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by jraines 8y ago
CME and CBOE volume paled (and still pales) in comparison to Bitmex, where traders can and did short Bitcoin well before the regulated markets launched.
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by jraines 8y ago
not true. That happened in early-mid 2017. Yes, there were more applications late in the year, but the run up in Nov/Dec was just mania (Coinbase #1 on app store). Yes, volume manipulation, tethers, etc, etc, but that retail specula
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by jraines 8y ago
> I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. From poring over stuff from this milieu, I figured
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by jraines 8y ago
It's nearly impossible. Here's just a few situations that are unclear (no i'm not asking for advice, nor do I think HN is my personal CPA) 1. You buy into an ICO and it exit scams 2. You get staking / masternode payouts
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by jraines 8y ago
I wonder if this is something dogs could be trained to detect. I used to live near a creek where there were lots of mosquitoes, and when my roommates and I could go from the car to the house on a bad day, most of us would get bitten 0-1 tim
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by jraines 9y ago
the ability of a consensus protocol & its associated distributed system(s) to preserve an accurate history in the face of a multi-million (or billion) dollar bug bounty and/or state-level attack. You get a price that discounts the
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by jraines 9y ago
I half-seriously agree. People don't identify with the photo-ops-in-Iowa Zuck. I think they prefer the "you have part of my attention; you have the minimum amount" version. He's going to be vilified either way.
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by jraines 9y ago
There's a lot of clj libraries for which this is true despite > 1 year since last maintenance. With such a fast changing underlying target, though, I'd be wary
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by jraines 9y ago
Good point. The builders gave all assurances, but they're also the seller, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jraines 9y ago
For the geologists in the house: I live in a new construction home with a post-tensioned slab foundation about 4 miles from the Hayward fault -- in a vertical line straight down. How worried should I be?
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by jraines 9y ago
Counterpoint: explain, in detail, why you clicked the "comments" link on this post. What weights did you assign to all possible other actions you could have taken, and why, etc?
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by jraines 9y ago
The Vive headset hurts my big schnoz. As far as the sales go, my impression from using a high-end system is: this is amazing, but a couple years away. And since I'm not much of a gamer, what I really want is AR, which is probably a b
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by jraines 9y ago
I'm not sure where you get either of those from my comment. TLAs (not just intelligence) can and will do that digging. Marketing/surveillance firms will do it or pay blockchain analytics firms to do it. Anonymizing protocols will
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by jraines 9y ago
Except it's linked to one or many pseudonymous wallet addresses, so only linkable to your real name under certain circumstances and/or by TLAs. And that's before anonymizing protocols (available now as separate coins, coming
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by jraines 9y ago
No. Give up. It's over. Use context clues. Not a statement on the merit of cryptocurrency or your reasoning, just a descriptivist observation.
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by jraines 9y ago
It's only legal if you wear a suit and do it on CNBC. This is my expert opinion as a super lawyer.
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by jraines 9y ago
You don't need to explain the idea of paper wealth to me :) Yes, marketcap is flawed, and examples like yours do actually pop up because of the usage of this metric, but are quickly smacked down if they're traded on markets with a
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by jraines 9y ago
It seems like nobody really knows, yet. But Ethereum is about to run a $100bn experiment to find out :)
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by jraines 9y ago
mortgage & credit generally are bad comparisons, because cryptocurrency doesn't solve this. You still need a credit score or similar reputation metric associated with your real legal name/entity. In general I agree, though.
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by jraines 9y ago
He's probably trying to not offend the company by not being more specific, but given the information offered -- why even apply/interview for a blockchain job if these are his objections (too much hype, PoW is bad)?
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by jraines 9y ago
this is a TA based idea, so please know I'm presenting it neutrally with full knowledge that TA is anathema to this crowd: volume profile at the various price points suggests somewhere in the 5k range. You can talk yourself into high
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by jraines 9y ago
Well, if we're doing quick parody headlines as stand-ins, it's actually impossible to out-Guardian the Guardian: "I dread the day my daughter's poos get smaller" https://www.theguardian.com/commentis
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by jraines 9y ago
It's complicated & kind of orthogonal. I am not trying to paint all religious people with the Pat Robertson-style example that I pointed out as egregious. This isn't an anti-religion post; it's just about the downside o
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by jraines 9y ago
This is a good point, but there's an awful lot of post-hoc Just World fallacy wrapped up in those same statements of faith. The really spurious ones - like 9/11 or Katrina being divine punishment - get media coverage but there&#x
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by jraines 9y ago
It's probably part of their agreement with the bank(s) -- if they're even traditional banks -- not to reveal the relationship except to certain parties. And yeah, assuming all the funds do exist, I'd be amazed if they were b
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by jraines 9y ago
This is why I qualified with "widespread". All the exchanges have poor support, and all of them have haters. It wasn't long ago that even seemingly knowledgeable people were urging people to get out of Poloniex because they
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by jraines 9y ago
Tether has a blockchain so you can see for yourself how much was stolen. Also, they blacklisted the hacker's address^. The @bitfinexed narrative is so flaky, especially the chart "proving" that Tether issuance pumps BTC. I
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by jraines 9y ago
NFC, Wave, Glass, semantic web, the DCI architecture; a few frameworks that I wouldn't want to speak ill of because they're not dead yet and their maintainers pop in here.
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by jraines 9y ago
OK - sorry I misinterpreted the tone of your comment
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by jraines 9y ago
Yes, I too can Google. But "contacting the site owner" for a decent percentage of the major sites on the internet isn't exactly a good recourse. And btw I have tried that with one site that was actually critical to me, quick

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