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by meritt 9y ago
Why do you think that's absurd? Social Security is basically a very inefficient (and potentially insolvent) retirement plan. The more you put into it, the more you should get out. That's why people would want to maximize contribut
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by meritt 9y ago
I was playing around with automated trading algorithms this summer on GDAX. With a bankroll of only $2.5k USD I was routinely contributing $500k+ worth of trading volume each day (that's only 100 r/t trades with $2.5k). Surely the
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by meritt 9y ago
> trade volume is not the same thing as liquidity
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by meritt 9y ago
Most likely in 2017 and the pending 2018 changes make it definitely taxable as both the House/Senate versions restrict IRS-1031 to real estate only. Based on all the discussions around tether, I don't think many cryptocurrency gam
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by meritt 9y ago
I've specifically seen folks discussing converting to tether now (on the fear that BTC will fall) and waiting til 2018 to redeem due to pending tax cuts. So this would be an avoidance strategy. I have no idea on the legal specifics or
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by meritt 9y ago
My theory on tether is their goal is to absorb as much downward (selling) pressure as possible on the BTC/USD market and encourage only upward movement of BTC (equally applies to any other crypto) 1) Someone who wants to sell $1M USD o
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by meritt 9y ago
Expiry day is going to be very interesting then. I had no idea their volatility rules would apply to expiring contracts too, that's insane. Why would anyone want to trade that instrument?
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by meritt 9y ago
Shorting futures does not necessarily mean there's negative sentiment. There's a large arbitrage opportunity right now. Futures are going for about $1,000 more than BTC itself right now and you can make risk-free* (assuming you kn
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by meritt 9y ago
I have no idea, it's bewildering to me frankly. Take two recent IPOs for example: MongoDB had 820 employees as of July 31st. StitchFix had 5,800 employees as of July 31st [2]. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar
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by meritt 9y ago
Fair point, guess we'll see when Apple discloses more details on financials. Given that Apple seems to compensate junior engineers with compensation packages north of $300k, it wouldn't be too surprising if they overpaid for Shaza
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by meritt 9y ago
Yes, they became profitable in 2016 via mostly brand advertising [1][2]. The company has nearly 400 employees according to LinkedIn. With a very conservative personnel estimate of $125k/employee/year, that's $50M alone. Let&#
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by meritt 9y ago
> to prevent unintended shutdowns and extend battery life The cynic in me thinks it's actually to encourage new hardware upgrades.
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by meritt 9y ago
Yep. The server provides signaling (who the peers are, what data is being requested/should be snet, etc) but you're absolutely correct: WebRTC primarily envisioned for high-bandwidth peer-to-peer suitable content such as video&#x2
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by meritt 9y ago
WebRTC really isn't suitable for multiplayer gaming due to it being entirely P2P. You need the server to operate as a single source of truth and enforce clients to play by the rules.
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by meritt 9y ago
http://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum/ Subspace Continuum is an anti-hacking fork released in 2001 (Subspace was released in '95) and is now the only official version of the game.
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by meritt 9y ago
The single biggest stereotype held against the PHP community is they are a bunch of shitty amateur programmers whose programming ability barely extends beyond copy-pasting stackoverflow. Very few of the language-centric criticisms are valid
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by meritt 9y ago
Congress grants agencies (in this case, DOT) the authority to issue regulations as long as those actions do not go beyond their statutory authority or violate the constitution. https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/20
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by meritt 9y ago
If you want actual adoption, you need to conform to PSR and should probably use libsodium which is part of the core in 7.2
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by meritt 9y ago
That's not how it works. Individual satoshis do not have a serial number. As soon as it goes through a mixer, you cannot definitively say which are stolen and which are legit. Bitcoin's blockchain is just a ledger of amounts store
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by meritt 9y ago
> Daily transactional BTC value has been in the billions for months That's absolutely true but what you cannot tell is how much actual liquidity exists. I was playing around with algorithmic trading this summer and would routinely h
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by meritt 9y ago
I think you're significantly overestimating the total liquidity available at a given point in time.
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by meritt 9y ago
Hardship exemptions [1] are absolutely not the same thing as waiving the penalty. [1] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/hardsh...
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by meritt 9y ago
> My view is that if the individual mandate is eliminated then other insurers will come into the market That's absolutely incorrect. The individual mandate requires people purchase health insurance or face a penalty. This will do ab
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by meritt 9y ago
Tax payments which directly fund public schools (SALT) are no longer deductible but they added the ability for private school tuition to be deductible. This is going to have dire consequences for America's public school system.
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by meritt 9y ago
Some quick research led to a number of threads that were fairly critical of this author: "his writings are only here to promote himself, his books and his consultancy" and "a windbag" and "self-aggrandizing".
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by meritt 9y ago
It's by the same author which gives insight into his programming mindset and critical thinking ability.
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by meritt 9y ago
I was considering purchasing this author's books (Clean Coder & Clean Code) but after reading this unintelligible garbage, I'll pass.
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by meritt 9y ago
You most definitely can. Lambda freezes the state of the container and thaws it for the next request (assuming the next request is relatively soon, otherwise it deletes the frozen instance entirely -- This is the entire premise behind keepi
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by meritt 9y ago
I understand your options are limited until AWS adds first-class PHP support but there are still plenty of superior ways you could arrange this. You're running the PHP CLI as opposed to using a persistent process daemon and speaking to
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by meritt 9y ago
AWS will likely add PHP support, yes but they absolutely will not do what this project does: Running a NodeJS http server that launches a PHP binary and runs local scripts.

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