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by wickoff 7y ago
https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook This is probably the best in depth technical overview of how Bitcoin works.
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by wickoff 7y ago
Blizzard developed a special version of the client just for Deepmind, so no, they never had to process images. Because of that they have a problem with invisible and burrowed units - human players can miss the shimmer/shadow because it
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by wickoff 7y ago
Then you're a part of tiny minority who both has access to these tools and figured out that this is the proper way to manage your money. Exactly zero people I personally know manage their money that way. Libra does next to nothing for
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by wickoff 7y ago
Have you read the linked article? The protocol is open, anybody can build a wallet and transact p2p without KYC with a pseudonymous account. If they get the initial market penetration through WhatsApp/Facebook then it'll be as dif
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by wickoff 7y ago
Check out FX charts for Russian Ruble, Argentinian Peso, Turkish Lyra or even the British Pound. Then ask yourself which of these countries have financial institutions that allow their clients to seamlessly transact in more stable currencie
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by wickoff 7y ago
The controversy began with him using his wealth to sue random people on Twitter for claiming he was a fraud. Small accounts without much influence. He is not acting in good faith.
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by wickoff 7y ago
You've accidentally stumbled upon the Bitcoin's true strength in your own answer. > unless the group governing it decides to 'fix' those flaws, but there's another issue, I don't want you messing with how my
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by wickoff 7y ago
Honestly the reply you got was sort of justified. I find that when HN discusses crypto almost nobody has any idea what they are talking about. >The NYAG, in its original injunction, said they did not want to prevent Bitfinex or Tether fr
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by wickoff 7y ago
From my understanding the problem isn't with the architecture, but with manufacturing. AMD is about to release 7nm CPUs manufactured by TSMC, meanwhile Intel only recently sorted out its 10nm issues and 7nm is scheduled for 2021 if eve
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by wickoff 7y ago
There is no debt on good exchanges that offer crypto derivatives. Exchanges automatically close your positions when your margin balance nears zero. The best one - bitmex.com - has a 250 million insurance fund to cover the potential losses i
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by wickoff 7y ago
I'd say that the difference is in market penetration and scale. Individual governments actually feel threatened by a global currency that is available on platforms most of their citizens already use and is backed by a basket of geograp
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by wickoff 7y ago
Banks transfers take longer, banks transfers cost money and international banks transfers outside of SEPA network are a nightmare and they can get blocked/stalled for odd reasons. Blockhain is a technical convenience - the Libra Associ
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by wickoff 7y ago
You don't need to ask Facebook permission to transfer the money, but they reserve the right to intervene if you commit fraud. That's why they are using a blockchain. The governments will love it because it allows for perfect surve
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by wickoff 7y ago
I've been trying out carnivore diet for a couple of months. I went from years of yo-yo dieting and pathological binge eating to effortlessly losing 10% of my bodyweight. I think my psychology got rewired somehow, I don't know how
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by wickoff 7y ago
Memory usage. I know everyone says Chrome is a memory hog, but for me Firefox turned out to be even worse. It kept crashing with the same tabs Chrome was running with ease.
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by wickoff 7y ago
People said the same thing about DeepMind's SC2 wins. Its actions per minute spiked to inhuman levels briefly and its efficiency and precision of control was nearly perfect. These types of criticisms completely miss the point. People w
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by wickoff 7y ago
This project is using Bitcoin. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Director... MS has an Azure service that allows people to spin up private Ethereum blockchains, but they don't have any projects t
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by wickoff 7y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your... Meanwhile Microsoft is building a distributed system on top of Bitcoin to help people get rid of passwords and take ownership of their data and
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by wickoff 7y ago
I think that the standards the author is judging herself by are messed up and harmful. She is healthy, married, is raising a child, is an educator, presumably has a good standing within her community. She checks like 9 out of 10 boxes you c
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by wickoff 7y ago
I think that anybody who thinks that US government can lose, that the outcome for such a high profile case isn't predetermined is naive.
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by wickoff 7y ago
Not everybody is that self-aware, I would argue that the majority isn't. You have to look at it from a statistical angle. What percentage of population is capable of not falling prey to sophisticated machine learning algorithms which o
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by wickoff 7y ago
Economic highs seem to be part of the problem. Only about 15% of Americans participate in the stock market, most of the rest of the world doesn't even have the access. The best investment opportunities are being reserved for the elites
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by wickoff 7y ago
Oh. So that's where their crypto stablecoin comes in.
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by wickoff 7y ago
This poll should provide some context: https://twitter.com/thecryptomonk/status/1123265349175119872 Seasoned cryptocurrency traders are used to Tether breaking its dollar peg from time to time, its reputation is i
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by wickoff 7y ago
I've heard it argued that Bitcoin's unique feature, something that makes Bitcoin exceptionally valuable in comparison to other cryptocurrencies is its governance model. Bitcoin governance is basically a combination of anarchy with
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by wickoff 7y ago
I wonder, can you make an argument that Bitcoin is like an index akin to S&P, but for gambling and hedging against events like asset seizure or state currency failure? First let's assume that fundamentals remain unchanged. No innov
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by wickoff 7y ago
It's not like the animal is going to live forever if you don't kill it. In nature animals are often eaten alive by predators, die from disease, starvation and get horribly injured in competition for mates. A free range animal that
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by wickoff 7y ago
It's not quibbling over details. Bitcoin miners often place their mining farms near power plants and consume electricity that would've been wasted otherwise. A lot of it comes from renewable sources. At the present moment network
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by wickoff 8y ago
Of course. You can short established coins like BTC and ETH. There are also so called "flip seasons" where you throw money at random small cap altcoins and flip them 30-200% higher over the course of a month. These happen wheneve
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by wickoff 8y ago
Russia adds its own twist. Education is free, but all young men except who fail admission exams or drop out at any point in their education are conscripted into the military service. It used to be two years of service, now it's one. Ru

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