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by xiphias 12y ago
Volatility should never be important when selecting a store of value. Gold and silver has much volatility compared to USD and hamburger price, still if you sold a cow 5000 years ago in Egypt for silver, you could buy at least 0.1 cows from
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by xiphias 12y ago
You're not alone: all the people who bought Bitcoin and holding it use Bitcoin mainly as the best store of value in human history. All fiat currencies are being printed like crazy (CHF was an exception, but it changed a few years ago)
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by xiphias 12y ago
Is the thinking behind infinite storage that the price of storage decreases exponentially so the cost of keeping a file forever is limited?
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by xiphias 12y ago
Is there a way to host a file for 1 month, 2 month, 1 year.... by paying more/less (and maybe increasing the storage time by additional payments). That would be the right model that could translate to S3 storage with the same price. Wi
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by xiphias 12y ago
wow, so when can I buy a mobile phone with this optimisation in hardware and software? This means that more slower low energy cores can start to compete with the current phones.
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by xiphias 12y ago
Is there a way to filter the up-votes of all the people out (on other submissions) who voted for this? It would be a great feature for HN
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by xiphias 12y ago
The real question should be: is high school worth it, or people should just skip it and go straight to college?
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by xiphias 12y ago
I would recommend Meteor _with_ Angular. Although there are some things that don't work perfectly together, using AngularJS as a frontend and MeteorJS as a backend works like magic....I loved creating (internal) applications with it. A
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by xiphias 12y ago
It's awesome idea but..could you add comments? (hint: you don't need to count the comments when counting lines of code :) it's normal to have more comments than code for a dense code, and it make things easier to understand
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by xiphias 12y ago
It's sad that the lies that are coming from the U.S. administration are voted up on HN. It's not clear whether officials from the U.S promised in 1990 to Gorbacev that it won't expand NATO to Eastern-Europe, but it's cle
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by xiphias 13y ago
People use Google much more if they can access it fast, which means more revenue. A lot of ISPs have slow DNS servers, and Google needs a good production DNS server for internal purposes anyways, so it was not that hard for the engineers to
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by xiphias 13y ago
Bitcoin :-)
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by xiphias 13y ago
I was working on Google Shopping. Lots of images are checked by a combination of machine learning and humans (still, errors happen, as it's lots of data to deal with). The main problem with the watermarking is that the images can be sh
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by xiphias 13y ago
In Google the employees on the same level in the whole company are mixed and randomly split to smaller groups, and stack ranked with people working in completely different teams, which means that teammates never compete with each other, but
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by xiphias 13y ago
Is there a plan in Google to create a more secure email protocol that's compatible with the current one but is used at least between the top email providers? Or just by using encryption at least.
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by xiphias 13y ago
Get away from the USD that American government is using to keep it's power. Get away from the banking system. Buy physical silver, gold (not ETF) or bitcoins. The earlier everybody starts doing it the sooner the inevitable USD crash will ha