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by vonklaus 11y ago
Things evolve in weird ways, bitcoin doesn't have a perfect way to do refunds, but it does have the ability to do escrow and to be built into contracts. It could be interesting to disallow refunds generally but be explicit in how contr
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> If Visa added that one detail, this would be a fantastic solution Maybe I am understanding this incorrectly, but isn't that one detail the main value proposition. It almost sounds analogous to a Dropbox competitor offering a cloud
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> My comment was actually referring to Bernie Sanders. I know, I didn't know if you meant to disqualify him with that caveat. On balance he is a pretty good presidential candidate in that he has a lot of pro-freedom rational stances
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by vonklaus 11y ago
link [1] is down, in fact several links at senate.gov are down. I don't want to say your claim is disingenuous because you did throw a caveat in there, however Rand Paul did not support handing the internet off to the FCC to regulate i
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by vonklaus 11y ago
It is a byproduct of agenda first journalism preaching into an echo chamber of self aggrandizing pricks. Take the 'political correctness' movement for example, whether you agree or disagree with the sentiment, it is a nich marketi
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This is important and largely true. There is, occasionally, a real terrorist threat. I personally am maybe too cynical and tune most shit like this out as utter bullshit. So we are creating a boy who cried wolf problem in addition to anti-f
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I still don't think this makes sense. You can just get a static IP and point it at a load balancer. How would this help if your site fails? You can cname undfecarriage services like api and blog. What do you gain from www?
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Obviously. Look, I disagree with virtually all of what the CIA is doing, but day one Snowden was pretty up front about this. "There is a CIA field office close to here, bet those guys are working overtime" or something to that eff
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> For everyone that gains, someone else loses. How is this untrue in the market? Especially options. Someone is on the other side of this as they aren't based on created value. If someone lays out a huge short, it is priced by the
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Sorry I misunderstood, this is an interesting concept. You mean that, we could look at demand and the back that out to get the neccessary total. This would be super interesting. If you could find, with a reasonable statistical likelihood th
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Correct. However, we could see who has a legal android botnet, and see how easy it is to take over. Not to mention, if someone did have access to even 1million phones they could topple a cell network by spam sms amd calling to tie it up. I
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Understanding how the electricity grid works is non-trivial, maybe I am mischaracterizing your suggestion that it is not. Digital Ocean, a smaller provider, has 64gb memory 6 core intel cpu in a single server[1]. These are wired up into a c
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Stack Risk. We need to know how much CPU power entities have at their dosposal. If statistics aren't available, find data centers and energy breakdowns backout those costs and use sqftage to find amount of servers. COmputing power grow
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Abraham Lincoln had an impossible choice to make, and withoutthe benefit of hindsite I dont know anyone could have made a better one. Unfortunately, Allowing states to decide for themselves whether they could literally own humans or not, l
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by vonklaus 11y ago
You don't think the stock market maps perfectly to real world markets? Average investors need nano-second liquidity. Hedgefunds help the price stay consisten so that when a massive order comes in it goes into a blackpool and is split u
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am talking up structured financial instruments like that. Obviously, DraftKings doesn't map perfectly to etfs and options, but i think the analogy stands. To be clear, I think that skill based wagers should be allowed. I was begging
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Finally the government is taking action against these companies. Think about it, these guys provide the ability to wager on the outcome of a basket of performance statistics. The government is totally right to classify this as gambling and
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I agree that Firbase is a ool option and probably safe as they recently took steps to lock it into the google account. Someone will inevitably say google kills projects often, but they probably won't kill this. Alphabet's strateg
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Do they typically prevent this? Somethink like libel (or slander I always confuse the 2) often can be defended with proof. So, I wouldnt have a problem with a company not wanted to litigate false claims, but true claims being muzzled is ano
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Interesting. Markets are totally broken but I hadn't seen any legitimate players acknowledge that yet, good find. While the main argument in favor of HFT is providing liquidity, there really isn't a situation where a 'real&#x
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This is a HUGE game changer, so excited. The number one feature request year over year has been around push notifications. It's a really big pain point for a lot of people in media trying to spam users. They block all of the high bandw
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I like skeleton. It has been ported to sass as well. > it seems somewhat dead The beauty of skeleton is that it still accomplishes exactly what it is meant to, without needing attention. To be fair, it is only html and css, so there aren
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I didn't want to be a dick, and milligram seems like a nice minimal grid which I don't think we have enough of, but it serms like they changed .btn-primary to purple and shipped skeleton.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
If you make slight alterations to the text and replace Russia with the US, you have pretty much the same narrative Edit, on mobile: Moscow — A GLOBAL inquiry announced this week that Edward Snowden, an American security officer turned defec
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Philips partners with Cisco to install distributed hardware and lighting into corporate institutions and high end hotels. Cisco[0] is a known entry point for embedded surveillance techniques. The lighting system, on top of being entirely co
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> As far as space tourism, space tourism will become much cheaper very soon, the last 3 weeks we have had massive accomplishments in space. To get comfortable going to another planet, surely people will need to be normalized to the ide
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This is amazing, and a pretty amazing feat that we are taking for granted. Space is super super tough, the complex coordination of manufacturing something like this is being totally written off by many, but I assure you it is non trivial. A
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Thats is fair, and probably true. Ask somebody who larry page is, and almost everyone will know. If not, they have heard of google. I am not sure if this guys was just ultra hipster, bitter about not getting a donation, or he literally does
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> There’s a way that young people talk these days, and it’s totes hilars. You see it on Twitter a lot. Makes a lot of sense. Speaking to other humans in real life maps perfectly to ideation, generating that into text, and then uploadin
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Search. Turns out everyone was wrong. The next google is actually a google.

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