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by ye 13y ago
It tells you bitcoin is at the adoption stage. People are just finding out about it. Plus Overstock isn't exactly a hot retailer. If Amazon does this, it will be HUGE.
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by ye 13y ago
AdBlock
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by ye 13y ago
Why can't you setup one phone screen + one full day interview?
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by ye 13y ago
7 interviews??? I would've given up after 2. What a broken process.
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by ye 13y ago
An OCR article without a single image.
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by ye 13y ago
> Politicians can't pull devaluation stunts anymore LOL. They just keep printing. http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/euro/circulation/html/index.e... 2008 783B 2009 827B (+5.6%) 2010
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by ye 13y ago
Doesn't harm his reputation? It shows, clearly, that the man, while being an expert in one field, and while being objectively smart, can be a complete moron in another field and make very very very wrong "predictions".
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by ye 13y ago
Compression algorithms are improving. There are compression programs out there that will beat pretty much anything famous like xz, but 99% of the time at the expense of either compression/decompression time or memory. PAQ8PX is a class
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by ye 13y ago
He has a ton of benchmarks on that page: Searching for Pattern('an',2bytes) into String(206908949bytes) line-by-line ... strstr_Microsoft_hits/strstr_Microsoft_clocks: 1212509/544 strstr_Microsoft performa
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by ye 13y ago
If I owned a newspaper, the front page would say "FEDS LEGALIZED MONEY LAUNDERING".
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by ye 13y ago
> From this defined retangle, generate a collection of random points inside it That immediately defeats the "Without Noise" requirement.
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by ye 13y ago
If your heart stops beating for 12 hours, maybe you need to talk to your doctor.
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by ye 13y ago
Shows how amazing evolution is at "designing" complex efficient systems. Our hearts beat for 70-100+ years without a charge.
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by ye 13y ago
Because 1) Over the years it ends up being much more than 20 passwords. Bank accounts, credit cards, stock trading accounts, web servers, email accounts, IRA accounts, bitcoin passwords/keys, all kinds of work passwords, evernote, etc.
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by ye 13y ago
Snowden had a girlfriend, AFAIK.
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by ye 13y ago
Because it's not a browser extension, which auto-fills the login fields. And that's why I use KeePass.
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by ye 13y ago
As somebody who has been in IT for almost two decades, I can't think of a safe way to get a file off our corporate LAN without leaving a trail leading to me. I realize it's an argument from ignorance fallacy, and maybe there are s
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by ye 13y ago
My guess is that most people educated enough and promoted enough to get access to such information wouldn't risk years of efforts for potential fame. I'd say most of the whistle-blowers want to remain anonymous.
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by ye 13y ago
Think of it from the executives perspective: Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money Option B: become a martyr, face prison time People like Snowden are rare.
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by ye 13y ago
I'd love to see a class-action lawsuit. This shit must be punished.
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by ye 13y ago
I partially agree with you. I think ALL college/uni students must be forced to go through career counselling once a year. Too many young people are fed "you're a special snowflake, you can be whatever you want to be" bul
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by ye 13y ago
Sure, I have no problem with people doing art or studying history or women or philosophy. My problem is with the entitlement and the attacks on the people who chose financially more successful professions. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE LO
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by ye 13y ago
The irony of your comment only emphasizes how little you understand that NONE of it is techies' fault. Is it their fault they thought about the future and picked tough but useful majors? Is it their fault that hipsters chose art, histo
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by ye 13y ago
China is a big player, but it's just one of many. But even China can't stop bitcoin from being used in China. They just made it harder, that's all. Bitcoin keeps getting adopted, the infrastructure is getting built, better so
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by ye 13y ago
3. Create a disposable wallet. Move some money to it. Buy with the disposable wallet. The worst they can do is associate the disposable wallet address to your name and sell that information to somebody.
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by ye 13y ago
DNA is not just a sequence that encodes proteins. We just found out there's a secondary higher level code in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896779 And then there's RNA, which can fold and form structure
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by ye 13y ago
Not only that, the search branches are sitting in the CPU caches.
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by ye 13y ago
It's like asking "can I find a list of cat pictures on the internet?" Use google. There are tons of datasets and APIs of all kinds.
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by ye 13y ago
Don't dismiss Ashton. He may be goofy, but he is into technology and has an army of followers. When he tweets, his 15 million twitter followers retweet like crazy.
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by ye 13y ago
Why would I care about my friends' opinions only? I want hundreds of reviews, not a couple (or zero most of the time).

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