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by midas 12y ago
It takes a while to fully understand how blockchain.info works, and how their wallet is very different from something like Coinbase/Circle/Xapo. Once you do, you realize that blockchain.info is an amazing example of the types of t
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Evaluating Bitcoin as a Currency(coinsafe.com)
5 points by midas 12y ago|0 comments
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CoinSafe BTM Announces 15 Second Bitcoin Transaction Confirmation(coinsafe.com)
5 points by midas 12y ago|0 comments
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by midas 12y ago
I've always been surprised that landlords routinely return security deposits in full. After a decade of renting in multiple cities, I've always received 100% of my deposit back, even in cases where it probably would've been f
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CoinSafe Launches Bitcoin ATM App and Announces Seed Funding(blogs.wsj.com)
6 points by midas 12y ago|0 comments
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by midas 12y ago
Yikes! Thanks for sharing. It's a bad sign for the crypto community that the market doesn't demand better terms. You can debate price forever but nobody should argue for misaligned incentives. I'd prefer projects like this go
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by midas 12y ago
What happens to all the bitcoins that are being sent in now if ethereum fails? In startups, investors almost always have a liquidation preference, which means that if things go south they get their money back first (or at least what's
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by midas 12y ago
I wonder if we'll see city medallion prices fall as drivers like this choose to not buy/rent medallions. Once that happens, the math might change such that it makes sense for him to keep the medallion. Sucks to be an investor who
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by midas 12y ago
This is dangerously insecure. Let's say badsite.com stores your password in plaintext and their database is compromised (or they're malicious actors in the first place who created the site with the purpose of gathering login crede
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by midas 12y ago
Would anyone have bought the bonds without this clause? I'm not sure, but keeping in mind that these bonds were issued at a time when Argentina was considered extremely risky to lend to, I'd imagine this was more than just an over
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by midas 13y ago
Going from PDF to nicely formatted word doc would be huge for lawyers and people who do a lot of contract negotiations. It's hard to do well though.
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by midas 13y ago
Most people aren't aware that the difference in energy efficiency between glass and aluminum recycling is enormous. Here are some choice quotes from National Geographic... "each 10 percent of cullet in the mix reduces the energy
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by midas 13y ago
I love that trick. I often try to type more, but since "USA", "U.S.A." and "United States" are all different it often ends up backfiring. It's eally minor in the grand-scheme of things, but it often makes
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by midas 13y ago
When websites do it well I love it! They can pick the most important links for me and put them in the nav so they're always available without me having to scroll around.
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Show HN: Github for Contracts(comparisign.com)
16 points by midas 13y ago|4 comments
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by midas 13y ago
If you login to Facebook, go to the search bar and type in the letter A, you will see a list of your friends whose name (first/middle/last) starts with an A, but it's sorted based on who you are most likely to be looking for. I don't know e
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by midas 13y ago
One important aspect of party rounds that this post leaves out: not everyone comes to the party at the same time. Party rounds usually happen because investor A is interested and invites B and C, who invite D & E, and the situation repe
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by midas 13y ago
I find our community desire towards home ownership to be really strange. For example, we all need to eat food everyday for the rest of our lives, but you almost never hear society bemoaning how few people own their own means to produce food
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by midas 13y ago
That's it! Keep in mind that not all founders are this savvy when it comes to deal terms, and most investors will push founders to issue a larger option pool than needed. The investor will say something like "we want to be sure we have eno
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by midas 13y ago
The no option pool part is great. Taking the option pool out of the pre money creates horrible incentives: founders are incentivized to tell investors they only need a tiny option pool and then once they've exhausted it come back to the boa
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by midas 13y ago
Was anyone else surprised by the quality of food that the elites were/are eating? It doesn't surprise me that they had tons of expensive possessions and services, but I would've thought the perishable nature of food would make getting the i
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by midas 13y ago
Why do you recommend easy_install (vs pip)? I have hardly any experience with easy_install so I'm always curious when projects use it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-...
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by midas 14y ago
I love google products (and I'm not worried about my email for a second), but their explanation is really bad: "The problem with Google Mail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continue
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How to Improve A/B Testing with Mixpanel(thumbtack.com)
5 points by midas 14y ago|0 comments
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by midas 14y ago
I've heard rumors that lots of stolen bikes are exported on container ships leaving the US. The argument is that the shipping is basically free, since most ships are carrying large deliveries to the US and are empty on the return trip. Doe
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by midas 14y ago
I usually buy refurbished to save money, and I'm always surprised how negatively people react when they find that out. I'm under the impression manufacturers very thoroughly test refurbished products (after all, they know part of it was br
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by midas 14y ago
I'm guessing apple just doesn't care that much about the secondary market for their products since they make all their money off selling new products. It'd be nice if they did though!
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by midas 14y ago
San Francisco, CA - priceonomics.com/jobs Software Engineer Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. We're a team of four who are passionate about reinventing how people search, discover, and purchase products. Crawling & indexin
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by midas 14y ago
It's amazing how much cheaper new TVs are getting, it's one tiny indicator of how much the quality of our lives (or at least or technology) is improving.
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California: Least Friendly State for Small Businesses(thumbtack.com)
4 points by midas 14y ago|0 comments

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