mccoyspace

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by mccoyspace 9y ago
An interesting take on Google vs Apple. I would have loved to hear at least something about Alexa. I’m a hardcore Apple and Amazon user (plenty of Google too). I see myself staying imperfectly hybrid for awhile. (Edit:) the observation of p
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
Similar to what is required for bitcoin futures on cboe
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
the cost of transactions has stayed mostly constant when priced in bitcoin. Like the article says, why always convert back to the dollar price?
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it's basic premise: "why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Windows, or Mac". People didn't know or unde
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
There was a story about this in Motherboard just the other day. Tl,dr— Metals and drugs are a big problem *edit: spelling https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8xnk/turns-out-...
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
no, it's not trivial, but you can just follow these steps. https://glacierprotocol.org
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
It’s a mind virus breaking out to infect all the world’s humans
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
This is already happening. For example Coinbases’s new COO is ex-Ameritrade
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How Antiquities Have Been Weaponized in the Struggle to Preserve Culture(hyperallergic.com)
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
This is such a fascinating (and disturbing) situation. And quite mysterious. High frequency ultrasound is used routinely in medicine and has never been shown to change brain tissue. Infrasound has some effect on tissue but its probably over
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
Back in 2012/2013 there was something called "Mt Gox codes". It was a USD transfer mechanism that was supported by Gox, btc-e, early bitfinex and others. You could magically and instantly get a USD balance transferred from
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
agreed. There are many examples of attempts to put into dialog these different traditions of postmodernism vs humanism/analytic rationality: The Foucault/Chompsky debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
I also think it could be seen as realpolitik. I depends on how strongly you take "we create our own reality". Even Postmodernism has a kind of 'classical' version that emerges historically from Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx a
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
That is a fantastic quote from a truly great American thinker. You could add to it the quote from Ron Suskind's article from an unnamed Bush administration official: "The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
$1M doesn't buy you the time of day where I live in northern Brooklyn. And it's $1250 minimum per person in a rental share, often more.
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
The Ethereum Foundation owns and controls the trademarks of Ethereum. While they cannot dictate the code the various participants on the network run, they get to explicitly decide which version of the code gets to be called "Ethereum&q
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
"The advent of photography freed painting from the task of verisimilitude, opening the door to a world of abstraction."
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
But you are essentially staking "off chain" by buying the gear in fiat money. So there is a built-in exchange rate arbitrage. And the on-chain velocity of value is not slowed down. This isn't true in ETH POS.
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
Basically yes. CB has said that they won't support the coin.
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
This is very similar to the ripple pre-cursor called ripplepay. A clear explanation of that can be found here. https://classic.ripplepay.com/about/
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
Related work: The artist Jason Salavon is well-known for making work using a software-driven frame averaging technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Salavon Using analog techniques there is a famous set of photo
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
This is an interesting and relevant point. However, I believe that the expectation of privacy could still be arguably maintained because of the contractual relationship between the user and the service provider. The EULA and privacy policy
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
Namecoin has a number of innovations. It's the first 'alt-coin' fork from Bitcoin, and it pioneered the technique of "merge mining" where a miner could do Proof of Work on both the Bitcoin chain and the NameCoin cha
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
We built this with glimmer. https://mcast.io/katgraham-exclusives/
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by mccoyspace 9y ago
This doesn't apply to Rollins and Black Flag. The work they did got better and better, more and more innovative, culminating in 1984 with the release of both "My War" and "Slip it In". Totally innovative records. An
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
a very different aesthetic, but I like Matt Bua's buildings in upstate NY: http://bhomepark.blogspot.com
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
that would speak to the debris you possibly grabbed on the way down. Use that piece of fusilage, seat or luggage as a sled and work those bank turns
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
You may find it interesting that artists in the timeline also are here in HN.... http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2002.274a-e/
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
The Venezuela stock market has had quite a run over the past few years too, but..... https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/IBVC:IND
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
"The graves of investors have been dug with political shovels." awesome quote! hadn't heard that one before. reminds me of the old 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent' line.

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