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by reddytowns 11y ago
Buyers of a stock know that a restriction on short selling is most likely temporary. So if they buy now, as soon as the restriction is lifted, they can guess that the stock price will go down. So why not wait until things have returned to n
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by reddytowns 11y ago
She is Reddit's Chief.
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This is why I hope that Proof of Stake currencies currencies like Neucoin take off.
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by reddytowns 11y ago
If you owned stock in Pepsi, and their business looked like it was going to go under, would you drive down to the plant and help them bottle the stuff? The rational response in your scenario would be to sell your BTC and diversify into othe
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by reddytowns 11y ago
Because, see, the 200 day average line crosses the 50 day average line here, and just yesterday we already had two dead cat bounces, so it must mean a market head fake, so it can't possibly fall again today. (Human beings are great at
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by reddytowns 11y ago
Having children is the single most damaging thing to the environment a person will realistically do in their lifetime. Edit: why all the downvotes?
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by reddytowns 11y ago
I don' think it could ever learn a general addition algorithm, because the algorithm they are using doesn't allow for a multi-step process. For example, to add 28 + 37, a simple approach would be: 1. first, look at the one&#x2
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by reddytowns 11y ago
If people quit, then supply goes down. If it goes down, the price would rise until more people willingly take up the job again. A decrease of price isn't going to cause more women to be trafficked. Instead, the opposite would happen be
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by reddytowns 11y ago
>The miners are users, so all users won't agree to anything adverse to that set of miners. The miners aren't trading any goods or services for their bitcoin. If merchants and other major players in the bitcoin ecomony go alon
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by reddytowns 11y ago
>The frontend has code to verify the decision of the miner, and it has no ability to change anything. But, if all the users agree to use frontend code that rejects the decision of the miners that refuse to play along, then the chain the
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by reddytowns 11y ago
It's irrelevant as to how many miners are working on the original chain. Mining could be done on a single laptop by one person for all the protocol cares. Lets say that 99.9% percentage of the miners decided not to go along with a hard
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by reddytowns 11y ago
I don't think the miners have as much say as you think. If the users all get together and hard fork the protocol, either the miners go along with it, or their blocks will be rejected, no matter how much hashing power they have. The onl
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by reddytowns 11y ago
I agree. I found especially ridiculous the part of the article where the author tries to dissect "asshole" into "ass" and "hole" and comes up with litmus tests to differentiate the two.
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by reddytowns 11y ago
How so?
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by reddytowns 11y ago
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
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by reddytowns 11y ago
For me, I think the most important reason for working with lisp and its variants is that it allows you to (and you should) code from the middle. When I first started programming, and for a long while, I'd think top down. What do I got?
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I didn't know either of them that well. One committed suicide after coming back. The other after two years of perpetual travel. I know what you mean. In my personal case, I started travelling because I wasn't satisfied with my lif
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I quit my job to travel the world about 5 years ago. I lucked out in some investments and am now in an early retirement, mostly spend my day working on my own computer projects, surfing, and occasionally going on trips to different places.
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by reddytowns 12y ago
FWIW I hacked up a program over the years that I use to shuffle my music. It works on unix based boxes with perl and mpv available. It does the following: * Keeps track of songs already played, so songs heard recently won't be played a
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I'm an outsider, too, but for different reasons. In my experience, you have to stop trying to fit in, and live for yourself. Forget about attracting a mate, or friends who cares about that stuff. They would be bad acquaintances anyway.
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by reddytowns 12y ago
Ah... danielson, you must learn... do not insult one with more than 500 karma.
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I wonder if this is due to the Bitstamp fiasco. Because of what ultimately happened to mtgox, when the bitstamp exchange came back online again, a lot of people probably wanted out as quickly as possible, fearing it to be insolvent. Since k
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I would have liked this article more if they had left out the word "All" in the title
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by reddytowns 12y ago
The main point is still valid. In an emergency situation, as long as a self driving car has to choose between hitting a ball and a kid chasing after it, or a woman and a shopping cart, or a laid down motorcycle and its rider, and not know w
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by reddytowns 12y ago
I apologize if this is too obvious, but try meetup.com. I met a lot of good friends through it.
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by reddytowns 12y ago
Why would unprofitable mining cause a upward pressure on price? There is a fixed amount of bitcoin distributed per day cumulatively to all miners regardless of their number. I doubt the recent price drop is due to people buying and selling
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by reddytowns 12y ago
Except that someone could just kidnap your daughter and demand bitcoins, regardless if you have them or not. If you don't own them, you could still be compelled to buy them and transfer them to the perpetrator, and the banks can't