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Devilboy

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    Comment #5708834

    There are already THREE HUGE flashing stop signs that light up on the way to the tunnel if your truck is too big. The water sign is a last resort only.

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    Comment #5708818

    That causes stuff to be knocked off the top of the truck onto other cars on the road possibly killing innocent people.

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    Comment #5708701

    You can always sell to individuals on localbitcoins or whatever

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    Comment #5708481

    What was the policy changes?

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    Comment #5708453

    It's a Japanese company though

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    Comment #5703216

    It has explicit error handling (via multiple return values) which the authors argue is superior (even if more verbose) because they know from experience that programmers tend to ma…

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    Comment #5697921

    They sell for $10 million. Is that what you mean?

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    Comment #5697918

    Sure but that's not the point here. The important thing is that this quantum computer actually WORKS. In 2 years classical computers will be maybe 5 times faster. But this quantum …

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    Comment #5697909

    Bitcoin addresses are hashes, not the public keys themselves. Thus they are safe against a quantum factoring algorithm. If you spend money from a bitcoin address though, the public…

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    Comment #5697898

    D-Wave does have a factoring algorithm. See the comments from D-Wave here: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/learning-to-program-th... "We do have a factoring algorithm that I’…

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    Comment #5690312

    If the contract is tight, let em sue. Big companies get sued all the time. Who cares.

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    Comment #5690308

    $10k per hour, $20k if they want anal.

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    Comment #5685830

    Gotta get paid half up-front man!

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    Comment #5685823

    Client: Please record yourself doing the job Me: OK no problem, that will cost an extra $X Client: Ah actually don't worry about the recording

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    Comment #5685556

    If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough. Just work out what your price is and send them a new quote. Don't ever fire a client, that's just silly. Make the c…

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    Comment #5656816

    Every 10 minutes some coins are dropped in a big dark pool and everyone interested in catching them play hungry hungry hippos until some lucky person gets it.

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    Comment #5641807

    Bitcoin miners running on iPhones / iPads won't make any money, you need a decent GPU these days.

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    Comment #5605287

    Go on any Bitcoin forum and the newbie section will be filled with people wanting to buy Bitcoin with credit cards, usually via Paypal. Some of those will be scammers but not all o…

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    Comment #5594304

    Backwards cap? No sunglasses?

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    Comment #5593061

    Only to other Bitcoin transactions.

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    Comment #5575608

    This has worked for me.

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    Comment #5574874

    Someone on Reddit has already recognized the two men, they stayed at a motel where the Redditor works

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    Comment #5569820

    I don't think it's realistic to expect that to happen any time soon.