iopq

42 ms·

541.
by iopq 9y ago
You have layoffs and turn servers off. This isn't rocket surgery. They're skimming a ton of money off these trades every day, down time is a loss.
542.
by iopq 9y ago
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes ap
543.
by iopq 9y ago
But 1 block is something like 99.9% safe. Even 0 blocks is somewhat safe, as long as you keep resubmitting the transaction and the other person doesn't spend those funds in an earlier block before yours gets included.
544.
by iopq 9y ago
It doesn't prevent trade just as effectively. Trips to Seoul don't pay for themselves. What do I care if my BTC might be worth more later? In the long run, we're all dead. I want to go on a vacation NOW.
545.
by iopq 9y ago
It straight up didn't work with my Vietnamese friend
546.
by iopq 9y ago
They're more successful, but programming in Java and JavaScript is pretty painful (albeit in different ways).
547.
by iopq 9y ago
I actually used Opera because it allowed me to stop websites from hijacking my browser. No capturing my right click or any of this silly bullshit. The exact UI/features I want. Opera 6-12 were good times.
548.
by iopq 9y ago
You forgot DVT
549.
by iopq 9y ago
Turing test is actually super easy to beat given enough resources. Just have enough data and imitate responses. Chat bots already can convince humans that they are human. Not reliably, some people can still tell the difference or ask tricky
550.
by iopq 9y ago
Have someone else sit at your table when the count is good and bet high
551.
by iopq 9y ago
Because Bob bets when it is profitable - when the line is wrong. Taken as aggregate, Joes bet on both outcomes, the unprofitable ones and profitable ones.
552.
by iopq 9y ago
If he did that, then the company couldn't have gotten this popular. In the beginning, it was VERY difficult to get a better deal on products than Amazon because of how low their prices were. If they started to pay their employees more,
553.
by iopq 9y ago
Well, he could have just bought $350 in stock and make even more.
554.
by iopq 9y ago
I'm lean and I eat a lot of sugar. Sugar is not a toxin. It's a source of energy. I'll eat some sugar and go to the gym. I'll come back and eat more sugar to replace the glycogen I drained. What happens to overweight peo
555.
by iopq 9y ago
Because people who bet sharply on lines reduce the long term profitability of the bookies. While they reduce the variance, they take directly from the profits. Defeats the point of being a bookie when better bettors imbalance the book in on
556.
by iopq 9y ago
That's only if you vary your bet size. That's a definite tell.
557.
by iopq 9y ago
Yeah, but this post seemed pretty barren. Since I skim a lot, it felt like nothing happened in the last release.
558.
by iopq 9y ago
Why should he pay them more than market value? As a shareholder, I definitely don't want this to happen. It's not Bezos' company, it's a public company.
559.
Code Generating a Safer Web with Rocket(youtube.com)
1 points by iopq 9y ago|0 comments
560.
by iopq 9y ago
Price gouging is not perverse, price gouging is a control on hoarding.
561.
by iopq 9y ago
Are you sure? I thought @ was reference counted in 0.6 and then removed after. Was it before that?
562.
by iopq 9y ago
> I'd make it a hard compiler error to have more than four parameters to a function There's already such a language, it's called Haskell and it only allows one parameter per function.
563.
by iopq 9y ago
I love the chart that goes from -7% to -22% it cuts off exactly where you would think there's ten times fewer Firefox users
564.
by iopq 9y ago
If everyone decides to sell now the price will tank. But then people will decide that Bitcoin is now "cheap" and the price will increase.
565.
by iopq 9y ago
the incentive is that after you lock $50 in Bitcoins you get to spend $50 eventually for the same transaction fee so if the transaction fee is $0.50, you get to transact at 1% cost if you paid $0.50 for each coffee it would be 10%
566.
by iopq 9y ago
I just refuse to give my data until they tell me what they have budgeted for the position so we are on equal grounds.
567.
by iopq 9y ago
Then you should just buy a long term bond fund along with an index. The longer term bond funds tend to have a positive alpha along with a negative beta. That means your returns will be lower than just having stocks, but your risk-adjusted r
568.
by iopq 9y ago
Sure, if you buy VTI, for example. If you want to buy fractional shares, you can buy VTSAX which is a mutual fund. You can buy both of them for free from Vanguard and they both have 0.04% expense ratios.
569.
by iopq 9y ago
Buy index funds until managed funds lower their fees. Vote with your money. If you want your portfolio to be a safer bet, put more percentage of it into bonds. Besides, most managers have a fund that has the same companies as an index, just
570.
by iopq 9y ago
I started with Wealthfront and Betterment, but honestly I could just buy some mutual funds at Vanguard and pay 4 or 5 basis points in fees instead 25 (and then the same 4 or 5 basis points for what they buy).

More ›