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by lingben 13y ago
https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
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Wriggling worm is breakthrough for artificial life(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|1 comments
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The Red Matrix(github.com)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
Stephen Fry put it better than I could: It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose,
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by lingben 13y ago
wow! usually I try very hard to steer clear of stereotypes but... woman? check blonde? check vapid? check limited vocabulary limited to inane comments? check she works as a PR? you don't saaaaaaaaaaaaay a cache of her twitter shows thi
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First Round Capital's Holiday Video 2013: What Does the Unicorn Say?(youtube.com)
1 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
Requesting a refund and getting a refund closes the job as not completed, without the ability to leave feedback. The only way to leave feedback is to pay them either full amount or at least for 1 milestone.
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by lingben 13y ago
same here nothing shows on firefox but that is a small issue the demo is extremely well done!
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by lingben 13y ago
Yes, it is absolutely correct. A provider can waste my time, lock me into dispute resolution and even if I "win" and get a full refund, I can't leave public feedback so that the next buyer knows how shitty they are. I won&#x2
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by lingben 13y ago
if you know even basic economics you know that bitcoin is not currency
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by lingben 13y ago
My experience is with hiring technical freelancers: design, network, security, development, etc. It is entirely possible that elance is great for non-technical jobs. The issues I ran into were providers who have great ratings but who can&#x
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by lingben 13y ago
out of curiosity, how exactly does the blackmailing on oDesk work?
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by lingben 13y ago
As long as oDesk does not change at all, I'm happy. The only reason I hire on oDesk is because it is NOT elance - have had horrible experience with elance both with providers and the company itself and how it conducts business (or what
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by lingben 13y ago
useful? not really, unlike money it requires digital equipment, bitcoin is NOT fungible (each bitcoin is uniquely identifiable and can be separated, isolated and even removed from circulation and it is not 'easily transferrable' (
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Bitcoin should not be seen as a currency, warns Ernst & Young(theguardian.com)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|1 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
I've often wondered how exactly the protocol would be changed. Who is in charge? who would make the change? how would it be implemented and enforced in a decentralized system?
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by lingben 13y ago
Who contacts who? the party that has less power contacts the party that has more power. that is the way of the world, always has been, always will be
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by lingben 13y ago
It is functioning as digital barter - that you fail to recognize this and mistake it for a currency is why I suggested you take some basic economic courses. How did I malign your character? I simply stated that since you are building a busi
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by lingben 13y ago
I understand you have a vested interest in bitcoin and for that same reason I would suggest you take a few basic economic courses so you can understand what a currency is and why it is impossible for bitcoin to be a currency. > But paper
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by lingben 13y ago
Yes, this is general knowledge. But what you are asserting is a non-sequitur because you are assuming a direct link from adoption of cell-phones in third world countries to the adoption and use of bitcoin as a currency.
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by lingben 13y ago
This is lunacy at its finest. Those that have no access to bank accounts live in third world countries. Bitcoin pre-supposes that the user have access to a computer either stationary or mobile (cell phone, tablet, etc.) with access to the i
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by lingben 13y ago
Of course not. No one said they were banning bitcoin. They have relegated it to a digital barter similar to other digital points like those used in World of Warcraft or SecondLife's LindeX. What they have done is to shut it out complet
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by lingben 13y ago
Sure, they acknowledge it to be on par with WoW points. They can't stop people from bartering with it, just like they can't stop people from bartering with chickens or eggs. What the central bank has done is shut bitcoins out of t
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by lingben 13y ago
This was very much expected as China has strict financial liquidity controls and bitcoin was being used expressly to bypass the same and take money out of the system. The Chinese government isn't stupid.
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by lingben 13y ago
You've got it wrong. If Satoshi's purpose was to get people to pile in after him/them, it had to be deflationary. Mission accomplished. Bitcoin isn't a run of the mill ponzi scheme, it is a very new take on it. But it is
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Sheep Marketplace Scam Revealed, $40 Million Stolen (tapscape.com)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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Sheep MarketPlace Scam(sheepmarketscam.com)
1 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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The Data-Driven Life(nytimes.com)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
Under "protection": "The nature of Bitcoin means that, compared to credit cards or other financial tools, your identity is safer from theft. Your level of privacy is up to you, and in the online world privacy and protection a
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by lingben 13y ago
"Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group." This is ridiculous to anyone who knows Robert Khoo. He is nothing but money oriented and motivated. In fact he was brought in to

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