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by minimax 13y ago
The map of North America looks a little funny without the Great Lakes drawn in.
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by minimax 13y ago
All of this sounds like excellent operational technology. I don't understand all the outrage here. If you sit down and ask yourself, "What kind of technology would I build if I wanted to infiltrate government/military network
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by minimax 13y ago
The CIA (part of the executive branch) isn't allowed to interfere in a congressional investigation. In that sense, yes, this is very different than any of the fourth amendment debate that has been going here. Quoting the Feinstein tran
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by minimax 13y ago
We don't have to speculate about what life is like for Western intelligence agents who make their way to Moscow. We have examples from history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby#Moscow
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by minimax 13y ago
The idea is that the location of Snowden's FSB safehouse isn't known publicly, so they probably took some measures to keep it a secret from anyone who could have eavesdropped on the network traffic. They obviously aren't goin
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by minimax 13y ago
I think the Snowden-in-Russia interviews are interesting to the extent that they show how Russian "active measures" actually work[1]. You can see it in the letter Snowden (and his handlers) recently sent to the European Parliament
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by minimax 13y ago
So, I need three things to make this happen: 1. A picture of a squirrel or pigeon on your campus. One close-up, one with background that shows buildings, a sign, or something to indicate you are standing on the campus. ...
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by minimax 13y ago
They obviously think this because wealthy Americans are constantly being kidnapped and tortured for their money. Happens all the time right?
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by minimax 13y ago
It's applying the the idea of reactive programming to the CRUD web app world. It sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to do. What is hard to understand about that? Here is a reasonable introduction to reactive programming (albeit focu
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by minimax 13y ago
In the US we tax anything that you could remotely consider income. For example if you agree to do some IT work for your dentist in exchange for a couple of fillings, you are supposed to report the fair market value of the transaction and pa
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by minimax 13y ago
Thanks (also thanks to mbesto)!
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by minimax 13y ago
Kirsty Nathoo spends the second half of the day describing the basics of corporate setup. She goes over all of the associated paperwork, the YC investment, the YCVC notes, and advice on what to spend money on. It was a fast, expert primer
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by minimax 13y ago
The comments on the bitcointalk thread are interesting. Here you have a bunch of people who have just lost 12% of their funds and most of them are totally ok with that . If you are looking for evidence that bitcoin supporters are driven mo
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by minimax 13y ago
Bitcoin developers haven't quite cottoned onto the wisdom of separating these functions architecturally. I'm not sure this is true. Any off blockchain transaction is basically an unsettled (and therefore reversible) bitcoin tran
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Tesla Convertible Debt Electrifies Long-Term Investors(online.wsj.com)
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by minimax 13y ago
On the Zidisha statistics page† it says you have roughly 10% default rate but only 5% average interest rate. So if I make 10 loans of $1000 each, I expect to make $450 in interest and lose $1000 in principal to a default. That is a negative
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by minimax 13y ago
you need root permissions on OpenBSD merely to read a capture file. How does that even work? It seems like if you can read the file there is nothing stoping you from trying to parse its contents.
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes the author is apparently writing about "Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony 16" http://data.iana.org/ksk-ceremony/16/KC16_Scripts.pdf
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by minimax 13y ago
Musk heeded the advice. On March 8, he appeared at a hearing before Pitts’s committee, which oversees spending, at the Capitol in Austin. Oliveira and a SpaceX lobbyist appeared with him. “Any support Texas can offer would be helpful,” Mus
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by minimax 13y ago
Majority of money still flowing to well connected insiders? Check. (who do you think is on the other side of trades?) Who are these "insiders" you refer to? Why does it matter who takes the other side of the trade? If you got fi
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by minimax 13y ago
Sure. Let's start with dealers. A dealer is a party that stands ready to buy or sell something (in this case bitcoins). When you want to transact, you ring up the dealer and ask for a quote. The quote is composed of a price at which th
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by minimax 13y ago
Coinbase isn't an exchange. It's a dealer. Coinbase is the counterparty to every trade and they have no obligation to quote you a good price. There isn't an order book or anything like that. Amazing how many people don't
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by minimax 13y ago
I see it the other way. From the comfort of my home computer I can speculate on the value of U.S. corporations, the future value of U.S. corporations, the value of shiny yellow metal, the exchange rate between the dollar and the turkish lir
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by minimax 13y ago
Here is another good quote from the Manchin letter: Several other countries, including the European Union, have issued warnings... It's like they didn't even proofread it. I'm not a Europe expert but I'm pretty sure th
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by minimax 13y ago
This is a quote from the Manchin letter: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued a report just this month stating, “There is widespread concern about the Bitcoin system’s possible impact on national currencie
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by minimax 13y ago
Can you put an index on an optional column (or a function of an optional column)? Also, nice title.
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by minimax 13y ago
I come from a similar background (automated trading) but have the opposite opinion. More people ought to understand how the markets work. One good way to learn is to trade a small account. Yes you will probably lose a little money (or fail
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by minimax 13y ago
You could try and write an algo that would carry out your value investing strategy. You could trawl Yahoo for P/E or whatever value metrics you want to look at buy or sell based on certain thresholds.
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by minimax 13y ago
What you are saying is that you would replace interest bearing savings accounts with fee charging "idle money" accounts, and that if you want to earn any interest on your savings you have to lock it up for a fixed term. That doesn
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by minimax 13y ago
This doesn't give you a way to validate your dollar deposits. In other words a dishonest exchange operator could misappropriate your dollar deposits and this scheme wouldn't tell you anything about it.

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