malloryerik

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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   Why hasn't anyone made a real Google Reader replacement? Google Reader seemed so simple. Maybe it wasn't?
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   Yes and no, sadly. If bitcoin collapses in disgrace, many people might be biased against all things blockchain for quite some time.
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   Very often, yes, they expect to return. For example Samsung was built to a large degree by Korean students returning to Korea from overseas programs, along with students from top local schools.
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   "The new iMac Pro, which retails for $4,999" ... and no Touch Bar.
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   Actually, a better article is here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security-cyber/vi...
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   Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'(bloomberg.com)

   134 points by malloryerik 9y ago|114 comments
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   Good questions; I have no idea about any of that. I was guessing that might use an Ethereum Dapp, but the podcast is the first I've heard of the project and it had no technical information, being concerned instead with property rights
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   You might be interested in Hernando de Soto’s project to create a global blockchain registry for land ownership. Podcast interview: https://www.ft.com/content/5887858e-f499-4bff-8f3f-5434b5780...
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   by malloryerik 9y ago

   If you’re interested in the topic you might want to have a go over it once more. The author [0] is a leading North Korea watcher, most famous for his 2010 book, “The Cleanest Race”. [1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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    North Korea's Unification Drive(sthelepress.com)

    2 points by malloryerik 9y ago|3 comments
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    "Store of value" here means "investment", but people are trying to keep the veneer of currency definition. And of course it's a highly speculative investment, although whose wild volatility contains a rare spice che
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Lol. They have a determined crew of 6,000 hackers. [0] They stole $100 million from the Bank of Bangladesh in a Dridex attack, and nearly made off with another billion dollars or so. Now, stealing from a needy country like Bangladesh, that&
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Having all guns be part of a "well regulated militia" could indeed solve many problems in the US.
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I believe that some of the best "literary" fiction is also science fiction. For example much of George Orwell and Ray Bradbury, also Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula LeGuin. If you allow for the term "speculative fiction," you real
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Firefox Quantum?
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dostoevsky, Hermann Hesse, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Camus, Philip Roth, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Cervantes, Hemingway, George Orwell, JD Salinger, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, (arguably) Hom
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I don't know and am just guessing, but... https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-softwa... "The scope of the Great Firewall has grown along with the internet. Sadly, it’s a highly adaptable and
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    It's for hedging exposure to reduce uncertainty. Futures markets historically reduce volatility and allow hedgers to plan ahead in their businesses. Speculators are there to provide liquidity and aid in price discovery. Yes, lots of ca
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Excuse the late reply. I don't have numbers for you, but they still can't be that big. Bitcoin is perhaps fanatically adopted by some, and they may bring their friends in, but it has to still be a very very small percentage of tot
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Everything has some degree of risk. Truer words can't be spoken. And sure, diversification is the only one free lunch, they say. But could US Treasuries be riskier than Bitcoin, under any scenario? Even if an EMP attack wiped out Nort
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I'm excited about digital money. What could the effect be of a boom and crash? If bitcoin had some kind of algorithmic central bank mechanism, low transaction costs, and didn't spew CO2, I'd be in love with it. I'm half
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Lately I've been exposed to the meme that Bitcoin isn't money, ok, "Bitcoin is Bitcoin" -- another way of saying, "it's different this time."
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Only three to eight percent of fiat currency is held in cash.
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I'm sorry, but you can't really be saying that you consider bitcoin to be a safer place to park your money than US Treasuries? In any case, Koreans can access safe haven assets from around the globe; they don't need bitcoin f
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Most foreign exchange and derivatives exchanges are on 23.5 hours a day, except weekends.
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I'm in Seoul as we speak, and it's an insane mania here. It has absolutely nothing to do with North Korea. If Koreans want to keep money safe, they can, for example, buy US stocks and bonds. They can buy US Treasuries. Bitcoin the
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    If the futures markets at the CBOT or CME attract volume, you could use those. Otherwise, you'd have to do it over-the-counter. Borrow a bitcoin from someone and turn it into real money. When you have to repay, if BTC is down, you&#x27
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    I wish something like this had been out before UC Berkeley's public online classes were forced down for not having closed captions. Or maybe it still couldn't have met the requirements?
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Yeah, it's the one that I'd personally want to use BTC for. I still might use it instead of a wire transfer, and in this case, I can see some use for futures as a hedging device, because even staying in bitcoin for one day or one
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    by malloryerik 9y ago

    Unless the volatility were to go down in the extreme, nobody has any business borrowing or lending in bitcoin. I'm sorry but it's absurd, unless done as speculation. Basically, borrow bitcoin and you are in a short BTC speculative