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by minimax 13y ago
I assume that most hardcore bitcoin enthusiasts are morons but I guess there's a possibility that some legitimately evil early bitcoin adopters out there pushing bitcoin so that they can sell out of their positions at favorable prices.
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by minimax 13y ago
To me the most impressive thing about bitcoin is its ability to turn otherwise unassuming computer enthusiasts into genuine experts in macroeconomic forecasting without having to pick up a single book. Is there anything crypto currencies c
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by minimax 13y ago
One great thing about bit coin is that all the metadata is available to everyone. You would be hard pressed to make a fancy chart like this with fiat currency.
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes.
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by minimax 13y ago
Feds confiscates bit coins. Bit coin supply is reduced. Price of bit coins goes up. Simple economics. Thanks feds. Has anyone figured out a good way to invest pre-tax 401k money into bit coin? My portfolio is doing alright but I'd like
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by minimax 13y ago
That's pretty cool analysis. Do you think the high proportion of English relative to other non-native languages could be related to the general affluence of Apple users? It would be interesting to see how these ratios stack up relative
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by minimax 13y ago
Alexis what do you think about shifting the startup capitalization process entirely to bit coin? Like what if I don't want to take fiat money investments and I don't want my shares to be listed on fiat stock exchanges? Maybe there
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by minimax 13y ago
The only thing I'm knowledgable about is disrupting corrupt, inefficient industries/governments. I will send you a note as soon as the API is ready. There will be an API endpoint you can use to send me bit coins.
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by minimax 13y ago
You want to borrow bit coins so that you can improve your business and then pay back the coins with increased profits due to the improvements. Isn't that obvious? I'm not interested in dollars because I don't think they are p
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by minimax 13y ago
Now that I have a huge stash of bit coins I was thinking of making a service/startup where you could lend out your bit coins to people who would agree to pay you back a slightly higher number of coins in the future. Kind of like a bank
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by minimax 13y ago
In our example, if Fred didn't look at the book and decides to put in a buy for $10.05, he'll get his 10 shares at $10.05 and Pete would make out like a bandit and the price would briefly shoot up to $10.05. There is no market i
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by minimax 13y ago
What I mean is why let the innovation stop at the financial system when we can reinvent/streamline the judicial system as well!
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by minimax 13y ago
I'm not too worried about this since you can be pretty sure the aggrieved will probably be able to track down the thief by examining the block chain. That is one nice thing about bit coin: it exists outside financial regulation and so
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes I thought it was obvious from the last sentence (i.e. selling on to the greater fool).
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by minimax 13y ago
I sold all my stocks and bought into crypto currencies since they're the next big thing. I even opened up a new credit card to leverage up since you can't get a proper margin account on Mount Gox. I'll be able to pay off my m
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At Would Make Me Take Electronic Currency Seriously(nemoincognito.wordpress.com)
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by minimax 13y ago
I live in Chicago where Intelligentsia was started and has several locations. Intelligentsia is good coffee but it's not the best in town by any means. Other strong (Chicago based) competitors: http://www.halfwitcoffee.com&#
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by minimax 13y ago
If you do the coding test before interviewing the candidate, you are wasting the time of many candidates who will be screened out for being insufficiently hipster, having Windows on their resume, and similar non-coding related reasons. Is
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Why Mastered for iTunes Matters(theproaudiofiles.com)
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The Night Watch(research.microsoft.com)
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by minimax 13y ago
This is a great post. I guess the idea here is that you can start bringing future objects to be compared up through the cache hierarchy while you are doing the comparison on the current object. If that's the case, then I think the spee
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by minimax 13y ago
Google has a development office in Chicago but I don't think it's very big. The 600k sq ft of Chicago office space mentioned in this post is probably a reference to the new Motorola office space in the Merch Mart. http:/&#x2
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by minimax 13y ago
That dude is Thomas Peterffy who founded Interactive Brokers and is now worth something like $6 billion.
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by minimax 13y ago
No. As the value of the position (price times size) approaches the cash balance in your brokerage account, your broker will close out your position (buying back the shares) using the funds in your account. This is known as a "margin ca
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes that's called a stop loss order.
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by minimax 13y ago
If you are ever visiting London you should try and make a trip out to Bletchley Park. It's really easy. You can take a London Midlands train from London Euston to the Bletchley station and then walk a short distance to the park. I did
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by minimax 13y ago
Sell side analyst recommendations are a complete joke. They are basically trailing indicators (i.e. price drops and then the sell recommendations come out). I don't think anyone takes them seriously.
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by minimax 13y ago
One other thing to consider: Google is sitting on something like $56B (and growing) in cash and short term investments. They could set $4B on fire and it really wouldn't alter their balance sheet significantly. Given its big push into
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by minimax 13y ago
Every small, well-funded tech company ever has claimed that they weren't interested in acquisition. I certainly don't think that will keep the M&A folks at the big tech companies from chatting up Snapchat's investors. For
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by minimax 13y ago
Irrespective of present revenue, the acquisition value of Snapchat to Facebook, Google, Yahoo and co basically puts a floor on the valuation. E.g. if I am an investor and I think Google would pay $5B for Snapchat, it makes sense to buy it a

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