merloen

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by merloen 9y ago
That's not arbitrage, just basic investment. Arbitrage is buying X at place A and selling X at place B. Energy arbitrage means buying energy where it's low, and selling where it's high. The latter is missing here.
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by merloen 9y ago
Investopedia: "Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from a difference in the price." Deciding to mine bitcoin where energy is cheap is just bloody obvious. > When I buy Bitcoin, as long as the e
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by merloen 9y ago
This article is enormously confused, even by bitcoin standards.
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by merloen 9y ago
Is there any nation in which kids are less independent than in the U.S.?
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by merloen 9y ago
I’m an atheist. I’ve worked with people who thought I’m going to hell. What am I going to do, get them all fired? No. Just be polite and respectful to your colleagues. Not every stone needs to be turned.
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by merloen 9y ago
What makes you think that those fantasy signal processing strategies were invented by (respectable) economists? Because they weren't.
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by merloen 13y ago
This paper is a classic: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf
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by merloen 13y ago
I have a cronjob that does a "git fetch" every 5 minutes. That means I never pull. I merge-fastforward, and I rebase. Very satisfied with that workflow.
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Bitcoin Q and A: Bubble or Breakthrough? Both Cult or Currency? Both(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.nl)
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by merloen 13y ago
Yeah - "on average". The last couple of years have been an exceptional situation, since the federal funds rate is almost 0%.
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by merloen 13y ago
Civilized countries don't have violent prisons.
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by merloen 13y ago
> Every single holder of USD lost around 1-2% a year to inflation, which is essentially a backdoor tax. That's only true of cash, and money in checkings accounts. Money deposited in savings accounts yields interest, which (on averag
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by merloen 13y ago
That is by no means a fact. Nobody expected war in 1914, and most of the Great Powers did not want war. Franz Ferdinand was a force for moderation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A lot of domino stones had to fall for WWI to happen. By the
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by merloen 13y ago
The EU is a $16.5T economy, most of it on the internet, vastly underserved by internet companies compared to the U.S. Even Facebook was English only until 2008. Big business opportunities are being missed there.
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by merloen 13y ago
Banks fail for other reasons than being run by crooks.
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by merloen 13y ago
Congrats, we're a customer and we're approaching 10K builds...
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by merloen 13y ago
iTunes did that at one time because people complained about the shuffle algorithm for similar reasons.
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by merloen 13y ago
The innovation subsidies (WBSO) require 1225 hours/year, I believe. Pretty hard to get (lots of red tape) but worth it though, very happy with them.
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by merloen 13y ago
Oh, but we're laughing at them!
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by merloen 13y ago
What's the difference between in-app purchases, and what Quake did (the first episode free, pay for the other three)? There is a big difference between in-app purchases for extra content (paid DLC, basically) and the model that Candy C
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by merloen 13y ago
I must have missed part I and II, namely "The game industry has been destroyed", and "It was in-app purchases that destroyed the game industry." Any links to those?
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by merloen 13y ago
And also previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804907
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by merloen 13y ago
> BitCoin might be a harbor in the face of runaway inflation. Even the swings of BitCoin pale in comparison to periods of massive inflation in several countries. It might be, but there's no inflation on the horizon anywhere. The Eur
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by merloen 13y ago
If Singapore chooses bitcoin, what will happen to the SGD? If it will be phased out, who will buy the current owners of SGD bitcoins? If not, what are the advantages of adopting bitcoin?
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by merloen 13y ago
> It might be worth considering that bitcoin has already multiplied in value by 1000 times several times, from $0.001 to $1 to $1,000. That doesn't make another 1000x multiplication more likely. Quite the contrary.
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by merloen 13y ago
That would also be misleading since everyone's share of the debt is $54,537, not $200K.
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by merloen 13y ago
I get the I/E distinction, I understand the F/T dimension, but I've never read a good explanation of N/S and J/P. Anyone care to explain?
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by merloen 13y ago
Another take on Huxley's dystopia (if you can call it that) is this: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal Much deeper and scarier than you'd expect given the setting.
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by merloen 13y ago
Companies don't like having their costs in one currency, and their revenue in another. It's called currency risk ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_risk ) and companies generally try to avoid it or
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by merloen 13y ago
Yeah, I had the same question. If there are 2 investors each investing 50M, and they're equally senior, they both get half of the sale value if it's < 100M. They get 50M + 8%/y if it's sold for 100M-3B. And they get 1

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