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by otoburb 9y ago
I think anybody can run a Stellar validator node[1], somewhat akin to anybody being able to set up a full Bitcoin node. Ripple is completely centralized in all meanings of the word, and a lot of people confuse the two since Jed McCaleb is a
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by otoburb 9y ago
I ran across BATFANG[1] recently in a conversation and while finding the term(s) equally confusing, at least it's slightly more inclusive. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bats-vs-fangs-why-chinas-tech-h...
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10 Years After Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks Would Happen Again(wsj.com)
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Or, in the alternative, you could look again. I checked again, and you're right. Interactive Brokers is the only platform I still infrequently use but it does have a list of pre-filled tax forms available for download. Worksh
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by otoburb 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. To whit, the few retail equity US and Canadian trading platforms I've used (Schwab's, Interactive Brokers, Scottrade before they became TD Ameritrade, Questrade) also do not provide an explicit featur
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>Could the IRS do me a solid and send me what the capital gains on my crypto currency are? I'll pay the taxes--I just don't want to have to calculate the taxes. Unlike stocks which seem to be entirely traded on exchanges,
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by otoburb 9y ago
They most likely did raise this, but when asked to provide a more "competitive" bid, they axed training and who knows what else. This is common in large enterprise sales deals. For professional services deployment engagements, the
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UK company linked to laundered Bitcoin billions(bbc.com)
2 points by otoburb 9y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 9y ago
The main revelation made at the creditor meeting today is that the bankruptcy court trustee recently sold 35,841 BTC and 34,008 BCH to cover the amount of approved normalized claims. What happens with the remaining ~166K BTC remains to be s
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Mt. Gox Bankruptcy Court Trustee Report - March 7, 2018 [pdf](mtgox.com)
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by otoburb 9y ago
Clicking through to the homepage, the full title is: "Machine Learning Crash Course with TensorFlow APIs".
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by otoburb 9y ago
If British citizens have been living in EU countries for many years, in most cases I believe they're eligible to apply as citizens of those EU countries. In certain cases (such as in the OP article), the Netherlands often requires one
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by otoburb 9y ago
We all understood their stance. The notable point is the stark contrast between the Americans (embassy and expats alike) and everybody else. While most of us were cowering under our desks and tables during SCUD attacks, some of our American
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by otoburb 9y ago
This was a tragic and preventable loss. It's incredible that a software bug might have been the root cause. At the time, this incident really stuck out because it broke the illusion of our fabled Patriot missile shield protecting us. C
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by otoburb 9y ago
Karma is inflationary, but not in the same monetary sense because karma-as-a-signalling mechanism is more valuable precisely because they cannot be traded between accounts. I guess using the popular blockchain buzzwords of the day we should
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by otoburb 9y ago
The parent's comment was taken directly from the OP article.
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever. SpaceX&#x27
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by otoburb 9y ago
Did you purchase any Venezuelan petro[1]? [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/venezuela-says-i...
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by otoburb 9y ago
Rusty Russell is a fairly unique name, but for some reason I never connected the dots when seeing his name crop up on the bitcoin & lightning mailing lists. Thank you for the memory jog.
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by otoburb 9y ago
You're correct, but I believe the MP was referring to the fact that any such capital assets (e.g. miners/servers) are being purchased outside of Iceland, so no tax revenue accrues to Iceland (except maybe indirectly in the form of
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by otoburb 9y ago
The article states " [Iceland] has seen a marked increase in the number of new data centres, often built by firms wishing to tout green credentials. Nearly 100% of energy in Iceland comes from renewable sources." Unless that&#x27
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Smari McCarthy, a member of the Icelandic parliament for the Pirate Party, tweeted: "Cryptocurrency mining requires almost no staff, very little in capital investments, and mostly leaves no taxes either. Replace "cryptoc
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by otoburb 9y ago
I love the different yet similar 3D environments for RL agent learning. OpenAI has a similar environment they call OpenAI Gym[1] to train agents, of which RoboSchool is the closest environmental[2] analogy to DMLab-30. From a cursory glance
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Switching pages can still take a few seconds (the display is lightning fast, but the processor for generating the page is not). * Can take up to a few seconds, but really depends on what the device is rendering. For most arXiv pa
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by otoburb 9y ago
If one reads Tractatus , then a reading of Philosophical Investigations is likely needed shortly thereafter.
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by otoburb 9y ago
You make it sound like George Hotz is any run-of-the-mill 26 year old, except he's anything but[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Of course, Ng probably knows all this which makes me feel even more bothered. Ng's implied claim is that he has a head start on how to tackle the edge cases, along with other hard problems encountered in the field, based on h
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by otoburb 9y ago
To be fair, this isn't the first time this quote been dredged up from the past to be used against him as it pertains to Bitcoin.[1] So while it's fun to pile onto Krugman once in a while, since cryptocurrencies are more closely re
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by otoburb 9y ago
Vitalik Buterin[1] last week brainstormed a proposed development, fundraising and stewardship structure combining elements of a DAO[2] and ICO called a DAICO[3]. People are still debating and considering whether this is a true improvement.
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by otoburb 9y ago
You're exactly right - additional languages are only force multipliers within a certain range of circumstances which one would need to actively manage to their advantage. This lends itself to parents heavily considering which languag

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