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by cowpig 9y ago
I have a feeling these businessinsider articles are actually coming from the pump and dump groups' press kits.
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by cowpig 9y ago
Well, I grew up in NYC where sarcasm and cynicism reign supreme. SV culture is really jarring.
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by cowpig 9y ago
"The genetic diversity of the strains of these bacteria leave us vulnerable to..." Wait crap my statement was too political and subjective
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by cowpig 9y ago
It's funny, I don't see it on the list but by far the biggest taboo in SV in my experience is talking about things going badly. You're doing great, killing it even, or you should keep it to yourself.
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by cowpig 9y ago
I don't know enough about finance or law to know what should have been done. But I can clearly see that what was done did nothing to restore public faith in our banking institutions.
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by cowpig 9y ago
> Capital expenditure (like colocation) is not fundamentally an advantage other market participants don’t have. Except that it is. Market participants cannot all be right next to exchanges, for physical impossibility reasons. > High f
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by cowpig 9y ago
You could implement the Bitcoin protocol in Ethereum, and the Ethereum protocol, practically speaking, does everything the Bitcoin protocol does plus a bunch of other things. That's what I mean when I say "subset".
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by cowpig 9y ago
I do mean pruning, which for most practical use-cases is fine, and also the patricia tree compression
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by cowpig 9y ago
> you've cherry-picked the exact point in time... I picked this number because it's what I paid yesterday > lol, nope. let me guess, `geth --fast`? well, i suggest you go read up on what `--fast` means. i challenge you to tr
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by cowpig 9y ago
Your argument is that latency-based front-running isn't front-running because the front-runners "earned it" via whatever system they built to front-run the trades. > HFT firms are very fast, but they are fundamentally oper
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by cowpig 9y ago
I am not sure how Franz Kafka would define it, but the NASDAQ[1] defines front-running as: > Entering into an equity trade, options or futures contracts with advance knowledge of a block transaction that will influence the price of the u
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by cowpig 9y ago
> Seems you’ve bought into Roger Ver’s snake oil. I've heard this a few times online despite not really knowing anything about Roger Ver. I am capable of coming to logical conclusions on my own. > 1mb limit isn’t stupid, it’s wha
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by cowpig 9y ago
I think it's pretty fair to call HFT strategies that rely on low-latency connections in order to gain a competitive advantage front-running. It's definitely front-running in the commonly-understood sense of the word, and sometimes
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by cowpig 9y ago
The whole timelocked channels idea makes sense in situations where you have one central hub (like an exchange) or two parties transacting with each other a ton. It doesn't work as a replacement for transactions generally, though.
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by cowpig 9y ago
Having been introduced to cryptocurrencies the technical route, I'd never really been exposed to the brand of hype in these Andreas Antonopoulos videos before. I guess I've never watched a televangelist either, but I imagine this
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by cowpig 9y ago
I couldn't read past the first, fawning paragraph about a figure in the poker world who likely stole millions of dollars from online players[1] directly, and at a minimum profited from turning a blind eye to her associates' theft[
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by cowpig 9y ago
If one of my friends identified me in a photo to facebook, I would not be happy about it. I generally ask everyone who knows me not to upload photos I'm in to facebook at all beyond what's already there.
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by cowpig 9y ago
Anti-facebook articles have been common on HN for years, and it's particularly ubiquitous right now because of all the powerful negative influence it's having in politics.
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by cowpig 9y ago
This article was extremely cringey, starting from the ridiculous assumption that "the world's best and brightest" are the most famous American billionaires, and through the flurry of shallow understandings about the philosoph
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by cowpig 9y ago
Is it at all possible that these "weird" videos are not disturbing to children?
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by cowpig 9y ago
Yeah, and it's tamer than pretty much any episode of Ren & Stimpy.
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by cowpig 9y ago
What's really bizarre to me is that people here don't think using facebook in general is creepy...
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by cowpig 9y ago
I don't believe in this kind of censorship and that medium article just reads like a bunch of alarmist nonsense to me. I was exposed to tons of super-weird stuff on TV an the internet (adult swim, fat-pie, etc) and so were most of my f
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by cowpig 9y ago
Why did you choose to tie identity to devices? That idea has always seemed fundamentally flawed to me, and if it wasn't for this flawed core idea, I would be a big fan of what you are doing. I am not my cell phone, my laptop, or any ot
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by cowpig 9y ago
Wasn't trying to twist anything. Just letting you see how your post looks to someone not in your in-group. It's crazy to me that your worldview is so deeply embedded with tribalism that you think your dad being a mechanic or your
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by cowpig 9y ago
Not surprised. I was in a fraternity, and no we didn't haze at all. Between all the events (of which less than a third are parties) and dedication it takes to keep the thing from barreling into the ground you learn some basic lifeskill
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by cowpig 9y ago
I'm pretty sure most people develop social skills in university regardless of whether they join a fraternity. Having a group of adult friends, freedom, roommates, etc, all prepare you for the real world. Fraternities also prepare you f
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by cowpig 9y ago
How does this fit into the bigger picture? Is there any punitive action?
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by cowpig 9y ago
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
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by cowpig 9y ago
> But if that were the case, there would be plenty of such mutations still kicking around in the genome, the authors argue. That such a large study found only two strongly suggests that evolution is “weeding” them out, says Mostafavi, an

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