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by simbolit 13y ago
The assumption is stupid. Sorry to say that, but it is. If it is throwaway money, put it in bitcoin. It definitely has the greatest potential to double in reasonable time. It also has a fair chance of completely crashing, but, hey, it'
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by simbolit 13y ago
It seems like a rather stupid, rather misogynist parody. It seems neither particularly funny, nor is there any insight from this juxtaposition of (mostly post-structuralist) positions and programming logic. And stuff like calling the "
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by simbolit 13y ago
is it just me, or is this article just a (possibly unpaid) advertisement for target and pinterest?
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by simbolit 13y ago
from the article: "Mobile-friendly doesn’t have to mean desktop-unfriendly." moral of the story: don't just do shit because it is trendy and cool-looking, but do your homework and things will be fine.
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by simbolit 13y ago
one of the incentives for refraining from a 51% attack is the exchange rate of bitcoin itself. such an attack being carried out and publicised would very likely deal a major blow to the currency exchange rate. as these pools make money from
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by simbolit 13y ago
do you really think that in the hypothetical situation of a major bitcoin crash litecoin will still stand? i think this highly unlikely. imho all the altcoins derive their value from the faith of people in bitcoin and by association in cryp
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by simbolit 13y ago
my own use case is 30-45mins on the laptop each evening, smartphone during short breaks throughout the day.
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by simbolit 13y ago
what could the possible benefit of a convex screen be? i can see some (admittedly very limited) utility in a concave screen featured inlast months samsung and lg phones. but convex? *headscratch
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by simbolit 13y ago
for the non-Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_retirement_account
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by simbolit 13y ago
Yes, i remember that in 99 Linux was all the Linux was all the rage and doing something with Linux would shoot VC dollars toward you startup.
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by simbolit 13y ago
really? i regularly type 30+ character passphrases with <5% error rate. i'd say i mistype my password once a month or so.
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by simbolit 13y ago
this is one of those cases where a parody would inevitably fail. the reality is its own parody, and perfectly so.
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by simbolit 13y ago
please do not confuse correlation and causation. i see the correlation, obviously, but i do not see the causation. in fact causation could be the other way around. those who behave well are more likely to sign with their real name.
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by simbolit 13y ago
in 'emerging markets' like germany more and more people are getting PAYG sim cards due to the prices being much much cheaper. so much cheaper in fact, that it often makes economic sense to buy a phone unlocked and pair it with PAY
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by simbolit 13y ago
However, the deep web (non indexable content) is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface web. The source I found [0] is from 2001 (sry!) and talks of 400-550 times the surface web. [0] http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c
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by simbolit 13y ago
I think what you are doing is creating a mnemonic for a long pass phrase, which is a good thing. A longer password is, ceteris paribus, a better password. The only problem is remembering it. If you can memorise code better than phrases, thi
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by simbolit 13y ago
Yes, it was. But i have a degree in linguistics, so i am probably more interested in this than the general population. :-)
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by simbolit 13y ago
on the one hand i am very interested, and want to know the same thing. even more so the "Arby's" quasi-sponsorship on the daily show, which is universally negative about the brand. on the other hand, i like the mythical idea
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by simbolit 13y ago
i did not even read it as a pronoun. i just assumed the thread OP was called 'zir', that is until i read your post.
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by simbolit 13y ago
upvote! you had me for a second. i thought "mhhmm.. really? citibank? wow! innovative!" but when i reached the question mark my disbelief became stronger than my gullibility :-)
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by simbolit 13y ago
i am also interested in what they use?
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by simbolit 13y ago
i was actually thinking that the "of" was superfluous. since reading [0] on hn (discussion: [1]) i am more and more seeing the use of "because" without preposition. so i was expecting "Q. Why can't it be given
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by simbolit 13y ago
Well this one does. But (to keep within your metaphor) nearly all of them are numbers from either the past or after you will die. And the chances of getting a useful one are smaller than actually playing the lottery.
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by simbolit 13y ago
10^59 exabytes is more than 10^53 times as much storage as there ever has been manufactured.
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by simbolit 13y ago
Sometimes I don't get how articles move to hn front page...
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by simbolit 13y ago
Why is it important who Satoshi is?
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by simbolit 13y ago
so basically there is no database, this is just a list of all possible combinations generated on the fly. not that funny.
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by simbolit 13y ago
I might have read too quickly but from what I get the argument boils down too: too much volatility is bad, so it won't be used as money, so it isn't money. I don't think that is a good argument. There are many examples were c
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by simbolit 13y ago
about a year ago i wrote a paper on bitcoin for a university course entitled "what is money?". my basic thesis regarding the future of btc is the following: as bitcoin takes over the regulation of the money supply, nation states a
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by simbolit 13y ago
who created the scoring metric and what is the basis for that? when i go to [0] and change the default 3 drinks a week to 0 drinks a week my score drops from 100 to 90, that is a full 10%. Why? Acetaldehyde and acetic acid, both metabolites

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