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by vladd 13y ago
Actually you just need to update the code and push it via the update mechanism.
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by vladd 13y ago
No, it's not safe to reason general facts about a technology and have the masses interpret them / invest in a particular implementation.
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by vladd 13y ago
The reason I feel bitcoin is a scam is due to such misunderstandings. Bitcoin is not what makes any of this possible, the research happening for 20+ years in the background is. Bitcoin is just a marketing term, a specific implementation of
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by vladd 13y ago
For me it's not about the amount of money but rather the freedom of speech restriction that you must remember for the rest of your life. Human memory is a rather shady thing. How many of the university lectures do you still remember? N
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by vladd 13y ago
In Switzerland, some cantons (their equivalent of a state) decided to split. Before they had 2 votes each in the Council of States; after the split, each half-canton got 1 vote each - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canto
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by vladd 13y ago
The market capitalization of altcoins is being tracked here: http://coinmarketcap.com/
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by vladd 13y ago
Any plans to add LinkedIn?
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by vladd 13y ago
The original developer is most likely the person that mined the initial block-chains and is most likely owning a fortune due to the ability to market successfully that particular mining-validation algorithm to the world.
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by vladd 13y ago
Latvian banks have a residence program for 300K EUR: https://www.rietumu.lv/en/residence-permit As long as the money is kept in a term deposit, "upon expiry of the term of residence permit investors and their fami
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by vladd 13y ago
> The best part about their $5,000 is that most of it will be profit. There are significant fixed costs associated with the development they did so far. I doubt $5,000/month would break them even considering just the salaries and of
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Pilot was attempting his first Boeing 777 landing at San Francisco(foxnews.com)
6 points by vladd 13y ago|1 comments
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by vladd 13y ago
There are some at http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines...
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by vladd 13y ago
The degree of US's actions for catching Snowden ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982842 ) despite previous statements of Obama suggesting otherwise is puzzling. I hope the law gets passed.
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Bolivian president's plane forced to land due to Snowden on board rumor(sbs.com.au)
2 points by vladd 13y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 13y ago
It's impossible to receive email for someone else as Gmail blocks as unavailable all dot-added usernames when you signup for an account. E.g.: if you create abcdef@gmail.com, then a.bcdef@gmail.com , ab.cdef@gmail.com and so on become
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by vladd 13y ago
product-market fit = building something a market wants business model = how to sell it higher than production costs One way to see if the market wants what you've built is to charge for it, but there are other ways, especially in consumer w
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by vladd 14y ago
An open requirement from ICANN won't prevent Amazon requiring something outrageous ($1'000+) per domain that most won't afford. Any open requirements should come as a maximum price limit for creating new additional entries under the TLD. Ho
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by vladd 14y ago
Romania is an EU country since 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un...
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by vladd 14y ago
Respect, karma, reputation, breaking the law - these topics can be related to this incident and discussed in an insightful and rational way. Ethical? I remember what Linus Torvalds said: "ethics are to me something private. Whenever you use
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Career Advice: How did you adjust to working with smarter people?(quora.com)
4 points by vladd 14y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 14y ago
The jurors in this case were reviewed by both Apple and Samsung legal teams during the "Voir dire" process - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voir_dire#Use_in_the_United_Sta... . The process goes like this: each party, taking turns, gets to a
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by vladd 14y ago
Maybe at the medium or bottom segments, but the top-performers are more expensive than ever (e.g.: there's a war on talent for the best engineers).
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by vladd 14y ago
If he's CEO but not the owner, be careful about non-compete provisions in his employment contract which might create legal liability for your company in the future, especially if he brags about bringing "lot of customers" with "strong conne
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by vladd 14y ago
> most importantly I learned that I’ll never take “No” for an answer again. There are two types of challenges in life: the first ones are generic and depend mainly on you, such as (1) double the revenue in the next 6 months, or (2) doub
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by vladd 14y ago
I've tried to find other stats but I couldn't easily find more recent numbers. 2% is the lowest fatality rate I found. There are some statements at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc... but they're not changing t
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by vladd 14y ago
Actually the space shuttle is the safest launch vehicle to date. From the ones that have at least 100 launches (in order to be able to properly compute stats for them), here are their failure rates as taken from http://www.ontonix.com/Blog
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by vladd 14y ago
> for the mere fact that it says nothing. It says that marketing the concept of 'paid' web-apps in a professional way managed to attract > 500'000 USD in sales (as opposed to providing a solution for real user problems). That's a fa
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by vladd 14y ago
You can no longer browse Quora while being logged out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332978
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by vladd 14y ago
In general there are 3 solutions involving 'moderation': 1) self moderation: Google Plus has circles which you can theoretically use to share specific topics only with circles that you know to be passionate about them. Requires manual work
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by vladd 14y ago
In low-bandwidth environments, the pipeline is like this: 1) plain data initial stream. 2) compress it. 3) encrypt it or/and sign it. 4) add error-checking or even error-correction information. The reason you do encryption (3) after compres

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