destructaball

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by destructaball 8y ago
But if you have a mortgage you're long and leveraged. A 20% fall in the value of a house may end up with you losing 200% of your investment.
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by destructaball 8y ago
On something of a tangent I suspect that large parts of the GDPR will be comparably moot. Many companies including Twillo and Delta have rolled out their tracking controls behind feature flags. If you decide that you'd rather not be tr
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by destructaball 9y ago
30% is far too small of an initial margin for such a volatile commodity. The initial margin is expected to cover a the movement of an observable through making the margin call, the period of time the margin call could be filled, declaring t
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by destructaball 10y ago
What are the advantages of ANTLR over something like Haskells Parsec? https://github.com/aslatter/parsec
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by destructaball 10y ago
The problem is that if you can verify your vote you can be coerced into voting in a certain way. There would need to be some sort of plausible deniability built in.
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by destructaball 12y ago
It was last year, to be honest I'm not too sure of his setup. All I know is he set up the exhaust to heat his house
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by destructaball 12y ago
I don't think that's true. I think in most western countries the kind of people who end up taking meth are already people who have a drug problem, making the makeup of meth users be generally people with serious issues. New Zealan
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by destructaball 12y ago
I used to know a fairly small miner, ~$2,000 a month turnover, who managed to rig his ASIC up to his heat pump in such a way that is heated his house and cooled the card. He lived in a fairly big house and it was always toasty even in the m
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by destructaball 12y ago
Every now and again I step back and think of the absurdity of us having to take all of these precautions to stay safe from the people employed to represent our interests
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by destructaball 12y ago
Anecdotally, I've been applying for jobs using Scala and Clojure in Australasia and Europe and the Scala jobs seem more numerous and far better paid
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by destructaball 12y ago
I have on a few occasions refused to sell Bitcoins to people. One time a man brought $5,000 of crumpled bills in a carrier bag and I told him to take a hike and never try to buy from me again. I refuse to sell to anyone who tells me they&#x
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by destructaball 12y ago
I run a reasonably successful service buying and selling Bitcoins for cash, an act which is completely legal where I live. I have absolutely no idea where my clients get their Bitcoins or what they use them for and there no way I could find
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by destructaball 12y ago
The idea is that if you allow evidence which is gathered illegally you incentivize the gathering of evidence illegally
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by destructaball 12y ago
Location: Currently Auckland/London but I'd love to relocate Stack: Scala, Play!, Akka, JS/JQuery, Angular.js, MySQL, Git, Android Resume: http://goo.gl/8UzKrM Contact: david at 4ta dot co dot uk I&#x27