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But if you have a mortgage you're long and leveraged. A 20% fall in the value of a house may end up with you losing 200% of your investment.

On something of a tangent I suspect that large parts of the GDPR will be comparably moot. Many companies including Twillo and Delta have rolled out their tracking controls behind f…

30% is far too small of an initial margin for such a volatile commodity. The initial margin is expected to cover a the movement of an observable through making the margin call, the…

What are the advantages of ANTLR over something like Haskells Parsec? https://github.com/aslatter/parsec

The problem is that if you can verify your vote you can be coerced into voting in a certain way. There would need to be some sort of plausible deniability built in.

It was last year, to be honest I'm not too sure of his setup. All I know is he set up the exhaust to heat his house

I don't think that's true. I think in most western countries the kind of people who end up taking meth are already people who have a drug problem, making the makeup of meth users b…

I used to know a fairly small miner, ~$2,000 a month turnover, who managed to rig his ASIC up to his heat pump in such a way that is heated his house and cooled the card. He lived …

Every now and again I step back and think of the absurdity of us having to take all of these precautions to stay safe from the people employed to represent our interests

Anecdotally, I've been applying for jobs using Scala and Clojure in Australasia and Europe and the Scala jobs seem more numerous and far better paid

I have on a few occasions refused to sell Bitcoins to people. One time a man brought $5,000 of crumpled bills in a carrier bag and I told him to take a hike and never try to buy fr…

I run a reasonably successful service buying and selling Bitcoins for cash, an act which is completely legal where I live. I have absolutely no idea where my clients get their Bitc…

The idea is that if you allow evidence which is gathered illegally you incentivize the gathering of evidence illegally

Location: Currently Auckland/London but I'd love to relocate Stack: Scala, Play!, Akka, JS/JQuery, Angular.js, MySQL, Git, Android Resume: http://goo.gl/8UzKrM Contact: david at 4t…