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by iSnow 13y ago
If it was a fundamental problem like you indicate, then every manufacturer would be hit by it, from Apple to Lenovo. It rather seems a problem of Dell using shoddy components and/or not issuing a driver that protects the speaker from t
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by iSnow 13y ago
How is this any better or different than one of the other cloud providers? I read nothing about self-hosting this, nothing about end-to-end encryption, nothing about Persona. I understand Mozilla is in a tight place with no access to iOS, l
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by iSnow 13y ago
This is great news, unfortunately neither the German government nor the Federal Prosecutor General (Generalbundesanwalt) will have the balls to bring this to court. Furthermore the Generalbundesanwalt is nominally independent of the governm
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by iSnow 13y ago
Obviously PayPal, which is way smaller than Google, was able to pay to this developer.
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by iSnow 13y ago
>I suspect this may be what they want: to keep it basically worthless so people keep using it to tip people large amounts and have fun with it, and to drive away investors and people looking to profit. Right and it is indeed a great sign
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by iSnow 13y ago
> Apps built on newer front-end frameworks like Angular and React might not need it, for example. Well, Angular has jQuery (lite) built in.
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by iSnow 13y ago
> Each time someone figures out something that can not be done on current ASICs/GPUs, a bunch of smart people throw themselves at figuring out a way to modify the GPUs/ASICs in order to enable it. Well, yes and no. Litecoin was
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by iSnow 13y ago
>If you can't see that strength as a massive weakness, ask yourselves what value BTC intrinsically has over other alt-coins. That's an easy one: the network effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effe
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by iSnow 13y ago
Even with only a Core i5 CPU, you can use cpuminer to create some yourself. For small amounts, you could go to http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemarket , the fraud risk is not very high there. In the US, there's https:&
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by iSnow 13y ago
Actually, I'd say that developments like this help to kill the crypto-currency ecosystem.
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by iSnow 13y ago
Well, time moves on. If you are developing for clients using IE 8, you probably can live without the latest Angular version too. I think it is necessary that projects keep focused and that means deciding what not to do.
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by iSnow 13y ago
Hard facts about speculation/real world transactions are hard to come buy, but someone tried in 2012 ( http://codinginmysleep.com/measuring-bitcoin-speculation/ ) and the blockchain-info guys made an upto-date chart
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by iSnow 13y ago
FWIW, there's Predictious too: https://www.predictious.com/economics - they offer binary ETFs on the bitcoin price. And 796.com offers a kind of bitcoin price futures that you can use to bet on falling prices - not out
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by iSnow 13y ago
This is going to be interesting since the volatility of bitcoin price in USD is so high. If you have +15% one day and -30% two days after, this completely destroys your forecast if and when mining is still profitable.
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by iSnow 13y ago
It's more like $90m and it was the operator of the site ( http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1ru5ir/fou... and other threads in that subreddit)
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by iSnow 13y ago
It is nonsense to base the argument on a Dollar-equivalent. If someone were to invent a machine that produced food requiring 10% of current work for any given amount of food, the Dollar-equiv necessary to survive would drop. Therefore techn
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by iSnow 13y ago
Considering how the price is doing even though it is really hard to buy the things, I shudder to think what would happen if you could buy them at your local bank branch.
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by iSnow 13y ago
That's why the meat is constantly inspected.
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by iSnow 13y ago
Just when you want to read up on stereotypes, the database goes down :/ Some things really made me laugh: >Germans struggle enormously with the concept of ‘naked feet’. It is better feet be clothed at all times. >Germans, largely
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by iSnow 13y ago
Confusing correlation and causation. Clojure coders might be 3x more productive, but they would be in any language. The chance is high that only the top 1% (or something like that) of all coders would dare to make the switch to this languag
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by iSnow 13y ago
With the aging population in Japan and Europe this sounds not so bad.
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by iSnow 13y ago
Man, sometime this union bashing must get old. Maybe unions don't have the leverage they had because China. Maybe unions don't have the leverage they had because per-worker productivity went through the roof while production did n
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by iSnow 13y ago
>Cheaper I understand, however, it doesn't seem very healthy work. The short-term financial gain goes to Amazon (and to a smaller degree the pickers), but the long-term costs of an unhealthy job are paid for by the healthcare system
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by iSnow 13y ago
As long as the Gov't has authority what asset it accepts for tax payments, legal tender as issued by the central bank is in no danger. Since in industrialized nations taxes make up a large part of the GNI, I cannot see XBT dethroning n
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by iSnow 13y ago
I want to rent one of those as a cheap dedicated server. Get moving, hosters :)
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by iSnow 13y ago
Well, there's always intel. Don't count them out yet, they won't sit on their hands and smile as ARM eats their lunch. I guess, the backlash will come soon.
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by iSnow 13y ago
* To me, they just look dark. A 60W-equiv rated CFL is never as bright as a 60W incandescent, more like 40W when new. * There are notable gaps in the spectrum causing color distortions. CFL light mostly features a greenish or violet shade a
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by iSnow 13y ago
>someone should make an index of how many Bitcoin threads hit the front page of HN per day Something like that: http://influxdb.org/blog/visualizing_bitcoin_post_frequency_... ?
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by iSnow 13y ago
For a lot of us, CFL is not progress but simply inferior to incandescent.
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by iSnow 13y ago
Well, you can also install the Google SSL search plugin in Firefox to get rid of this madness.

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