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721.
by pdog 13y ago
> We felt it would be its own browser. Why not a browser add-on or extension?
722.
by pdog 13y ago
CPU and GPU mining are pretty much useless at this point. ASIC mining is where it's at.
723.
by pdog 13y ago
P2P network actually isn't a bad description.
724.
by pdog 13y ago
This is just another hit piece designed to denigrate people with technical or engineering backgrounds and establish that they're somehow "missing" some important way of thinking and beneath those with a liberal arts education
725.
by pdog 13y ago
How do you expect to serve 150 million concurrent users on a single server?
726.
by pdog 13y ago
Thanks. I just thought people other than web developers should read it too. It's a great list of thought-provoking questions we should all ask of ourselves.
727.
by pdog 13y ago
Why is this specific to web developers? All ten things are applicable to anyone selling a product.
728.
by pdog 13y ago
A potentially big upside is the preservation of our culture for future generations.
729.
by pdog 13y ago
Isn't Ripple a decentralized system, and weren't there plans to open source it?
730.
by pdog 13y ago
The absolute value of the startup when the founders and investors get involved (literally, founding the startup and investing in it) is often 1-2 orders of magnitude less than the value of the startup when the first employee is hired. So an
731.
Ask HN: What's a better site for financial news and research?
7 points by pdog 13y ago|6 comments
732.
Winklevoss Twins Plan First Fund for Bitcoins(dealbook.nytimes.com)
3 points by pdog 13y ago|0 comments
733.
by pdog 13y ago
Normal distributions have excess kurtosis equal to zero.
734.
by pdog 13y ago
It's about fat tails, which is probably why it doesn't include platykurtic distributions.
735.
by pdog 13y ago
This is a remarkably prescient article that gets a lot right about an alpha product, a company that was only three months old, and the Web itself.
736.
by pdog 13y ago
You can also sell and sell short the ETF, which is a big advantage over holding bitcoins.
737.
by pdog 13y ago
Unless you're a member of the trust fund set or have a full ride scholarship, attending an expensive liberal arts college is not for you . The main people being priced out are the middle class, not the poor or rich.
738.
by pdog 13y ago
The "barbell" strategy (avoiding the middle in favor of a linear combination of the extremes) is just such an effective model for society . And the medium risk space is perceived to be a sucker's game that combines the worst
739.
What do you get when you buy through a third party?(justindunham.net)
1 points by pdog 13y ago|0 comments
740.
by pdog 13y ago
I wonder how much of the drop in crime rates can be attributed to Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn increasingly becoming a haven for the superrich and poorer people being priced out. An "outsize share" of the violence is in East Ne
741.
by pdog 13y ago
Why do you think it's appropriate to post this to a public forum? It's off-topic and completely insensitive -- send him an email next time.
742.
by pdog 13y ago
If imagine if cars were more like software. Your car would get 1,000 miles per gallon but crash every two weeks. shudders
743.
by pdog 13y ago
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with it, but there is the concept that "even the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
744.
by pdog 13y ago
Colleges responded to the availability of easy federal money by raising prices to capture the subsidy (ie. big fat administrator salaries).
745.
by pdog 13y ago
Such as?
746.
by pdog 13y ago
Yeah. I'm reminded of Schopenhauer's On Thinking for Oneself. Reading an email or Twitter forces others' thoughts upon the mind, but when a man stares at a blank wall and thinks for himself, he follows the impulse of his ow
747.
by pdog 13y ago
Why do you think this is OK? Data mining and extraction are clearly a violation of their terms.
748.
by pdog 13y ago
Technically, putting your money in an index fund makes you dependent on future market performance.
749.
by pdog 13y ago
> If Google wanted to do the world a big favor, gain itself some serious PR points, and perhaps increase its supply of potential math-savvy engineers two decades hence, it ought to buy Wolfram Research, continue to fund WR's work,
750.
by pdog 13y ago
Well, there's the "2008 Bailout of Very, Very High-Net-Worth Individuals Who Invested in Tesla Motors Act"... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30digi.html

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