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by deweller 9y ago
In the US, it's not usually the government that is the problem. It is the banks (or PayPal). Ever had your PayPal account frozen for an unknown or arbitrary reason? It happens and it is scary and frustrating.
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by deweller 9y ago
Any truly transformative technology is very polarizing. The printing press and cars (horseless carriages) were followed by people who HATED these things when they were first introduced into society.
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Its Bitcoin. $9000 may look ridiculously low in 10 years.
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by deweller 9y ago
Not backed by banks is Bitcoin's primary value proposition. Ripple will find a use and may do quite well. But it requires more trust in a few centralized parties. It won't replace Bitcoin's primary use case as the highest s
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by deweller 9y ago
Well the HTML source has a class of chartjs-hidden-iframe. So I would assume it is http://www.chartjs.org/ .
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by deweller 9y ago
If by "websockets" you mean "notify a web client immediately when a server side event occurs", then PHP + Laravel + Pusher is a mature solution for this.
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by deweller 9y ago
Most people who are new to cryptocurrency try to "fix" Bitcoin at least once. After a while some come to realize that Bitcoin's proof-of-work algorithm is actually a feature and not a bug.
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by deweller 9y ago
There are a lot easier ways to break into a house than to do it through the front door while access is logged and you are being monitored by a video camera.
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by deweller 9y ago
The actual database is not written in python.
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by deweller 9y ago
"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it." More people believed that Trump was doing things because he had their best interests in mind.
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by deweller 9y ago
Yes. This. A peggable USD coin with a decentralized exchange for BTC would be most valuable.
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by deweller 9y ago
Remember folks - correlation does not imply causation. "linked to" != "caused"
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by deweller 9y ago
I disagree that Bitcoin is a zero-sum game. If the network continues to grow it could enable things that provide value that didn't exist before. When that happens, worldwide productivity increases and wealth is created. Therefore eve
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by deweller 9y ago
Recognizing and addressing the real emotions at play in marital situations like this one has been a life-long pursuit for me in my adult life.
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by deweller 9y ago
Here's some advice for people of all genders: Learn to make decisions immediately and quickly. By laboring over a decision for hours or days, you can unintentionally turn a trivial task into a heavy one. By making decisions quickly yo
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by deweller 9y ago
for #1 - Purse.io. I regularly get a 23% discount on Amazon orders for stuff that I can wait a week on. The other 2 items are very difficult to quantify. Here's an anecdote from my personal experience: I use Bitcoin to receive a sala
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by deweller 9y ago
I expect very few engineers are actually productive beyond 50 hours a week. A young engineer may be able to burn at 70 hours a week for 2 weeks if one is highly motivated. But after a couple of weeks, the amount of productivity will fall o
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by deweller 9y ago
Steemit had a big ICO sale. Yours has a more traditional funding model. I find Yours simple and easy to use apart from the friction of getting ahold of some Bitcoin Cash.
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by deweller 9y ago
This is coming. Chrome is implementing a built in ad blocker. Advertisers and content providers can either start getting used to the idea now and get ahead of the trend. Or they can watch their business model suffer and scramble to catch
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by deweller 9y ago
The tone of this comment is harsh and inflammatory. But I agree with the sentiment. The tech is genuinely interesting and certainly doesn't lack hype. That is usually a formula for positive comments on Hacker News. So I'm genui
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by deweller 9y ago
Isn't it much more likely that this was a predictive algorithm doing a good job of guessing what you might want?
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by deweller 9y ago
Yes. Scott Perry from Ryder is speculating. But Reuters apparently has an unnamed source. Here's the news: > Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) next month plans to unveil an electric big-rig truck with a working range of 200 to 300 miles, Reuters
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by deweller 9y ago
The risk of centralized exchanges are a real problem. See https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/ . The idea of transferring tokens only when you want to sell them is a nice idea, but it doesn't work in pract
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by deweller 9y ago
But is $4000 the high before the crash? Or will it go up to $6000 first? And when it crashes, will it go up again? Or is it just the start of a 6 month bear market? Attempting to time the market will cause you to lose you money roughly 5
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by deweller 9y ago
But unlike cooking the books forking is publicly auditable to anyone running a validating node.
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by deweller 9y ago
This also broke for me a few days ago. I sent an email to the contact address.
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by deweller 9y ago
Here's an entertaining list of bitcoin "deaths": https://99bitcoins.com/obituary-stats/
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by deweller 9y ago
> I do not understand the objection to SegWit which is essential for lightning to work. Let's talk about the realities of Lightning for a minute. Lightning is an interesting technology solution to scaling transactions and settling
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by deweller 9y ago
Are you aware of what the PHP ecosystem provides? There is some pretty great stuff in PHP land. 2 of my favorites are https://getcomposer.org/ and https://laravel.com/
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by deweller 9y ago
One interesting use case for this would be to benchmark functions. How much faster/slower do various functions perform in PHP vs. NodeJS? It wouldn't be a perfect comparison since the generated JS code might be less optimized. B

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