nickonline

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by nickonline 9y ago
Distributed storage is pretty neat definitely On your second point self-sovereign IDPs are not going to become a thing, it's a huge chicken and egg problem, consumers don't care because there's no merchants on board and as a
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by nickonline 9y ago
You'd be wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films... Imagine how much further ahead Star Wars will be after the 24th installment
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by nickonline 9y ago
Or you could simply order your weekly groceries and have them delivered so you don't have to keep track of all the children in the store.
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by nickonline 9y ago
You would be hugely outside the norm in a country where most people get 0-5 days off a year of leave (including sick time)
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by nickonline 9y ago
The store them on amazon's...
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by nickonline 10y ago
But WeChat with all it's diverse functionality gets used as much as Facebook across their own portfolio. > use the app an average of 50+ minutes, and 9 to 11 separate times, per day2. To put that in context, it is the same as the “c
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by nickonline 10y ago
The task is "find out who is not providing value" Your solution is to say they all provide value?
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by nickonline 10y ago
An as your boss I'd do simple random spot checks of some of those urls - you'd be under deeper review in a heartbeat. The intern's requirements in this job are not "press every link presented" they are "find ou
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by nickonline 10y ago
They've talked about making content for $100k that a small number watch and making content for $5M that a number 500x that watch. They know exactly what they're doing and every comment on this article in HN right now shows you tha
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by nickonline 10y ago
You being puzzled confuses me, you might as well ask ... doing your taxes is as simple as filling out a form - why would you ever need an online system if I can just grab the form from the newsagent and fill it out? I've personally nev
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by nickonline 10y ago
There's still so many open questions though * How do I know the PISP/AISP is going to do what they say, how are they accredited? * If Spain has a very lax accreditation process then fraudulent PISP/AISP's will congregate
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by nickonline 10y ago
Medical insurance in the form that the USA likes to make it might be bad. Something like automotive insurance or disaster insurance is completely different.
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by nickonline 10y ago
Favourite?
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by nickonline 10y ago
Does the new job need to continue to sponsor under the H1B program? If so that's not comparable.
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by nickonline 10y ago
I was in Hong Kong last week. The cabs are indeed cash only, making it extremely annoying to take one as a business expense. Ubers were everywhere and most certainly not outcompeted as you suggest, the longest I had to wait was 4 minutes. W
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by nickonline 10y ago
I've been pulled up by the kiwi's their basic problem was me not doing drugs in their country. Similar approach was used on my buddy "I'm glad you answered yes to pot, because if you'd declined I wouldn't have
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by nickonline 10y ago
Do you understand censorship? This clearly fits within censorship as it's considered politically unacceptable. censorship, noun: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, polit
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by nickonline 10y ago
A bunch of convicts the lot of us.
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by nickonline 10y ago
Arguably it doesn't matter whether you went to Stanford or your state university, the institution where you graduated matters little in the professional world once you have that first gig.
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by nickonline 10y ago
'just'?
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by nickonline 10y ago
The GPS clearly only works at certain speeds and heights, there's another level... If this doesn't exist then those missiles don't work...
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by nickonline 10y ago
I would assume it wouldn't take me to any meetings I had not accepted.
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by nickonline 10y ago
You could make a similar argument about a lot of the social media sites, there are engineers at Facebook making huge money, just to work out how to make you spend an extra 1-2 minute a day on their site. Sure they were originally doing some
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by nickonline 10y ago
Isn't the JPMC Ethereum instance a private blockchain?
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by nickonline 10y ago
Additionally if by 'traditional consensus protocols' you mean proof of work, you do realise it currently uses more power than Ireland to perform ~100MM transactions a day and that number is only going to incrase
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by nickonline 10y ago
It's the difference between double entry bookkeeping and single entry bookkeeping. By providing a common ledger that can be used when you desire single entry bookkeeping you don't necessarily need all the backchecking as you'
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by nickonline 10y ago
What do you mean by Why? Why did they make a private ethereum? - Because private blockchains are a solution to a network problem, unless everyone is working on something similar you end up back in the problem space we are in now where every
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by nickonline 10y ago
So, the current banking system?
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by nickonline 10y ago
Almost none of the use cases financial institutions look to blockchain to solve have anything to do with settlement or clearance.
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by nickonline 10y ago
20mph is slow - Fit cyclists would be able to keep up with him. My cycle to work this morning had a top speed of 40kmph (24mph). I was feeling particularly slow this morning and am only just getting back into cycling. I expect that soon I&#

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