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811.
by powera 13y ago
I stopped reading this when I got to "Why do these smart, quantitatively trained engineers, who could help cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov, want to work for a sexting app?" - there was the cover article in Time Magazine not less
812.
by powera 13y ago
So they say "The security of your funds is our #1 priority. Our team goes above and beyond all banking security best practices to create the world's most secure Bitcoin trading platform" but no other details are provided? Is
813.
by powera 13y ago
If 50%+1 of the Bitcoin miners agree, couldn't they just mint 700000 extra bitcoin to make the depositors at MtGox whole? The confidence it inspires would probably be worth more than the impact of the inflation, and with Bitcoin price
814.
by powera 13y ago
A lookup on domaintools.com shows some older information: Domain Name: GOX.COM Registry Domain ID: 816800_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com Update Date: 201
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by powera 13y ago
But it's not completely honest. The FAQ says "Every time you send money to the Ponzi address, you'll get back 1.2x what you put in." But by the nature of these scheme, the last 15% of people won't get their money
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by powera 13y ago
"Every time you send money to the Ponzi address, you'll get back 1.2x what you put in." - honestly, it sounds like a normal Ponzi scheme to me. It's probably targeting people who don't realize that Ponzi schemes by
817.
by powera 13y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." -
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by powera 13y ago
This is quite possibly the worst post to ever hit #1 on Hacker News. Why are you people voting it up? Just because it admits that it's a scam (and "get your money plus 20% back for nothing ALWAYS ENDS UP A SCAM") doesn&#x27
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by powera 13y ago
Based on the article, the more accurate title would be "ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth not interested in spending money to reenable transmitter to it"
820.
by powera 13y ago
... lots of people who were in Congress 30 years ago die, and almost never is it "important news". Just because it hits some popular current buzzwords shouldn't really change this.
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by powera 13y ago
IIRC Google explicitly bans employees from trading in any derivatives of the company stock (other than incentive stock options issued by the company). I'd assume that is standard boilerplate at other companies as well.
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by powera 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar "Four Catholic countries—Spain,[18] Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of Italy—implemented the new calendar on the date specified by the bull, w
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by powera 13y ago
Why do people keep reflexively voting up any story about "Customs does something bad"? There's nothing particularly interesting or hacking-related here, it seems some people just want to promote the view that customs is out
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by powera 13y ago
Not even technically accurate. The article says that only 400k of the 2 million stolen passwords were from FB/GOOG/TWTR.
825.
by powera 13y ago
Is there any statistic showing "people are doing well" that you wouldn't dismiss as a sign of "gentrification"?
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by powera 13y ago
So pg's years of experience getting better than random results is irrelevant and you'll only believe him if he does a long experiment (that would cost him lots of money if it's not just luck) to prove something he already bel
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by powera 13y ago
This question should really be "VicG and Larry: why is G+ more important than your users".
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by powera 13y ago
There are always people who say "Science is still the best way of determining true statements" in response to these articles. But this isn't science. It's pure politics. And politics is probably the worst way of determ
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by powera 13y ago
Terrible article. In addition to multiple broken links and the hyperbole of an apartment building being called a "town", the claim that the units are "all intended for Facebook employees" is misleading. There will proba
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by powera 13y ago
This comment has nothing to do with the article except for "I hate Google" sentiment, and does a pretty lousy job of it. It seems reasonable to assume you don't need to drive 2 miles to answer your phone, and "Matt Butt
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by powera 13y ago
It appears that AWS SES is down right now as well.
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by powera 13y ago
How is a phone supposed to passively collect information about sexual positions? "By asking about sexual positions and female orgasms, for example, the app is collecting data on oft-cited but little-researched possible factors in succe
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by powera 13y ago
If you email me your account information ( powera@quip.com ) I can investigate this.
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Quip - Beautiful Documents on Any Device(quip.com)
13 points by powera 13y ago|7 comments
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by powera 13y ago
Who are these middle-class families that have such a need to manufacture their own jewelry and catheters? If you need a catheter, wouldn't you want to talk to a doctor first?
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by powera 13y ago
From the article: "We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures—in terms of both the number we receive and th
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by powera 13y ago
That's not quite what it means. That's the minimum salary to be an "exempt" software developer, which means that if you are paid less than that you have to get paid overtime.
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State of The Obvious Corporation: 2013(medium.com)
1 points by powera 14y ago|0 comments
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by powera 14y ago
I'm not sure this is interesting. Unless I'm missing something, the question is "find what way of breaking the compartmentalization of the JVM we haven't forbidden in these English-language rules".
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by powera 14y ago
What a terrible idea. If people don't want to stay for even a year, they don't need equity in a startup. That's what salary is for. And getting 1/4000th of the first year's equity grant after the first month won't motivate anybody who u

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