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Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal(wired.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> FODL is selling your Bitcoin for a stablecoin such as USDT (Tether) or TUSD USDT? I don't think that is a good advice. Maybe a better one will be to sell BTC in exchange for a HODL coin instead?
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Wow, the level of paranoia he's going into is impressive. Exactly. It is surprising people pointing out - "Well, so many shorts etc so it's plausible". This kind of reasoning misses the bigger point - we need our le
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by thisisit 8y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329396 Additionally, was there a need to submit the same thing twice? Article here and the paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17342635
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Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype [pdf](bis.org)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Please read in full before quoting an article. The very first footnote is: > The Securities and Exchange Commission disclaims responsibility for any private publication or statement of any SEC employee or Commissioner. This speech expres
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by thisisit 8y ago
I can understand your situation because I was in your shoes once. I joined a place as an intern and stayed there for 6 years. Once I tried getting another offer, I realized I was a bad SWE by other company's standard. And I failed inte
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Seems like a Silly Valley opportunity. But what do I know. I miss the old internet. Don't get me wrong but isn't this the whole problem? Previously forums were run for fun. People were not worried about pumping out ads to mak
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by thisisit 8y ago
I think couple of things need to be repeated from earlier threads. This discussion happened during a Yahoo conference. So, its more like a person's opinion. Unless we get a press release from SEC it is a difficult statement to make whe
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by thisisit 8y ago
I haven't read the article so this is more off the cuff. I read Emotional Intelligence by Goleman couple of months ago. And one of the bigger takeaways for me was that "meditation" or calmness was not an answer for everything
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187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix(wired.com)
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On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware(daringfireball.net)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Pray tell - who are these users and how are they different from miners? And how do these users vote?
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by thisisit 8y ago
One of the issues with this semi-official statement has been that everyone in the media is reporting it as SEC's official position. Example [1] Even though the print on SEC.gov[2] clearly states: This speech expresses the author’s vie
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by thisisit 8y ago
That is not how attribution works. If tomorrow Sundar Pichai says he loves crypto currency it doesn't mean Google is going to start competing with Bitmain. News will still say - Google's Sundar Pichai says etc. But if it happens i
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by thisisit 8y ago
Can we please change the title to "SEC Director of Corporation Finance thinks Ethereum is not a security" or something along those lines? Because it is not SEC's view that Ethereum is not a security but someone working there.
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Instagram Influencers Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy(theatlantic.com)
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Japan Aimed to Be a Bitcoin Capital. Then It Got Hacked(longhash.com)
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Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?(hbr.org)
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by thisisit 8y ago
What you are quoting about banks and bubbles is all in hindsight. At that time everyone and their grandmother thought real estate could only go up. So, if you have data to backup the fact that bitcoin is not in a bubble, please show that. U
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by thisisit 8y ago
> I’ve never traded options. Then please stay away from multi leg options stuff because it gets even more complicated.
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by thisisit 8y ago
> The math regarding Bitcoin’s price increase is actually pretty sound, and I encourage anyone who disagrees to read this article: https://medium.com/the-crypto-times/why-is-everyone-investin... . The article doesn&
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by thisisit 8y ago
It is insane. And it is entirely fueled by access to cheap money. Rates for the past decade has been near 1% and only recently started climbing but still below 2%. I can't speak for Apple et al but for some companies it has been a tool
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by thisisit 8y ago
Because people rely on reviews and ratings to buy stuff? And stricter guidelines will mean lot of real reviews will be deleted along with fake ones? In which case some of the genuine items will be deprioritized because they have less review
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by thisisit 8y ago
> as you can see with e.g. Amazon reviews and fake news. If Amazon wants to implement a stricter review check you can rest assured that it will be like YouTube demonitization all over again. So companies err on the safer side and take ac
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by thisisit 8y ago
There has been sudden glut of articles about scooter startups here on HN and elsewhere. And I am scratching my head trying to understand what exactly is the end game plan here? If self driving cars and Uber etc succeed then all commuting wi
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by thisisit 8y ago
> How does that translate to blockchain tech not being useful? By proving that without a central authority (centralization) verifying everything going into the blockchain, it is actually useless? I have seen tons of threads where people
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by thisisit 8y ago
This is just a list of current ideas (mostly) and implementations using blockchain. Calling it a list of "real world use case" is far fetched. We have yet to see whether it actually works.
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The New York City Subway Is Beyond Repair(theatlantic.com)
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Direct-to-consumer brands sour on Facebook ads(digiday.com)
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