fishcolorbrick

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A J-pop band for the crypto craze(bbc.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I guess I get it - but how do you measure when the toxicity level falls low enough? What is the LD50 of a social network?
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I'm surprised that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is being eliminated; it reimburses states for the money spent housing unauthorized immigrants pending deportation. Isn't the administration's plan to deport a
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Page 2 (PDF pg 12) of this document includes detail on how much money would be saved by these changes: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/msar-f... For example, ARPA's budget woul
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Tangential, but I thought HN might find it interesting... The article quotes the director of the Human Rights Campaign (who you may know from their bumper stickers, a blue square with a yellow equality symbol in it), who is named Ty Cobb. T
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‘Bitcoin is my potential pension’: What’s driving people in Kentucky to join(washingtonpost.com)
20 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|2 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
This is what I use at work. :) It can make the code difficult to read and update later though.
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China Enlists Its ‘Great Firewall’ to Block Bitcoin Websites(fortune.com)
2 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
...or, they'll be a momentary novelty that Generation Z will view as the 21st century equivalent of sticking your head through a cardboard cutout to pretend you're Dale Earnhardt or Santa Claus or whatever. https://img.
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I'd support a constitutional amendment to guarantee 'no first use', regardless of who is in office. If verifiable global nuclear disarmament was possible, I'd support that as well. As a citizen of the USA, I don't w
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Here's another one: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-calibri-pakist...
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
The difference between 3.1B and 1300B dollars is significant and it is bizarre that you cite a source and then say "the number doesn't really matter". The number definitely does matter... The number you initially claimed in s
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
>US is planning to spend 1.3 trillion in Israel in FY18 That isn't what your source says... where'd you get that number? [0]: https://www.foreignassistance.gov/explore/country/Israel
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Someone will surely try your suggestion at some point, and I hope we don't get to find out what the Enron of water supply looks like. "Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one po
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
The argument I've heard to counter this is the idea that economic markets are efficient even when many participants are irrational because the irrational participants cancel each other out, amounting to random noise. A market can find
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
@PeopleOfFinland, one of those Twitter accounts that is run by a different person every week, was ran by a Saami indigenous person native to Lapland last week and they had some criticism of this style of article where Lapland is portrayed a
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
The problem is that mixing business and law enforcement, so that quotidian commercial transactions become opportunities for criminal investigation, can and historically has lead to unintended consequences. Quoting from a below comment: >
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
> Exactly same what facebook does also. My google-fu is weak - I can't find any source for Facebook providing information to ICE. Would you please help me out with some more information on this?
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Bitcoin exchange kidnapped exec is “safe” but “in a state of major stress”(qz.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
"Apple's mound of cash and cash equivalents continued to scrape the cloudline..." Cloudline is being modest... a stack of a trillion dollars in singles will take you 25% of the way to the Earth's moon. https:/&#x2F
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Star Citizen backer's $25000 refund has taken months, still in dispute (update)(polygon.com)
3 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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Haunted Again: Skull-Faced 'Halloween Asteroid' Returns in 2018(space.com)
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North Korea may be making a fortune from Bitcoin mania(money.cnn.com)
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North Korea Is Main Suspect in Ruinous Hack of South Korean Bitcoin Exchange(gizmodo.com)
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Wealthy Bel-Air wrestles with homeless crisis after encampment fire burns homes(latimes.com)
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Searching for the CRISPR Swiss-army knife(phys.org)
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China Gathering Blood, Dna, and Iris Scans of Millions in Muslim Province(newsweek.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
> These are some of the highest values for aluminium in human brain tissue yet recorded and one has to question why, for example, the aluminium content of the occipital lobe of a 15 year old boy would be 8.74 (11.59) μg/g dry wt.? T
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Same - I supported Obama for years, and yet my favorite bar trivia anecdote is "Name all the Nobel Peace Prize winners who have killed other Nobel Peace Prize winners" [0]. [0]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world&#x
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/sw1K9

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