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by lifty 9y ago
The current situation is quite terrible, and the hype that lead to the current price is not doing Bitcoin any favors. I would have hoped that it wouldn’t get so much attention before it gets a chance to improve the underlying tech more. Tha
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by lifty 9y ago
I love this. I think both of you are right, but your perspectives are for different time frames, with one side having an ideal view about a future time frame, while the other thinking about the now. This is the kind of situation that leads
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by lifty 9y ago
I was alluding to your comment regarding price history and track record. People put their money in bitcoin (and other assets) based on future expectations. It's very risky now because we don't know if it will deliver on it's
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by lifty 9y ago
Perhaps a lot of people own houses too, but still, I think the majority of people don't even own bonds or stocks (which can have a return). I think US people are more sophisticated when it comes to using financial tools but my impressi
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by lifty 9y ago
But consider the hypothetical scenario, where you have two currencies that have been around for the same amount of time, with similar reputations. One is inflationary and one is deflationary. Which one would you choose to save your wealth i
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by lifty 9y ago
I don't think there are any guarantees, but the reasoning is that widespread adoption implies that the violent capital inflows have subdued and a more stable equilibrium is reached. Of course, panics can still happen for various reason
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by lifty 9y ago
Currencies are the store of value of poor people, because unfortunately they don't have the sophistication to manage their wealth using assets that don't loose their value. And that is unfortunate because they are taxed the most b
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by lifty 9y ago
It is likely that volatility will drop a lot once and if it gains widespread adoption.
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by lifty 9y ago
One reason might be because this gives the US too much influence over the world (I know I am oversimplifying here). As long as everybody got along well, and most of the countries in the world were growing economically, the dollar served a c
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by lifty 9y ago
Everybody is riding the high winds of quantitative easing to growth and prosperity!
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by lifty 9y ago
I fully subscribe to the subjective theory of value. There are other theories which might be good approximations in specific scenarios, but fundamentally, value is subjective. But following that reasoning I believe that if enough people agr
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by lifty 9y ago
Does anyone have an idea to what extent macbooks are affected? Intel ME is baked in every CPU but according to The Register [0] the AMT part is not running on Apple hardware. [0]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05&#
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Re-thinking the capital code(piketty.blog.lemonde.fr)
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by lifty 9y ago
Here is a photo realistic demo video made using Unreal Engine 4.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LtFrMAvQ4 It's quite impressive how close they are getting to photo realistic rendering. Keep in mind, this is done i
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by lifty 9y ago
I am having the same issue. Once I log in to Slack nothing happens in the main window. My team is very small. I submitted a bug report as advised. Thanks for the nice work!
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by lifty 9y ago
Do you know how US fares in that regard?
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by lifty 9y ago
I look at crypto as a deflationary asset class that can't be influenced by central banks as much, so they might withstand the credit contraction cycle rather well. There are factors that make the whole equation complicated like: regula
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by lifty 9y ago
16 KHz clear but annoying. Nothing at 17 kHz.
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by lifty 9y ago
I use MacPass, which is a good native Mac alternative for KeePass. It supports KeePassHTTP and judging by their github wiki they have recently implemented support for the KDBX4 format.
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by lifty 9y ago
While I agree that there is a lot of hype at the moment, once the dust settles we will be left with the usescases that stuck. The geany is not going back in the bottle. And some of the projects are run by the most geeky people I have ever s
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by lifty 10y ago
An interesting project that tries to tackle governance and the formal verification aspect of smart contracts is Tezos ( https://tezos.com ). I find their approach very appealing and I think it has the potential to grow big, while
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by lifty 10y ago
Hi there, I scrolled through the video and also read the blog post describing your stack and couldn't find anything about your data modeling and persistence layer. To me that is the most interesting part since you are a bank but at the
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by lifty 10y ago
Well, they are mentioning fusion-fission reactions, which use fusion to trigger fission. But on an ongoing basis. As far as I can understand, stable fusion is not achieved.
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by lifty 10y ago
They are mentioning doing a fusion reactor but there are no details. Lower down the page they mention that the startup will be actually using a fission-fusion process, so they are not talking about classic self sustained fusion that we have
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by lifty 10y ago
AFAIK incorporating in Netherlands is very cheap. You need 1 euro starting capital and the notary fee, which is a few hundred euros. Are you referring to the initial incorporation costs or the ongoing tax burden?
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by lifty 10y ago
I would love to have the possibility to be able to hassle free download movies, and I would be willing to pay up to 5 bucks (for certain movies) to do so. But I don't have that option, so instead I have other ways of getting my movies.
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by lifty 10y ago
The comparison with USA does not help at all because the socio-political situation in Romania is so wildly different, in all aspects. I agree with you that the government doesn't have to necessarily resign but the fact that they were d
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by lifty 10y ago
While the original reason that kickstarted the protest was a shady law passed through an emergency ordinance (not sure if that's an English term), the problem itself is much bigger. People are dissatisfied that the new government is tr
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by lifty 10y ago
If you want to get rid of docker-compose, you could try using minikube ( https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube ), which is a local Kubernetes deployment, similar to the desktop version of Docker. It works well and suppo
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by lifty 10y ago
Do you know where this "alternative fact" was published first and how it came into existence? And does it have any root in reality or is it totally manufactured? Would like to understand the phenomenon better.

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