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by pdog 9y ago
Hard forks are a feature of cryptocurrencies. Their overall impact is broadly positive. In fact, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic bring some benefits and increased competition to the main blockchains, so we'll probably continue to see
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by pdog 9y ago
AMP has always worked poorly on iOS... This never made sense to me. You can have natural scrolling, an accurate reader view, a working back button and other highly performant features in a mobile-optimized HTML and CSS standard like AMP.
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by pdog 9y ago
> [Bitmain] has over 70% of the market for bitcoin mining rigs—effectively providing 70% of all the processing power on the network. It's incredible that one company accounts for the vast majority of the entire Bitcoin network&#x2
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GitHub Is Down(status.github.com)
29 points by pdog 9y ago|10 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Docker built a better mousetrap. FreeBSD had jails in 2000. Linux had namespaces and cgroups for years. No one cared until Docker came up with containers in 2013.
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by pdog 9y ago
> No one knows what Apple paid to license the technology [from Amazon]... This is factually incorrect. Of course, there are executives at Amazon and Apple who know how much was paid to license the one-click patent.
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by pdog 9y ago
Sorry, but the alternative to using Electron isn't JavaFX or Qt or Xamarin. It's nothing. People weren't writing cross-platform desktop apps before Electron. For that reason alone, Electron is great.
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by pdog 9y ago
The price of a single bitcoin is $1M USD in the year 2027. This is achievable if Bitcoin grows at an annualized rate of 72% for the next ten years.
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by pdog 9y ago
The ICO phenomenon is, in some sense, diametrically opposed to venture capital. Both are fundraising mechanisms: one sells liquid tokens on the open market, the other sells illiquid shares to VCs. Does YC plan to address competition from to
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by pdog 9y ago
Link: http://lamborghini/
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Is Mindfulness Meditation Bullshit?(wired.com)
53 points by pdog 9y ago|33 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
> One of the more interesting comments in the article is in regards to the social stigma of only consuming water during meals - people who have quit alcohol for various reasons have faced the same stigma when going out with friends. Th
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by pdog 9y ago
How is Onavo a "data-security app" if it lets Facebook track everything you do, including encrypted traffic?
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by pdog 9y ago
> To the extent you can blame anyone for ultra efficient hyper capitalism, blame programmers. This is as ridiculous as blaming serfs for the feudal system. You're conflating a symptom with the root cause.
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by pdog 9y ago
Key takeaway: > We can also say that if the above things go badly, it would seem that gold (more than other safe haven assets like the dollar, yen, and treasuries) would benefit, so if you don’t have 5-10% of your assets in gold as a he
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Risks Are Rising While Low Risks Are Discounted(linkedin.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|1 comments
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Plasma: Scalable Smart Contracts(plasma.io)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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Bridgewater's Ray Dalio Has a Plan to Live Forever(bloomberg.com)
10 points by pdog 9y ago|4 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Sure. Robert M. Solow's review in the New Republic : https://newrepublic.com/article/117429/capital-twenty-first-...
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by pdog 9y ago
Book recommendation: Piketty's Capital [1] is still the single best resource for understanding why income inequality and the concentration of wealth have been so pronounced over the past several decades. There are ample citations, foo
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by pdog 9y ago
If you're looking for The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns[1], here it is: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gre... This is a long read, but it's worth it.
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by pdog 9y ago
Facebook now makes roughly $9 billion in revenue (and $4 billion in profit) per quarter.
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by pdog 9y ago
Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/EL7566-AW-Synthetic-Rubber-Electrical...
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by pdog 9y ago
City governments would probably be the best choice to operate these transportation exchanges, where buyers (passengers in these cities) could meet sellers (drivers and taxis in these cities) on a centralized marketplace.
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Taking the Addiction Out of Smoking(nytimes.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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Interesting idea.
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It's not just Amazon. Facebook and Google also want to avoid any criticism that suggests they should be regulated as utilities. The #1 marketplace, #1 social network, and #1 search engine companies all lend themselves to natural monopo
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by pdog 9y ago
If you actually read the latest memo from Howard Marks, he tried to understand Bitcoin but couldn't make sense of it: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos Then he makes the perplexing argumen
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by pdog 9y ago
William Shatner asked for stock instead of cash when he started advertising for Priceline.com twenty years ago. His shares are now worth $4 billion.
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You Don't Need to Force Quit Apps on iOS(daringfireball.net)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments

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