Lon7

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by Lon7 9y ago
In most variations of such a calculation the expected number of planets would be 0. The fact that the actual answer is >= 1 might suggest that the calculation is not an accurate representation of reality.
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by Lon7 9y ago
Manipulative, maybe. But why grossly? All you are doing is making the other person feel good. It should be encouraged and celebrated. If you have a choice between making someone feel neutral, or feel great, why wouldn't you choose grea
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by Lon7 9y ago
Added to my list of crypto projects that look interesting. xrb_15d4d4o8x3euiko14o6h1netwk3boio3fju1u6xhe93o5ipjhqy63shcxutm
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by Lon7 9y ago
Bank of America and Bitcoin both have market caps of ~$290 billion. Bank of America usually sees huge trading volume for a stock and it traded about $1.8 billion of volume today. BTC/USD alone has done $3 billion today. I realize it&#x
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by Lon7 9y ago
I think the cool thing about this idea is that "cats" is just one possibility. It can work just as well with nearly anything that requires proof of ownership or uniqueness. Maybe property or mineral rights, or stock and other secu
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by Lon7 9y ago
I know I guy who has "Rape Me" tattooed on his chest. It's his favorite Nirvana Song. For the most part, tattoos are a form of art and expression. Phrases such as "death wish" or "kill me" are pretty commo
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by Lon7 9y ago
Yes. The same applies to when you trade bitcoin for other cryptocurrencies. Although it is technically one transaction, if you want to be safe you should treat it as two separate transactions: 1. Selling the bitcoin for USD (this is taxable
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by Lon7 9y ago
It still outperforms every other asset class. http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-risk-adjusted-return/
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by Lon7 9y ago
I'm not at all surprised that there are women who code and want to share that with others. I'm thrilled that there is more and more of this type of stuff on Instagram. This is how we reach audiences we normally wouldn't.
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by Lon7 9y ago
I think an important thing your average non-cs grad developer can learn from her story is the importance of networking. Maybe networking isn't the quite the correct term. But she put herself out there starting at 15, wrote and shared w
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by Lon7 9y ago
If you are interested in these questions I think it will be worth it to spend some time and do a bit of research, no? You can look up Peter Singer and Yuval Noah Harari to start with and read what they have written about this. I mention the
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by Lon7 9y ago
No, the bitcoin is held in escrow, requiring 2 of the 3 parties to sign off before the funds are released. This doesn't prevent all fraud but it seems to work pretty well for dark markets.
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by Lon7 9y ago
Even with a rig like that it will take around 10 months to break even. Ethereum will be moving to proof of stake in the future. There is no set date but it could be in approximately 1 year. At that point all these gpu rigs will need to swit
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by Lon7 9y ago
Amazon shareholder letters seem to be becoming the new Berkshire shareholder letters [0]. They are friendly, engaging, and most importantly, written by an author who steadfastly holds by principles that haven't changed in decades. If y
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by Lon7 9y ago
Garage doesn't literally mean garage in this context. Another way to put it is: Most fast growing tech companies are started by young people barely into adulthood on a laptop. I see a lot of late 20's in your list, and a lot of co
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by Lon7 9y ago
In proof of stake a single node decides what the next block added to chain is. This node gets the block reward and any transaction fees. They don't have to do any calculations, they simply get to decide, according to a set of rules, wh
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by Lon7 9y ago
> All the good bits of blockchain, we already had in git This is not true at all and shows a common misunderstanding of why the blockchain is useful. The big breakthrough with blockchains and crypto currencies has very little to do with
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by Lon7 9y ago
Many of these systems are designed such that if you do have the computational power to attack the integrity of the chain, it is actually more profitable to put that power to use for legitimate mining. Having 51% of the computational power d
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by Lon7 9y ago
I really really hope they have fixed their supply issues this time around. I live in the 4th largest city in North America and I was unable to get a Pixel within a reasonable amount of time.
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by Lon7 9y ago
Well, it's no closer to centralization than proof of work is. If one, or more than one party working together control >50% of the staked coins you are left with the same result as one party controlling 50% of the hashing power.
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by Lon7 9y ago
One Way is through Proof of Stake, which Ethereum will likely be moving towards in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake
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by Lon7 9y ago
There's two parts to this answer. First, the numbers thrown around are that once you own 15 diversified stocks you have reduced your portfolio risk by 70 percent. That's not bad. At this point your volatility may not be that diffe
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by Lon7 9y ago
To be fair, the "train-wreck" the blog comments on was predicted by Kahneman himself back in 2012. In fact, as shown in the article, he was personally urging researchers to question and check if the priming research studies were a
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by Lon7 9y ago
Orbits of planets were calculated long before General Relativity. I believe we put a man on the moon using newtonian physics. Many types of medicine is successful without us knowing exactly why. Just because technology that is built on top
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by Lon7 9y ago
The common numbers thrown around are that with 20 stocks your portfolio risk is reduced by 70%. The corresponding ratios follow. So in that sense it's not that bad. Of course that's just one form of risk. The less attractive aspec
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by Lon7 9y ago
It was mentioned in the presentation. It has it's own sim card - something they called an "electronic sim" I think.
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by Lon7 9y ago
I was really hoping that the watch would be able to share a cellular plan with the phone. I'm not sure I'm willing to buy another cellular plan just for the the watch.
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by Lon7 9y ago
Gwern's fascinating self experiment on LSD microdosing is always worth a read when this topic is brought up. He found that there was no measurable effect. https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
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by Lon7 9y ago
The headband was actually very cool by the way, and I do believe it worked as advertised. I'm just not convinced it's a great method method to learn meditation.
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by Lon7 9y ago
I have mixed feelings overall with the technological aides available for meditation now. I think they are causing more people than ever to take up the practice which is great. I bought one of those $300 headbands that "monitored your b

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