koancone

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by koancone 9y ago
This "new" technology is 10 years old. Why is it catching on now?
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by koancone 9y ago
Hello, Thanks for the welcome. Really the contribution was satire not bullshit. Sometimes satire will give valuable insights about societal phenomena, e.g. possible irrational exuberance in the SV start up set. That said I get the message a
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Introducing Wheelio
3 points by koancone 9y ago|2 comments
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by koancone 9y ago
How correlated is Bitcoin price to the stock market rise and low Federal Reserve rates?
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by koancone 9y ago
That's a pretty lazy answer. Why not last year, or the years before? Bitcoin is nearly 10 years old and monetary policy has been "easy" that whole time (in the US and Europe). Why is it taking off this year in particular? Wha
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by koancone 9y ago
Coinbase seems to piss me off. They have obscure ID / KYC verification requirements that change with the level (monetary value) of your transaction. After I opened my coinbase account I sent them an email asking what specifically I nee
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by koancone 9y ago
Who will buy the goods and services the robot workers produce?
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Ask HN: What is behind the cryptocurrency boom this year?
7 points by koancone 9y ago|8 comments
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by koancone 9y ago
Maybe people should like build houses / apartments and tax speculator owned vacant units.
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by koancone 9y ago
Google is increasingly returning irrelevant results in the effort to deliver the targeted content their advertisers want. I predict a future for a subscription funded search engine that just delivers lexically relevant results without all t
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by koancone 9y ago
So why was it written, what is the motivation of the author?
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by koancone 9y ago
The problem is the advertising model for content monetization. This is the same reason TV is mostly crap.
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by koancone 9y ago
I don't know what you mean. My comments are not newsworthy. I am not practising arbitrage. I am commenting on HN because that gives me some recreational utility. What is inconsistent?
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by koancone 9y ago
It is also possible that Satoshi Nakamoto was an alias for an NSA project. I have no special knowledge either way on this matter.
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by koancone 9y ago
The internet and modern computers are the result of Government and University funding (e.g. DARPA, UC Berkeley BSD) and corporate R & D projects like Xerox Alto / Start at PARC and Bell Labs Unix, C, etc. Free Open source volunteer
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by koancone 9y ago
My experience, from shopping in Walmart quite frequently, is that they are highly disorganized and un-nimble. I guess this affords the opportunity for persistent arbitrages. For example, my local Walmart supercenter routinely runs out of ce
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by koancone 9y ago
I am not sure what the point of these news stories is. Arbitrage opportunities have existed throughout history. How is it newsworthy? However, a basic understanding of economics would indicate that such market inefficiencies tend to disappe
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Ask HN: Is the advertising funded model for Internet content likely to last?
1 points by koancone 9y ago|1 comments
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by koancone 9y ago
Not everyone has a smart phone. I don't. Believe it or not you are not required to have a smart phone function in the word. At best it is a pointless waste or time and money gadget at worst it is a tracking device and profile builder.
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by koancone 9y ago
Is $999 an competitive price for a cash register? Just curious.