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legolassexyman

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    Comment #14941148

    I work in this industry and there are a lot of bad UI choices all around. The picture of the California board looks like a good example and uncluttered. They have the budget out th…

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    Comment #14933953

    Wait before you make rash judgments: he also worked on Bitcoin.

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    Comment #14835538

    How many times are they going to write this article?

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    Comment #14829066

    It can't. For example if you target a certain level of money velocity people could just spam large fake transactions and cause inflation. Bitcoin does enable some interesting monet…

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    Comment #14825357

    > The $79 price point is attractive. I wonder how much power can be packed into such a small form factor? It's surprising that a lot of power isn't necessary for deep learning appl…

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    Comment #14825330

    > Movidius's NCS is powered by their Myriad 2 vision processing unit (VPU), and, according to the company, can reach over 100 GFLOPs of performance within an nominal 1W of power co…

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    Comment #14809177

    I am very biased because I know the people at Blockstream have been thinking about this problem longer than the developers of Ethereum. Please see this article to get an idea of th…

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    Comment #14809100

    You should ask yourself what the Bitcoin developers are doing while Ether takes their market share. The answer is the exact same thing, at https://elementsproject.org Now why hasn'…

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    Comment #14808853

    As I said here last week "Also the lead developer is some kid who believes very much in moving fast and breaking things. This philosophy may work for a social network site but not …

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    Comment #14774660

    I don't think JP Morgan is going to give you the private key to your bond. This is a slightly more decentralized version of holding securities in street name. It's less painful tha…

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    Comment #14774634

    It's a big deal imo, but a major blow for Bitcoin, because it's nowhere to be seen. Have you ever purchased a bond? Ever wanted to sell one on the secondary market? Ever heard of t…

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    Comment #14774586

    Ethereum's main selling point is it lets you issue illegal unregistered securities. Why would a real company want to associate with that? Also the lead developer is some kid who be…

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    Comment #14774556

    The "jobs" this technology replaces were computerized in the 1960s and 1970s. The application of the blockchain only speeds up settlement because there is a single ledger between m…

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    Comment #14774520

    This is the main application for Bitcoin IMO: custody and trade settlement in securities. I have wanted to do this exact thing, issue bonds on a blockchain for some industry or gov…

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    Comment #14749598

    You'd probably be better off with something like a casio fx-115es plus (non graphing scientific calculator). For example: You'd have to remember your integration tables better on n…

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    Comment #14749573

    Seems like an exaggeration. I really doubt there's anyone taking realtime notes in LaTeX.

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    Comment #14749559

    You typeset all your lecture notes? I'm not sure this would benefit a student. Something I wish I did when I was in school is download the solutions manuals and work problems. I co…

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    Comment #14740392

    Are you a Marx Brother? Sheesh.

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