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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I recommend to watch movie based on Kevin Mitnick story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_Down I couldn't say it's very accurate story but it's still fun to watch.
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
In last few days, I actually wanted to order powerful laptop from System76. I want laptop with strong GPU (e.g. Nvidia) that will run Linux very well. Aside from System76, can anybody recommend powerful laptop fully compatible with Linux? O
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I born in Uzbekistan. My dad bought me russian clone of ZX Spectrum [1] (8-bit, 3.5 MHz CPU, 48K RAM) in 1994. Which I actively used till 2000! The funny thing is that I didn't look at my lovely ZX Spectrum as sad outdated piece of har
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I moved from Russia to Sweden, then to the Netherlands as a software engineer. Interesting thing about my situation - I don't have any degree. Before even looking for a job, I had to do research about work permit rules in different cou
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Skype for Linux was OK for years. It worked reasonably well till recently on my old laptop. Recently (may be a few months ago), MS upgraded Skype to make it "better". I must upgrade Skype since old client stopped working as they b
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
What I worry about HN is that you didn't tell this to `nukeop` on his comment. If you told this to `both sides`, I wouldn't have a doubt.
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
> nothing would be stopping someone with a bigger gun coming in and stealing whatever groceries they want That's why we need government - to prevent violence and stealing. Free market can work only in non-violence environment. Howev
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Don't worry free market will sort it out eventually. Dump money will run out after a few big project failures. Investors will be more sophisticated. It's a new market and what's happening now is natural, it's the same as
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
It's true that it's supply and demand problem. However, I noticed that problem #1 is much more acute in online dating than in real life. I personally had much greater success in real life dating than online dating. It's stran
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
About "8. Dating". I think over last 10 years, online dating has not been solved at all. Here are typical problems which nearly all dating sites run into: 1. Women got way more attention than men. Such environment stimulates aggre
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
A while ago I also read this article: https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/10/economi... > Earl Thompson, formerly of UCLA, takes a different approach. He reckons that the market for tuli
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
It seems like I will continue collecting downvotes on this topic but I will give yet another try. I would not be totally against regulation and government intervention into blockchain space (and any other space as well). In fact, it would b
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Nice charts on market sentiment. If not secret, is your business already profitable? Or it's just cool fun project?
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
SEC completely fails to acknowledge that their regulatory burden is way too heavy for small blockchain startups. If you want to be fully complaint with SEC to issue your tokens as a security you have to spend shitload of money on laywers an
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
In order for So'm or Ruble not being worthless in case free capital flows is allowed, these governments have to establish investor's trust. In order to establish investor's trust, clan system have to be dismantled, rule of la
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
The governments can only slowdown cryptocurrency revolution but they can't stop it. BTC, LTC are traceable, so you can still track down owner (although it may be extremely difficult in some cases). But with technologies like zero-knowl
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Back in 2004, I lived in shithole country called Uzbekistan, I wanted to buy some US stocks but my bank refused to transfer MY money because of strict currency control in Uzbekistan. This was probably the first time in my life I realized th
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Sounds like your left-wing bias assumes that libertarians and Ayn Rand supporters are inherently fraudulent and looking for any opportunity to steal money. Gevers is fake libertarian, he is con-man who just made fake organizations to make v
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I find a bit suspicious about this ICO. There is no official information about ICO, there is no whitepaper. Or we are went so far that whitepaper is not needed anymore? It took me two months to read about Tezos project and its founders befo
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
You are either naive or troll or just don't understand crypto-market. The whole beauty of crypto-market is that there is very low barrier of entry and at the same time very, very, very huge possible upside. This make possible for very
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I hate USSR, communism and socialism but I'm very nostalgic to late years of USSR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika ) and early 1990s. It was time full of hope for new capitalist Russia (inspired by Ronald
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Many people, even within crypto-community, failed to recognize that speculation is one of fundamental factors which bring real value to cryptocurrencies. To understand that you have to think about a concept called self-fulfilling proph
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Actually, for such laughably small trading volume DAI is as stable as mountain: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/#markets I do expect DAI to be more stable as adoption and trading volume grows. Author of i
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I can't agree more. I always maintained that you should hire devs qualified and motivated enough to be self-managed. In other words, ideally, I would hire people which doesn't require management at all.
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Latest Kraken update says that: > We are still working to track down an elusive bug which is holding up launch. This bug did not appear in our many weeks of testing and only emerged in the production environment. Unfortunately, it is not
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
From investment point of view, focusing on missed opportunities in the past is extremely addictive and counterproductive. I was suffered from this bad habit for years. If you want to improve your performance, you have to focus on the presen
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
They still don't get it. I think partly because they live in the first world country. The initial reason why BTC took off was pure speculation based on the fact it's fixed supply + unknown but may be bright future. As speculators
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
Capitalism is danger for civilization? Writes who? A buzzfeed. A very, very leftist media site. How we end up in situation when huge portion (if not majority) of hacker community turned out to be die hard socialists ? (nowadays they call t
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
In the past, there was another extreme in societies when raped woman could be considered guilty for inappropriate seduction of a men. So those victims could be crucified by society and in some cases even sent to prison. There were some impo
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by hal9000xp 9y ago
I'm in the same boat. For long time, I was interested in AI but at the same time intimidated by math. I'm relatively comfortable with discrete mathematics and classical algorithms and at the same time calculus and linear algebra i

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