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by consz 13y ago
Are you seriously using A Christmas Carol as evidence? Come on now.
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by consz 13y ago
Honestly, it surprises me when people say money doesn't buy happiness. Obviously I can only speak for one person, myself, but I've absolutely become happier as I've made more and more money.
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by consz 13y ago
Please read the article before posting next time.
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by consz 13y ago
Do you have any proof of that, other than your own anecdotal evidence?
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by consz 13y ago
Games are more interesting than businesses or open source. Have you never encountered someone with a different opinion?
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by consz 13y ago
That assumes BFL won't just run off with all the money.
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by consz 14y ago
So you agree that it doesn't matter who the author is?
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by consz 14y ago
Why does it matter so much? There are tons of articles on the front page of HN from no-names.
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by consz 14y ago
How is that not low-risk arbitrage? Good HFT strategies typically have returns of 10-20% daily on capital, there's relatively little risk holding long to allow your strategy to trade when you cover the maximum possible cost of carry in a we
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by consz 14y ago
What are you trying to say?
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by consz 14y ago
Two days of profits having to pay a single employee's wanton ink cartridge spending is pretty serious.
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by consz 14y ago
You go long a small amount of BTC on each exchange (> your max position limit, say 3 BTC), and as long as your strategy makes more money than the carrying cost of the long position (which for any real strategy it should be paid off in d
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by consz 14y ago
>Apparently as a Full Tilt user I'm a "fraud" "victim". Are you saying you knew about the fraud at FT (disqualifying the 'victim' part), or you don't believe they committed fraud?
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by consz 14y ago
>This is a comment that says there are only a few good startups in existence. There is no possible way the author fo the comment can back that argument up. Why does he have to back it up? Null hypothesis, "There are no good startups", r
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by consz 14y ago
FPGAs and ASICs are rare -- at least the HFT firm I work for, they're basically non-existant.
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by consz 14y ago
> If your sole reason for doing so was "I absolutely trust the people on the other end of this socket not to do what 99% of all people handling credit card data do whether they pretend otherwise or not", instead of something like "hmm t
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by consz 14y ago
I mean, there's a % taken from every bitcoin transaction as well, it's just a question of which fee is lower, BTC or dwolla.
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by consz 14y ago
There probably are thousands (tens of, hundreds of?) Elon Musks already in the world, it's just Elon Musk was one of the few to also be lucky enough to become a billionaire as well.
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by consz 14y ago
>Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress
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by consz 14y ago
I agree with you, RWC should disallow Atherton residents from driving on their streets -- possibly enforced through randomly pulling over cars (richer cars will probably yield better results) and ticketing anyone with an Atherton address.
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by consz 14y ago
>You’d think if people had more than they need, they would be generous about it, and would see, reflecting on themselves, that others might want to have more as well. This doesn't really make sense to me. People who value relationships
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by consz 14y ago
Citation? Have there been any studies showing a correlation between use of the word "mansplain" and increases in ad hominem attacks?
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by consz 14y ago
If I spend $500 in energy to cook mac and cheese, is that mac and cheese worth $500? More precisely: Does the cost of making something have anything to do with the price it is sold at?
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by consz 14y ago
>Edit: The helpful explanation linked in a comment on the question you linked is defective because it applies to all continuous probability distributions. No, why do you think so?
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by consz 14y ago
Which is more, paying x% on 1BTC of x% a hundred times on 0.01BTC?
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by consz 14y ago
Well, that was 12 years ago so it wouldn't have appeared quite as ridiculous at the time, at least to non-tech culture.
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by consz 14y ago
Yes they will, everyone selling actual goods in BTC sells at the USD equivalent, if you previously wanted to play with X dollars of whatever currency you use, you can still play with X dollars of whatever currency you use.
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by consz 14y ago
Yeah, I had an account hellbanned here for over a year before someone finally told me. There's no way to find if someone replies to you on this forum so I rarely went back and checked if anyone replied to me, but it still bothered me that t
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by consz 14y ago
upvote if you like it, downvote if you don't like it. simple?
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by consz 14y ago
I use it to play games on airplane rides and to jerk off in bed when a laptop would be inconvenient. Other than that, I'm also at a loss of what to do with it.

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