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by josh2600 9y ago
It's right there in Bezos shareholder letter, the same one he's published every year since 1997. They haven't killed Walmart yet so they have to keep spending to catch up on infrastructure. Google and FB have a comparatively
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by josh2600 9y ago
This is the advice that all agencies give regarding investments. In this regard there's nothing special about cryptocurrency. Re: regulation, so far it is property from a taxation perspective and either property or a security from a re
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by josh2600 9y ago
I'd love clarity on this (specifically because it's hard for me to believe you've done smsc integration 220 times already).
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by josh2600 9y ago
Ok look, I have a stake here because I run a crypto fund but let's just be clear: in the beginning of money, refunds involved going to the person you wanted a refund from and demanding the return of your currency. It's not that di
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by josh2600 9y ago
To be clear, you are operating a SMSC and have signed SMSC interop agreements as a CLEC operator with 220 carriers globally?
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by josh2600 9y ago
The problem is that to get an SMSC that is respected by all of the operators requires a negotiation with an aggregator who has done contracts with all of the operators. The 2nd order problem is that you don't know the quality of the re
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by josh2600 9y ago
These are really bad ICOs (even calling them that is weird because of how bad they are). I think other ICOs aren't likely to succeed for other reasons, but I could say the same thing about most startups. I think it's obvious that
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by josh2600 9y ago
CPX doesn't have the breadth of exchanges I'm looking for. CoinAPI is interesting. I'll play with it and give you an opinion.
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by josh2600 9y ago
BTC is easy. There are a million sources for it. The altcoins are the hard ones.
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by josh2600 9y ago
The bitmex founder is brilliant. Read their newsletter, it's some of the best writing in crypto.
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by josh2600 9y ago
As a fund manager, I wish there was a data warehousing service I could pay for with a queryable by the minute (or better granularity) API that captured multiple exchanges across multiple countries for the top 50 coins. I would pay a lot mon
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How to Trade China(medium.com)
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by josh2600 9y ago
>A handful of people aren't arbitrarily deciding which of the 500 biggest companies are. Right... https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/01/sp-500-to-exclude-snap-a... Edit: note that Fortune 500 and t
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by josh2600 9y ago
Not to be confused with TEZ the abbreviation for Tezos, the largest ICO (cryptocurrency) ever.
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On the Chinese ICO Ban(medium.com)
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by josh2600 9y ago
Have you seen the video? It's way more jacked up than what you're implying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzQ42D9Srw Watch that and tell me that it's reasonable or caused by a short yellow...
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by josh2600 9y ago
Seems like a no-brainer for IVP. It seems like coinbase is exceptionally well positioned to harvest a big chuck of the institutional money that's about to hit crypto.
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Position Paper: Blockchain Technology(medium.com)
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Understanding Cryptocurrency Before You Lose All of Your Money(medium.com)
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by josh2600 9y ago
This whole thing is actually really straightforward if you evaluate it from the perspective of governance. In bitcoin, miners run software and the software they run controls the performance of the network. Miners therefore control the futur
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by josh2600 9y ago
Comments like this are ludicrous. Do you really think the SEC doesn't understand distributed ledgers or ethereum contracts? Second, do you think anyone has technical staff that are capable of writing safe contracts in Solidity (Parity
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by josh2600 9y ago
What does it mean to have an understanding of AI that's limited? Have you ever talked to someone who is way smarter than you? Have you tried to imagine how they think? I suspect thinking about the future of AI is a little bit like that
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by josh2600 9y ago
Without going into too much detail there's a master carrier caller ID database maintained by neustar, formerly Lockheed Martin information systems, but that registry is hilariously bad and expensive, so people cache caller ID in second
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by josh2600 9y ago
I really wanna like it, but I'm honestly really scared to invest both professionally and emotionally in new Google products. I feel like I've learned that fire is hot and that I shouldn't count on any new Google product lest
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by josh2600 9y ago
I think the point is that the rift is already too expensive and adding more expensive components isn't going to help put more Oculus in people's hands. Oculus needs to shrink their BoM.
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by josh2600 10y ago
Because shutting down 100 credit cards has more reputation and monetary liability than shutting one down? You're basically saying "academics can derive your social security number using public information!" And wondering why
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by josh2600 10y ago
Isn't this true of any industry that isn't "commodified"? That is to say, if there's still a narrative where a publisher can outperform other publishers, why would a publisher bind their future to other publishers?
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by josh2600 10y ago
I don't know how to tell you this, but go to Japan and be proven spectacularly wrong. Or... go to SFO and see the air train that's driverless too?
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by josh2600 10y ago
This is foolish. Google doesn't own the last mile into your house. They are beholden to ATT + Verizon, and, to a lesser extent, Comcast. Due to the regulatory moat that the Carriers have built up over the years (including spectrum righ

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