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Jeff Bezos Launches $10B Bezos Earth Fund(geekwire.com)
2 points by vbo 7y ago|0 comments
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Japanese giant SoftBank Group launches crypto wallet card(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by vbo 7y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 7y ago
tl;dr hipsters identify niche, become urban monks
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by vbo 7y ago
I'm puzzled by HN's attitude towards Libra. I can understand being wary of having Facebook run the world's money and how a metacurrency such as Libra could break world economics as we know it, but I can't help be excited
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by vbo 8y ago
Are you able to process payments as low as 1c and if so, aren't fees exceeding the amount charged?
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by vbo 8y ago
Try focusing on the technology, its merits and its potential (or lack thereof, depending which side you lean). I find that works for me, although sifting through the rancor and the mindless shilling all so prevalent in the crypto communitie
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by vbo 8y ago
Don't worry too much about the tech stack. Use whatever you're comfortable with.
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by vbo 8y ago
I thought Somm was over the top, even cringeworthy at times. Somm 2 was actually enjoyable and I'm looking forward to their third film.
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George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing(nytimes.com)
2 points by vbo 8y ago|0 comments
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Ether Is Not a Security(avc.com)
1 points by vbo 8y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 8y ago
Vevo chose Youtube as a distribution channel. That was both the right and wrong move for them, but in the end it worked out pretty well for consumers, with the wider-scoped/user-driven concept winning over the media site.
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by vbo 8y ago
The point of cryptocurrency to some people is decentralization. The point of cryptocurrency to the average user is whatever they can do with it.
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The demise of the nation state(theguardian.com)
2 points by vbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 9y ago
You could also do sentiment analysis on your dataset and link it to likes. Basically the more signals you have the more you can narrow down your classifications or correlations. Btw, your inference is correct. Course, one could argue that i
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by vbo 9y ago
They might've extracted useful information from your IP address/geolocation or your useragent, ie maybe figuring out you're accessing the site from tech company X's network. Given tech companies ratio of male to female e
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by vbo 9y ago
Not necessarily. It should be fairly straightforward to build correlations like "People who like Breitbart are likely to vote Trump" (and less obvious ones) to help target specifically crafted ads to the people who are most likely
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Nassim Taleb on Bitcoin(medium.com)
2 points by vbo 9y ago|0 comments
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Programmer, Interrupted (2013)(blog.ninlabs.com)
3 points by vbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 9y ago
Looks good. I researched flight data suppliers & GDS companies recently for a side project and found them either very expensive (QPX falls in this category - having to pay several cents per query makes it virtually impossible to do anyt
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Backroom battle imperils $230M cryptocurrency venture(uk.reuters.com)
2 points by vbo 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Would you pay one cent for every web page you visit?
3 points by vbo 9y ago|2 comments
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Engine that accurately predicts psychological traits from digital footprints(applymagicsauce.com)
2 points by vbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 9y ago
I would assume 5 minutes is ok; do it within seconds or fractions of seconds and it becomes an issue. Bots (and a few eagle eyed traders) see the signal and start buying, you withdraw the order with very little of it having been filled, and
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by vbo 9y ago
TLDR: Whale trader traps trading bots, bootstraps 'spoofed' market dynamics which fool average Joes into predictable behaviour.
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by vbo 9y ago
Point taken, edited to say bad actors.
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by vbo 9y ago
Bad actors don't invalidate the technology or the opportunities it brings about. ICOs open access to funding to companies outside the usual VC-preferred areas and sectors. They also allow pretty much everyone to invest (though the ones
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Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself(theatlantic.com)
1 points by vbo 10y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 10y ago
Interesting question. If we assume competitive sports to function in relation to testosterone or other hormonal drives when played or watched, an argument could be made that if the competitive hormonal 'itch' of men is scratched t
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by vbo 10y ago
To take matters even further and also somewhat address skin in the game, how about we do away with AI virtual warfare, since it too implies taxpayer money being used for eventually futile endeavours and simply organise a war-chess games bet
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by vbo 10y ago
If we assume the wars of the future to be fought by AI-driven warmachines, can we abstract the matter further and have virtual wars? Our AI versus your AI fighting on computational resources provided by, erm, Switzerland. Nobody gets hurt a

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