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by kwelstr 8y ago
You are so right. I am reading West with the Night, an excellent book that didn't sell well when first published in 1942 for various reasons, from bad timing during WWII to being under advertised. Almost forgotten until 1982 when someo
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by kwelstr 8y ago
Just an aside, you can ignore the dot on your email, or add as many as you like. Google ignores periods on email addresses. Just google it... :D
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by kwelstr 8y ago
On the other hand, Pilfered Pollen is a great name for a rock band! :D
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by kwelstr 8y ago
And that's the problem, tell me 10 miles and it will always be 10 miles. Where I live, in a rapidly growing city, 15 years ago it would take 15 minutes to downtown from my house, now it takes 25 or 30. It's the same distance but t
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by kwelstr 8y ago
"On a hot July morning, I traveled to Biasca, Switzerland, about two hours north of Milan, Italy" Ok, sorry for the off topic, but this annoys me to no end. Two hours by plane is about 1400 miles, by car about 120 miles, by bicycl
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by kwelstr 8y ago
There is nothing of value to read here, so... Let me say just this: click bait.
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by kwelstr 8y ago
Fantastic, if this really translates into human ovaries it will greatly expand the viability of otherwise unfertile couples, and together with better health care and fertility drugs we can tremendously increase the "threatened" hu
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by kwelstr 8y ago
Guard: Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? Arthur: Not at all! They could be carried.
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by kwelstr 8y ago
That has always been my favorite translation, by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, and the book is beautifully illustrated. https://www.amazon.com/Ching-25th-Anniversary-English-Mandar...
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by kwelstr 8y ago
I used to have an reddit account from the first year reddit came out and I finally decided to delete it this year. I kept going into smaller and smaller subreddits because the ones I used to like, askscience or askhistorians etc. grew too m
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Tesla high valuation is the only thing that has prevented it getting bought by one of the big car companies, and that's a good thing. GM used to buy smaller competitors to take them off the market and just keep the name as a token of t
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Yawzda! I found mine too :O http://web.archive.org/web/19981205183936/http://www.shadow....
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Reddit is done, I deleted my long time reddit account last month, it has become a circle jerk and even small subreddits are mostly useless. I remember when it was a real source of interesting news and comments. Hacker News is my online foru
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by kwelstr 9y ago
The 10th is a Sunday
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Yes, that was written at the very beginning of bitcoin. The thought is that bitcoin can be divided into 100,000,000 satoshis and a dollar can be divided into 100 cents, so to make 1 satoshi = 1 cent means 1 bitcoin = 1,000,000 dollars.
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by kwelstr 9y ago
We should assume by default that every headline is clickbait now, unfortunately this is the business model of the internet. It's not good for accuracy and most articles are just a headline and some inane filler up words. I hope we&#x27
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Or written by an AI designed to click bait maximization ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by kwelstr 9y ago
In my opinion, the regulators should focus on exchanges applying KYC and make the exchanges function the same a stock exchanges. If I buy a stock in the US through a brokerage house, they have my info and every year they send me a 1099 with
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by kwelstr 9y ago
> Few people pay taxes on [their Bitcoin holdings] >>This is tax fraud. It is not; you only have a tax liability when you cash out, not when you hold, you could cash out and have a gain or have a loss and you need to reflect that o
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Additionally, they will have to wait until January to get your bitcoin cash from the fork! </s>
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by kwelstr 9y ago
To me the true crypto tulip mania is the proliferation of worthless altcoins and tokens that all of a sudden get millions of dollars in marketcap.
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by kwelstr 9y ago
You still have that old drive?
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by kwelstr 9y ago
No, there are some that don't use proof of work, so no burnt energy. Bitcoin is the king right now and Ether the queen, and those two do burn energy.
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The Ethereum Foundation Is Against WWW Consortium’s Encrypted Media Extensions(ethnews.com)
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by kwelstr 9y ago
I think it will be 10x worse than the 90's tech bubble. I was there, it was painful.
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Question is, why are they farming atlantic salmon on the pacific coast?
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Does anybody remember IRC's DCC send?
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by kwelstr 9y ago
Wow, that's crazy! What algorithm did this, or maybe it's some scheme manipulation for profit? You can never be sure when something like this happens, flash stock crashes have a history that's muddy at best. :/
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by kwelstr 9y ago
How about Apple purchases Porsche and Netflix. That will make more sense.
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by kwelstr 9y ago
I wonder if and when we have working quantum computers bitcoin and crypto will be able to adapt or die. I mean, breaking secret keys with quantum should be easy.

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