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by niggler 14y ago
The general rule is that you should assume everything you say or do on the Internet is public, even if it is encrypted or purportedly private, and may be used against you in the future. Even stuff written here.
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by niggler 14y ago
"ad targeting does not cause your data to leave Facebook's servers." What reason is there to believe that facebook wouldn't explicitly allow third parties to pay a fee and see your "private" information"
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by niggler 14y ago
Tested it. File send and receive does work.
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by niggler 14y ago
or even a public room with a public name like 'public'
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by niggler 14y ago
Lets say your Facebook page was public and you rant about the company you are working for. Do you think future employers won't wonder if you will do the same if you join them? Lets say you write something about a topic that shouldn't be dis
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by niggler 14y ago
"If you can trade faster than others, you can drain some resources from them" What's embarrassing is how many intellectual resources are focused on this problem. For those not in finance, compare it to focusing talent on finding better adve
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by niggler 14y ago
How does mono's F# coverage compare to this?
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Fay: A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript.(fay-lang.org)
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by niggler 14y ago
Links definitely cannot be downvoted, which presents an interesting asymmetry that incentivizes spamming with links and stories I wonder if the constant reposting of articles would be stymied if the links could be downvoted.
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by niggler 14y ago
Typo: "log- runtime-metrics Labs flag" but the flag is log-runtime-metrics (no space) https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/log-runtime-metrics
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by niggler 14y ago
"Application deadline: March 29" Today's the last day to apply. How did no one notice or think about asking this earlier?
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by niggler 14y ago
"Service is temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are working quickly to resolve the issue."
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by niggler 14y ago
That was obvious for a long time. Last big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255362
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by niggler 14y ago
'There are two main goals of "money".' There are 3 main goals of money: - medium of exchange (for trade) - unit of account (fungibility, divisibility) - store of value (saving with an expectation that it will be useful later) Right now Bitc
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by niggler 14y ago
The problem shifted from "solution is hard to find" to "solutions are abound, but its hard to find the best". Github has lots of code, and its really difficult to tell what are the best solutions (and of course, there's the whole issue of
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by niggler 14y ago
Gotta love TechCrunch's diligence
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by niggler 14y ago
For those who have forgotten, US dollars used to be certificates backed by silver: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/US-%245-...
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by niggler 14y ago
Original issue: "However, the problem is that the amount of time it takes for a transaction to become "verified," i.e. be part of the official block chain, can take up to 10 minutes." https://coinbase.com/merchants : "Confirmed in 1 hour"
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by niggler 14y ago
"you have transferred control of Bitcoin to the Bitcoin bank." This exists now with charge cards. You load up a card, and you bear risk that the company could go under. "IE: Using Flexcoins (or any other form of Bitcoin bank) completely de
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by niggler 14y ago
Coinbase doesn't fit that bill, if that's what you are pointing to.
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by niggler 14y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for a "bitcoin credit card" or "bitcoin charge card" where a trusted third party maintains complete control.
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by niggler 14y ago
Money velocity is an aggregate phenomenon: if a single dollar is passed around a billion times, it is treated the same as a billion dollars passed around once. Under BDD, if i understand it correctly, the single dollar case would result in
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by niggler 14y ago
Run your own bitcoin exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvSYT7vhQY#t=279s
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by niggler 14y ago
I came across this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvSYT7vhQY ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5459304 ) The phrase that really resonated with me was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvSYT7vhQY#t=404s : "When a few ge
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by niggler 14y ago
A larger number means that people are holding onto BTC for long periods of time, a smaller number means that people are spending BTC soon after receiving it. In a sense, its a more granular way of looking at money velocity.
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by niggler 14y ago
https://blockchain.info/stats 156,779.62 BTC in the past 24 hours
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by niggler 14y ago
I said BTC 1B and not $1B because not all BTC transactions occur between participants dealing in USD.
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by niggler 14y ago
Anyone have statistics on the total size of BTC transactions? Has BTC 1B in trade occurred yet?
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by niggler 14y ago
Works in chrome for mac, but falters on iPad (even though http://caniuse.com/#search=worker says webworkers are supported)
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by niggler 14y ago
"its", not "it's"

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