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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've had gallons of water from lakes in Northern MN while camping, and it was delicious. On the other hand, also anecdotal, one of my ancestors in Germany is said to have died from infection after drinking from a pond in G
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Perl 6 appeals to me enough to make it my first new language to study, after a 20-year hiatus from any meaningful programming. This could be taken as an anti-endorsement. But for someone with no legacy skills, and no legacy codebase to draw
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Windows ain't done 'til Lotus won't run! Just a little "friendly competition" in the words of 1985 NYT.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
According to AVC this language was changed in the final version of the bill, and the bill is now favorable to the interests of VC-backed startups. Nevertheless, taxing options when they vest rather than when exercised (NSO) or on sale of un
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I would think all serious clients would want to review the source code of any security critical software that they intend to use. However, there could be some argument that allowing only selected clients (Russia) to review the source, while
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Probably not a security. But transferable WoW gold has bigger problems -- money transmitter laws. It would make Blizzard a money transmitter like E-gold, [1] or liberty reserve. Any centralized e-money issuer is doomed. That is an important
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Yes, I believe that's right.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I don't think it has to be "pure". Ethereum is not purely functional. However, it helps if it has a significant functional use. It does seem that the best-advised projects avoid listing pre-sale tokens on an exchange. This ha
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Yes, I'm a lawyer. I'm not your lawyer though. And it doesn't matter -- even non-lawyers are capable of reasoning about legal topics. You do not appear to be a lawyer, yet you have an opinion. The takeaway from this article i
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
First, I do not agree that pre-selling a purely functional token is necessarily an offering of securities under Howey or otherwise. If the protocol is already specified, and the token has clear utility. I don't know if that's the
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Vulnerable, not dead. BTW even a 51 pct attack doesn't "kill" a coin, it just tricks users temporarily into honoring a double-spend. Networks can and do recover.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Definition of dead should be "can't connect to a node" not based on market cap. For example, BlakeBitcoin is alive as far as I can tell, bc merge mined with Blakecoin. You can totally fire up a client and transact in BBTC. No
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Also not useful to talk about such risks as a "percentage" chance. What does that mean -- given a significant sample of normally distributed parallel universes, the current situation would result in civil war? And, if it does, the
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Awesome! And, truly horrifying...
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
The WSJ has gone way downhill after the Newscorp acquisition. The WSJ is now a tabloid. The misinformed comments on the Yahoo deal are just a symptom of readers who are not really involved in finance or public company governance, and do not
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
but, lowRISC says they are going to crowdfund a SOC this year... let's say it takes them 2 years to have one I can buy, I should be able to have a RISC V based computer that can run linux within 5 years! Am I dreaming?
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Next decade?! That long???
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I'll just sit hear eating my popcorn and waiting for a lowRISC computer I can buy.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I think I understand the goals of the "fair source" license but why not make it copyleft all around, and just sell hosted version to small biz, and license exceptions to corporate clients?
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Simple solution -- if Tesla thinks this is price gouging, why not get into the insurance business. If they can go to mars, they should be able to underwrite the cost of replacing Tesla body panels, haha.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
This rings a bit hollow to me, kind of reminds of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" -- a moral play, a fictional story passed off as autobiographical. Aimed to enforce our self-doubting instinct that we are somehow being a chump and letting so
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I loved my first blackberry, I think it was the 6710. From there it has all been downhill with possible exception of the Classic. BBRY freaked out when Apple figured out what consumer users want and took over the market. As long as BBRY tri
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
It is worthwhile to fight the battles. But ultimately, there is no assurance that privacy will remain a legal right. I think that we need to be prepared for civil disobedience in some circumstances.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
OK, yes -- there are many cool technical possibilities. And per the other commenter above, it's not as if this is any less rigorous than an average seed round. OK, but when you have people investing multiple millions at a 100mm+ valuat
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
The term ICO is horribly misleading. It sounds like IPO, which generally is a liquidity event that happens after a company has become established. An ICO happens before there is a company or business, in any meaningful sense. But there is o
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Yes, two different scenarios state primary/secondary, and university. Regarding state universities, while true many subsist on tuition there are some notable exceptions -- for example, the UT system has one of the largest endowments of
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
This is encouraging. I strongly believe that public schools at all levels should (as in, morally ought to) use freely available coursework. Not only does it remove one more way in which kids are sorted by economic class, but it also teaches
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
That kind of arrangement already clearly illegal if the hospital takes government healthcare funds.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
That is valid, but tokens also have value from managing real scarcity in the underlying protocol. For example, bitcoin as a p2p protocol can only transmit so much information reliably. Bitcoins fundamentally have some value in relation to t
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I for one love SF and Lynch's Dune. Is this article just an excuse to show us the awesome set art? Not being sarcastic here, I really wish I could see the full uncut version, have only seen the heavily edited TV one that airs every y

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