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by josu 9y ago
This does not sound like phishing to me. It's not like they mistakenly gave their banking credentials away.
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by josu 10y ago
And countries. There are currently no real alternatives in Mexico.
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by josu 10y ago
The financial crisis? You can see its effect in almost every graph.
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Fiduciary duty
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pets.com
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by josu 10y ago
His point is that all those changes could have been added to this version. No need to have a plastic screen, a 3 hour battery life or that stupid location for the charging port.
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by josu 10y ago
"society" as in US population. Snapchat is also used outside of the US but it's not so prevalent.
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by josu 10y ago
Gold has been the de facto store of value for thousands of years. It has more to do with consensus rather than technology. As long as the bitcoin blockchain technology meets some minimum requirements, there won't be a need to move your
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by josu 10y ago
Most of the people around me are using it as a speculative investment / store of value. If my sample is not biased and this is the case for the whole universe, that alone should be driving the price up. The amount of new bitcoins that
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by josu 10y ago
You are completely right, I hadn't considered that. This is what Zcash has to say about it: Since the value sent between shielded addresses is private, how can we determine the number ZEC in circulation? Currently, we know that every m
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by josu 10y ago
The current market cap of Zcoin is 1,538 BTC [0], so this person created 1/4 of all the coins in circulation (410 BTC), and these guys are saying: "We knew we were being attacked when we saw that the total mint transactions did no
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by josu 10y ago
As far as I understood, this attack vector has nothing to do with using public wifi.
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For context: The US Broom, Brush, and Mop Manufacturing Industry was $2.8B in 2013 [1]. Not everything is as sexy as launching rockets to outer space, but as long as people derive utility from throwaway pics there will be demand for billion
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by josu 10y ago
How can you actually shut down mining? Maybe they'd make it harder for miners to convert bitcoins to fiat, but that wouldn't stop the mining.
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by josu 10y ago
To further your point, the expert had to use Harry Potter as an analogy. In my opinion, analogies should be banned from courtrooms. They are fine for casual discussions, but they are often misleading.
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by josu 10y ago
Or just ask for the permission when you first open the page, the same way uber asks for your location. www.foobar.com wants to: "Run in the background unthrottled"
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by josu 10y ago
>guilty of not being zealous enough at being a quasi-law enforcement agency and investigating its customer transactions... Did we read the same article? >Western Union (...) admitted "to aiding and abetting wire fraud" by al
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by josu 10y ago
Their hybrid IEMs are the best sub-$20 earphones I have ever bought. They are easily on par with earphones in the $50-$100 range. Head-fi: http://www.head-fi.org/t/786589/xiaomi-hybrid-iem-thread-pis... Xiaomi: h
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by josu 10y ago
They could double the price of a taxi ride and most people would still use Uber. So, I don't know if they are losing money in Mexico, but even if they are they could turn it around today.
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by josu 10y ago
They created a product that people love. I live in Mexico City and my experience is similar to the one described in Singapore plus the fact that, so far, nobody has ever been kidnapped while hailing an Uber. Riding a cab has gone from sligh
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by josu 10y ago
For context, Accenture has been criticizing blockchains for their immutability. [1] [2] [3] So I would not take anything coming from them seriously. [1] Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected: http://www.nytimes.co
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by josu 10y ago
This is why I love HN, the first 2 top voted comments are sharing complete opposite experiences using the Vive. EDIT, in case it changes: Positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13393449 Negative: https://
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by josu 10y ago
Donald Trump was celebrating just a few days ago that Chrysler was going to open a new plant in Michigan instead of in Mexico[1][2]. Could this be a political move by the EPA? [1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta
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by josu 10y ago
It would be interesting to see the opposite too, an American GM or Ford executive being arrested in Europe.
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by josu 10y ago
I don't think so. These are my personal reasons: 1. I would hate to talk to a person with those things in their ears. 2. I use my bluetooth headphones the same way I use my wired headphones. 3. I don't feel comfortable talking out
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by josu 10y ago
Click on "web" and then click on the link to avoid the paywall. 143 points by prostoalex 12 hours ago | flag | hide | past | _web_ | 128 comments | favorite | save to pocket
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by josu 10y ago
>any other chemical that hard those sorts of toxic affects. Like bleach?
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That's just journalist doing a bad job. There is Chongqing the municipality (equivalent to a US state) and there is Chongqing the city. According to the source used on the wikipedia page the city's population is 18M.
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This other new is on the front page: Venezuela’s PdVSA Misses $404M Payments on Bonds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13032920
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by josu 10y ago
There are two options: either you end up in prison (see Leopoldo López [1]) or you leave the country. Regarding the coup, Chavez actually tried to gain power that way in 1992 and 2002, so my guess is that the government has strong ties with

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