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by drakaal 13y ago
If BTC is going to survive there needs to be insurance against loss. An FDIC for Crypto. The exchanges take a cut on every transaction, so Poloniex should have self insured for the first 3% (or what ever their transaction fee is). After all
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Despite the "rivalry" between me and Colbert for the title "Greatest Living American". I have a lot of respect for Colbert. He is an entertainer but he is a political activist. John Stewart who is more famous and better
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by drakaal 13y ago
Intel is clearly looking at wearable and embedded spaces. This seems like a lot to pay for something that doesn't have the install base of Fitbit, or Fuel. I can't imagine basis had any tech that Intel couldn't replicate, and
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by drakaal 13y ago
Interestingly, there is a Windows Phone App that does all of these things.... http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/plexivoice/9c09f... Microsoft definitely has an advantage over third party apps.
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5 Things Microsoft's Cortana Needs To Do To Take On Siri(forbes.com)
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by drakaal 13y ago
Looks ok. I agree with author many people roll their own. Depending what you want to scrape, this might work better for you. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-content-extractor-fa... It will scrape articles even
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by drakaal 13y ago
Ok. First I'm not taking lessons from anyone who plagiarizes. This is a re-write of: http://j2kun.svbtle.com/you-never-did-math-in-high-school Which may also be someone's work, but it was one I read recently. Seco
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Enough other people pointed to flaws in the explanations that I didn't feel the need to beat a dead horse about those things. The whole article was a joke. The stuff about Dogecoin seems less a joke than the rest of the article. It is
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by drakaal 13y ago
Author put a lot of thought and work in to telling a great story, but... Would be better if it weren't built on speculation, and limited by the things the author clearly doesn't understand about crypto. Articles like this hurt the
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by drakaal 13y ago
You assume they will come out. More likely everything will be sold. The value of the sale will be put in a pot, and that will be dished out to those owed money. Those most harmed will be paid first. It is very unlikely Mt. Gox will ever reo
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by drakaal 13y ago
Answers to questions they won't answer: Will you get your Bitcoins back? Most of the time when a company has "unfulfilled orders" as they enter bankruptcy what happens is that what ever is left is divvied up. A company rarely
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by drakaal 13y ago
A BART "train driver" is responsible for the lives of hundreds at a time. Attended school, and takes ongoing continuing education classes to maintain their license. They compete for a few hundred jobs in the US and if they don&#x2
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by drakaal 13y ago
For the world is any engineer in Silicon Valley is a 1%'er. For the US at $200k you are a 95%'er At $550k you are a 99% That's a lot different than "C-Level" and "millions in liquid assets" A lot of people
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by drakaal 13y ago
This is the 99% lead charge that annoys me the most. (especially since many of the people leading it aren't 99%'ers they just think they are) The assumption is that the only places to work are the big companies. Anti-Poaching agre
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by drakaal 13y ago
I have a monster resume that gets 30+ emails a day. http://www.xyhd.tv/2008/05/how-to/seo-when-updating-your-res... Emails aren't offers. They are typically auto-generated. As an executive I use the hone
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by drakaal 13y ago
Those are all regulated. BTC is not easily regulated.
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The ones that are also the most corrupt. Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan. Countries where they have few laws, and little or no civil justice system.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Liability is a big part. We decided at some point that the populous is stupid and needs protection.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Senator Manchin is doing what America does. We live in a country where a Governor will ban large soda's for our protection. Every bag comes with a warning "not a toy". Houses come with disclaimers not to eat the paint chips.
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by drakaal 13y ago
I named my farm pigs, and still knew that they were food. Now later in life I have more qualms about eating pork. Pigs are smarter than dogs, and every bit as affectionate. Cows are pretty stupid. These days I feel like killing an animal ov
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by drakaal 13y ago
I don't have a citation, but I used this analogy in 1999 for terminal server as a replacement for desktops. Y2K was pushing people to dump whole networks. Rather than upgrade people were just buying all new, but losing data on the mach
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by drakaal 13y ago
There are lots of vagrants, you don't have to share, everyone can have one or two all of their own. But if you choose to share I'm sure this is the best way. Hopefully they expand in to Hobo's, Bums, and the underemployed.
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I didn't mean to imply that it was bad. There is a lot of fights around organics, and made in the US, and such. Walmart tends to optimize for price rather than low environmental impact, or made in the US. Trader Joes tends to optimize
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by drakaal 13y ago
Visit the Tenderloin in SF. Twitter came in to the community brought lots of jobs. Did that make the neighborhood better? No. What happened was that the price of housing went up for a group of people who could already not afford it. Basical
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by drakaal 13y ago
I think you will find from my comments on HN, My youtube channel, and my interactions in volunteerism, with political movements, and law enforcement that I may be a Troll. But I'm not gutless. -Brandon Wirtz
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by drakaal 13y ago
The author either thinks the readers are either stupid and don't know the difference between a Hammer and a Screwdriver and why you can't drive nails with a screwdriver.... Or the author is stupid and was driving nails with a scre
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by drakaal 13y ago
Wireframes are maps, not models. Author doesn't seem to know what a wire frame is. And doesn't seem to have any concept of how UI/UX should be done. Wireframes are typically used for determining how much of each screen someth
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by drakaal 13y ago
Several sources estimated that 1/3 of whatsapp users were spam accounts. So the numbers are a bit off. I would also like to see this adjusted for "Today Money" which would put things like Geocities WAY up there. I quoted a so
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by drakaal 13y ago
I am AirBNB host with multiple listings. I like the potential of this, but I'm extremely worried about the service based on the number of spelling and grammar errors on the site. "We love innovations like bitcoin, But unfortunatel
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by drakaal 13y ago
I don't like to, but every time I point out why node sucks, the node guys cite LinkedIn, so now I include it.

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