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by yyyyip 7y ago
If you (or anyone else) think you can effectively break bitcoin then there is a billion dollar bounty available to you in the form of a highly leveraged bitfinex short position.
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by yyyyip 7y ago
Bitcoin's governance model is what makes it special. 1) The founder declared it would have a maximum of 21 million coins with a set mining schedule 2) Many/most of the people who bought into it implicitly agreed that this is the
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by yyyyip 7y ago
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UO3iBE0nsuayzNceZPeK2mynHj... Here's a tune I made with Fiverr. Bassist from venezuela, rhodes keyboard from greece, rapper from washington dc, rhythm guitar from finland, jazz guitar
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by yyyyip 7y ago
We had a medical student who had her abdomen scanned as part of teaching. They found a cystic looking thing on her pancreas. She ended up getting it excised - it was benign and would've never caused problems, but she had multiple comp
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Reddit hiding r/the_donald in web and mobile search results(reddit.com)
13 points by yyyyip 7y ago|4 comments
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by yyyyip 7y ago
If the form factor is good enough why wouldn't you want the ability to have a tablet sized screen whenever you need a bit more space to do stuff? This seems like the first actual bit of interesting innovation in smartphones in about a
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by yyyyip 7y ago
cool project, expected response from BCH crew. permissionless is permissionless. they need to suck it up.
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by yyyyip 7y ago
Masayoshi seems great at picking market tops and buying into them.
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SoftBank founder lost $130M on Bitcoin(wsj.com)
89 points by yyyyip 7y ago|40 comments
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by yyyyip 7y ago
But it would be pretty easy to obfuscate the whole thing behind a few layers of "We've got 50 PhDs working here, we run black box algorithms" etc etc, the strategy could be artificially made a couple of orders of magnitude mo
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by yyyyip 7y ago
ok while we're playing "ask a hedge fund guy" Say I set up a fund holding a low cost s&p500 index ETF, but at the end of each year sold naked puts with a ~1/25 risk of ruin to earn ~4% return. Therefore my fund cons
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by yyyyip 7y ago
I think even zuck would have given up on any political aspirations at this point. He's a total pariah. Honestly, who wants to be a billionaire at this point? Even if you promise to give away 99% of your money everyone still hates you.
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by yyyyip 7y ago
I sold most @ $16.5k in the dead cat bounce after the bubble. I just bought quite a few back @ $3800. You get used to it, this is my 3rd or 4th >80% drawdown. Still remember $30->$2 in 2011/12
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Ask HN: Would an open source podcast rating/review system help podcast discovery
4 points by yyyyip 8y ago|2 comments
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by yyyyip 8y ago
So you say that tribes can physiologically adapt depending on their environment. Do you then admit that tribes can adapt cognitively depending on their environment? Or does adaptation only occur below the neck?
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by yyyyip 8y ago
Ok, so if "race" only affects external appearance, explain why every single london marathon champion since 2002 is kenyan or ethiopian?
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by yyyyip 9y ago
On the freakonomics podcast episode with the study authors, they said that on average women earn over 10 percent more than men from tips.
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Dunking on all these fucking bankers is going to be the sweetest thing ever. I hope every last one of these pieces of shit is holding a big hoard of crypto when it finally crashes. I've already sold them a LOT but I've got a fair
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Yep, it's like Fiat currency is some crappy thing poor people use to live on while the rich accumulate actual scarce resources with infinitely appreciating prices.
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Previously the only real options we have to use as "money" are nation-state derived and under the control of central bankers. For various reasons, nothing else (eg. gold, stocks, property) presented a practical alternative to s
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by yyyyip 9y ago
My doors aren't opening like an albatross anymore!
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by yyyyip 9y ago
I don't mean using the fingerprint as a key. I mean that if you can produce a fingerprint image corresponding to a blockchain hash and it matches your fingerprint 20 years later, and this is linked to 20 years worth of blockchain recor
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by yyyyip 9y ago
:rolleyes: ok Apoorv, if you want credentials, here's Hayek's speech agreeing with me. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/la...
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Why can't he, or I, diminishing the legitimacy of economics? If someone had made up a fake Nobel prize in psychology I would diminishing the legitimacy of that too. The field of economics is far, far less rigorous than any of the hard
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Slate star codex/Scott Alexander is a good example of internet-driven democratization of opportunity. A trainee psychiatrist from somewhere in the Midwest, the quality of his blog posts on economic and social issues has led to him bei
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by yyyyip 9y ago
The Bitcoin protocol contains an incrementally diminishing mining reward that prevents endless expansion of mining long term
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by yyyyip 9y ago
You are hopelessly naive if you think for profit publishers would ever do that.
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by yyyyip 9y ago
I think economics itself is very important for society. I just don't think economists add much to the field. Peter Nobel, a human rights lawyer and great grandson of Alfred Nobel explained that "Nobel despised people who cared mo
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Thankfully, the blockchain's 8 million trillion hashes per second and robust elliptic curve cryptography don't care what Jamie Dimon thinks.
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by yyyyip 9y ago
Honestly, the fake Nobel prize for economics really diminishes the credibility of the Nobel prizes and science in general. I like economics, have studied it and follow it, but it does not deserve to be placed alongside the hard sciences whe

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