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Ask HN: Next steps when you're blacklisted by Akamai?
11 points by jraines 9y ago|6 comments
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by jraines 9y ago
Please take this as not a comment on the morality of any bombing generally or specifically, but is it really sensible to speak of "bombing {{country}}" when referring to what the U.S. now does in these areas? These are targeted
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by jraines 9y ago
inb4 "it's all a pyramid scheme" I welcome the SEC's enforcement of established rules on ICOs and going after scams. It will make the whole space healthier. Puzzling why some obvious scams are going strong, though, such
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by jraines 9y ago
Take most any statement about why the Internet was revolutionary and replace "message" with "money". You can sent [it] anywhere in the world at a reduced cost and faster speed vs the old way. You can send [it] to anyone
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by jraines 9y ago
The failure of, say, the Bolivar does not disprove the value of some other currency. But yeah, I guess if you're the last guy trying to get out of e-Bolivars you're pretty screwed.
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by jraines 9y ago
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes
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by jraines 9y ago
Yeah, I'm mainly referring to those you mentioned. But smart contracts in general allow tons of new use cases, which are furthered by those types of ground-level advancements. It will take years to sort out, there will be scams and us
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by jraines 9y ago
If you mean you don't count existing exchanges, which is fair, there are decentralized exchanges coming very soon (0xproject.com among others) as well as atomic swaps: https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/91
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by jraines 9y ago
So you have no interest in it yet confidently state there's "nothing new on the horizon". Look, I don't know if you're wrong in the large -- maybe it does all come crashing down or die with a whimper -- but you&#x2
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by jraines 9y ago
Nowhere in the article does it really support the title. I guess they're referring mainly to the Ethereum fork? Even if you accept the proposition, it's still an improvement in that if you don't like the governance (feels to
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by jraines 9y ago
I don't know, but that's one of the two "real" questions: 1. How will China treat miners? 2. Will they go forward with blocking node communication at the port/GFW level? Re: 1, if they shut down / limit mining
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by jraines 9y ago
I think it's more of an argument against such an understanding of a component, similar to the view that too much was packed into jQuery add-ons.
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by jraines 9y ago
In the early days of the telegraph, farmers bootstrapped their own networks with fence wire (source - James Gleik's excellent The Information )
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by jraines 9y ago
Trust me it is. Source: the builder of a new construction house I'm looking at.
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by jraines 9y ago
some parts of the two brown splotches south of the Oakland airport are in Hayward. Basically the area around highway 92 / San Mateo bridge, west of 880
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by jraines 9y ago
Hayward Hills is indeed nice. If you're in the 1% of millenial earners you can stretch and pay close to a million dollars to live in a 2200 sq ft home within spitting distance of the most dangerous fault in America. Or cross 880 to t
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by jraines 9y ago
The parts I'm familiar with are painted a little more gloomy than reality. Fremont has top rated schools and a median income above 80k. Combine income with college grad percentage and it's in the 81st percentile on the "supe
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by jraines 9y ago
OK, fair enough. There are definitely tokens that either could be in-app-purchases backed by a company's database, some that are accidental securities, and some that are outright scams. Coming back to the original topic -- I don'
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by jraines 9y ago
Again, I've said I'm not trying to convince you or anyone that it's not currently in a bubble or risky. No doubt there is some money laundering (BTC-e) and securities fraud going on. The pyramid scheme accusation has been a
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by jraines 9y ago
If you build such an arbitrage bot why on Earth would you write it up and complain about being too poor to run it rather than running, not walking, to beg or borrow the capital to run it to its full potential? Then you can still write it u
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by jraines 9y ago
What's your distinction between a "self-proclaimed expert" and people building actual products on a technology and/or people who have already banked piles of money in the space? I'm not trying to convince anyone tha
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by jraines 9y ago
Other than a few thousand investors in the ICO, the leaders of the projects who are building on it, the market participants so far, and the most respected fund in the space? No one, really.
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by jraines 9y ago
sitting will kill you, standing will kill you . . . luckily I float in a vat of nutrient gel like a Guild Navigator
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by jraines 9y ago
SoMoLo --> AIVRCoin doesn't quite jump off the powerpoint slide as well though
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by jraines 9y ago
I think the main points to consider would be: how much leverage do they use, and how quickly can they get out of their positions? On the latter, we know it's not comparable to LTCM because a long-held position for Rennaisance is like
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by jraines 9y ago
Impossible to know as an outsider, but it's interesting to me that Simons tried pretty hard to isolate Renaissance from Wall Street & other hedge funds. He hired people out of academia, saddled them with an extremely onerous non-c
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by jraines 9y ago
Genetic / biotech stuff, driven by CRISPR. All the ones you mentioned, except nanotech maybe, are pretty locked in to create massive changes. I think the bio stuff will be the most "surprising", not least because it's
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by jraines 9y ago
Most do this now and it's porous to say the least
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by jraines 9y ago
You can short btc on several platforms, including Bitfinex
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by jraines 9y ago
The ICOs are like 80-90% ETH based though. Good luck on the short . . . many hedge fund gods were "right" on the tech bubble but lost their shirts trying to short it before the exuberance subsided

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