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Bitcoin breaks above $20k for the first time ever(cnbc.com)
56 points by johnyzee 6y ago|37 comments
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Honestly, in engineering, it's usually a lot more likely that the manager doesn't understand the value of individual employees, and only sees an underling who has a strong sense of self-worth, but not enough knowledge to understan
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Bitcoin enthusiasm is inversely correlated with faith in the financial system that be. Hacker News is founded, and largely frequented, by (would be) entrepreneurs, whose model of success is linking up with big financial players who make up
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> essentially an unproductive project Who are you to judge? There are lots of things that I find useless that the world uses a lot more energy on.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Ah, makes sense. When people say 'sugar' they often refer to the different kinds of saccharides, not necessarily sucrose.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
That is wrong. Fructose metabolism specifically differs from other types of sugars, by requiring a particular enzyme, which means it can only be broken down in the liver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis Unli
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Fasting prompts significant release of growth hormone, so it is not surprising that it promotes cell regeneration, but interesting to see it applied to synapses.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I did not post to imply that the story is credible or not, only as a counterpoint to the article, which claims a 'right' bias. Unfortunately, the discourse is so toxic that almost any statement earns kneejerk downvotes from one si
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Square Buys $50M in Bitcoin(cnbc.com)
3 points by johnyzee 6y ago|0 comments
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I would guess (hope) non-disclosure does not apply to criminal acts. Right?
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The way it seems to work is that direct replies to highly rated comments need to 'do more work' to stay unfolded (i.e. it needs to gain a higher amount of upvotes-per-view). This burden is similarly increased the deeper nested com
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Sorry for the meta hijacking, but now that we're here, HN developers: Please penalize comments that jump the queue by responding to the top comment. There are frequently topics with hundreds of comments, where almost all are replies to
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by johnyzee 6y ago
They're enzymes, not bacteria. Which might also mean that it will be difficult to scale up production.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
This has happened again and again, the world over, with the purpose of playing up the perceived threat of terrorism. For example, Richard Reid, the 'shoe bomber', was mentally retarded, and caught trying to ignite the C4 he had so
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Not even darknet markets - the original (and only?) bitcoin use case - use it.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Boot is just an embedded Tomcat/Jetty included with all the different Spring libraries. That makes for an easily bundled application (single executeable jar which launches the web server including all the application code). There are a
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> Java got wholly corporatized and free software mostly moved on ?... The Java community was completely unaffected by the Oracle transition and is as strong as ever. Of course, Java wasn't open source (or "free") to begin
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by johnyzee 6y ago
That's not what Kool-Aid means.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> best personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Lost me right there. That is such a stupid book.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I always wonder why people are not trying to build these with helium balloons for lift. This would free up a lot of power for propulsion via the rotors. I suppose you'd need a very large balloon to lift the entire thing, but why not, s
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by johnyzee 6y ago
This is letting Twitter off the hook. It is not impossible to protect users personal information, even within a company, to a very limited set of people who actually need it, with audits on when and how they are accessing it, and periodic r
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by johnyzee 6y ago
It's funny, the biggest Danish multinational (by some measure) is a company that lets people build stuff themselves, and so is the biggest Swedish multinational. Is this something in Scandinavian culture? Denmark is also overrepresente
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Could you not just transfer income to a LLC in your home country as company-to-company sales? And then retain the 0% tax in Estonia, while paying regular income tax in your home country.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
From another comment (thread moves fast): The next big thing is ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development. This is implemented using frameworks like Cucumber[1], in which test scenarios are: 1. Described at the feature level 2. Described to
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The next big thing is ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development. This is implemented using frameworks like Cucumber[1], in which test scenarios are: 1. Described at the feature level 2. Described together with, and signed off by, the busine
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Thanks. Please try to add 'paywall' to your comment, that makes it easier to find quickly.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Get political news off HN. It's a slippery slope.
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It seems web developers these days have forgotten the virtue of keeping things simple. Everything has to be smothered in javascript, and asynchronous requests, and fluid UI that changes on the slightest interaction. I'm guessing it is
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This is a real and global trend. Same thing is happening in European capitals right now. People, especially singles and young couples, are wondering why they are paying a huge portion of their income in rent in order to be in the city, when
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The real thing is the best thing, but typically you lose about 10% in transaction costs (dealers have around 5% spread on both the buy and the sell). You can decrease that somewhat with larger transactions, but you'll take a pretty big

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