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by jhales 14y ago
"Nakamoto’s work appears to be politically motivated, as quoted: “Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years
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by jhales 14y ago
Why is this on the front page of HN? This is just uninformed ramblings with a reference to an article (Krugman) contain similarly uniformed ramblings. It just seems lazily uniformed. I doubt he even bothered to actually investigate and co
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by jhales 14y ago
True, I was approximating from when I bought in. More like 500%, when I posted above or 700% now.
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by jhales 14y ago
still has a lot more to go before you get to the price levels people started chanting 'bubble' at.
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by jhales 14y ago
not quite as fast, but it's still up 300%for the year lol.
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by jhales 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419915
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by jhales 14y ago
I was at the sentencing and the prosecution argued that spoofing the user-agent constituted fraud... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw... My friend also informed me: " HTTP has an error code, 401, for unauthoriz
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by jhales 14y ago
maybe we should define volatility...
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by jhales 14y ago
The value that gold derives from industrial uses is minimal today and practically non-existent historically. Assuming you are talking about jewelry? In that case it's important to consider how much of it's popularity in such matters depen
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by jhales 14y ago
You're right that it is not ideal. There are strengths which make it better than many of the alternatives. If volatility does eventually diminish, while still not a platonic ideal, it would probably be strictly better than any of the alte
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by jhales 14y ago
I'm just finishing a math PhD. Talking to CS PhD's my impression is that we do pretty much the same thing, we just work on different domains.
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by jhales 14y ago
Which industry is this?
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by jhales 14y ago
icbit.se
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by jhales 14y ago
Those don't count as we can't access them directly. The idea with solar is we can access it directly, but we are using indirect methods.
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by jhales 14y ago
my experience with coinbase has been better than any other service so far.
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by jhales 14y ago
Was thinking the same thing. I think it is: "...correlation coefficient of .35..." Found it following the link: http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2012/02/26/analyzing-re...
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by jhales 14y ago
Great stuff.
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by jhales 14y ago
Another petition which may be more effecitve would be directed at the more rational/scientifically minded people at Google (in as much as they don't have Rick Santorum on their pay roll) to rename nexus 4/7/10 to be in terms of metric units
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by jhales 14y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:news.ef...
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by jhales 14y ago
Taxation is not equivalent to charity or 'giving back.' This is sadly an incredibly common conflation.
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by jhales 14y ago
This is well accepted. Also,Erdos was and is far from alone in this.
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by jhales 14y ago
I still do, but I also get a lot of pleasure reading about what Taleb might call 'autistic things.'
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by jhales 14y ago
I can't disagree with anything you said. We seem too have similar tastes as well. lol
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by jhales 14y ago
I'm rather 'well read.' I don't say this boastfully as I feel a lot of it was a waste of time (although I also found a lot of philosphy/literature etc. very insightful).
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by jhales 14y ago
I think Taleb's distinction is that sci-fi was about the future, while the rest was about the past.
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by jhales 14y ago
In theory - The reality is there is not a working compiler except for a few special cases.
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by jhales 14y ago
True, but for the data couldn't you just randomly sample from an address book or just make up addresses? You could attach hundreds of photos to addresses (reals ones) and hundreds of addresses to each photo.
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by jhales 14y ago
Sure, I am definitely just armchair quarterbacking to their actual results. It just seems like another one will pop up and you will be playing wack-a-mole with a rather long and expensive sounding process no?
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by jhales 14y ago
lol, thank you for assisting the special needs HN readers like myself :)
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by jhales 14y ago
Wouldn't a more effective strategy be to deluge the site (or make many similar sites) with nudes and contact details so as to destroy any credibility? Without credibility humiliation would be very difficult. Also, where are the anonymous vi

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