lucozade

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by lucozade 9y ago
If you have a big supply chain, like Amazon does, then managing the complexity of that chain is a tough problem. I happen to agree with IBM that a distributed ledger like technology can help with that. Not a public one, obviously as that wo
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by lucozade 9y ago
> They do not move the physical gold If you're not moving the gold, who needs escrow? You're just describing a cash settled spot market. > the cost of trusting a delivery person remains fairly constant Indeed, as you're
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by lucozade 9y ago
Don't see why not as long as you don't try to use it outside of an environment with an atmosphere.
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by lucozade 9y ago
OK, I'll bite. How does your contract move gold from you to me? If it doesn't (which it obviously doesn't), how is it removing the utility of escrow? In fact, what is it achieving in this case that does something different to
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'd actually argue the other way. If you emit invalid C code, you'll at least be told by the compiler (though the error might be pretty obscure). LLVM tends to assume that you are emitting valid IR and panics when you don't.
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by lucozade 9y ago
As described, you’ll almost definitely need to write a parser. However, if your type system is very similar to C’s you may be able to just lower from the AST to C and let it worry about semantic analysis and code generation. The biggest los
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by lucozade 9y ago
I can almost guarantee that they’re not doing that. This would be explicitly against their own T&Cs, even the new ones. If they’re going to lie, why bother backing it with anything? As second guessing Bitfinex is now a popular sport, my
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's not currently in operation and hasn't been since the 19C. Also it wasn't set up till the 17C so is a whippersnapper in comparison to this list.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Japan's dominance is likely to be heavily influenced by the fact that families could adopt adults to continue running the business. This would have helped substantially to keep family run businesses running competently much longer than
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by lucozade 9y ago
> So what's left? Putting someone economically competent in charge?
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by lucozade 9y ago
As the Venezuelan economy is currently a basket case, surely this is evidence that the currency is doing an excellent job of representing reality.
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's probably neither. Past experience would suggest a double digit move either way isn't surprising. But equally, it's not correcting anything as there's no meaningful book value to correct to. These are likely just fai
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's not forced but where it's culturally common it's often the default presumption. My wife didn't change her name but that meant she has a different surname to our children. That can cause minor annoyances in airports,
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by lucozade 9y ago
> In Belgium most people do not change their name upon marrying That's presumably because the law says you can't [0]. Unless you go through the equivalent of deed poll. [0] https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/
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by lucozade 9y ago
Belgium law is quite restrictive. Up until recently you were required to use the father's surname if known. You're now allowed to use either or both unless one parent is unknown, in which case you have to use the other.
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by lucozade 9y ago
The whole fluffy, purr machine gig is a ploy to lead you into a false sense of security. Evil and cunning.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Not sure about amazing (though the landing trick is pretty cool) but instructive. For example, I had been told as a child that humans were the only animals that killed for sport. Yeah right. You don't have to spend decades with chimps
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'm going to guess they'll handle it the same way as they handled definitive proof that the Earth is more than a few thousand years old, that the Earth revolves around the Sun, evolution by natural selection etc etc. Unconditional
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by lucozade 9y ago
> It would also ultimately kill off most of our existing religions I think you may be underestimating the tenacity of religions
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by lucozade 9y ago
For completeness, there's a related argument as to why you'd want to sell a call option with a strike price that looks a long way from the current price (an out of the money option in the jargon). If you already own bitcoin with t
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by lucozade 9y ago
To close out the comment DAG, this is the ELI5 for cardmagic's answer "leverage".
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by lucozade 9y ago
You're assuming that it's naked (in the technical sense) speculation. If they're covering a short position then this is just akin to insurance to limit the downside. Entirely sensible and the reason why they were invented in
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by lucozade 9y ago
Pedestrian-only town centres are getting pretty common. I can't speak for Ghent but it's fairly normal to have periods, early morning or late evening, where goods vehicles are allowed access. It's worth bearing in mind that t
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by lucozade 9y ago
libmill, the pre-cursor to libdill, was directly inspired by an implementation of nanomsg written in go (called mango I believe). Martin had struggled with the state machine approach he had been using and the coroutine approach of golang wa
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by lucozade 9y ago
> It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer Only if you're looking to find fault. The analogy to cars works fine but only if you compare like for like. There's a direct
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by lucozade 9y ago
Interviewing wasn't ruled out. Just all day interviewing.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Not sure I agree with the analysis, although I do agree with the conclusion. We've only known there's a pervasive limit for a century. We've known for a few decades that the limit is quite subtle i.e. the violation of local r
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by lucozade 9y ago
Others have said this but it's probably worth re-iterating. When the military call something a UFO, they mean it literally. It's an unidentified flying object i.e. an object moving through the air that they can't identify. It
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by lucozade 9y ago
> Banks can accept risks to liquidity pretty readily Depends on the size of the liquidity crunch. It's not exactly unknown to bring a financial institution to its knees for lack of liquidity. > cryptocurrencies are hyper-liquid H
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's true the price is fueled by speculation, not Bitcoin's underlying usefulness, but there's no reason to believe it's a pyramid or ponzi scheme. It's entirely possible that, at least some of, the price is being b

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