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901.
by pault 9y ago
You could take that view or you could think of it as putting your best foot forward. How manipulative it is depends on your intentions.
902.
by pault 9y ago
I think it's meant to compete with cameras like those manufactured by Red, which cost $50,000 for the base model, and a few accessories will put you into six figure territory pretty quickly.
903.
by pault 9y ago
Download VCV Rack (it's free and open source, and it has many digital models of real world modules) and start exploring the network of YouTube channels dedicated to analog synthesis. There's currently some kind of Cambrian explosi
904.
by pault 9y ago
I know we're not supposed to post low-effort comments like "this is lovely", but this is lovely.
905.
by pault 9y ago
A mystery truck with radioactive material warnings on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15897238
906.
by pault 9y ago
I got a sinking feeling reading this comment and realizing how easily I could imagine myself in this situation (especially as a Mr. Robot fan). While I do agree that transparency and user control are Firefox's most vital components as
907.
by pault 9y ago
I laughed so hard when I saw this article; a few months ago a got a package that contained another package that contained another package that contained a single scrap of Chinese newspaper. It was so bewildering I took pictures of it and se
908.
by pault 9y ago
I think it sounds crazy too but I would love to be proven wrong. :) Do you have a background in macroeconomics?
909.
by pault 9y ago
Sure, but you are advocating redistribution of wealth from the most impoverished segment of the population to the middle and upper classes. I’m not sure how helpful that would be. I mean, I would love to buy more toys every month but is tha
910.
by pault 9y ago
Analogies are always leaky abstractions and it's easy to cement an incorrect notion of the subject matter that doesn't account for subtle behavior and edge cases. I do think explaining by analogy is useful as long as it comes with
911.
by pault 9y ago
That's the one! I can finally put that mystery to rest. :)
912.
by pault 9y ago
Meta: it's curious that this green account created two hours ago only has two submissions, both of which reached the top 10 on the front page.
913.
by pault 9y ago
When I lived in Seattle I was sitting at a cafe one day and a government motorcade came down the street with an 18 wheel truck carrying a dumbell-shaped canister with a giant yellow nuclear symbol on the side. I've never been able to f
914.
by pault 9y ago
It better get sorted out before the oceans turn to acid and everything south of Greenland becomes uninhabitable.
915.
by pault 9y ago
Right, but the Bitcoin evangelists have changed their rhetoric in the last few months, claiming that the current price is justified because Bitcoin is a good store of value, since it's obvious to everyone that the transaction infrastru
916.
by pault 9y ago
I incorporated an LLC through Legalzoom a few years ago that I didn't end up using for its intended purpose, so I logged in to cancel the renewal. After spending about 15 minutes combing through all of the account settings and reading
917.
by pault 9y ago
If you are a government, making something easier to measure is a benefit, regardless of the second order effects it might have.
918.
by pault 9y ago
I think most people are perfectly fine with the instability as long as the price doesn't go _down_.
919.
by pault 9y ago
Definitely. I did see someone dump 1000 BTC on finex the other day though, and while it did cause a ~$1000 dip they were bought up in a few minutes. Like you say though, there's no way of knowing if the buyers were third parties or the
920.
by pault 9y ago
As far as I know the best option is still printing a newly created address and private key on archive quality paper and putting it in a bank safe deposit box. If you don't ever spend from that address the key should be safe. Best pract
921.
by pault 9y ago
> I've heard a story of one individual on a forum ordering someone two Papa John's online That was the famous bitcoin pizza[1][2] (worth $120,000,000 as of this writing), and it is believed to be the first real-world purchase u
922.
by pault 9y ago
You still have to pay your taxes but cashing out a few thousand BTC on one of the large exchanges can be easily done. 24 hour volume at bitfinex is $781MM so you would have to dump a lot of coin to move the needle. A multi-thousand coin sel
923.
by pault 9y ago
People have been saying that since I started reading HN in 2010. It still hasn't happened.
924.
by pault 9y ago
In my experience people get addicted to drugs because they have underlying chronic depression and/or severe ADD, Bipolar disorder, BPD, etc. If you treat the disorder the drug use slows dramatically. Also, lack of social support struct
925.
by pault 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear that, and you make a really good point. A family friend was an engineer at Boeing and worked his whole life there, never taking time off or doing much outside work. He got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer six months afte
926.
by pault 9y ago
There's lots of food for thought in your essay. There are aspects of UBI that appeal deeply to me, since I could happily spend the rest of my life reading, making music, and writing software that scratches my own itches, and I've
927.
by pault 9y ago
If you look at the GF Austin facebook page, there are hundreds of angry comments from people about paying deposits and getting trenches dug and then not hearing anything for a year. Also a lot of complaints about trenches being sloppy and m
928.
by pault 9y ago
This point gets discussed ad nauseam on every thread about bitcoin. I haven't heard a good answer yet.
929.
by pault 9y ago
I have a friend that's just inside the 1980 millennial designation and he's always talking about how horrible millennials are. If I'm not happy with my job I sound like a millennial. If I'm complaining about relationship
930.
by pault 9y ago
You're making a comparison to the top 10% of the graduating class of an ivy league college; if you did the same analysis on Stanford MSCs in CS you would probably get a similar breakdown. That doesn't mean everybody going into sof

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