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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah this is close.... i just wish that it could be a layer on top of C++ or Java rather than js only. The point is that I want to make an app as powerful as a desktop app, just with this type of UI. If you could run a c++/java app in
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I know everybody is tired of these Javascript POC apps but I think it's a testament to the fact that it's so easy to implement webapps vs desktop stuff, and can perform functionally well. If Google released a version of Chrome tha
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i ALWAYS knew he was a pimp.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
reminds me of the old sony rootkit cd stuff. But i think a lot of these companies know that it would be legally hairy to get into vigilante DRM justice, so instead they just surreptitiously collect data that will let them plot their next mo
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah when I heard about it I was really excited. I was big into Arduino back then. But unfortunately didn't have an Android phone. Then the only time I heard of anyone owning the ADK was my friend who worked at Google. It seems they ki
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i think it's similar to Multi-Level Marketing schemes. People have put hopes and dreams into it now that they think it's a vehicle to get rich, plus significant investment costs to build the infrastructure. They need to keep a str
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by fat0wl 13y ago
do you wear a suit when you press the power button on your "mine" so you can feel like a real grown-up intellectual? repeated "bad" arguments are just a sign that the techno-crowd is tired of greedy college dropouts acti
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ask any forex trader how many of them work in a medium without basic protections against market manipulation... You have a cargo cult mentality. If a little kid puts on his dad's pants, is he now his dad? If I told you that each word i
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ugh thank goddddddd. finally someone who gets me. another way i've thought about this -- say i tell you a bicycle is worth $1,000. you would laugh and say "hell no" but then if the next day you saw someone buying a bicycle fo
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by fat0wl 13y ago
AHAHAHHAHA I just read the article you linked to!!!! And it's not even math or programming theory or really... anything!! It's just pseudo-intellectual libertarian propaganda written by some 14 yr old girl. lololololololololololol
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea man there is certainly money to be made in it i'm not denying that (though i DO believe the value may crash soon... the recent upswing is a simple bidding war because of new markets & publicity). personally i won't buy any
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by fat0wl 13y ago
tolerate it -- http://www.phauna.org/papers/freecoin/freecoin.pdf i hope the next bitcoin scammer who tries to change my mind doesn't send me to "Bitcoin Magazine". That's like Amway convincing
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea well of course... the early adopters want to convince the whole world to buy bitcoin, they just have to make that dare seem convincing. Hope for his sake he takes his money out before the bitcoin apocalypse hits
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by fat0wl 13y ago
if bitcoin were such a great currency mofos like u wouldn't have to constantly compare it to USD just to figure out how much it's supposedly worth. If i sold you a magic rock and told you it's value would be multiplied by 10
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I think that's the trick with Bitcoin. The price is pretty much solely based on consumer interest. People get mad when I call it a scheme (they claim to be all hyped on tech & I'm not). Look the tech is fine (digital currency)
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by fat0wl 13y ago
foobar has similar features its just confusing at first cuz it puts playlists in tabs. super powerful but takes some getting used to. facets is the necessary add-on because it basically gives you a really powerful search whereas by default
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Foobar2000 is also pretty stable and awesome -- just need to drop in the Facets component & it's a dream. Winamp is a nice memory from back in the Napster days tho. :)
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by fat0wl 13y ago
o my lord. discover card gives you 1% BACK!
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by fat0wl 13y ago
how does it work then, you have to transfer money into google wallet? i was under the impression it WAS a card unifier but yeah if it's not blech why bother when you already have credit/debit cards set up elsewhere (except i guess
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by fat0wl 13y ago
google doesn't need to play greedy mining games, they get paid in straight up USD
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by fat0wl 13y ago
aha it figures that HN readers are apple fanboys with no sense of humor. this is the only time i've ever made a joke on here that got downvoted & stuck
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by fat0wl 13y ago
You base your trust on Apple's behavior? I wouldn't trust my friend just for bending me over, kicking me in the ass, & taking $80 out of my wallet every time I asked him for help with a shiny device he sold me.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Um, it is an extreme violation of the rights of your site's visitors. Yes it will consume their CPU resources. The Bitcoin revolution is only revolutionizing greedy people... into complete assholes.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
it's nice to just harsh it out now & then! ;) gotta be polite to the open-source guys but why keep up the facade for these opportunists?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Nah don't be so hard on yourself. This was posted weeks ago and everyone determined it sucks but HN is half just a garbage dump for free advertising of any piece of crummy tech that claims to be part of the maker zeitgeist, so IT'
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by fat0wl 13y ago
what's the conversion rate on unicorns to leprechauns? i'm gonna need a perpetual motion machine to figure this one out...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I think the reason they're overwhelmingly positive is because they don't care about bubble-bursts and market volatility. They're approaching it from an amoral standpoint & just reviewing the tech. Once they get into the d
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by fat0wl 13y ago
But if you're using it as a currency how do you value it? Do you literally let people pay you 1 Bitcoin for $500 worth of merchandise? Also your telegraph analogy is something I've seen in several places and doesn't seem to m
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by fat0wl 13y ago
This is interesting as well -- http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-bubble-2013-11
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by fat0wl 13y ago
This is a doubled thread... I asked a bunch of questions on the old one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753033 ). Now I found this article that seems to address a lot of my reservations about Bitcoin so I thought I&#x

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