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by pemulis 15y ago
Just to provide a point of reference, one Bitcoin was worth less than $4 only twelve hours ago. Although this is great for everyone who owns Bitcoins (disclaimer: self included), you have to wonder how damaging this sort of sudden deflation
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Bitcoin Surges Past $5 Mark(mtgox.com)
6 points by pemulis 15y ago|7 comments
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by pemulis 15y ago
I'm on a David Foster Wallace kick right now: Working through The Pale King, his collected essays and his short stories. Already read Infinite Jest. It's hard to say what qualifies as "essential reading" when it's impossible for a human bei
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by pemulis 15y ago
My advice would be to focus really hard on a single area in the market. Google (or the Asian companies you seem to be really talking about, like Renren and Sina) can copy your user interface and quote-unquote "idea", but their size create
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by pemulis 15y ago
So, bitcoinex sold a bunch of Bitcoin futures and got burned when the exchange rate shot up? Is that basically his beef here? I've been following the story in the Bitcoin forums and the #bitcoin-otc channel for a few hours, but it's not tot
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by pemulis 15y ago
Yeah, that's true. Although I think it's more likely that Lamo would falsify/misrepresent the chat logs because of his sketchy political views or because he lives off of media attention. His public defense of his actions seems too enthusias
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by pemulis 15y ago
He also (allegedly) leaked the Iraq and Afghanistan war documents, including the Collateral Murder video. So, assuming he is a Wikileaks source, he had access to a wide range of DoD files in addition to State Department files. The thing is,
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by pemulis 16y ago
Listen, you're still missing the central issue here. "It's" and "its" do not mean the same thing. Not even close. It's not like the distinction between "less" and "fewer" noted in the Stephen Fry video, where there's some sort of reasonable
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by pemulis 16y ago
Hey Oscar, thanks for replying. I'd like to address your third point right off the bat, since it's the most important one: I didn't read your blog post. I stopped reading it after you spelled "itself" as "it's self". And, just like you said
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by pemulis 16y ago
That's the problem with standardized education. Critical thinking and creative thinking are stifled, because it's much, much easier to assign grades when every test and project is based on a simple set of criteria. The students either fulfi
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by pemulis 16y ago
I'm not so sure... When a blog post has basic grammatical/spelling errors, it means that the writer didn't bother to do any significant copy-editing. If the author can't take the time to copy-edit their post, why should we take the time to
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by pemulis 16y ago
At first, I thought he was trying to make a joke. "The phrase it's self is flawed." In bold! The needle just snapped off of the irony meter.
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by pemulis 16y ago
I was in a similar position three months ago. I had an idea for a website that I was incredibly excited about, but no programming experience. (And no business experience, either! My major is creative writing.) At first I did the natural thi
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by pemulis 16y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Adversaries are limited by their budget. When it comes to security, the you should assume that any security protocol can be beaten by a sophisticated and well-funded adversary. There are too many points of fa