hathathat

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by hathathat 8y ago
You don't, but if you're the best bid for storing one copy your the best bid for storing all n copies!
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Assembling an Entry Level High Frequency Trading (HFT) System(towardsdatascience.com)
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Filecoin 2018 Q1 and Q2 Update(filecoin.io)
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by hathathat 8y ago
> Trivially disproven by UK's health care system Not trivially? [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/18/uk-cancer-su...
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by hathathat 8y ago
If the CEO wants to buy a new Ferrari, they need to take money out of the company - either as income or dividends (both of which are taxed). If the company buys him his car then it's a taxable benefit too. If the company increases the
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by hathathat 8y ago
If Amazon pays its employees income, and those employees pay income tax, how is that different to Amazon paying tax? The government gets its money from Amazon either way.
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by hathathat 8y ago
More importantly, did the people running analysis on this dataset get explicit permission from the European post authors as required by the GDPR?
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by hathathat 8y ago
> deficit reduction programme Your link just explains that they’re trying to reduce the gap between tax income and expenditure, but the absolute level of expenditure (my link) has gone up every year (in real terms too)!
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by hathathat 8y ago
> The UK has until recently been trying to follow a policy of reduced public spending Um, what? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom
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by hathathat 8y ago
> Banks get to create the principal that they loan out of thin air[1] I’m not sure how you get this from your reference - people deposit money at a bank, and the bank lends (gives!) some of that money out to (e.g.) students. The “creatio
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by hathathat 8y ago
What would be a GDPR-compliant yet useful access_log setting?
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by hathathat 8y ago
The transition period will probably end in December 2020 - that's a long time to wait and see!
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by hathathat 9y ago
The EU's standards often just transcribe the standards agreed at a global level, though [1] [1] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/u...
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by hathathat 9y ago
Why do you lose a say over global standards? Surely you now represent yourselves directly on global standards bodies, instead of indirectly via the EU's common position?
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by hathathat 9y ago
Yes they have! [1] Dual- class listing now miss out in huge daily price-insensitive purchases from ETFs driving their stock up. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/993e4c11-8729-3168-a280-69e1d400b...
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by hathathat 9y ago
Doesn't Puppet(.com) do something like this?
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by hathathat 9y ago
The money that’s backing the Tethers. As an example - you deposit 1mm USD with Bitfinex, and they give you 1mm Tethers. Bitfinex invests your 1mm USD every night at overnight Libor, earning interest each day they do so. When someone (you?)
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by hathathat 9y ago
Invest their stash of USD in treasury bills / overnight libor and keep the interest?
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by hathathat 9y ago
Borrowing against collateral means the lender has something to seize if you fail to pay them back. The more valuable the collateral, the more money the lender will recover when they repossess and sell the collateral. This likelihood of reco
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by hathathat 9y ago
I'm not sure why you say it's a strawman? The whitepaper[1] says that an ask order on the storage market is just (space, price) -- no mention of the cost to retrieve the data. Similarly, the storage market protocol (Figure 11) doe
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by hathathat 9y ago
They seem to have solved proof-of-storage, but the network can’t guarantee the available of the files you pay to store! A profitable strategy: 1. Set up a miner on AWS. You’ll only need a small machine as you’ll persist the data in S3. 2. A
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by hathathat 9y ago
Not even central banks can provide the guarantee you’re looking for - they can only print money to devalue their currency, but they can’t make it appreciate [1]! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
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by hathathat 9y ago
Austerity? The government’s spending more this year than it has ever done in the whole of British history![1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom