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andr3w321

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    Comment #25851481

    I have been a huge Tether skeptic for years. There is almost no chance they are a legitimate operation in my opinion. When they are shutdown BTC/USD will drop, BTC/USDT will go up …

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    Comment #25782227

    Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions.

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    Comment #20415818

    It depends who you ask. I think it's inevitable that it's released one day. By not releasing you're just delaying it. All the top high stakes players already have solvers that they…

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    Comment #20415672

    Any chance of the code being released or a cepheus style answer key being provided? http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/strategy

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    Comment #17192751

    I think you're confusing value investing with looking at a simple Price/Book ratio. Value investing is much more than that. One method of fundamental analysis involves making a pre…

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    Comment #17173926

    Does the cost of a 51% attack rise linearly with time? Is this right? Cost of 24h attack == 24 * (Cost of 1h attack)

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    Comment #17068364

    Billions are already wagered offshore on all major sports. Making it illegal just makes it more difficult to protect the integrity of the game.

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    Comment #16739989

    He inherited $40 million from his dad in 1974 and his returns since then have roughly matched the S&P 500. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...

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    Comment #16355467

    The stock market is not zero sum. The people taking the other side of well managed hedge funds are usually poorly managed pension funds/hedge funds, index fund ETFs that blindly bu…

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    Comment #16354951

    Buffett structured his bet in a very specific manner to maximize management fees of the other side. His bet was the S&P 500 vs any five funds of funds hedge funds. This is like bet…

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    Comment #15910624

    The fundamentals are at the current price of $17,000/btc bitcoin mining costs are about $14.5B annually(144 blocks of 12.5 btc/block plus ~3.8 btc/block in fees) in electricity exp…

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    Comment #15779454

    Drinking decaf ~one week a month is a good way to reset your tolerance

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    Comment #15709363

    Thanks - learned a bit here. You did contradict yourself though from your original reply to this one. "In your phrasing, you could say that government also "tells people what they …

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    Comment #15709272

    Regarding the FDA I don't think the government should be telling me what drugs I can and can't take. Plenty of people are denied from taking early stage drugs because they are not …

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    Comment #15709165

    "Investor accreditation makes sense (for now.)" No it doesn't. It's pure nanny statism. The government has no business telling people what they can and can't invest in or spend the…

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    Comment #15690429

    I failed shrugs The problem I have with tests like this is it uses syntax I've never used before and I'm not sure how it works. Also the real world involves testing out and seeing …

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    Comment #15685495

    It wouldn't overwrite your code without your approval of course, but if it could at least provide helpful suggestions that I could choose to approve it would be immensely helpful.

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    Comment #15683246

    What I'd really like is a smarter compiler. My normal dev process is 1. Write code 2. Run code 3. See error 4. Google error 5. Write code to fix error 6. Repeat I'd like a compiler…

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    Comment #15603083

    "What they are saying is that it has exactly zero chances at becoming a serious rival to the US$ or other currencies as a medium of exchange." There is definitely a non zero percen…

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    Contact info is in profile but andr3w321 at gmail

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    Comment #15525865

    What the authors are doing is “chasing steam” and most books will ban or limit you if you try this. This should come as no surprise to people with experience in the industry. The b…