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by joosters 8y ago
These companies have existed for how long? It was you who chose it as a measure of success for the company! It'd be difficult to find any examples even if the scope was widened to include bike hire schemes, which have been around for
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by joosters 8y ago
I challenge you to find just one example of land that has been repurposed from parking spaces into something else, because of Bird or some other scooter company. ...and will this land, if it even exists, be larger than the amount of sidew
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by joosters 8y ago
Bird talk about making transportation more environmentally friendly, yet it turns out people are driving the scooters to and from their locations every day... it wouldn't be surprising if the scooters are traveling more miles in the ba
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by joosters 8y ago
The only intermediaries being added are the bitcoin exchanges. The loan originator has to initiate a bank transfer from their account into bitcoin exchange 1, and from bitcoin exchange 2 into the customer's account. That's now two
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by joosters 8y ago
How are they avoiding these charges? The customer isn't requesting bitcoin, so you still need to transfer the money from the recipient exchange into their 'fiat' account...
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by joosters 8y ago
Why would two currency exchanges (say USD->BTC then BTC->EUR) ever be cheaper than one (USD->EUR) ? There’s nothing special about Bitcoin that means it will have lower spreads than other FX exchanges.
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by joosters 8y ago
I wonder how they extrapolated from a list of accidents into deaths per 1,000TWh? Do you divide the estimated world output by the number of deaths? Do you 'weight' deaths by the year in which they happened and the output at that t
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by joosters 8y ago
You see that type of electric scooter on the roads all over China...
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by joosters 8y ago
I think bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are little more than ponzi schemes, but that's kind of irrelevant here. Someone got lucky with their gamble on the coins, and they have generously donated lots of money from their winnings t
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by joosters 8y ago
The most annoying part of progress bars is the fact that programs so often use multiple bars. What's the point of watching a bar slowly reach 100%, only for it to be replaced with another progress bar that starts from 0 again?
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by joosters 8y ago
... Say you connect your headphones to your device, Android will surface an action to resume your favorite Spotify playlist ... ... but what if we could surface part of the app itself ... What is it with the repeated usage of 'surface&
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by joosters 8y ago
Also, I wonder where chrome stores the user’s autoplay history? Will it be cleared when wiping history? Cookies? Or is it never wiped, leaving a record of visited sites in its storage?
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by joosters 8y ago
It's still a little surprising here. Not having an adblocker at all is the default setting, users had to go out of their way to install it in the first place. Given that, you'd think that people would manage to turn off the '
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by joosters 8y ago
But how would they know how long to wait before they kill themselves? What if Rudy hasn't killed himself yet because he's slightly slower at solving logic problems?
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by joosters 9y ago
Thanks! It's odd that the % chance for the one deck setup is on the two deck page, and vv :)
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by joosters 9y ago
The page says that a two deck version of this has a 95% chance of working - does anyone know what % chance the single deck version has?
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by joosters 9y ago
Wow, that really seems to work! Thanks for the link.
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by joosters 9y ago
People are forced to avoid tax on their profits? Oh the humanity!
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by joosters 9y ago
Well done for making it work! In those pre-Betfair years, the logistics of actually getting your bets on must have been painful. We are a bit spoilt nowadays when the betting can be done through an API and everything can be automated (the d
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by joosters 9y ago
To add to the complications of picking the size of bets, you will always find that you can get more money matched on a loser than you can on a winner... so even after identifying 'value' bets and using Kelly to size your stakes, y
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by joosters 9y ago
There's a copy of the first paper available at: https://www.scribd.com/doc/166556276/Benter If you're interested in those two papers, the earlier paper 'Searching for Positive Returns at the Track:
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by joosters 9y ago
It becomes a vicious circle because the only way to be more certain about the odds is to place your bets as late as possible. Which means that fewer and fewer bets are struck earlier on, making the 'current' odds even more inaccur
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by joosters 9y ago
To be fair, I just got to the end of the article and discovered that it mentioned this paper too... One aspect that isn't mentioned, is that Benter (and Zeljko Ranogajec, mentioned at the very end) got a large edge over over punters by
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by joosters 9y ago
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time. No, he told this story decades ago, and published papers detailing his algorit
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by joosters 9y ago
Why doesn't it delete / trim the caches automatically? If they are safe to be deleted by the user at any time, the device itself should be clever enough to clear the space.
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by joosters 9y ago
It still wouldn't solve the problem of viewing the source. You can't easily view the source code of a deployed contract. The only way to verify a contract is to find the source code from somewhere, then try compiling it and check
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by joosters 9y ago
You already had to comply with many other complex laws, like copyrights, trademarks and so on. I don’t see why a privacy law is anything different or special.
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by joosters 9y ago
Security forces have already been hacking hotel door locks for years. For example, Mossad agents were caught on camera in 2010 cracking the lock on Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh's room before assassinating him: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by joosters 9y ago
Vitalik can’t get his own flawed cryptocurrency to be useful or usable (except for scammers) and yet he wants to tell everyone how to solve the rest of the world’s problems?
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by joosters 9y ago
Surely all that does is make Google more money?

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