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by minimax 13y ago
Think about it this way. I want to turn my electricity into dollars by mining crypto currencies. I mine some coins and then sell them to lock in the profit. Putting my freshly mined coins on the market increases the supply of coins availabl
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by minimax 13y ago
Can anyone comment on the profitability of mining Dogecoins vs bitcoins? It seems weird that mining one crypto currency would be more or less profitable (in dollars per watt terms) than another. Rational miners seeking to optimize profits w
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by minimax 13y ago
If what you say is true, and will be true in the future when Bitcoin goes more mainstream I wasn't making a prediction. I was just doing the math for bitcoin-as-payment-technology plugging in what I think are reasonable values. I&#x
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by minimax 13y ago
You can place a buy ad on LocalBitcoins and actually buy at below the market rate. Maybe in your town, but for me the spread on LocalBitcoins is hilariously huge. I just punched in my city (Chicago) and got $818 bid by $850 offered. That&
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by minimax 13y ago
Bitcoin is the first Internet-wide payment system where transactions either happen with no fees or very low fees (down to fractions of pennies). Existing payment systems charge fees of around 2 percent to three percent As long as consumer
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JPMorgan, Credit Suisse Ramp Up Startup Push for Deals(bloomberg.com)
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by minimax 13y ago
There's a certain amount of irony in startup founders who claim they relish the challenge of starting their own business and then turn around and complain about how challenging it is. Is it supposed to be hard or isn't it?
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by minimax 13y ago
Makes even more sense when you consider that 37 signals is located in Chicago where winters are brutal (yay polar vortex) and summers are awesome .
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I encourage the people reading this to check out the spreadsheet† this is based on. When the author says: Last year, not a single girl took the college-level coding test in 2 states Actually looks like that's three states based on th
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by minimax 13y ago
You're saying you think ISPs would try and penalize all traffic by 50 or 100ms and let the big sites pay up to avoid the penalty? That seems like mustache twirlingly cruel and I'm not even sure you can do that with conventional ne
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by minimax 13y ago
You seem like someone who knows something about markets and you accept that there are very few, if any, natural buyers of bitcoins, and that the price of bitcoin is largely driven by speculators. I'm just trying to understand how you t
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by minimax 13y ago
It would be nice to put together a spectrum of possible outcomes if net neutrality regulations were completely repealed. Here's what I think. Peer-to-peer file sharing is gone or throttled way back. ISPs have no reason to support it si
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by minimax 13y ago
Maybe I should try and rephrase my comment in case it is not clear. I understood Sam Altman's comment the same way you did. I was trying to find an analogy between wasting time writing software nobody wants and wasting energy trying to
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by minimax 13y ago
Writing software no one wants does not create value—that’s called a class project. My corollary to that is that if you write software that does create value, it doesn't matter what editor or language you use. So if you're super
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by minimax 13y ago
Do you consider the machine compromised if the attacker has only managed to gain access to a non-privileged account? It isn't clear the bad guys got root access here. It's a genuine question (I'm not a security person).
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by minimax 13y ago
I wonder how much the Climate Corporation acquisition did to boost investor interest in ag tech startups? Also glad to see success from a Midwestern startup. Congratulations FarmLogs!
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by minimax 13y ago
The phrase at the top of the list for phrases signaling that the project won't be funded is "pledged" but the 3rd, 4th and 5th ranked phrases signaling that the project will be funded are "has pledged", "pl
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by minimax 13y ago
This is totally off topic, but the woman in the video, Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, has a really distinctive accent that I can't place at all. Does anyone recognize it?
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by minimax 13y ago
The brace is part of treatment using the Ponseti Method. They talk about it in the video at about the 1 minute mark. It looks like what these guys have done is created an injection molded version of the Denis Browne Bar. http://e
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by minimax 13y ago
In the same vein, spending a couple of hours working Project Euler questions before you go into an interview is a great way to warm up for the types of questions you tend to get in interviews but don't see as much during day-to-day pro
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by minimax 13y ago
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash." Can that be right? $3.2 billion? That's a crazy huge sum.
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by minimax 13y ago
Modern Bash (a.k.a. the bash you get with Linux but not with OS X) even has associative arrays similar to what you would call a dict in Python or a hash in Perl. $ declare -A capitals $ capitals["Illinois"]="Springf
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by minimax 13y ago
Thanks for following up. I think I'm going to play with this later this week.
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by minimax 13y ago
"Second, shared_ptr isn't very fast, due to some design decisions like ... not being intrusive (requiring 2x the allocations)." Not quite. You can use std::make_shared to allocate the object and the ref count in one allocatio
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by minimax 13y ago
I wasn't trying to undermine your argument. Rust is solving real problems. Use after free and double free are still issues in the C world. In modern C++ we are (hopefully) using smart pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr) to mana
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by minimax 13y ago
I think we can be a little bit more charitable towards C++. Modern compilers will let you know if you try to do something as obviously incorrect as returning a pointer to a stack variable. $ cat > foo.cpp <<EOF > int *
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by minimax 13y ago
I think in your scenario the store owner is still at risk of being physically coerced into transferring his bitcoins to an assailant, no?
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by minimax 13y ago
Not sure that really helps. They are worried about their security because they don't want to get robbed. If I can break in and hold a gun to your head until you irreversibly transfer me all your bitcoins then you have basically the sam
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by minimax 13y ago
The Overstock case doesn't increase net demand for bitcoins. This is how Overstock works. I have dollars and I want to buy something on Overstock. I buy some bitcoins with my dollars. I send bitcoins to Overstock and Overstock sends me
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by minimax 13y ago
How is adoption of bitcoin as a payment technology a bullish indicator for bitcoin as an investment? The prices on Overstock are still in dollars and bitcoin as a payment technology works equally well whether bitcoin is priced at $1,000,000

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