ahead.
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by chubs 10y ago
Looks fantastic! Thanks for posting it. I think it's great that the first install method suggested is simple: download the css and add a style link to it.
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by chubs 10y ago
Some good thoughts on this topic I read recently: * Quantative Easing (eg printing money) floods the economy with money, it has go somewhere. * Since the real economy (manufacturing / information) isn't growing, the money flows in
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by chubs 11y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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by chubs 11y ago
I've been a christian for a very long time, finding myself sliding away, just don't find the solace in it anymore? Any thoughts? I still find myself attracted to the ideas - grace, forgiveness, love, a relationship with god, just
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by chubs 11y ago
I believe VW have promised to replace everyones entire engines . I'm stupefied over how much this will cost, i've seen numbers around to 100B mark. Their market cap is somewhere near half of that. Presumably they think it's
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by chubs 11y ago
The direct injection makes the petrol engine sound like a clunky diesel. It's pretty crummy. Combined with the wooden electric power steering and they're really boring cars to drive. Not to mention the gripless run-flat tyres. I u
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by chubs 11y ago
I can't imagine tim cook losing any sleep over this. Most users unlock their phones via touch ID (fingerprint) these days.
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by chubs 11y ago
You can take it to the apple store to get the battery replaced FWIW
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by chubs 11y ago
Just say 'I recommend we use this database from a bunch of ex-Googlers'.
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by chubs 11y ago
Rust could be a great platform to build a new mobile OS on. Non-garbage collected so it'd be fast and efficient on low-memory ARM devices. Just like Obj-C really gave iOS a headstart on java-based Android. Doubly-so if they want to con
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by chubs 11y ago
Could they get the same effect by giving villagers cast iron cookware?
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A screencast series on taking an iPhone app from nothing to submitting to Apple(youtube.com)
2 points by chubs 11y ago|0 comments
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by chubs 11y ago
1 HTML page (of course), 1 JS file (discounting analytics), 2 CSS, and some assets. As it should be! So many sites overdo it with frameworks. Good to see MS improving these days.

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