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by rrggrr 9y ago
Many investment opportunities are closed off to willing participants by government regulation, investment minimums, transaction costs and other factors. Looking at most (not all) of the non-currency alt coins, there is clearly demand for ch
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The question that needs to be asked is this... were Intel subject to the same products liability laws as auto manufacturers or drug makers, would it make Meldown, Spectre and the ME vulnerabilities less likely? We know from other industries
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Great, another messaging app. My phone and desktop are overrun by them.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
If we don't start seeing real world DAP adoption and growth in legit crypto-payments soon - this all comes crashing down. My gut tells me the market will wait 4-8 months at best.
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Slack's UI makes me insane. As a snap, or otherwise the lack of customizability, lack of minimalism and inability to size the UI to my liking makes me hate using it. I'm stuck with it and it feels like chat prison.
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by rrggrr 9y ago
I'm very happy with my Purism Libre 13. PureOS I don't care for, but Ubuntu Budgie runs like a dream and the hardware quality is great.
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A wealthy defendant wouldn't find themselves in this predicament because expert testimony would've been found to testify the defendant was insane. A plea deal would have been struck so the prosecution could avoid the expense of a
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by rrggrr 9y ago
I see the Zapier integration and I'm wondering why I would use noticeable as opposed to managing the timeline in Google Sheets and using Zapier to chain actions to other sites?
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by rrggrr 9y ago
I've not used MoneyGram in many years, but as I recall the friction is account set-up, authentication and funding the transation --> authentication and account set-up to receive funds. I don't think Ripple removes those choke p
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RE: Fees Should be sliding scale. Our average price point is about $30,000 and what you built could work for us, but at 18% we'll just build it internally. RE: SquareBit Site Not clear what this product does. Screenshots off UI should
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by rrggrr 9y ago
"The breach of the DHS OIG Case Files included individuals associated with DHS OIG investigations. Family members and close associates were impacted by this privacy incident only if they were involved in a DHS OIG investigation."
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> Anyone with such a large stake can cash out, and then use their former large stake to fabricate an alternative chain in which they did not cash out, forking the blockchain at the block just before they cashed out. A trade this large is
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source?
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Disagree. Most Chinese I know are unhappy with Chinese domestic policy. They are largely unaware of Chinese foreign policy. Its not doublethink... there is a real imbalance of available information.
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Except that it exceptionally difficult to start a company in China for foreign firms; and that difficulty - spanning decades - has provided China advantages it used for purposes well beyond leaving developing nation status. If you thought A
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by rrggrr 9y ago
This. Its with great interest I read about 30,000 Chinese troops entering Syria to aid the Assad regime. 30,000 troops projected 6,900km is power projection on par with anything the US or Russia can accomplish.
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The complaints are a dead end. - The global supply chain is inexorably tied to Chinese raw materials (eg. rare earths) and manufacturing. - US and European employers are dependent on Chinese inputs for all manner of domestic jobs. - Financi
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In enterprise software, at least the companies I know, they will underbid and return to the well many times for increases. They will blame this on poorly scoped requirements, for which they were not responsible. They will be right, and they
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My flow adapted for this question: 1. Why do you need the estimate? Is it to get budget approval, or because you're trying to meet an approved budget? If they don't have budget approval then I'm going to charge them somethi
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by rrggrr 9y ago
Nice overview, but more importantly, what will Troy say when members ask him for solutions. Notably absent are details on whom to hold accountable, how to hold them accountable, and what penalties should be in-place.
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This BTC indictment I found elsewhere. I'm not the author, but it spoke to me. ----------- Two friends, Bob and Satosh are sitting around after an evening of consuming copious amounts of some especially wicked dank. Bob says to Satosh
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Extend existing product liability/tort legislation to data privacy. Product safety in the US is the world standard precisely because plaintiff attorneys extracted enough cash from manufacturers that shareholders, banks, investors, boar
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by rrggrr 9y ago
I'm not sure this article is accurate. I started here: https://mises.org/blog/california-illinois-and-new-york-keep... >This is why places with highly progressive income taxes – >such as New York and Califor
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What is this doing on HN you may ask? I'm not the OP, but the Leviathan was a study on power and trade-offs. Hobbes would have been aghast at the largely unchecked power Facebook, Google, etc. hold. The absence of any social contract,
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The cost to own and manage is still greater, but it for terms longer than one year it will likely raise costs to lessees, and will certainly impact their balance sheets.
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This promises to be a nightmare for small business. By way of a few examples, a company will need to evaluate whether its right to use tangible personal property is actually its own property subject to personal property tax, sales tax and u
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Keybase.io has this problem solved in a way creditors, etc. could make good use of. Let the proofs be user/use driven.
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I know its free. This is begging, not ranting. For those of us who code/automate for our business and who are not data/ml scientists, can we PLEASE have real world examples and an abstraction layer or two so we can start using the
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If passed, and for a brief period of time, Trump's dollar repatriation tax scheme brings home some of the +2 trillion dollars sequestered abroad - including some of the billions Apple has parked offshore. http://www.business
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This is why nuclear non-proliferation is important. Its difficult enough for a super power to safely store and control its WMD. Each new nuclear state magnifies the risks, and all the more so because they lack the after action experience th

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