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by presty 12y ago
> Those things are a means to an end, the company doesn't exist to hold people's money Yet. Like the OP said, "Next up they'll probably offer interest and loans/mortgages". Who knows what else they'll d
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by presty 12y ago
no one claimed that Coinbase came up with btc wallets. but usd wallets are definitely something novel (bitstamp also allows you to hold usd, but not for the use cases that coinbase is enabling)
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by presty 12y ago
> Its primary purpose is not to hold other people's bitcoins Wrong. There's a reason they call one of their services a "wallet" - because they hold other people's bitcoins. And guess what, they now have a USD wal
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by presty 12y ago
and ideally with links to the exact lines of code (chromium) that do each thing ;)
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by presty 12y ago
are you us based? google voice?
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by presty 12y ago
Any word on where Estonia plans to go with all this in terms of citizenship/visa, taxation and so on?
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by presty 12y ago
I thought they had exaggerated a little on the last episode, but reading the stuff Hughes and Vidra said made me cringe...
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by presty 12y ago
related: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/microsoft-appears-to-pre-an... btw, 200M? Wow..
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by presty 12y ago
> For most of history success meant control of scarce resources. (...) > That is changing. Increasingly the games that matter are not zero-sum. Increasingly you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by having ne
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by presty 12y ago
I'm not the OP, but have any of the accusations of "meanness" against Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Kalanick, Bezos, even Larry/Sergey, etc ever been denied? (And I don't necessarily mean by themselves, but say friends or c
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by presty 12y ago
1,609,954,648 of those shares are labelled "indirect" - does that mean that they don't actually belong to him and he merely has controlling rights? iirc the walton family is quite big and his name is "Samuel Robson Walto
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by presty 12y ago
> What are the other alternatives to H1B to immigrate to America? Realistic alternatives for any common person? None. You could apply to the DV lottery if you're born/from an eligible country but if you're from an ineligib
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by presty 12y ago
not if you're from one of those popular countries (China, India, Brazil, etc) that are ineligible
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by presty 12y ago
any yahoo insider wants to share with us how all these acquihires are working out?
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by presty 12y ago
Don't forget that Thiel is also an investor in Uber through Crunchfund.
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by presty 12y ago
This is pretty cool. Java (the platform) is finally getting a much needed competitor and alternative. And a VM that was built from scratch to support multiple languages. The next decade will be interesting.
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by presty 12y ago
I wonder how much Clojure is being used at Twitter, given that they acquired Backtype and then open sourced Storm (as detailed by Nathan Marz)
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BITalino’s Next-Gen Sensors Squeeze the Costs of Building Connected Health Apps(techcrunch.com)
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by presty 12y ago
fiy reagent is not "unmaintained" anymore there's a reorg going on, a github org has been created and development is restarting previously, dev was happening at whoops' fork
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by presty 12y ago
> Andreessen has acquired more grown-up tastes, too. The chubby 6-foot, 4-inch lad who dressed in shorts, T-shirts, and sandals in 1994 has shed about 30 pounds and now fancies Ermenegildo Zegna suits and Robert Talbot shirts. Greasy ham
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by presty 12y ago
(2013) and repost funnily enough, by the same OP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808346
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by presty 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451703
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by presty 12y ago
> The problem here is that nobody wants Bolívars how do you pay your taxes?
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by presty 12y ago
Would using BTC for remittances have any advantage to the way people currently do it? How is it usually done now? Through USD? Is holding USD in Venezuela more valuable than BTC?
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by presty 12y ago
These layoffs remind me of when Yahoo did the same with Yahoo Research. You know what happened next... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-google-hiring-re...
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by presty 12y ago
+1 for digg (even though it has some bugs here and there, but nothing major) it has web, ios and android clients!
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by presty 12y ago
I wonder how much of this is caused by OkCupid growing in Asia. The study does not seem to be specific to the US...
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by presty 12y ago
It isn't really fair to compare SF with Nantes
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by presty 12y ago
*Clojure
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by presty 12y ago
Hey Notch, why Dart?

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