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by marshray 9y ago
> nobody, with the appropriate training, should be opening them in the first place How many users do you administer again?
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by marshray 9y ago
'Intrinsic' here means that the property of the object remains even if people's preferences and culture change. Gold's utility for electronic applications is a fundamental property of the number of atoms in its nucleus,
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by marshray 9y ago
The Euro and GBP contracts are delivered 'physically', not cash-settled in USD: http://www.cmegroup.com/rulebook/CME/III/250/261/261.pdf
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by marshray 9y ago
> people who foolishly purchased Be Inc. shares I disagree with your use of the term 'foolish' in hindsight. We can imagine an entirely reasonable alternate universe where, by pursuing this 'Internet Appliance' idea,
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by marshray 9y ago
In fact, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures contract is deliverable, whereas the Bitcoin contract is settled in US dollars. I.e., the biggest US commodities exchange literally considers live cattle to be more practical to d
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by marshray 9y ago
Very little though. If the demand for gold were merely industrial it would not need to be mined in such quantities as it has throughout history. I would put jewelry in the 'sentimental' category as well. Not only is Bitcoin purely
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by marshray 9y ago
> they were trying to create a better world for the next generation I don't see a lot of evidence for this, except perhaps Reagan's program of deficit spending on an arms race to bankrupt the 'evil empire'. Maybe peop
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by marshray 9y ago
Well the US is somewhat special in that the dollar (or currencies tied to it) is used by 70% of all global transactions. The other day a minister in China floated the idea of buying less US Treasuries. It became apparent that there just wer
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by marshray 9y ago
Maybe the only way to quantify 'moral hazard' at the present time is to count the occurrences of 'Lehman Brothers' in the investment media.
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by marshray 9y ago
> There are so many devices out there today with "one button" and different LED flashing patterns you have to remember for use. The Samuel Morse School of User Interface Design.
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by marshray 9y ago
I tried thinking this: Dreams about falling are just reminders that in dreams you can fly. It worked.
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by marshray 9y ago
To summarize, if I may, your observation using the familiar template: Low-latency memory access, low-latency conditionals, secure isolation ... choose two.
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by marshray 9y ago
This looks interesting: United States ‒ Progress Report on Fossil Fuel Subsidies https://www.treasury.gov/open/Documents/USA%20FFSR%20progres... There are a number of tax preferences, described below, available i
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by marshray 9y ago
> there was no way to collect or monetize reams of user data like there is today Xerox was at the time the world leader in handling literal reams. A huge portion of data processing was related to managing customer data, mailing lists, e
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by marshray 9y ago
> If some of the plaintext bits are known, in theory the unpredictability should decrease. For an extreme example: if all 128 bits of plaintext are known, and all 128 bits of ciphertext are also known, there should be a single 128 bit AE
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by marshray 9y ago
> Does it make sense to make your most SHADY kickback deal based on Aliens? Oh I can just see it now. "Don't tell a soul, it's off the books. This is..." The Senator looked around nervously and began to whisper, &quot
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by marshray 9y ago
It's as if somebody had been quoted saying "The UFO appeared to be surrounded by some type of brightly glowing plasma" and Scientific American were to go get the opinions of plasma physicists about whether or not this was pos
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by marshray 9y ago
Well, A) given that the article was from BBC I doubt the HN upvotes were much of a signal boost, and B) would this story have made it to the front page if it were, say, an auto insurance company rather than Amazon?
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by marshray 9y ago
From the perspective of the customer, what is the difference?
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by marshray 9y ago
I often see articles about a tech company delivering an egregiously bad customer experience on HN. I'm sure we all agree that the scenario as presented was a screwup, but I would like to question its relevance. We seem to be passing ar
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by marshray 9y ago
I’ll say it: Python sucks for Functional Programming. It’s just not the right tool for the job (or job for the tool, depending on your point of view.) It’s a great language for most programmers to get things done in, but it belongs to the
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by marshray 9y ago
> why should the Federal government finance the tax methods the states impose on their citizens The underlying assumption to your question is that the money belonged to the government in the first place. By that logic, you go to work, pr
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by marshray 9y ago
That's exactly what this whole discussion is about though. The difference between "card surcharge" and "cash discount" is treated as 'semantic' in the merchant contract context, but is it a distinction wit
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by marshray 9y ago
Unless it is good at ledging things other than Bitcoin itself, your argument that the Bitcoin ledger has inherent value is completely circular.
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by marshray 9y ago
No one here said it was strange. The original word was 'unhealthy'. I'd be very interested to learn more about which semantics of APL-derivatives correspond to which of the 4 or 5 distinct meanings of the keyword 'static
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by marshray 9y ago
The reason you don’t see that everywhere is it’s specifically against the merchant agreement to charge cc customers extra. The only places I’ve ever seen getting away with it are very small shops and government agencies (like the auto tag o
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by marshray 9y ago
The difference between "#define Z static" and Japanese is that Japanese is an effective method of communicating between 125 million people.
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by marshray 9y ago
Great interview article posted yesterday on this exact topic with an actual practitioner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15901628
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by marshray 9y ago
I think we're just used to computers advancing noticeably on a regular basis: "Is this year's iPhone better enough to justify an upgrade?" Also, we judge the difficulty of things by our own experience. It took us ~1 bill
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by marshray 9y ago
> given that they must expand their appeal to younger, more diverse voters They gave up trying to appeal to more diverse voters long ago and are becoming increasingly desperate. So desperate that in the last election they took hacking as

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