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by xiphias 9y ago
That's the only thing that never works when the first stage is landing on the ship
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'm not 100% sure about the inverting part, but at Google nobody ever told me to ,,fuck off'' and nobody would tolerate that language, and that person would get a serious talk from his/her manager, maybe even laid off in
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by xiphias 9y ago
If you want to give value to users, why don't you just put more effort into improving the complexity of the applications that can be created easily? Now that the marketing part is taken care of, you can focus on quality
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'm not sure the market (weighted by market cap) agrees with the title.
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by xiphias 9y ago
It hasn't. It promised starting shipping Model 3 to people probably end of 2017, people just forgot the original promise. Elon specifically said that the internal deadline (and deadline to suppliers) is sooner, as he was expecting dela
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by xiphias 9y ago
There are still a lot of great resources, but they are scattered. Just look at the bitcoin-dev mailing list with Simplicity paper, and the great talks on Lightning Network on the Scaling Bitcoin conference. I just wish the good presenters w
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by xiphias 9y ago
Generally offices that can be configured start as closed, then when more people are coming, the walls go down to ,,save place''. With big growing tech companies this phonemon happens quite fast... CEOs somehow forget scaling up th
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by xiphias 9y ago
I remember reading here on HN some time ago that some privileged teams could ask to be outside the new Apple HQ building so that they don't have to be part of the damaging open office culture.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Fiat currencies use proof of military power (war) as their security system. As an example you think USA would allow Kim Jong Un to issue US bonds (like he does with Bitcoin)? I much prefer the energy cost to military cost (that's why m
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by xiphias 9y ago
SegWit was a soft-fork block size increase with other scaling improvements. I'm strongly against having any hard fork in Bitcoin. The last Ethereum hard fork (when half of the devs wanted to cancel it because of the bug that was found)
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by xiphias 9y ago
It can only be rolled back if Vitalik has money in that contract... otherwise it's immutable
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by xiphias 9y ago
There were no hardware wallets in the days of MtGox, which meant that it was extremely hard to secure Bitcoins. It got easier since then, and many people learned from MtGox (though many people haven't). Also companies take bigger care
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by xiphias 9y ago
This video explains well the job problem for people who are unable to learn fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0&t=8s
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by xiphias 9y ago
For me as a software engineer who could move anywhere in the world, relative living costs never mattered, only absolute savings, as I can use it in any country, which is salary minus living cost. Zurich gave me the best savings, but I think
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by xiphias 9y ago
Sounds like 1984
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by xiphias 9y ago
Ethereum just had a hard fork where a ,,quick patch'' for a bug was created 2 days before the fork. The developers didn't agree if there should be a hard fork or no at that point. I would never put my money on a system like t
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by xiphias 9y ago
The only extra thing blockchain based cryptocurrencies provide is decentalized ordering of transactions. David Chaum tried what you suggest and his currency was shut down by the government quite fast and easily (and people lost their money
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by xiphias 9y ago
The numbers would look more real with inflation statistics that are closer to reality: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
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by xiphias 9y ago
And the Chinese government which is building a massive army for totally unknown reasons /s
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by xiphias 9y ago
China started selling U.S. bonds and plans to create a Yuan-oil exchange market and is building a massive army to defend it. I wish good things are coming out, but U.S. leadership won't just stand watching China taking over the power o
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by xiphias 9y ago
It has 18000 results just for weight loss, and if you look at different diets for weight loss, they are conflicting, so I wouldn't trust it. I think PubMed is still the best thing we've got: read medical publications directly, eve
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by xiphias 9y ago
If they found a method to make elliptic curve cryptography less secure, I would start to be worried, but I guess that's not the case.
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by xiphias 9y ago
As far as I saw the whole blockhain is serialized and sent to the peers, so taking care of chair reorgs is trivial (and done in the video). What's really missing is difficulty retargeting.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Diversity was never really important for a good tech company, just extra-hard working smart people. And from the Awesome machine learning papers it looks like Asia already has enough smart people, Chinese tech companies have higher growth t
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by xiphias 9y ago
There's one huge problem with fiat currencies that Bitcoin improves on: Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes http://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/
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by xiphias 9y ago
If I would have listened to people who ,,advise me'x financially without taking risk himself, I would be broke. If you're so sure of your knowledge about the crash, you can short Bitcoin, and start advising selling it _after_ you
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by xiphias 9y ago
I wasn't sure, but now that I checked, it's clickbait, and flagged it
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by xiphias 9y ago
It looks like it can be implemented efficiently only on top of ZKSnarks, and doesn't try really hard to compare with MimbleWimble, the obvious competitor (just writes a few words about it that doesn't make me confident in trusting
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by xiphias 9y ago
Why have multiple lawyers fighting eachother instead of having one who's just payed to get an agreement between the 2 people? This could have been handled much easier.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Most of the drama around Bitcoin doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin seems to be the best store of value in the history of humanity. For us who take it seriously and trust the Core team to be a great team of cryptographers and cautiou

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