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BitPay's New Plan(blog.bitpay.com)
132 points by josu 12y ago|48 comments
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by josu 12y ago
>In the end, I've had to chalk all these apps up to the "hobby" category as it has been a money-losing proposition. This is what Taleb calls an extremistan world, you can't apply a gaussian distribution to this situat
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Do Google, Dropbox and others use the native HTML5?
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What about a random fund? Is there such a thing out there?
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by josu 12y ago
This screencap [1] is from an article from one of the most important newspaper; El Mundo. The article is about how news aggregators arehurting the newspaper industry and that it was high time that the authorities did something. Next to the
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by josu 12y ago
>Could it be possible such a thing of a world's single currency? With the world's currency, I didn't mean the "single" currency. I meant the world's currency like the gold was for many years, or the dollar i
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This is a genuine question. What do you think that money is? Because I have also asked myself that question, and I have read about it, but I don't seem to be able to give a definite answer.
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by josu 12y ago
The box is not completely accurate though. When it says: >On the negative side, there is no one to step in and help stabilise it should things start to go wrong (for example, the various governments that printed more money to help ease t
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by josu 12y ago
Am I the only one who thought about the McPoyle Brothers upon seeing the picture?
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Trying to file your company's taxes on your own is like trying to represent yourself in a trial.
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Nor The Verge, nor Bloomberg. I wonder how the NYT got the story.
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by josu 12y ago
> Ebola kills up to 90 percent of those infected and there is no cure or vaccine Apparently this strand of the virus "only" kills 63% of the patients[1]. Even if it doesn't kill him, does anybody know what are the consequ
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Why is the app free? Is it supported by ads or are you planning on capitalizing it in the future?
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>If they want to fight an injustice of a system, shouldn't they admit that's what they do -- and be ready for the consequences? They are there to make money, and if fighting an injustice system is aligned with their goal of mak
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Sorry, it was rethorical. I wanted to point out that fiat money disappears all the time. I lose money all the time; it falls out of my pocket, I forget where I put it... However I have never lost any amount of bitcoin.
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by josu 12y ago
Is there any properly secured money? Each type of money has its flaws and its advantages. For one, bitcoin is traceable to a certain degree, whreas a paper bill is not. > Sometimes money just disappear Are you talking about fiat money o
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by josu 12y ago
Bitcoin appeared on 2009 and we already have a few payment intermediaries. VISA was created in 1958, and nowadays there are basically only 3 companies processing credit/debit card payments: VISA, Mastercard and Amex. The threat is obvi
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by josu 12y ago
As long as his Twitter account was isolated[1], the only risk was losing control of his twitter account for a few days. And given the fact that he published an article previously saying that he was going to give away his password, I don&#x2
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by josu 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. Who needs a shortcut to send an email anyways?
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by josu 12y ago
So Crtl+F being mapped to the find command in every other application wasn't "a really good reason"?
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by josu 12y ago
There is an amazing book about hacking the original xbox. I think it may be this one, but I'm behind a firewall that doesn't let me open it: http://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf
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by josu 12y ago
>Economies rise and fall because of the struggle to control the price of their currencies Economies that fall have struggles to control the price of their currency. The correlation is there, the causation is not so clear.
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by josu 12y ago
According to this graph [1] and to the fact that the population of Pennsylvania is 12 million, it doesn't seem plausible. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...
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by josu 12y ago
This is the person that made the site: https://twitter.com/kgunette Karen Schoellkopf
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Your comment seems coherent until you start to read it and realize that it doens't make any sense. If you didn't state that you weren't from the UK I could think that English may not be your first language. What does that pa
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Are you a bot?
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by josu 12y ago
>drivers couldn’t be lured out of their warm beds on a cold and needy night. This is not only about warm beds, it's about risk and reward. A snowstorm increases the chances of getting into a car crash by many factors, and if the rew
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From an economics perspective there was money left on the table an Uber is taking it, and that's the end of it. However, economics will also tell you that this doesn't seem to be an equilibrium situation, and therefore competitors
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>Not to mention that such a choice most likely satisfies passion and honor within a person. If you are saying that any person that satisfies his passions and honor is considered smart, or that a person that works in something that gives
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If you are interested in working for his company, there seem to be some openings for programmers: https://www.rentec.com/vm/jobs.vm

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