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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Ah that explains it. Crunchbase semi is definitely defined as things for M&A guys, and the data are terrible. (Look at Sequoia Comm for example.) Numonyx was Intel unloading some of their crappier memory biz lines. They eventually un
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Nice visuals, but just a quick check of the data: Numonyx is a startup? Really? Then why not FreeScale? Increasingly, "startup" seems to be defined as a way for the M&A guys to make money. If they can't make money, th
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Better title: The article you can't see. (Had to jigger the site to beat the paywall. What's the way to link through google again?) Edit: I had reached 10 articles. Easier solution is to just open a private browsing window.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> As a European, I'm utterly and totally ashamed that nobody here actually offered him asylum. None. Just imagine how the self-aware Americans (US) feel.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I clicked for the same reason. Might be worth changing the HN title to be more descriptive. My suggestion: "What Lazy Evaluation Really Means" Yes I know it undoes the cutsie title, but he's just going to deliver a bunch of
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Sorry, I don't see where they are generating random noise or keywords from your link. The link seems to be discussing the merits of a relay of existing traffic.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Just randomly is detectable! Only after analysis, and only after some confidence level has been exceeded. And that is the point: Such analysis takes time and resource.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Something that seems to be missing from the current world: A P2P noise network. A sufficient amount of encrypted noise emitting from many nodes makes the task of capturing and decoding everything quite a bit more challenging for an intru
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Would be an interesting book (for your copious free time.)
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Skip the blogspam: https://cprodmasx.att.com/commonLogin/igate_wam/controller.d...
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> including CNN, CBS, NBC, Reuters, the Guardian I hope the chief editors there have realized that their own phone calls and emails are being scanned. You would guess that it is in their best interests to give this issue a helluva lot
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Quick ref to get rid of Google Ads (and some others too) on Adblock Plus: FOR CHROME: Go to "Settings" Find Extensions in the list on the left Find AdBlock, select "Options" Click the tab "Filter Lists" Uncheck
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> "NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest." I think you missed the key point of the verb "object": Whether they object or not is immaterial to whether they are going to mark the protesters for addition
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Doing it to a bundle of fibers in the deep sea is challenging! It is also detectable: Long haul folks sometimes pull up the cable to service it for various reasons. So they pull it up and see a zillion fiber taps? WTF? And where d
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> No, they are probably using evanescent wave technology. This is not a term used in fiber comm. The wave traveling down the fiber has a "mode", and part of it extends beyond the core. Yes, that part is evanescent, but it i
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Yes, I didn't want to complicate the issue. In order to keep the admin costs low, the ETF demands that blocks of shares be redeemed at once. (for example: The gold ETF GLD requires 50K shares be created/redeemed at once, iirc.)
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> in principle no reason it couldn't be done. I'm not suggesting otherwise. I am pointing out that a genuine, fast mechanism for shorting needs to be available in order for the ETF price to track the underlying. That mechan
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> if the ETF can be redeemed freely Not just freely, but without any substantive delay. > If the ETF price is $60/BTC and the spot is $85/BTC, there's a huge incentive for investors to buy ETF and redeem and then sel
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5975704
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
It's clear that many folks don't understand how the price dynamics of ETFs with underlying securities operate. A share in an ETF is a fixed basket of securities. If the price of the ETF differs from the basket, the ETF share crea
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> * Perhaps they personally will provide liquidity for this ETF.* That sounds suspiciously like "unloading".
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Following that, liquidity. There needs to be an effective method of shorting in order for the ETF to be effective. I think it will take much more than a year.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I'm not judging, I'm providing the text for the Article he referenced in his statement.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Anyone know how to estimate whether there's enough liquidity in existing bitcoin exchages to support it, and allow them to track the price accurately in the ETF? Yes. The daily volume in the ETF must be a small fraction of the
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum? Asylum is considered a basic human right. I've posted elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974330
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Article 14 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I grew up in greater NYC in an area with many immigrants, and I am myself the grandson of Italian immigrants. A teacher in high school jokingly challenged us to sit on our hands while we talked. Without thinking about it, I found myself l
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Since the money supply (M2, eg) includes the monetary base (M0), the link is confused (at least about nomeclature.) Monetary base in red (you can see where they started printing in the past few years), Money supply in blue http:/&#x2
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I'll add a major forward-looking issue: The Federal Reserve has been issuing free money, and that party is over. It won't affect the next A or B rounds, but exits in about 3-5 years are going to dry up much like they did the last
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Maybe, just maybe, this might get the US government to stop, or at least drastically limit its spying operations. And the irony would be that the US needed foreign gov'ts to accomplish what its own citizens could not do.

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