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by ckastner 9y ago
Articles of the sort "<country> is taking over AI, or startups, or the world" would be interesting to HN regardless of the actual <country> in question. China just happens to be the <country> in question, in a nu
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by ckastner 9y ago
The article is about a sub-group of these people, but the tone to me as well was one of sweeping generalizations. Edit (instead of replying to all of the individual replies): I'll be the first to acknowledge that there are systemic pro
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by ckastner 9y ago
> edit: Despite knowing almost nothing about AFP, I found articles on Google saying that Apple shifted from AFP file sharing to SMB2 in an article dated 2013 -- that's five years ago! Apple themselves state that AFP is deprecated I
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by ckastner 9y ago
Have you tried the financial sector? Banks, especially, are inundated with regulations (high-level, abstract) that necessitate technical (low-level, concrete) implementations or adaptations. Often, there are great legal minds at work on the
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Is Elon Musk just a good salesman, like Jobs? He's certainly a terrific salesman, but I believe that he's also been drinking too much of his own Kool-Aid. Everybody told him what SpaceX was planned to do was not possible. He
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by ckastner 9y ago
The power to put people behind bars solely rests with the judge and jury. The prosecutor, by definition, played a role in the process, but it's not the deciding role.
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Are you going to ban phones from meetings too? My employer does this, and it's wonderful. > Does anybody really want to work in that kind of environment where their attention is not invited, but commanded? No, but nobody is mak
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Someone calls a meeting and 5 people show up, each carrying a laptop So ban laptops from meetings (aside from the person taking the minutes). If a meeting requires my undivided attention, my laptop is going to be useless anyway. If it
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by ckastner 9y ago
... and by hemorrhaging cash.
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by ckastner 9y ago
There's an even larger (huge, in fact) graveyard in Tucson, Arizona: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.1589671,-110.8350419,2145m/d...
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by ckastner 9y ago
> If you can't move your money due to capital controls, you use bitcoin to bypass those controls If I can't move $100K of my money due to capital controls, then I also can't move those $100K to buy the bitcoin I need to by
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by ckastner 9y ago
> So just wait for it to come back up Some assets do not come back up.
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by ckastner 9y ago
It's definitely unconscionable, but totally believable to me. The kind of people who fell for this the first time, are exactly the kind of people who would fall for this the second time.
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by ckastner 9y ago
How would you characterize the side effects if Bitcoin went down to $1,000. Or even lower?
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by ckastner 9y ago
> If you work in a big city and look around; there are tall office buildings everywhere; packed with millions of people. But what do these people actually do? Is that an efficient use of their time in terms of creating value for each oth
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by ckastner 9y ago
But he does seem to have an uncanny ability to think rationally, to recognize when the broad market doesn't, and to capitalize on this difference.
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by ckastner 9y ago
This paper from 2005 describes a cache timing attack that enabled an unprivileged process to another process' AES key: https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf IIRC, the only way to address the issue
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Krzanich couldn't be possibly stupid enough to do this. Seeing as he made to the the role of CEO of Intel Corp., I find that to be a very convincing argument. I have to concede that there's precedent even for CEOs of huge cor
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by ckastner 9y ago
Grandparent said IT is a means. There are other means to provide the core business of banking. There are banks who outsource / spin-off not only their IT, but even transaction processing and settlement. > Same as casting a farm as
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by ckastner 9y ago
> The law applies to any sale between a consumer and a company, even one for free. There is no such thing as a free sale, and no, when you are gifted something, then you don't get the EU warranty protection.
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by ckastner 9y ago
> any bug that wasn't known to you at time of sale, but was present at time of sale, has to be fixed by the vendor Unfortunately, this is incorrect on many levels. First, under EU warranty laws, it's not any bug that is cover
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by ckastner 9y ago
> But the OTAs (who have been living off fat profits for years; see Priceline stock [1]) get none of my sympathy. Any move that hurts Booking.com's revenues is a good move, by me. I don't have an issue with them taking 20% comm
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Troublingly, the skeptical explanations section does not resolve the thousands of eyewitness reports from people claiming to see the UFOs Actually, that section contains a very reasonable explanation: Hallet's thesis is that the
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by ckastner 9y ago
> The evidence includes I highly recommend reading the Skeptical explanations section of that article. Among other things: [...] but the Belgian military only reported three such locks, and upon analyzing the data, all three radar loc
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by ckastner 9y ago
I know of one such case where the user had sold a car for bitcoins years ago, and wanted to cash in on the current bubble. The best the exchange could come up with was sending it in daily in amounts of several thousand dollars Are all Bit
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by ckastner 9y ago
You're still way up on paper . The payday comes when you actually liquidate your position, and you get the funds out of the exchange. Lot's of people were way up on Mt. Gox.
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by ckastner 9y ago
OK, it's rapidly falling now. Perhaps we get to see a fire sale today, after all!
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by ckastner 9y ago
Note that, with the BTC/USD seeming to have stabilized at around 13,000 for the moment, for everyone that got in by Dec. 6 (two weeks ago), this is still a win. As long as there are still that many winners, I don't think the numbe
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Did people expect the dotcom bubble? Greenspan called it "Irrational Exuberance" in 1996 [1], although I personally don't remember it being that bad then. By 1999, the word "bubble" was all over the media. [1]
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by ckastner 9y ago
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (attributed to John M. Keynes)

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