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by patrickk 12y ago
Sounds intriguing! Thanks for the offer to connect, email sent.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Thanks for the info, I understand completely you don't want to give away profitable niches. > I do everything through my own sites and find customers through via free podcasts, free and promoted youtube videos, etc. Very clever, cre
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by patrickk 12y ago
Care to provide examples? Was thinking of getting into this myself with premium courses. Edit: this is a good example of the type of courses I mean http://www.diygenius.com/courses/ (not affilated) Is it on your own si
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Harvesting Our Cities' Land for Dollars(whackdata.com)
2 points by patrickk 12y ago|0 comments
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by patrickk 12y ago
You can "snap together" pieces and build an ethereum script for various things here: http://etherscripter.com/0-4-0/ See the code sample link. You can even check out the output in a Lisp-like language.
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by patrickk 12y ago
Well those kids didn't have their parents' credit card hooked up to the arcade machine.
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Online 'live' hacking map between countries(map.ipviking.com)
13 points by patrickk 12y ago|2 comments
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by patrickk 12y ago
Not a checklist, but I put together a fairly comprehensive spreadsheet of all the top marketing resources I've come across when I worked in a startup doing online marketing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?
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by patrickk 12y ago
Blockchain voting system could be a great solution: http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/110/bitcongress-blockch...
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by patrickk 12y ago
PG has an interesting bit about this in an essay: " This started to change in Europe with the rise of the middle class. Now we think of the middle class as people who are neither rich nor poor, but originally they were a distinct group
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by patrickk 12y ago
Another market that's exploded in the Far East is scotch whisky. Scottish producers are struggling to keep up with demand in markets like China, Japan and Taiwan.
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Perhaps this centralized non-profit could exist as a DAO[1] on something like Ethereum. Very hard to shut down a decentralized autonomous "central" bank who's purpose is to issue units of cryptocurrency that is pegged to unit
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by patrickk 12y ago
> Maybe there's just something fundamentally ingrained in human psychology that makes us converge like this. Convenience/laziness, lack of concern about privacy, and social signalling help to explain the internet related centra
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by patrickk 12y ago
Talking of Betfair and percentages, this may be of interest: http://www.gambletron2000.com/about
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by patrickk 12y ago
A habit I've gotten into since using fb messages, Viber/WhatsApp/Telegram is sending lots of messages with less words. So instead of one long text I might send 4-5 short ones. That will get you to 50 messages easy if you&#x27
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by patrickk 12y ago
> FFS drones are basicly RC planes.... Ahem . It's a bit of a stretch to call Reapers and Predators RC planes. Not to mentioned UAV spacecraft [1, 2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 [2] http:&#
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by patrickk 12y ago
Ryanair and the other cheapo airlines have good links[1] between London and much of Europe. I can literally get a return flight between my home city and London for less than a taxi home from a night out on the town. [1] http://ry
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iPhone location data of millions of people? http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2013/10/your-iphone-knows-whe...
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by patrickk 12y ago
That review makes it sound like an amazing phone. Chinese companies that understand product quality like this should have other handset manufacturers scared. It sounds like they're taking their design to almost Apple levels of obsessio
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by patrickk 12y ago
Amazing. Perhaps combine with Jasper[1] (RPi voice control, like Siri) for even more cool functionality and an extra way of interacting with it. [1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/meet-jasper-open-source-voice-com...
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The rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor?(economist.com)
30 points by patrickk 12y ago|12 comments
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by patrickk 13y ago
The HFT experts from the book were amazed he didn't walk away with trading strategies, rather "plumbing" code, which is useless outside of Goldman (specific to their network, also his new employer used a different programming
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by patrickk 13y ago
I'm not an expert at all, but sounds like that would've definitely helped. The author, Michael Lewis, actually conducted an informal trial in a restaurant, with (neutral) HFT experts, who were even more furious than Serge was when
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by patrickk 13y ago
They didn't jail him, however they provided the impetus to the FBI to arrest him. Quotes from the book, p.148 (EDIT: These quotes are in the article here also!!): "What Serge did not yet know was that Goldman has discovered his do
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by patrickk 13y ago
Well for reddit comments, the vast majority of the comments I typically make will make use of quotes, bold, italics or lists (the comments that include markdown), I use stuff like tables quite infrequently. So even remembering a small subse
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by patrickk 13y ago
> You'd change your mind about "everybody knows HTML" ... Absolutely. You could've stopped there without any further caveats. The comment above I think is HN arrogance, assuming that the rest of the web is at a certai
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by patrickk 13y ago
Same with Gawker. I used to read Lifehacker quite a bit, have up years ago as the articles have become steadily worse.
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There was some confusion on another HN thread[1] a few days ago as to what Ethereum actually is or is aiming to solve. This visual contract builder is a really cool demo of what's possible with Ethereum. For more read the whitepaper:
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EtherScripter – a visual smart contract builder(forum.ethereum.org)
1 points by patrickk 13y ago|1 comments
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> From all accounts their headset is already on par with the rift... From what I've read this isn't true at all. Have a read of this excellent Valve slide deck on VR, which touches on the technical challenges: http:/&#x2F

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