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by scyclow 8y ago
It is real! A few friends and co-workers bought some, and I traded 500 fastcash to my roommate for a bagel. Two internet strangers also bought a little bit. I view it more as a donation-based project than an investment, so if you feel like
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by scyclow 8y ago
Thanks! This one's my pride and joy
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by scyclow 8y ago
Oh man, I love stuff like this. It's too bad that the web has been taken over by bootstrap, WordPress, and squarspace. But you can do a lot with raw html, css, and JavaScript! And as a bonus, it ends up looking really unique. It's
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by scyclow 8y ago
Hmm, looks like the data I cited was a bit dated. Amtrak mentions 94% for their 2016 fiscal year [1], which isn't bad. [1] https://media.amtrak.com/2016/11/amtrak-delivers-strong-fy-2...
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by scyclow 8y ago
On the first night of my last trip I was really bummed out that they didn't sit me next to the group of Amish folks. Instead I had to eat dinner with a family from New Jersey :P
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by scyclow 8y ago
Net loss. So, if a ticket costs $10, and it costs the bus an average $12 per passenger, they'd have a $2 loss per passenger.
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by scyclow 8y ago
I don't know the numbers, but I'd be shocked if air and bus lost as much money per trip as trains. Part of what makes the train appealing for the longer rides is that if you're taking coach half of the car is empty and you kn
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by scyclow 8y ago
Technically yes, but if I had to take a bus for 20+ hours I'd want to shoot myself.
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by scyclow 8y ago
That's a fair point. As uneconomical as it is for Amtrak, there really isn't much in the way of long-distance transportation options for people in some of these small towns.
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by scyclow 8y ago
I took the Empire Builder a couple weeks ago, and the Lakeshore Limited + California Zephyr last year. As much as I enjoyed the trips, I have to admit that they longer lines are incredibly impractical. Amtrak is operating at a huge loss per
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Solidity for Fun and Profit: A no-nonsense smart contract tutorial(fastcashmoneyplus.biz)
2 points by scyclow 9y ago|0 comments
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by scyclow 9y ago
why NOT?
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by scyclow 9y ago
I talked to the board, and they say that we're not taking merger requests at the moment, but would be open to a licensing agreement :P
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by scyclow 9y ago
I've only made about $5.00 on it so far (certainly not enough to retire on), but my latest endeavor is looking quite promising: http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
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by scyclow 9y ago
Whitepaper: http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz/79f417c21b848aac16507c47f92abfb...
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Show HN: FastCashMoneyPlus.biz: The next generation of cryptocurrency(fastcashmoneyplus.biz)
4 points by scyclow 9y ago|2 comments
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by scyclow 9y ago
It seems like a lot of these problems are due specifically to using proof of work. Do any of these problems go away with other consensus algorithms? I would at least expect that miners wouldn't have as much incentive to arbitrarily cau
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The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl’s Apples(atlasobscura.com)
4 points by scyclow 9y ago|0 comments
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by scyclow 9y ago
Does anyone have any good resources on writing front-end integration tests? I've had nothing but terrible experiences with selenium. And I recently tried Nightmare (which is Electron-based), but it wasn't much better.
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by scyclow 9y ago
Wow, these are great. Especially Ted's Caving Page. It's too bad these sorts of websites are mostly gone...
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The Bitcoin Cash Fork Proves That Markets Aren't Rational(steviep.xyz)
3 points by scyclow 9y ago|1 comments
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by scyclow 9y ago
The fact that their website looks like garbage on mobile doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence in me.
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by scyclow 9y ago
The two tabs on your website overlap on my 15" screen. I think you might need to do .left { left: 100px } instead of .left { right: 740px }
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by scyclow 9y ago
Yeah, that's what they told us at the time, but 1) How much can they really to teach you to learn in an 18 week period? I think it helped give me enough learning momentum to grab that first job and keep learning there, but I don't
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by scyclow 9y ago
Disclaimer: My post-bootcamp experience (Chicago 2014) was probably very different from what I'm seeing today (New York 2017). Every meetup I go to seems flooded with bootcamp grads, and it appears the market is oversaturated with boot
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by scyclow 9y ago
Do you charge for transactions? Is there a minimum amount for an account? Do you make money through standard banking methods?
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by scyclow 10y ago
Thanks! I'm using a shitty markov chain generator with real fake and real real news for training data, and using that for most of the articles. For the comments, I either wrote them or took them from real fake news websites.
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by scyclow 10y ago
That was an intentional joke, but thanks for the heads up!
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Show HN: FakeBullshit.news – A fake fake news website(fakebullshit.news)
18 points by scyclow 10y ago|7 comments
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Why Trump is the ultimate postmodern presidential candidate(qz.com)
2 points by scyclow 10y ago|0 comments

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