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by nebabyte 9y ago
> If he gets hooked on e.g. Frozen and insists on watching it 10 times a day when we're stuck inside due to weather, then that ten bucks is going to pay for itself pretty quickly. Or y'know, just shell out $10 for the dvd which
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by nebabyte 9y ago
2 for 2 = "amazing track record"? Counting the offer they made to Blockbuster as another. Besides, foresight is not everything. You can see your impending doom and not be able to do anything about it. Have they successfully done s
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I love this guy. Funnily enough I was just reflecting a couple days ago on my admiration of his stance on the whole Infiniminer/Minecraft thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14945713
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I am assuming a catalog "filled" with live action Disney films would mostly have those one-off concept movies they created for their channel than pages upon pages of movies standing peer to Pirates of the Carribean . Still intere
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Which is why the internet in its current form is such a wonderful thing that needs to be protected as part of the common heritage of mankind. It's the closest thing we'll ever get to a living memory. In a capitalist system piracy
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I like this approach, not shying away from reexamining the fundamental problem. What do you define as a "weak market"? Seeing as that's the problem, affording agents in the space more or better control to try and strengthen t
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by nebabyte 9y ago
As far as pricing goes, steam has the benefit of games being much less excludable than media. If you want a racing game or shooter and can'tafford the biggest titles, there're always other alternatices that're cheaper. This k
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> kill competition, then raise the prices Do I really have to go over econ 101 with you? The past distro channels look to "not work" while there's a better alternative; once the latter have a monopoly - oh fuck it, just si
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> These companies are never going to learn They're not trying to learn, they already know. If you continue to think they are optimizing for your happiness you're the one who'll never learn.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
If we move fully into that model, how long do you think it will be before they realize merging with smaller networks to start hiking prices is more lucrative than letting people pick and choose?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Ellen Pao’s gender-discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2015 also brought the issue to light Oh yeah, when does that go to verdict? Guessing it's still pending as this is all the article had.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> then do everyone else who prefers that outcome a favor and keep your trap shut Your comment comes off as far more vitriolic than his. He raises a good point; that this "problem" of not being happy with a life that already has
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I'm sure you have some justification for that ridiculous statement but I'm specifically not asking.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> wanted to grow a garden And what's stopping him? There is nothing he could do yesterday that he cannot today, other than invest at yesterday's prices. Hell, it's probably significantly easier to develop with today's
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by nebabyte 9y ago
You don't, unless you want to brainwash culture.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> tax-proof Ha https://xkcd.com/538/ (replace "encrypted" with "untraceable" and make the skiddie a webmaster of some unregulated exchange and you can see the future of this situation)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
My guru as far as this lesson goes is Zachtronics. He's a game dev who makes programming games and who created infiniminer, which Notch adapted into minecraft. Zachtronics' games are some of the most fun I've played, and from
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I'm disappointed at the lack of millions I could have made (maybe, if I were a serious "hodlr") He might say (and even believe) that he's looking at this purely from a dev standpoint, but it's just another inve
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Plus, you really have to love the founders of this company. I mean, as a startup founder myself, I’m rooting for them. One is a hardcore gamer, the other is a former backup dancer for Gucci Mane, and the third loves beer more than you
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Still, in your personal experience, there would/could be examples of things it "does better" than gemini. I was wondering what those were.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> hatespeach Who hates peach?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
When you've been sitting for months with the same broken infra, you're not exactly moving fast.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
In what regard do you consider coinbase a "good alternative" to anything, let alone gemini? The issues people have consistently reported with it for as long as I've known about it - bad lock-ins during fluctuations, difficult
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It's not particularly fascinating for anyone who's kept an eye out for Coinbase's business practices. Most people who've used or heard about using them during any sort of price fluctuations (transactions delayed until th
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by nebabyte 9y ago
In your example, it is like everyone who has EUR being entitled to 1:1 notes of a newly-created currency called lira, with owners simply entering their EUR notes' serial numbers and being credited the lira. Your "forex brokerage&q
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That's idiotic, securities do not spontaneously split on their own. In a split, agents agree upon how it should be carried out, specifically to avoid this problem.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"Sure, no, they could, no, software term, if you want to, independence, because of how the software works, see previous, for any that support them, because that's what it's valued at right now. Any other easily-googlable ques
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Correct. I have not studied securities law but I don't think Coinbase's users have any recourse claiming their BCC and Coinbase decides their stance is that it was always theirs as they held the relevant private keys.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
There is nothing to "acquire" - the private keys are the same, they and they alone already have control over the funds. "Wait and see" is usually a reasonable stance for companies to take, but in the case of securities s
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That is for adding trading support. Any forks which have worked out the replay protection problem - which includes BCH - are trivial to add withdraw support for, and many exchanges have offered this from day one (demonstrating they're

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