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How does limiting the timeline to 5,000 years enhance our ability to predict the future?

This isn't how short selling works. If I short a stock, I borrow the share and the sell it on the market. If I loan the share to someone else and they sell it then it is still only…

How does it handle symbols that aren't legal javascript identifiers? Is that on the user or are the some safety conventions in place in the compiler?

6) Liability.

Doesn't it centralize control of the encryption and data to your company and your authentication provider?

So the only decentralized/blockchain part is authentication?

Can you provide any details as to how it will be free, scalable, and decentralized? The word blockchain doesn’t inspire my confidence.

Being able to discern large scale themes and patterns in data, then using those findings distill the original data input to minimally redundant messages, is similar to the goal of …

Only the citizens who like to keep inert piles of cash buried in their back yard.

What is the value of the society that raised him and all the research and effort that came before him?

I interviewed at Facebook with the intention of getting an offer letter I could use as a bargaining chip with my first choices. I was rejected, but fortunately got into my first ch…

It's not pronounced from the throat like the German "ch" but otherwise it's as close as it gets.

I suppose leveraged betting is done best when backed by worthless collateral.

If and only if you got your btc out of mtgox.

It works that way if he transferred the private key and then they murdered him. Blockchains and meatspace have different rules.

Employees are normally forbidden from trading any derivatives, short selling, or even buying shares in a margin account. I’m not sure about the case of an employee that has left th…

Real Estate has a certain real world utility.

You don’t think that these two things are correlated?

Last year Alexis O’hanion predicted BTC would be 20k and ETH 1.5k by this time too. Many executives seem over enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies to me.

Legislation is stuck at the money-in-money-out mechanic.

Can we all get smarter? Children easily become experts at any modern device. If we automate everything and pour resources into cheap and scalable education could we make the majori…

I was a lifelong night owl. Six months ago I decided to start going to the gym and meditating every morning in an effort to completely reprogram my habits. Now I look forward to th…

Ethereum does seem to be the platform of choice for odd gambling games.

There are clear guidelines about civility. This is not reddit. If you're being downvoted it's not because people disagree with you. It is though very likely that many people disagr…

So to be clear you're confirming that nothing works now and that not only use cases but also working tech is still entirely speculative?