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by corford 9y ago
And there's a nice real world test of this happening right now :) BTC is experiencing a flash crash. I've taken a screen shot that shows the effect on Alts ( https://imgur.com/a/4vNOP ). Almost everything is do
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by corford 9y ago
>The exchange with those Tethers? I am not sure hedging on an exchange with this kind of counterparty exposure is a good idea. Agree. I don't use Bitfinex and I don't short. But many people do and for certain risks/fluctua
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by corford 9y ago
>shorting where? Bitfinex lets you short (although you'd obviously still get hosed if there was an enormous sell off). >you do know most of the market is BTC driven That's my point. It seems as the crypto market is expanding
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by corford 9y ago
Don't want to get into a flamewar here (save that for reddit haha!) but they're not my cup of tea. Lots of people use them though.
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by corford 9y ago
I suppose it depends what your tolerance for risk is and how much of your overall investments are in crypto. I trust one or two exchanges (Bitstamp and Bittrex). I trust Arrington's new crypto fund. I trust CME group. I trust Ripple (i
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by corford 9y ago
Good point. Real estate is going nuts here in Lisbon for example.
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by corford 9y ago
The crypto currency market is growing and maturing at such break neck speed it's got to the point where you can start to hedge against this. By either shorting certain coins, betting on futures (soon) or diversifying across function&#x
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by corford 9y ago
So true. It's just crazy at the moment. BTC, DASH, XMR, ETH, LTC, IOTA are all hitting ATHs. In the old days BTC rising would take money out of Alt coins. Now everything's going up. Surely can't last but how long this bull ma
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by corford 9y ago
"Maintainers are the friends we want and the employees companies look for. They have passion, willingness to share, and persistence. They are the real MVP and they deserve a thank-you note." ^^ I liked this. Very nice and very tru
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by corford 9y ago
Yep, all the time. It's perfect for quick, easy edits and available everywhere. I love the simplicity: CTRL-X [y/n/c]; ALT-A and CTRL-K CTRL-W and CTRL-R ...pretty much covers 99.9% of the commands I ever use in it
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by corford 9y ago
I think both ways are simple enough to grok it doesn't really matter and just comes down to personal/team preference (personally, I prefer JSX). The nice thing is Vue allows you a choice rather than making it dogma. As another com
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by corford 9y ago
Vue lets you go the Angular route with templates or the React route (it supports JSX out of the box).
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by corford 9y ago
Didn't know that. Super interesting, thanks.
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by corford 9y ago
I do now :) Thanks.
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by corford 9y ago
I'm wondering how long it will be until Revolut fully commit to supporting BTC on their cards.
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by corford 9y ago
I never left FF so picked 57 up as a normal update. Love everything about it so far except the new theme which is taking me longer than I'd like to adjust to (not a big fan of the dark blue/cobalt menubar).
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by corford 9y ago
Are you sure? If I'm reading this correctly https://whattomine.com/coins?utf8=%E2%9C%93&adapt_q_280x=0&a... A 1080Ti will mine 0.0396XMR every 24hours (yielding $4.71 at current prices). Presumably a CPU will f
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by corford 9y ago
Just donate the $ amount you'd have spent on a high end GPU and electricity. Faster, easier, less damage to the environment and doesn't require paying ATI or Nvidia more than you'd likely end up raising for the charity from y
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by corford 9y ago
Getting a few downvotes for this comment but my point is I think it's too simplistic to frame it as options are junk, it's a rigged lotto for naive young guns yada yada. Sure, the stats aren't great but if you're young,
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by corford 9y ago
On the other hand, even $1M/year doesn't look good compared to what you would have made via options/RSUs if you were employee < 10 at Facebook/Google/Amazon...
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by corford 9y ago
He seems to have thought about this and answers a question on it here (at about 1hr8mins in): https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982... His answer is a bit hand wavy though (or maybe I'm
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by corford 9y ago
Just the fact it's Bram Cohen behind this is enough to get me excited. Watching https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982... I love when he talks about the off by one error in Bitcoin'
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by corford 9y ago
Very aware MZ needs to find a way to get some ROI on his investment. If/when it becomes shit, I'll drop it.
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by corford 9y ago
<snark>it might actually work</snark> :)
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by corford 9y ago
Yep. Not sure how old you are, maybe it's an age thing? I'm in my early thirties, live abroad and don't have an FB account. I stay in touch with my friends and family back home with phone, sms, whatsapp, skype, email and birt
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by corford 9y ago
I haven't used it but according to their FAQ, the smart contract uses publicly available flight data from multiple government sources to determine if a flight is delayed. The payout is based solely on that and the decision is out of Ax
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by corford 9y ago
Yeah it's definitely been done more for marketing but Axa's CEO is on record as saying he thinks the blockchain and smart contracts will have a lot of valid use cases in the insurance industry. I suppose in this case the nice thin
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by corford 9y ago
AXA offer flight delay insurance powered by smart contracts: https://fizzy.axa/ Automatic payout if your flight is more than two hours late.
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by corford 9y ago
Fair point. Hopefully Lenovo will get better at this. I kind of overlook it since I don't use my phone for anything other than calls/sms, email, light web browsing (99% of the time wikipedia or hn), google maps, whatsapp, uber and
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by corford 9y ago
Moto G5 Plus (though updates might not stretch to 3 years). Here's a review: http://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/moto-g5-plus tl;dr: stock android with no bloatware (Nougat, though should get at least the Oreo u

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