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by otoburb 9y ago
>> [...] I can feel myself stumbling every time I speak it. I'm in the same boat, and the kids pick up on our hesitation and lack of confidence in the language. Since so much of language acquisition is being able to speak confid
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> If everyone understands English and primarily speaks it, there is no real need, or opportunity, to learn/use a second language. This hits upon the key motivating driver (or lack thereof) of language acquisition: multiple lang
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> I’d like to, but I’ve got higher priorities with three kids under 5 and things I’d rather do with my free time. * Learning the languages that I had opportunities to learn throughout my childhood (but squandered) is on my bucket li
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by otoburb 9y ago
That rule is more realistically enforced when both parents speak the language fluently. Even with families that try to enforce this rule, much depends on the aptitude and character of the children, as we know many that can listen but never
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Stocks Weren't Made for Social Climbing(wsj.com)
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by otoburb 9y ago
Demurrage[1] money acts in a similar manner to encourage usage of a currency. Freicoin[2] implemented a demurrage fee mechanism of 5% per year, which would have the effect of eventually clearing out burned "dead" tokens, although
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by otoburb 9y ago
Not only salaries and the exchange rate, but total compensation (of which healthcare is a big chunk) is lower for Canadian employees because healthcare is funded by the Canadian federal and provincial governments[1]. [1] https://
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> My bet is on Toronto because they can pick up all the staff they need worldwide without the problems of trying to get US visas. But non-Canadian staff still need to obtain Canadian visas. I'm not sure how much easier (or not)
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> I and my fellow c-suite colleagues went to the board with our objection, and CEO decided to continue executing the unethical behavior, I and a few of my c-suite colleagues all bailed. That sucked hard. Your board should have taken
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by otoburb 9y ago
ICOs increase the emotional connection to a project by catering to the "in-group" tribal mentality no matter the original intent (i.e. greed). It can be debated how (or whether) this is fallacious, but the empirical evidence thus
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by otoburb 9y ago
I thought an LLC can elect to be taxed as a pass through entity also (sole proprietorship or partnership-equivalent for tax purposes), so they might also be included.
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>Stellar is a distributed ledger, but not a currency. There are no coins as such. From the Stellar FAQ[1]: "Lumens are the native asset of the Stellar network. Native means that lumens are built into the network. Asset is how
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by otoburb 9y ago
Good news is that atomic cross-chain swaps[1] will soon be possible, although even today you could presumably use ShapeShift or Changelly to convert from ETH to BTC while we all wait for BTC-ETH Lightning atomic cross-chain swaps to mature.
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by otoburb 9y ago
202K bitcoins were recovered by the trustee and Mark Karpeles.
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> AND there is no dilution. There's no dilution unless token stewards (usually structured as non-profit foundations) decide to increase the overall supply of tokens.
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by otoburb 9y ago
At the time "early" in the proceedings, there was an attempt[1] to go through what is called Civil Rehabilitation[2] under Japanese restructuring and insolvency law, but this was denied by the Tokyo District Court handling the MtG
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by otoburb 9y ago
If anybody wants the full sordid history from an investigative standpoint, check out Kim Nilsson's great writeups[1][2] and presentation[3]. [1] http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html [2] h
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by otoburb 9y ago
One of the sticking points holding up the bankruptcy process is the outstanding CoinLabs lawsuit[1]. There's not much room for Karpeles to maneuver due to the cascading bankruptcy proceedings against both MtGox and Tibanne. A small num
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by otoburb 9y ago
I didn't properly clarify in my parent comment that I was in an initial state of disbelief of the US military using any form of capital punishment. You're right though - if convicted, looks like the sentence would be carried out
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>I believe the military still hangs people for this I don't know why I didn't believe you at first, but I was wrong[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unit...
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>Roll all of your 401K's over into a single Roth IRA. In the US, Roth contributions are made with "after-tax dollars", while 401K contributions are generally made with "pre-tax dollars", so if you rollover
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by otoburb 9y ago
"Face ID works by projecting more than 30,000 infrared dots onto a face and producing a 3D facial map."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_ID
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Introducing Messari: An Open-Source EDGAR Database for Cryptoassets(medium.com)
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Primer AI helps governments & corps monitor & understand world’s information(techcrunch.com)
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The Blockchain Man(ribbonfarm.com)
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Our Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot(nautil.us)
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It’s Only Cannibalism If We’re Equals(ribbonfarm.com)
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Maxwell's Historian(mailchi.mp)
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> to open up access to a database server port, you’d have to send specific packets in a specific sequence on specific ports AKA port knocking[1], minus the special twist at the end where an intrusion/network detection system (I
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by otoburb 9y ago
I noticed that you recommend 18 years old or older. How does this differ from a company like Cord Blood Registry[1] which evidently takes and stores cells from the umbilical cord? Your lifetime plans are attractive and your company opens up

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