johnvonneumann

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by johnvonneumann 7y ago
> You can't simply front-run someone else by having deep pockets. Well you can, as was discovered in the Haim Bodek HFT shit storm.
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by johnvonneumann 8y ago
IMO it's not the 8 hours that's required, it's deep sleep, that's what really rests you. I got 7.5hrs the other night, with 1hr of Deep Sleep and I actually felt like I was on the verge of death, whereas other nights on
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
> Because we do not want the union "benefits" that aren't really benefits. "The union protects and improves Members' wages and conditions. Our successful bargaining campaigns continue to deliver fair wages and be
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
And in response to his fallacious proclamations that Blockstream controls core. git shortlog -sn 4982 Wladimir J. van der Laan = Non-Blockstream 1446 Pieter Wuille = Blockstream 1101 Gavin Andresen = Non-Blockstream 639 Philip
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Whilst I would usually agree with you, your comments about being a conspiracy theorist are IMO entirely wrong, look at the history of the account, the lifespan of it, and the threads it posts on. I agree that ad hominem is incorrect and pre
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Mate, please, stop with the Blockstream FUD. Blockstream make up only 20% of commits on Bitcoin. Find another strawman. There is not a 1MB limit, the limit was lifted with the implementation of segwit, as it changed the counting mechanism t
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
And what incentive do collective groups have to do that? I struggle to understand why people would act against their own self-interests to undermine their own rights and pay. Did you know that global wage growth is being outstripped by infl
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
""[..] I personally have zero desire to work in a union or be forced to be in one." I'm going to speculate that's only because you have good working conditions." I have noticed (personal anecdote here so yeah n
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
CFMEU (Aus) used to hand out bumper stickers that said: "Is that the truth or did you read it in the Herald Sun?"
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Because it doesn't work like that, you can't deny the benefits, the way they work (in Aus, it will be similar elsewhere) is with EBA (Enterprise Bargaining Agreements). Basically, the union will go into talks with companies, agree
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
However this hardly makes it ok to continue this sort of behaviour, the top boys manage to wrangle huge bonuses, yet when a group of workers asks for 5% per year, they're a bunch of monsters.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
The majority of countries are already enacting laws/frameworks/technology that would help eventually outlaw this sort of behaviour, perhaps not explicitly, but many times implicitly. For example in Australia the govt is looking to
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
This. I have been staunch anti-social media for a while now, but not long ago I heard someone from a community I'm involved in say that the conversation on twitter was actually pretty intelligent so I signed up. You hear about how it&#
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Yeah after re-reading this thread I think I've properly gone off the deep end with this one, I've probably misread your initial comment, I think, sorry if I did.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
I'm asking him to back his opinion up because his question was a loaded question: Question: "Why not just use another crypto-currency?" Load Question: "Why not just use a crypto-currency that isn't clogged by develo
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
How is it right that I get downvoted for asking for someone to back their bullshit opinions up with facts? Enjoy your hyperbole.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Please explain your statement in detail with sources and facts please, I'm sure I know what you're trying to insinuate so I'm going to ask you to back your claims up with some truth.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Please don't start on the "Vision" rhetoric, look at the pipeline of core, there is a clear path to VISA scale tx but it is an engineering challenge, unfortunately the majority of people complaining and talking about scaling
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Shoutout to all my Melbourne people who experience Metro trains on a regular basis.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Average transaction cost has been shown to be a bad metric, context: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7b7jj1/john_newber...
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
You would hope that in 140~ years we have the power problem sorted out, if not, Bitcoin mining is probably the least of our worries.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
It will be forked because they have history of forking when people "lose" funds.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
So he is falling for a myth, yet what you're referring to is the Efficient Market Hypothesis, does the word "hypothesis" ring any bells for you? Even more so, does the fact that a theory that originated in the 1960's, st
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
My team is considering running this in Production. Do you offer support contracts?
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Limiting those who stand a chance of pulling off the type of big wins they advertise heavily on television is rigging the market. It's manipulation, pure and simple. What they're selling is a bullshit dream that if you ever come c
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
I don't believe he moved the goalposts at all, he made a valid point. The argument that you have made about staying "competitive" IMO is a classic example of bandwagon fallacy. Just because other countries allow companies to
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Comments like this kill me a little on the inside, I can't stand having real work devalued for the sake of contrived assessment criteria.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
RIP sweet prince.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
At $3M a year, taxes are probably the least of your earthly worries. And also, you probably make enough to get a good tax accountant.
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by johnvonneumann 9y ago
Nobody cares about what? Litecoin or the bullshit?

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