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by pyalot2 13y ago
Warren Buffet said the same thing about Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. On the whole, he might be right about 50% of the time there, so, about as good as tossing a coin.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Facebooks data collection is sleazy at best. You may claim that users give them the data "willingly", but the fact is that facebook collects users data even before their users have an account there. Management of the settings arou
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Timbl's words are meaningless when he speaks on the web as he's himself bending over backwards to appease corporate interests, control, restrictions and rubberstamped DRM.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Timbl is planning on using DRM to enforce it, of course.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That guy has lost all credibility calling for anything on the web by rubberstamping DRM into it.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
New Yorkers coverage is always kinda meh. Like, why quote random reddit users? They could've quoted Gavin, Eric, Andreas etc. Also, that's a lot of words in that article to say the bitcoin subreddit went apeshit over Newsweek.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I know right. Edit: jep, that's me they're quoting.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Modern airliners are also flown by entire teams of ground crews, among them Rolls Royce support engineers that monitor an aircrafts engines in realtime every second of operation trough its entire lifespan trough the hundreds of sensors embe
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Elitist much? So first you go on like: I think a line needs to be drawn in the sand so that we know who is the real deal. There is a stark contrast between being a writer and being a professional author. Calling everyone authors who
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Well, 100% isn't reachable. But a high confidence is reachable. The thing though is, your PM isn't asking you for 100% confidence. He's asking you to make every single 2 hour tasks into a weeklong research and engineering pro
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by pyalot2 13y ago
1) OP is an asshole 2) I accept bitcoin as payment for web development freelance services (specifically WebGL/3D development). I do it because, I'm not troubled by the exchange risk, and because the only way that people can pay ot
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Liquidity is what makes markets fluctuate less generally. Part of bitcoins high volatility is directly attributable to the dearth of exchanges. The dearth of exchanges is directly attributable to regulations that're difficult to comply
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The regulation so that Square, Paypal, Dwolla and every other bank can participate in Bitcoin EXISTS. KYC, AML, etc. exist. The SEC exists. MSB and Banking licenses exist. SEC regulation on exchanges exists. These regulations are expensive
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Fundamentally flawed understanding of bitcoin, economics, cryptography, pseudonymity and pretty much everything else. It's funny how people who projected their ideals into something, are now becoming disillusioned by the lack of someth
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Sure for simple things, of which there are many, ORMs can work sufficiently up to a point. But, the problem is that, you rarely get to go to your boss and say, well, this thing we've been using to do, you know, our data stuff, it'
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I've been there with SQLAlchemy in late 2006, and I vowed never to return. Let me state this, SQLAlchemys pool/engine/SQL-Api is great, and it's got nothing whatsoever todo with ORM. But SQLAlchemy does contain an ORM, a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Best of luck with that stunt.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I didn't lose any on Gox, I've been warning people off gox since 2011, and more often since late 2012. Everybody who didn't have his head stuck in the sand saw this one coming from a lightyear away. But that doesn't mean
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Charlie, if you know everything better, why don't you just go out and do it? Nobody is preventing you from coming up with awesome-inflationary-proof-of-stake-charlie-coin. NOBODY. The source to the variety of coins (there's more t
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Point stands that are people who, for whatever reason, had assets on Gox. And they got hurt real bad. Although people have been trying to warn everybody off Gox FOR THE LAST FUCKING 3 YEARS, they still got there. And insulting people who ju
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Doesn't Charlie understand that real people got hurt here? I find it incredibly insensitive to post something like that. Yes people should not have kept their stuff on Gox. People have been warning from Gox since 2011 (where has Charli
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Has some strange black flickering (screenie http://i.imgur.com/dUOSudN.png ). I'm a webgl developer and WebGL works perfectly fine otherwise (no crappy driver, no crappy GPU etc.) Browsers: Firefox 26/27 and Chrome
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Art? Fun? That kind of thing?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Has some strange black flickering (screenie http://i.imgur.com/dUOSudN.png ). I'm a webgl developer and WebGL works perfectly fine otherwise (no crappy driver, no crappy GPU etc.) Browsers: Firefox 26 and Chrome 32.0.17
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Have you looked at all these sites that load really slow (well above 5000ms), and that get instantly wiped out if they so much as make HN frontpage? Did you know that most of those are hosted on one or another garden variety of cloud hostin
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Consider the people who haven't been screwed yet (in the future). If Gox manages to survive this and expand their customer base, it's wash, rhinse and repeat. Nobody wants that.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Bravo, spot on headline. Wired, are you reading this, maybe take an example?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
There's something which tells me it won't work, and I can't prove it yet. But I think it's provable with a relatively straightforward simulation.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you can read caniuse's table, you'll see that WebGL's actually supported on mobiles. You can get a more quantitative view from http://webglstats.com/ if you'd like.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's not legitimate criticism, because ARB_robustness exists. It's pure FUD.

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