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by waytogo 9y ago
> For a proper financial market with money, a good store of value might just be a long term savings account in a bank Not sure. Look what 2008 happened: States had to rescue banks which would have gone bankrupt otherwise and because of t
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by waytogo 9y ago
> bitcoin is hardly easy to obtain in that situation either. It's def. easier than getting US T-Bills. BTC is widely available in most countries and if not, you just go to a meetup and trade it in person (with higher fees but still
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by waytogo 9y ago
It's not about liquidation in person—it's about that you could and this would keep BTC's value stable in times when stock/banks/currencies crash (in a worst case scenario).
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by waytogo 9y ago
Nice, this is good in-depth explanation of why XMR isn't scalable.
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by waytogo 9y ago
> Stores of value require a predictable purchasing power to be useful Think you confuse matters: A currency should have "a predictable purchasing power", not a store of value. Latter should rather grow (which requires a deflati
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by waytogo 9y ago
> Well an actual worst case scenario also brings down your internet connection. Not sure if we talk about the same: The last worst case scenario was 2008 (stock crash, banks went bankrupt) but the Internet was still fine.
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by waytogo 9y ago
Disagree. Every currently available value store is volatile, even gold (which is highly volatile): http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSEARCA%3AGLD&sq=gold&s... I still don't see any other value store better
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by waytogo 9y ago
IDK if Jed hit the iceberg, from Wikipedia: McCaleb sold the site to French developer Mark Karpelès, who was living in Japan, in March 2011. On 19 June 2011, a security breach of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange caused the nominal price of a
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by waytogo 9y ago
> The moment you [...] want to liquidate your bitcoin [...] you indirectly involve traditional banks Not necessarily, you could liquidate f2f with another person providing you cash. Just think of the worse case, stock crash, bank crash,
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by waytogo 9y ago
That lacking sleep creates all kinds of disease is no surprise. The question is how to get sleep.
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React and Truffle, optimal dev env for React DApps [8 min](youtube.com)
1 points by waytogo 9y ago|0 comments
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by waytogo 9y ago
IDK but when checking his self-published data I see spikes adding min 200 new subs. Guess those came with blog posts. And: 1% conversion when being on the landing page is way below average. And2: This post was almost two days on the front p
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by waytogo 9y ago
> Blockchain analysis would be able to see right through that. How?
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by waytogo 9y ago
As long as it's growing on a yearly base (which Bitcoin does for years and significantly) a high volatility shouldn't hurt any value store.
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by waytogo 9y ago
> High BTC Fees are hitting lots of legit businesses Why do people always think that BTC—only because it has started as a p2p cash system—needs to stay there? From my point of view BTC evolved to the best value storage system available:
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by waytogo 9y ago
> ...but compared to Bitcoin it sure seems fast and scaleable. Every fully decentralized coin hits at an early point the ceiling and won't scale. Vitalik Buterin expressed this recently. So, why should XMR be faster? Besides, the an
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by waytogo 9y ago
Looked really deep into alt coins the last few days, I checked also XMR which isn't fast or scalable. It's now fast because of the little use compared to BTC and ETH. Highly scalable because of their centralized nature are Ripple
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by waytogo 9y ago
Why can't they just state something like... if battery total capacity < x % then set max CPU clock speed = x Ghz? Or whatever KPIs they use like battery wear level. The current release doesn't say anything more than what was
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The Best Writing Apps for Apple Fans(blog.producthunt.com)
1 points by waytogo 9y ago|0 comments
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by waytogo 9y ago
> And [website notifications] shouldn't be ever shown on mobile. They are not shown on iOS.
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by waytogo 9y ago
I am looking for a 4k single board computer to run a cheap 4k Arch Linux i3 workstation (mainly for Vim and Chrome). Any ideas?
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by waytogo 9y ago
Not sure if patents are the things crypto investors should look out for. Looking at the recommended ICOs/coins in the post I am not sure if they going to be good investments (reason: they are all utility tokens which are the riskiest
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by waytogo 9y ago
I am following Candy Japan for years and I like the idea. In its early years the landing page was super charming despite its bootstrapped style. Now in 2017, it just looks aged. I mean the entire presentation, the dull white packaging witho
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by waytogo 9y ago
> but if you are with someone before getting rich, that is one of the few things you can never have again Well said and you know that this person is with you because of you (and not because of money).
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SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a post-nuptial agreement(reddit.com)
65 points by waytogo 9y ago|145 comments
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by waytogo 9y ago
Thanks and this link makes much more sense (but the video is again 56 minutes but there is a marker).
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by waytogo 9y ago
This is not entirely true. Your link leads to a 56 minutes video while my linked video is just 4 minutes and providing the relevant discussion point. Moreover, I couldn't find any larger discussion: I searched HN with the link you gave
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Ex-FB exec: The dopamine-driven feedback loops are destroying how society works(youtube.com)
207 points by waytogo 9y ago|85 comments
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by waytogo 9y ago
And record high nuclear production in France... Anyone knows why?
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by waytogo 9y ago
Did both for quite some time: Working remotely means getting thing done, getting into flow, and being productive. Working on-site means building strong relationships to people which might be key for one's further career development. I

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