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by tmh88j 9y ago
>Butterfly Labs, HashFast, and CoinTerra were all US-based. Then you had KnCMiner in Sweden, Spondoolies in Israel, etc. None of them produced anything. CoinTerra was the only that didn't close as a result of charges related to frau
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by tmh88j 9y ago
I responded to the question what was asked. >Just a hunch: No-one in the industry with the means to do anything about it thinks the trend is sustainable enough to invest in a 6mo-1yr setup followed by another year before profit?
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>It sounds like he and many others are investing in BTC itself, not the Bitcoin ecosystem. If you can get a 10x return per year just by hodling, why bother to develop anything? I completely agree as of 2018, but Bitcoin has been around f
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>How does miner compensation work in the cryptocurrency-free environment, and if there are no miners, what are the guarantees that some central entity did not rewind and fork the blockchain? You can establish whatever hypothetical situat
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by tmh88j 9y ago
Peter Thiel is throwing his weight into Bitcoin. Surely there are more people out there like him, albeit less vocal about BTC/cryptocurrency.
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>V1 of a technology as disruptive as this doesn't necessarily survive in the end. Version 2 or Version 3 is where it gets really interesting. The technology that's here to stay is blockchain, the currencies associated with them
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by tmh88j 9y ago
It's a Bloomberg article, I think they wanted to keep it simple on the tech side and focus on the money. Besides, electrical costs are essentially a predictor of difficulty. The higher the electrical costs the fewer miners there will b
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>So yeah, there's a huge amount of R&D and competition to get the best stuff out there. And Bitmain dominates. You're right that Bitmain dominates ASIC Bitcoin miners, but why? Surely there are more than enough capable engi
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by tmh88j 9y ago
JPMorgan recently launched Quorom, which is a smart contract payment network built on Ethereum. Blockchain as a functioning technology is still brand new and in its infancy, no kidding it doesn’t have widespread use yet. It’s not just an up
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>And, as predicted, tens of other organizations have come up with their own competing cryptocurrencies. Many of them are objectively more sound than Bitcoin. But we're all meant to pretend that somehow, 1 BTC is worth $15,000 becaus
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by tmh88j 9y ago
>I’ll give you similarities of the Bitcoin with a Ponzi scheme: A ponzi scheme implies the underlying "business" doesn't have value, or at least not worth the value which it claims to generate. Just to pick the low hanging
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by tmh88j 9y ago
> what about current infrastructure makes it less efficient than blockchain for your examples? This is complete conjecture, mainly because I'm not sure if I fully understand his question, but would less human interaction increase ef
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by tmh88j 13y ago
>very underserved and unsexy problems. I find it sad that we have to give a company/startup praise for this. A business exists (the majority, at least) to make money, not to look "fun." If you have an idea that will make m
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by tmh88j 13y ago
I've been thinking about giving rails a chance. I'm in the middle of a project using Cake right now, so I think when I finish it I'll start checking out ROR. > For any common command you have which will add files, there is a command to
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by tmh88j 13y ago
I'm very comfortable using CakePHP. I've built many apps using knockout.js on top of it, extensively used jQuery and AJAX throughout and have used both MySQL and MongoDB to drive the data. For someone like me who is confident in their abili
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by tmh88j 14y ago
Are you insinuating the only way to learn and improve is by being berated?
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I noticed that Bunnie attended MIT, maybe he was a friend of Aaron.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I'm not very experienced with circuits in the slightest bit. EE 101 is about the extent of my experience so I was expecting this to be way over my head...Man, was I wrong. You did an amazing job with this, I'm blown away that you can make s
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I don't think that's the case. There always have been boring people and there always will be boring people. It's now easier to connect with others making it easier to find boring people who may not appear that way immediately. Seeing highli
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by tmh88j 14y ago
The size and shape of the pressure chamber are important as they determine the escape velocity of the air into the nozzle, especially if it relies on a scavenging type effect (which it may judging by the vacuum line in front)
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I feel like the schematic is pretty worthless. I thought the picture was mislabeled because the schematic shows the chamber about the size of a two liter bottle, but the picture points towards a ~3' long tube only a few inches in diameter.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
>While FBI Agents are busy flying to Iceland working on Hollywood's vision for the future of who owns the internet, data, and computers, the following is allowed to happen: You're acting as if the FBI devoted all of their efforts toward
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I understand the underlying point, but I don't agree in every situation, such as travel which I explained. Most leisure related activities are enjoyable to me because I have someone close to share the experience with.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
To each his own. Half the fun of traveling is the friends you're with, for me at least. The first time I went to NYC and SF I spent ~8 hours wandering around by myself (friends were still working) and I didn't get much enjoyment out of it.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
You don't know what technology is, do you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I guess the web isn't technology...
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by tmh88j 14y ago
I think the term respect is used loosely here. Sure, everyone should be treated with the same respect, but I feel like they're substituting it for admiration.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
>Designers as a group tend to include all sort of people into one lump Kind of like the title "engineer": Electrical engineers do everything from circuit design to PLC programming and power generation.
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by tmh88j 14y ago
>Perhaps your system goes down and you need it fixed ASAP So you're saying, all this person is hypothetically doing is sitting around waiting for something to break, presumably at night? You don't think the company would delegate other
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by tmh88j 14y ago
>This depends on ....and on the nature of the job. I agree in some situations, but this was a programmer. Unless he was a manager that has to oversee others, there's no need for a mandatory appearance >So you know where they are if

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