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by crystaln 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure that the Chinese have well polished ways and means of getting money out of China What makes you "pretty sure"? Certainly some Chinese have sophisticated methods of exiting money, through overseas corporat
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by crystaln 13y ago
Delete can be hard too... Undo is definitely harder.
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by crystaln 13y ago
It is not scandalous to have your pricing correlate to value and markets, rather than cost basis. If it were, almost every software and saas company would be a scandal.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Undo is hard, not a core competency for most companies, and most users don't care. In fact, many users don't want deletes to be undoable, they want deletes to be delete. You could probably make a stronger case for improving delete
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by crystaln 13y ago
When you want something. A deflationary currency isn't much different from owning stock. Imagine you own $1000 in stock and want a TV. Would you ever sell to buy? Of course.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Interesting. Seems ripe for a ripoff but I hope that works out for you. It would be nice to have some sort of reliable decentralized escrow.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Likely the best investment opportunity ever posted on HN, possibly in the history of the world, for simple buy/mine and hold ROI.
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by crystaln 13y ago
A Pakistani girl showed this video to me early this year, and she was in fact very moved. The Pakistan - India divide is a tragedy of religion and politics, foreign and domestic.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Many of them may not have USD bank accounts overseas, or wish to have the funds associated with their name. I suspect a large amount of the funds are ill-gotten gains from rampant corruption by government officials and cronies. Also, many w
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by crystaln 13y ago
Yes. If you have a large amount of Chinese Yuan (CNY), it's very difficult to legally convert that to foreign currency or purchase substantial foreign assets. Foreign exchange is strictly regulated. Until the Chinese government clamps
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by crystaln 13y ago
I don't know much about the credibility of storyleak.com (although a quick look at their other headlines gives me an idea,) but this story derives from an inflammatory article by infowars.com, a site run by Alex Jones, the highly the d
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by crystaln 13y ago
Humans are no longer responsible for such things at google. If you have objections, submit them to the Algorithm, Who already knows what you have to say and doesn't care.
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Football coach winning with math by never punting, always onside kicking(youtube.com)
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by crystaln 13y ago
They also don't have a particularly sticky product. Once people slow down using it, the content literally evaporates. I don't see a lot of upside from $3B, but I've been wrong before...
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by crystaln 13y ago
SnapChat's product is not worthless, it just doesn't comprise much of the value of the company. People don't use SnapChat because of the product itself, they use it because of the brand and popularity among their friends. Thi
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by crystaln 13y ago
They need to acquire because the failure of Poke likely has nothing to do with management or political baggage or cost. SnapChat is a brand with users. Not a product. The product itself is worth very little.
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by crystaln 13y ago
How much risk is worth a 33% return?
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by crystaln 13y ago
There are very few use cases that can be solved with mongo that can't be solved equally well using nosql inspired features of Postgres and other simple tools. Data often has relational characteristics we don't anticipate. That&#x2
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by crystaln 13y ago
TLDR: Learn what you're trying to learn well enough that you can write it in your own words. Feynman was wonderfully intelligent, but I'm not sure he deserves to be named the inventor learning.
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by crystaln 13y ago
> Can you think of anything better (and reasonably simple)? I linked to graphs of two better indicators. Did you read my comment past the first sentence? - Number of transactions exclusive of very low quantity transactions, approximated
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by crystaln 13y ago
The number of transactions is a poor measure of the popularity of and demand for bitcoin. Both transactions excluding popular services that post very high volumes of low value transactions, and USD value of all transactions, are much closer
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by crystaln 13y ago
HIV correlates with sexual activity, which seems likely to have a negative correlation with suicide. People who are getting laid are happier.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Carriages are pulled by horses. So I suppose horseless carriage was the wrong word? Language evolved, often creating interesting contradictory terms. "Autonomous corporation" is not the same word as "corporation."
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by crystaln 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with not being ambitious. Some day I may not be. Until then, I'd rather be around people who are.
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by crystaln 13y ago
All true. I didn't say there were no interesting people in Miami, only that the density is so much higher in San Francisco.
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by crystaln 13y ago
I didn't realize I owed you a defense of my life.
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by crystaln 13y ago
San Francisco is a magnet for talented, ambitious, creative, brilliant, audacious people. It's hard to argue against this, and by accepting that as true, you must also accept the clear corollary - that there are proportionally more of
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by crystaln 13y ago
I made the decision a long time ago that people come first. Comparing the people of San Francisco to those of Miami, well, in this case you get what you pay for. I feel like a rock star wild man anywhere else. In San Francisco I feel like I
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by crystaln 13y ago
flickr did OK Unwillingness to shell out for the correct spelling does seem to be a negative indicator, though many companies did that once success looked likely.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Douglas Adams may have been onto something. > Now, there are certain attributes of the Riemann zeta function called its moments which should give rise to a sequence of numbers. However, before the Seattle conference, only two of these mo

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