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by minimax 13y ago
This is awesome! You are awesome! :-)
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by minimax 13y ago
"cd -" and also using "cd" with no arguments to get back to $HOME are great tips. I also have a bash function called "up" to get back N directories up the hierarchy so I can do "up 5" which is like &q
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by minimax 13y ago
Lack of FDIC protection is a good thing? Seriously? Congratulations, bitcoin, you have managed to reinvent people keeping cash stuffed inside their mattresses.
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by minimax 13y ago
Transaction metadata is public. Transactions are irreversible. You have no FDIC protection of your savings. Volatility, volatility, volatility. Oh and now I guess if you really want to hold on to your bitcoins you have to keep them in &quot
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by minimax 13y ago
Also, quite refreshing to read an article by someone who apparently has some experience with Wall Street. According to his bio he worked in investment banking at Goldman and was an M&A lawyer before that. When I first found his column
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by minimax 13y ago
That's a very good way of putting it!
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by minimax 13y ago
Is "SAFE note" a valid way of referring to a SAFE security? If it's not a debt instrument, it seems weird to call it a "note." It almost sounds more like an equity option (i.e. investors are buying the right to buy
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by minimax 13y ago
This looks like a pretty good place to start: http://ycombinator.com/safe/
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by minimax 13y ago
When you are programmatically trying to unscramble something that has been encrypted, you end up trying a bunch of different keys. When you try a key and you want to know if the unscrambling worked, you can check the letter frequency distri
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Bitcoin Is an Expensive Way to Pay for Stuff(bloomberg.com)
9 points by minimax 13y ago|3 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes you can use perf to profile on cache misses (perf record -e cache-misses).
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by minimax 13y ago
That is certainly an interesting datapoint, though paying your employees in bitcoin... I'm not sure how I feel about that in ethical terms. What would you as an employer do if you paid someone on Friday and on Monday that paycheck only
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by minimax 13y ago
Agree with everything you said. Credit cards have useful consumer protections baked in. What happens when you look at it from the merchant's perspective? Lets say someone buys something from me with a card, I ship it out, but then it t
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by minimax 13y ago
For all the people out there who are thinking about bitcoin as a payment technology: If you assume that customers get paid in dollars and that vendors will have to use dollars to pay their taxes, pay their employees and buy the raw material
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by minimax 13y ago
A ton of upvotes for a Michael Arrington lecture about what is and is not legitimate journalism shows just how fickle the HN crowd is. You guys are silly.
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by minimax 13y ago
The guy you're responding to is George Grellas, who is a lawyer. That's probably why he couches it in terms of lawyer and witness.
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by minimax 13y ago
He is chalking up a lot of things that existed before 9/11 to the TSA. 15 years ago we all still had to stand in line to go through metal detectors to get into the terminal. Also how can you compare loading time on a 9 passenger Cessna
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by minimax 13y ago
Chelsea Clinton's Wall Street gig was at a hedge fund, not an investment bank.
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by minimax 13y ago
Good points. Thanks!
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by minimax 13y ago
What is the difference between this and a single wide trailer home?
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by minimax 13y ago
The "compiler braindamage" is that it is generating instructions to load individual registers 4 bytes at a time where it could instead generate instructions that load eight (properly aligned) bytes at a time into two four-byte r
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by minimax 13y ago
Good idea but keep in mind that jwz probably made serious bank in the Netscape IPO.
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by minimax 13y ago
For the people who read the HN comments before reading the article: This is like 3000 words from one shitty technology website talking shit about another shitty technology website. Don't waste your time.
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes you're right. I misread that section. That is an interesting way of collecting fees. It still works out to 60bps per trade just half is in currency and half is in bitcoin (which I guess they then convert to currency). I don't
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by minimax 13y ago
Math alert: ... BTC China has facilitated approximately 340K XBT / ¥1.25B in trades. At the officially-stated 0.3% fee for buyers and sellers, that’s approximately ¥3.75M ($615K)... There is a buyer and a seller for each trade so it
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by minimax 13y ago
3 of the 7 links above the fold are about bitcoin...
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by minimax 13y ago
Ok picture this. Susan is in her cube. Nick, the office's resident smarmy dickhead walks up. "Hey Susan, want to try Intercourse with me?" Now Susan is extremely uncomfortable and Nick the dickhead gets to claim he was just t
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by minimax 13y ago
From TFA: The shop was selling data stolen from the magnetic stripe of each card, which thieves can re-encode onto new, counterfeit cards and use to go shopping in bricks-and-mortar stores for items than can easily be fenced or resold. Is
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by minimax 13y ago
If we used chip and PIN in the US would this still have been possible?
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by minimax 13y ago
A mortgage is fixed. My understanding is that long term fixed rate mortgages are a USA thing. I don't think such a thing as 30 year fixed rate mortgage exists in Europe, for instance.

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