gtlondon

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by gtlondon 8y ago
What makes me smile about this (and any) "disorder" classification is: > For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social,
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by gtlondon 8y ago
This conversation is 6 months old though. Quite suspicious the New York Times have come to this incredible revelation now, yet didn’t mention it in Nov 2017 when it was actually a hot topic. I must admit I find most crypto journalism hard t
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by gtlondon 8y ago
Total myth. Nobody has ever formulated an accurate prediction without gaping holes in the logic. Also, even with their exaggerated calculations is still a tiny, tiny fraction of that used by traditional banking. (and not even on the same sc
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by gtlondon 8y ago
The original article is a joke. Large buy orders will obviously increase the price, and to describe this as manipulation is completely misleading. There's also zero evidence that Tethers are a scam. I'm pretty sure it would have b
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by gtlondon 8y ago
I can find a shortened version of the full interview: https://youtu.be/wFr1ooaVPjY?t=8m59s IPO stuff is from 9 mins, but the whole video is crypto related / fairly interesting.
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by gtlondon 8y ago
Jay Clayton (Chairman of the SEC) was talking about this last week. He was saying that the cost / overhead difference between ICO and IPO is so large that they either need to make IPO'ing easier or perhaps integrate into crypto in
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by gtlondon 8y ago
This is a good point, however the volatility is primarily that the space / projects are so new. The economic structure of each project varies, however most are designed so that if they are used for the utility they offer then they will
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by gtlondon 8y ago
It's amazing how quickly young children can learn to swim. My daughter went from disliking the water to swimming 200m with perfect technique within a couple years. Learning to tumble made me laugh, but is a good idea :)
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by gtlondon 8y ago
This is a great point that kids don't want AstroTurf and climbing walls -- ultimately they just want to play. Its the same in the UK. Schools close within 15 minutes unless you pay extra to stay. On the plus side: the over population a
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by gtlondon 8y ago
That's true. But as the person knows they are configuring a web server, I would say this is more carelessness / incompetence rather than an "accident" in the same way as losing a Diamond Ring would be.
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by gtlondon 8y ago
But...you would have left the diamond ring by accident. Files don't "accidentally" become publicly accessible via HTTP. i.e. you don't return to your computer one day to find everything is public. Someone specifically to
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by gtlondon 8y ago
Yes, the house analogy is not accurate. It would be logical to assume that as the files have specifically been made public via HTTP then no laws are being broken by viewing them unless a warning message appears saying otherwise.
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by gtlondon 8y ago
They've made the information publicly accessible via HTTP, yet react like this when someone then views in. Scary stuff. I just can't comprehend this at all. To even describe it as a "breach" is inaccurate -- the real hea
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by gtlondon 9y ago
We seem to be moving from an era when internet censorship was considered bad, to one where "It's OK, we're just censoring this". I have no sympathy towards gun use - but the principle of large monopolies applying their o
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by gtlondon 10y ago
Interesting case. The real question for me is: Why does a Casino use card patterns that are not symmetrical? Considering how much resource is invested to make sure everything else is as precise as possible, this seems suspicious / unus
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by gtlondon 10y ago
Hypothetically, anyone could "prop-up" the crypto market for a newly launched coin by buying the first Asks from Poloniex at a deliberately inflated price and then sell back-and-forth to themselves at the same inflated price to cr
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by gtlondon 10y ago
To be fair to ZCash, the high prices at launch were primarily due to very limited supply and market manipulation. The "screaming dive" is really just heading towards a sustainable price. Somewhere between $2-$10 is a more realisti
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by gtlondon 10y ago
Good spot, though not surprising to me. Worth adding here that it also appears Zcash stakeholders have been internally buying/selling their own ZEC at inflated prices on Poloniex to artificially increase both volume and the market pric
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by gtlondon 10y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to use Monero instead of ZCash? Privacy is compulsory with Monero and also the entire platform is decentralised. The privacy features in Zcash are optional & very slow / difficult to use -- most use
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by gtlondon 10y ago
Rule #1 of freelancing: If there's anything you definitely want (i.e. money) then always get it in writing beforehand. Some people will make it deliberately hard for you to get things in writing - these people are looking to screw you
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by gtlondon 10y ago
I am a developer and have been seen many similar "positions" in the past (particularly 10 years ago, .com boom). IMO they are intentionally trying to screw you. Do all you can to protect yourself, but be formal / polite where
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by gtlondon 10y ago
I've run my own email for about 4 years now -- I'm fairly tech savvy, but don't know much about email -- so was pleased that my "quick" solution has worked well. I use Apple Server to host the email via SSL on a ded