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by mamon 9y ago
Most of the central banks have gold reserves as a store of value, some of them expanding them (most notably China and Russia). For individuals it is less popular, but still I wouldn't say "nobody uses gold".
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by mamon 9y ago
No, Bitcoin is the crypto equivalent of Monopoly money: it is unreasonable to use it for anything but little fun. For real world use cases there are better solutions, including other cryptocurrencies.
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by mamon 9y ago
Gold, unilike Bitcoin, cannot be forked overnight with minimal effort, which makes gold much better store of value.
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by mamon 9y ago
No, exactly the opposite. Technology, especially Big Data and Machine Learning enable more strict information censorship by government. Take Facebook ML algorithms blocking accounts for "hate speech" as an example and extrapolate.
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by mamon 9y ago
And yet the most efficient (hashrate/tdp) GPU for Etherum mining is GeForce 1070, not any of the Radeon models. Even Vega 64 couldn't beat it.
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by mamon 9y ago
Aren't you off by at least one order of magnitude? According to this site[1]: http://spaceflight.com/schedule-pricing/#pricing launching a 5kg satelite costs 295 thousands USD (please note a fine print under the t
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by mamon 9y ago
But that's the "issue" with democracy. There's a lot more of "average Joe's" than "really smart people" and the former gets the same number of votes (1) as the latter. So for the politician who w
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by mamon 9y ago
Drone flying towards drowning person is one issue, but how accurately can it drop that "inflattable rescue device" ? It would be a real bummer if the drone made its way to a victim only to miss it by 50 yards.
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by mamon 9y ago
...Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung
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by mamon 9y ago
Expecially now that some countries are considering introducing their own cryptocurrency (I heard rumors about China).
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by mamon 9y ago
Blocking cryptocurrency exchanges is probably the point.
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by mamon 9y ago
If you are not able to write FizBizz without thinking that means that you've probably written no more than a handful of for loops and if statements in your whole programming "career". That's a very bad indicator for
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by mamon 9y ago
FizzBuzz test is actually pretty great interview question, but most interviewers miss one crucial ingredient: time pressure. Original idea was that any competent programmer should be able to solve it in under 1 minute (only limiting factor
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by mamon 9y ago
>> it may yet turn out to be a viable way to store value Really? I think is just kind of post-factum rationalization, something that helps Bitcoin fans deal with their trauma and disillusionment after Bitcoin has failed.
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by mamon 9y ago
There's also an issue with that system: it gives a ruling party an easy excuse for not keeping their promises to their voters. You can always say: "We tried, but we didn't have a majority and our allied party was against that
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by mamon 9y ago
And screw everyone else in the process...
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by mamon 9y ago
You do realize that Standford prison experiments had such a flawed methododology that they are not considered scientificly accurate anymore? For one, they did not do sufficient backgroud checks on intake, so the volunteers were self-selecte
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by mamon 9y ago
This wide choice is actually putting Linux at disadvantage: instead of consolidating efforts to create one decent desktop environment we have half a dozen of half-assed ones. God, I've just recently have to downgrade to Gnome 3.24, bec
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by mamon 9y ago
>> "videos of the the most physically attractive women imaginable" Is it just me, or are most of the porn stars really just little above average, when it comes to looks? Like 7/10? The women that I would call "most
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by mamon 9y ago
Yeah, it's funny that the world "apocalyptic" become more or less synonymous to "catastrophic", when in fact the book of Revelation is a story with happy end :)
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by mamon 9y ago
Unfortunately, with Linux "full control" usually means "you'll have to manually edit every single configuration file before your computer becomes barely usable" That's why I prefer distros that work out of the
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by mamon 9y ago
People are trained by Hollywood to envision AI as robots. When presented an actual AI algorithm/model they see it as boring math, totaly unlike C-3PO, or Terminator, or whatever your favourite movie robot is.
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by mamon 9y ago
Is that legal in US? Poland for example has a law saying that cash must be accepted, refusing cash payments results in immediate fine of about $135
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by mamon 9y ago
>> the biker will always go first and take any space left on the sides and will often go the wrong way or on the sidewalk. Shouldn't they get fined for such behaviour? Why is this tolerated?
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by mamon 9y ago
You are confusing electric vehicles with self-driving ones.
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by mamon 9y ago
Or, my personal favourite: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77377.How_to_Shit_in_the...
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by mamon 9y ago
The very existence of such guides tells us a lot about how easy to use Git is :)
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by mamon 9y ago
Have you ever seen SoapUI tool[1] ? It takes just a few clicks to generate complete set of requests from WSDL (set, as in "one request per each operation"). I think it's much better user experience than hand-crafting json to
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by mamon 9y ago
Yes, it is official position, confirmed in a few documents by Pope John Paul II (google "Fides et ratio"). But of course you can still many priests arguing against that :)
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by mamon 9y ago
The problem is, US law has long eradicated "common sense" as a legal category. That's why you can get a compensation from a microwave manufacturer when you kill your dog , trying to dry it in microwave after bath, because mic

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