mehwoot

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by mehwoot 15y ago
I dunno, RoR is so widespread now compared to where it was in 2006. I think, because it is widespread now, people don't have to search for "ruby on rails" because they don't know what it means. You are going to be searching for something
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by mehwoot 15y ago
Google trends is not the sole decided of popularity. http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails%2C+django&c... Do you really think that ruby on rails has been declining in popularity since 2006?
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by mehwoot 15y ago
Uh, isn't that only domestic subscribers? Looks like internationally they gained 510,000 over that period, making it net 300,000 loss.
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by mehwoot 15y ago
Well yes but you are assuming you can find a buyer who is willing to do a straight bank transfer rather than using an exchange. And most people much prefer to use the exchanges. Especially if they are buying drugs with the bitcoins; if th
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by mehwoot 15y ago
It was not "kind of similar", it was exactly the same phrase. A phrase that only occurred 26 times and most of which were quoting the original source. As someone who has written research papers, and read quite a few by colleagues, this str
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by mehwoot 15y ago
This exactly. People _could_ have withdrawn a bunch, but mostly that didn't happen.
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by mehwoot 15y ago
Yeah, I thought this as well- why the hell, if you had access to all the accounts, you wouldn't just take all the coins. But- mtgox is the main exchange (handles 90% of volume), so how would you launder the money elsewhere? There just wo
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by mehwoot 15y ago
Actually, the problem might have been exactly that. An updated posting on their sites says "It appears that someone who performs audits on our system and had read-only access to our database had their computer compromised. This allowed for