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by jaycroft 9y ago
How does it take 16 days to go from buying this domain to getting to public disclosure? https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/ whois: ... Domain Name: equifaxsecurity2017.com Registry Domain ID: 2156034374_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Reg
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by jaycroft 9y ago
Further, as of this writing, more than 24 hours after the first forked block was mined, we still don't even have those 20 confirmations!
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by jaycroft 10y ago
Please read this before you go: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun... The desert is surprisingly unforgiving.
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by jaycroft 11y ago
A difference of 250m, rather than 250k, which again, I guess still isn't that much for a 60 billion dollar company. Total depreciation on these is going to eat up up a billion in value a year, or only about 2% of market cap, assuming
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by jaycroft 11y ago
I believe that it is indeed a new precident about compulsion. If say, I want to make airplane parts I need to satisfy regulatory requirements. I know those requirements in advance, and can decide if I want to be a parts manufacturer or no
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by jaycroft 11y ago
If rates or yields remain positive for retail products, what's to stop hedge funds / companies with lots of cash / banks, from investing in those same products? Yields may be positive on paper, but I would suppose that fees
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by jaycroft 11y ago
Can one buy futures on Honey Buns? http://gawker.com/5729214/honey-buns-are-the-new-prison-curr...
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by jaycroft 11y ago
Or borrow and keep a stack of $100 bills under your mattress to be used to pay back a smaller sum at the end of the term?
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by jaycroft 11y ago
I misunderstood. To say it is a "distribution problem" read to me as if distribution was a verb: that is to say "everyone could have what they want if only the means to move people and things around were available".
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by jaycroft 11y ago
To say this is merely a problem with distribution is absurd. There are hundreds of thousands of vacant homes in San Bernardino, there are many thousands of homeless that could easily be transported there. If those homeless were to move int
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by jaycroft 11y ago
I believe the parent is referring to Qualified Small Business Stock. New issues of stock (meeting certain requirements: certain date ranges, company must be valued at less than $50M, keep all it's assets in "productive" inve
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by jaycroft 11y ago
More people's lives have been spent in line waiting to get through US airport security since 9/11/2001 than died at the WTC on that day. A rough estimate is 788M passengers/year * 15 minutes * 14 years / 80 years p
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by jaycroft 11y ago
There are a couple effects from rain: absorption ("db per km") and scattering (bigger constant in front of your r^2 term), neither are good for FSO. Fog (and since this is airborne, clouds) is the real killer. Imagine taking you
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by jaycroft 11y ago
They're likely not using something too exotic: 10Gbps free space optical links have been available commercially for a few years now (see products by AOptix). The tricky part is pointing them and getting the last bit of power on target