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Graphics cards aren't used to mine bitcoin any more. Only chips that are made specifically for mining bitcoin (ASICs) are used in mining rigs.
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South Korea’s Electronic Times The source is in the first sentence of the article.
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This looks like the original article that everyone is basing this information on: http://www.etnews.com/20180528000239 (in Korean) > Apple has decided to adopt organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) next year for all new
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Pastors deal with so much frustration every day. Working with people in any job is messy and can be very draining. In the context of a church, working with people is significantly messier and more draining. Pastors burn out all the time.
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My takeaway: Many technological innovations don't turn out to be world-changing events. And those that do take several years to trickle down to mainstream usage. For those of us that keep a skeptical mindset when evaluating new techno
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Anecdotally I can say that Zoom has worked the best for us. But no software can fix variances in bandwidth or latency. I wish there was a way to test a remote hire's internet connection quality. Lack of access to a good internet conn
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The author of this opinion piece is praising Apple for its willingness to NOT innovate. I strongly disagree. The best solution to privacy concerns is not to stop innovating. Surely there are better solutions. Apple is leading the way on so
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Health insurance providers have every incentive to make people healthier - or at least use medical services less.
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> Most people agree that money by itself has something bad attached to it, at some level it encourages people to do evil stuff. What?! This is not true. Money is not inherently evil. Money is a tool, just like a hammer. I can build thing
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R&D of applying cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to real world problems.
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So are you telling me that you can continue to enter wrong passwords while the phone is under a lockout period? And doing that will continue to extend the lockout period? If so, that is an overlooked implementation bug. Apple should fix t
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I don't pretend to understand the mindset of a suicide-murderer, but I'll make a guess. Perhaps they are in pain due to mental illness and want to end their life. The guilt of their children living without them is preventing them
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What is the oracle for telling the blockchain which team won? Do we just trust the person who wrote this contract?
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I imagine these trucks would phone home immediately and warn an operator that they had unexpectedly stopped. And I'm sure they continually log their GPS location with a server somewhere. They likely have some level of video feed bein
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So the topography here is: Individual router <-> satellite mesh net <-> SpaceX router connected to the internet. Is there any reason why the protocol between satellites matters? They clearly aren't aiming for interoperabil
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I never forgave Fox for cancelling this show.
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Sure. Load 10 seconds, start playing and then always have a buffer of exactly 10 seconds in memory.
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On the other hand, you have a team of X employees who work at the company. I'm sure many of them have access to this map. By sharing this with the world, you are encouraged to face any vulnerabilities that you may have overlooked.
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TrueUSD – a USD-backed stable cryptocurrency(truecoin.com)
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Any power of 10 is a milestone number. Bitcoin crossing $100, $1000, $10,000 were all significant milestones. As humans we like to reduce information so we think in terms of milestones. A typical conversation might go like this: "What
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So is a piece of paper with fancy printing on it that says ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Currency is an abstraction. It is a social contract to value something at a certain level. That contract is enforced at the highest levels in our county which
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What you did there was use digital credit. It is very useful but it is different than digital cash.
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Look at the value of gold between 2001 and 2013[1]. There were multiple years with 20-30% gains. I grant that a +1500% gain in 1 year is a different animal. But combine the store of value along with rapid technological innovation in all c
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I call FUD on the reports of people going into deep debt to buy bitcoin. Sure there will always be some people that do this. And it makes for a good story, so the media reports it. But I don't think this is something that is happenin
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I am a co-founder in the cryptocurrency space. Our lawyers were smart and advised us against releasing a utility token ICO because they predicted that these SEC actions would be coming. Our approach to "get around" this is to fil
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People who are new to Bitcoin don't realize that there has been a growing grass roots movement to promote Bitcoin all over the world for years. I realize that it may seem to have come out of nowhere, but the recent popularity is the cu
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I don't understand the idea that a whale could move the market and make money off it. To move the market, you need to spend money. The only way it works is if you create some kind of momentum and the market continues to go up. But rat
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NOT being backed by any one country or central bank is Bitcoin's primary value proposition.
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Spend a little of it, save most of it. I would quickly adjust to my new standard of living and continue doing everything else the same. $60k/year is not near enough for those of us with a family.
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...and then gains most of it back over the next 3 days. Bitcoin is volatile. The world doesn't know quite what to make of it yet. Is it a ponzi? Is it tulips? Is it a truly transformative technology? I have my opinion. But no one

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