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by netrus 13y ago
Hope is that when big entities like the state or insurances have to pay the big bill, they have far superior means to enforce lower prices. That's not everything that needs to be done, but it is still useful.
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by netrus 13y ago
It's not acceptance. If Amazon offers Bitcoin payment next to Paypal tomorrow, not much will change. The question is: When will prices of goods become stable in Bitcoin? Imagine a web agency that decided earlier this year it will pay i
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by netrus 13y ago
Calling your comments 'pro-apartheid' is certainly not ad hominem.
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by netrus 13y ago
Most interesting for me: They estimate the fair long-term value to be around 1.300 USD - indicating no more great rises will come.
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by netrus 13y ago
The one named after an engineer* [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_five_regimes * Just kidding.
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by netrus 13y ago
Just recently an article at Spiegel Online (main German news site) claimed something along the line of: Bitcoin now passed the valuation of 1.000 USD. For comparision, the price of gold is at 1.300 USD at the moment. As if something magica
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by netrus 13y ago
Yet, they represent a overwhelming part of the site-loads users experience (certainly >50%, at least for people from big countries).
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Google Voice Search Hotword(chrome.google.com)
2 points by netrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by netrus 13y ago
Met so many "IT professionals" who program mostly with drawings ;)
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by netrus 13y ago
Do I understand you correctly, you suggest child labor should be legal, because a ban on child labor would limit their freedom, and they had to choose a worse alternative? If so: Lat me tell you that 1) people are bad at evaluating their al
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by netrus 13y ago
It's a market. Half of all predictions are wrong, all the time. Only question is: Do you belong to the smarter half?
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by netrus 13y ago
ebooks were the far far bigger challange for Amazon compared to 3d printing. Printing clothes? Printing Mobiles? Printing Washing machines? Never. Ever.
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by netrus 13y ago
Think about the physics of running on a treadmill. The only part of your body constantly accelerating are your legs - your upper body hardly moves. When running outside, you have air resistance, speeding up / slowing down to avoid obst
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by netrus 13y ago
Exchange of money and goods is not "communication" in the sense of "free speech" or "privacy". The state needs to protect my freedom to not be killed by a hitman, be threatened by guns etc. I am all in for lega
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by netrus 13y ago
You clearly have never heard of Exit Bags.
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by netrus 13y ago
I can do it with nothing but my right hand, as AltGr+Cntrl+Del works fine (on Win7 / QWERTZ) :)
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by netrus 13y ago
Granted. I'd be fine with a "you-are-just-allowed-to-fly-overseas" policy, if that solved a pain point for the airline :)
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by netrus 13y ago
I'd go one step further, as air lines are providers of critical infrastructure, they should have damn good reasons to ban me from buying tickets at their airline.
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by netrus 13y ago
I for one fear a future where anyone can become immortal. This would result in unimaginable struggles for our ecosystem. I always feel modern medicine should focus on raising life quality for as long as we are alive, rather than extending l
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by netrus 13y ago
Well, as you apparently continue to use Youtube, it's not in their best interest.
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by netrus 13y ago
I remember some activities we did at junior high math courses regarding Sudokus. I was so disappointed to see the brute-force solving solution to work perfectly fine, no need to implement human solving-strategies. It was fun nevertheless :)
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by netrus 13y ago
That's why eye-scanner authentication makes me shiver...
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by netrus 13y ago
Being entertained is, as feeling a global spirit of humanity, as being proud to be a good host to the world. That are a lot of positive emotions I connect with the Olympic Games. It's quite expensive, but you only do it all 20-odd year
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by netrus 13y ago
A prominent example for proofs by computer algorithms is the 4 color theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
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by netrus 13y ago
As an atheist, I have mixed feelings about it. I like it as a training in logic, yet I feel it is of no theological value...
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Gödel's Proof of God's Existence(arxiv.org)
39 points by netrus 13y ago|64 comments
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by netrus 13y ago
I'd guess the distance of the flight is not that important, because risk is mostly constant (one take off, one landing). If you can choose to drive instead of to fly, however...
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by netrus 13y ago
I only have knowledge of German criminal law, but I would argue it's just common sense 99.9% of the time. Most people who "unknowingly" break a criminal law where trying to trick the system - I have little sympathy for that m
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by netrus 13y ago
Science you say? Yahoo changed it's logo daily last month. Let's have a look at how the search queries went down with every bad logo proposal (some really looked horrible). I'd be interested in some blind study: Give some top
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by netrus 13y ago
I do not agree. The reason logos usually are expensive and take months: Because what else? If I have a multi-million Dollar marketing budget, sure the logo will take a good chunk of that, not only, say one permille (still enough to pay 5 de

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