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by this_user 13y ago
Bitcoin is different in that is the purest form of a fiat currency in the sense that it is backed by nothing and thus has no intrinsic value whatsoever. Traditional currencies, on the other hand, are at least fractionally backed by (usually
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That's a good point and there seem to exist different understandings of the term in different countries. I do wonder where this comes from. In Germany Sozialismus is always understood in the marxist sense and it is furthermore insepe
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The only surprising thing is how much faster BTC goes through different market phases than other financial instruments. A blow-off, reversal and sell-off like this would take at least days in equities or commodities while this merely took h
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As a European I find it interesting how Americans have started to completely misusing the term 'socialism' especially over the last couple of years. Even those who don't fit the die-hard right-wing profile seem to have starte
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I don't know about the landing page. Maybe it works better on touch screen devices, but using the wheel on my mouse left many of the different section badly aligned. I had go back and forth several times which I found to be quite annoy
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Not having to download a video/piece of music is exactly the problem that YouTube solved. Going back to this doesn't seem like the right answer to me and will likely cost you most of your audience. Furthermore, moving to torrents
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It's easy to forget and hard to imagine from a 2013 point of view, but South Korea was among the poorest countries in the world only decades earlier.
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I have a Google account but without G+ and a YT account that was linked to the Google account. The solution for getting rid of the repeated popups asking you to turn your YT account into a G+ account seems to be to delete your YT channel. T
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The underwriter's goal is to facilitate a successful IPO. There are obviously different interests at play. The company and its investors would like to say as high a price as possible. The new public investors the shares are being sold
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Your average currency pair moves less than 1% on almost all days. Moves above 1% are rare and days with moves of several percent are extremely rare and occur a couple of times a year at most. BTC, on the other hand, may be worth anything fr
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Uber has repeatedly done specials, e.g. delivering a mariachi band last year. I really don't think any of this is meant as a permanent product, but more as a PR strategy. And in this case they can also claim to do it for a good cause.
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The amusing part about this is that Deutsche Telekom is partly responsible for German Internet traffic taking routes that pass through other countries by refusing to do peering. They instead leverage their large customer base and demand oth
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It very much depends on what the goal is. GNU/Linux is already extremely popular on server, on embedded devices and on smartphones in the form of Android. Now why wouldn't we want it to become a desktop platform with mass appeal?
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The article makes some good points, but I don't think goverment involvement is the single most likely explanation for the facts we are able to observe. In my opinion, it is equally likely that Bitcoin is simply an elaborate Ponzi-type
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Ruby is 18, Python is 22, what's your point? I'd very much like to hear your valid criticism towards Java. From my point of view that language and ecosystem is alive and well and newer iterations of Java EE have been giant leaps f
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I think he was talking about the whole Apple/iOS/iTunes thing which is worse by an order of magnitude than any DRM that has ever existed or will ever exist. So, yes, of course you can advocate for open source from the convenient p
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It's not only that, but look at all the steps they have taken in the last 12 months: 1) Convince Nvidia and AMD to improve their Linux graphic drivers - probably by promising them additional revenue from Steambox sales - to lay the gro
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Except you are not necessarily "building equity". House prices can decline and at the same time you do have to put money into the building in the form of renovations to maintain its current substance. What is even worse is that bu
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Until we see some sales numbers proving beyond a doubt that these devices are a success, I'm not going to believe in them. So far there has been a lot of hype that started with rumours of an iWatch. The media instantly jumped on those
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Nuclear energy is a prime example for her usual MO. The people didn't really like nuclear energy but apart from some small groups of activists there was no real opposition. So, in summer/autumn of 2010 she let her people present p
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I realise that this is a tricky question, but I think that politicians should act in the best interest of the country for the long run and this may necessitate making unpopular decisions in the short term that may even go against the majori
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Germany politics are and have been for the last couple of years in a rather curious state where the opposition appears to have given up on attacking Merkel in any meaningful way. I think there are several factors that play into this. First
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May I remind you of the RAF( ), checkpoints manned by police armed with semi-automatic rifles and the use of dragnets in the late 70's and early 80's? Our hands aren't as clean as we would like to believe. http:/&#x2F
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I just took a look at Jottacloud. Unfortunately, they don't offer a Linux client which is a deal breaker for me.
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This. Netflix would like to add DRM to HTML 5 so they can migrate away from Silverlight. Right now there is no way (without Wine) to use Netflix under Linux. So in practice the FSF is campaigning against a more open web in which the #1 FOSS