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by lectrick 13y ago
I think the problem with real creativity is that it is difficult to measure. And schools are all about measuring. With regards to creativity, I think the infamous assertion about how to distinguish pornography applies: "I know it when
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by lectrick 13y ago
If you say "private def methodname(args); end", the "private" keyword already takes a symbol for a method name to privatize, so in this case the return of "def methodname(args); end" is ":methodname"
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by lectrick 13y ago
Latest Chrome on Windows here. I see the globe and hear the music but I don't see transactions. I'd recommend disabling the music load for now while HN hits it. It will save on some unnecessary traffic. You can always re-enable it
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by lectrick 13y ago
If it is not useful as a value store except to speculators, then it still has plenty of utility as a value transfer mechanism or a universal FOREX.
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by lectrick 13y ago
So you're saying the Fed prints dollars by the millions during booms and destroys them again by the millions during busts? Who cares if prices stay stable or not? The value represented by whatever price is attached to those things won&
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by lectrick 13y ago
If its use as a medium of exchange continues to spread, it is quite possible that the volatility will go away. Even national fiat currencies have some volatility, but it's vastly subdued due to the sheer amount of people using it as a
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by lectrick 13y ago
Poll: How much money do you have in your bank accounts?
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by lectrick 13y ago
I knew all of those things as soon as those devices came out. Not kidding. And I don't see how others can't see them either. But that is the nature of perception. You either perceive something or you don't and it's diffi
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by lectrick 13y ago
Check this idea out: http://www.cointagion.com/ Scan QR code with your wallet, hit Send, instadownload. You don't even have to touch the computer. At all. No account creation or anything else necessary. Now imagine t
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by lectrick 13y ago
http://www.cointagion.com/ Check this site out. Seconds after you send the specified bitcoins to the QR code/address using your smartphone or bitcoin wallet app... It triggers the download. No entering in of CC infor
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by lectrick 13y ago
> served better with cryptocoins than with cash, bank transfers or credit cards? Buying things online from other countries without having to go through the "demoninational dance" Anyone who is unbanked and/or uncredited (s
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by lectrick 13y ago
Perceived low risk :) BTC is a nice hedge against that. I think people are beginning to realize that.
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by lectrick 13y ago
No big threat to the spread of chargeback-free bitcoin... Got it
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by lectrick 13y ago
Amazon Windows Workspaces
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by lectrick 13y ago
So the key is never to keep the private key decrypted, anywhere. And to make it extremely hard to brute-force. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0038 You could also split/shard it into pieces where M of N pieces are
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by lectrick 13y ago
> regretting having sold bictoins earlier because of some feeling They turned a risky as hell deflationary asset into a low-risk slowly-inflating one :) Hindsight is 20/20. At any time, Bitcoin could experience... a problem. Which a
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by lectrick 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728463 Regarding the 10 minute coffee... You can leave as soon as you pay, at some small risk (which could easily be absorbed by the payment provider), you don't necessarily have t
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by lectrick 13y ago
Technology is amoral. If you think Bitcoin is genuinely new technology which might find a niche, it pays to throw a little money its way. If you think the fact that people using a technology for nefarious purposes is a strike against that t
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by lectrick 13y ago
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed
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by lectrick 13y ago
China discovered Bitcoin, I believe it was featured on its state news recently, and the main Chinese bitcoin exchange (which is only 2 months old or so) is already the largest in the world. China has been hurting for any kind of financial i
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by lectrick 13y ago
There's also http://bitcoinwisdom.com
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by lectrick 13y ago
> must also allow users to do remarkably stupid and wrong things. These systems can at least put up speed bumps ("are you SURE you want to do this potentially work-imploding operation?") for those sorts of things.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I used to bitch about Rails. Then I got a Drupal project. Drupal is a heaping, steaming pile of shit. Now I happily work with Rails again. Thanks Drupal!
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by lectrick 13y ago
If you actually read the article , at the time it was written (months ago, when BTC volume was lower), it calculated a "bottom, minimum" value of about $45 USD. So if it ever goes back to there, it will most certainly be a buy.
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by lectrick 13y ago
> * The nature of BitCoin could make it from an asset worth 350 USD to 0 USD overnight No. Not unless it stops being traded for anything . Read this: http://bitcoinsurvey.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/what-is-t
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by lectrick 13y ago
This is also how you can donate with Bitcoins. The crowdfunding site doesn't seem to allow that option.
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by lectrick 13y ago
On the offline wallet thing- For the record, BIP 0038 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0038 was released just a few days ago (although it was a working draft for a while). You can, right now, create a BIP38 encrypted pap
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by lectrick 13y ago
Your life savings is losing 4% of value a year (on average) due to inflation. In some countries, this is as high as 20%. Are your savings earning more than 4% a year, wherever they're invested in? If not, it's losing money, and if
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by lectrick 13y ago
I randomly returned to this conversation and boy are there a lot of assholes here who commented after I left. I think I'm more on your side now. I like to think I'm a nice guy, but there's clearly a lot to learn... and to tea
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It's already down (it's the database... why does it always gotta be the database... sigh. Actually, it's probably a blog post so why is it even hitting the database to begin with instead of being served from cache?) I guess s

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