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by teebs 13y ago
Another bottleneck is that peers cannot be accessed directly through IP addresses and ports. Instead, some broker (the tracker) must send the connection offer from one peer to the other, and then send the response from the second peer to th
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by teebs 13y ago
I don't work there, but I think it is still around. When I was considering whether to accept an offer there, everyone I asked said they had 20% time, although people used it different ways, and some people just did normal work in their
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by teebs 14y ago
Bitcoin could be stable. I think it will have a hard time being stable because of the deflationary pressures, but it could theoretically be a stable currency someday when there's a significant economy of people using Bitcoins.
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by teebs 14y ago
What I haven't seen anyone say these past two months of growth is that the value of Bitcoins must necessarily increase before it becomes a real currency. In order for people to use and exchange Bitcoins, they must buy them. This will increa
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by teebs 14y ago
What do you mean "higher quality"? Almost everything everyone buys is something they don't need. I would guess that almost everyone using Hacker News produces things people don't need. No one needs Google or Amazon or whatever your favorite
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by teebs 14y ago
This is part of the issue. The other part is that no one has any incentive to spend money, which can cause a recession. You can either 100 units of something today, or buy 110 units of it tomorrow. This gives you a very strong incentive to
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by teebs 14y ago
I think the relationship between PBR and hipsters is not that hipsters like PBR, but rather that dive bars sell PBR, and hipsters like dive bars (because they're cheap, "real," and not mainstream). As someone from Portland, OR that went to
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by teebs 14y ago
I think Google search is close to a monopoly, and so was Google Reader. Search is pretty much synonymous with Google. Apparently Google has 67% market share, but I'd guess that most people not using Google just use Bing or Yahoo! because th
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by teebs 14y ago
His argument is not that it costs more to run Google Reader than there is benefit, so we need the government to run it. His argument is that the benefit to society of Google Reader is greater than the cost to society of Google Reader. Outsi
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by teebs 14y ago
Do we know why the block was only accepted by 0.8 clients? Were 0.8 clients wrong in accepting it, or were 0.7 clients wrong in rejecting it?
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by teebs 14y ago
Having gone through a handful of whiteboard-style interviews recently, I found that the opposite is true. If you can't remember the interface for hash tables in Java, for example, they usually let you make one up that you think makes sense.
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by teebs 14y ago
Although I think that sharing quotes is not bad, and few people share quotes to show that they're better than someone else, I think there is one basic message worth remembering from this article. If I may quote it: "This epidemic, if you al
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by teebs 14y ago
That makes sense for weed, but they probably have a larger supply chain if they're dealing on a day to day basis. Also, the post mentions "flipping" LSD - they buy it for a lower price and sell it for a higher price. Someone has to sell it
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by teebs 14y ago
It's fascinating that these kids are the opposite of the usual drug dealer stereotype. Based on my limited knowledge, drugs (in particular marijuana) trace back to either small individual growers, medical marijuana patients, or a gang or ca
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by teebs 14y ago
This isn't a complete, up-to-date answer, but Nicolas Christin estimated in August 2012 that 1.2 million USD worth of transactions are made every month. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7139v2.pdf I imagine that number has grown, but odds are th
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by teebs 14y ago
Just based on the Wikipedia article, I don't think you're right that fiat implies manipulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency So, based on that definition, it is true that Bitcoin is not a fiat currency because it is not give
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by teebs 14y ago
In fact, they have a good incentive not to do sinister things. If they do, and other cryptographers find out, they will lose a lot of standing in the academic community.
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by teebs 14y ago
Oregon is similar in that voters can specify things for the state to spend money on. However, I think the root of it is that California is a lot (more than 10x) bigger than Oregon. Any independent group that wants some money earmarked gets
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by teebs 14y ago
I actually got used to it fairly quickly. After a day or two I instinctively used reverse (or "natural") scrolling, and I can switch back pretty easily when I'm using other people's computers. It does seem like almost no one else switched t
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by teebs 14y ago
I enjoyed this article and I agree with most of the prediction on this timescale. I'm surprised, though, that he didn't mention one issue in particular: the continued development of human-computer interaction and its impact on the world's s
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Show HN: Buy Back Your Vote - track corporations' political contributions(buybackyourvote.com)
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by teebs 14y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. W
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by teebs 14y ago
I was under the impression that games could run at 2880x1800 natively, but this only shows a few games. Can anyone confirm whether other games are supported? The only game I've played so far on my new rMBP was Civ V, which supports Retina i
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by teebs 14y ago
Even Bloomberg is almost a serial entrepreneur. Effective, memorable politicians must be to some extent entrepreneurial--you have to believe in your own ability to create change and to unify people behind your cause.
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by teebs 14y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in--software for civic engagement. A few friends and I are working on an app and website that lists corporations' political contributions. The mobile feature that makes it interesting is that