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That's not arbitrage, just basic investment. Arbitrage is buying X at place A and selling X at place B. Energy arbitrage means buying energy where it's low, and selling where it's …

Investopedia: "Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from a difference in the price." Deciding to mine bitcoin where energy is cheap is just bloody …

This article is enormously confused, even by bitcoin standards.

Is there any nation in which kids are less independent than in the U.S.?

I’m an atheist. I’ve worked with people who thought I’m going to hell. What am I going to do, get them all fired? No. Just be polite and respectful to your colleagues. Not every st…

What makes you think that those fantasy signal processing strategies were invented by (respectable) economists? Because they weren't.

This paper is a classic: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf

I have a cronjob that does a "git fetch" every 5 minutes. That means I never pull. I merge-fastforward, and I rebase. Very satisfied with that workflow.

Yeah - "on average". The last couple of years have been an exceptional situation, since the federal funds rate is almost 0%.

Civilized countries don't have violent prisons.

> Every single holder of USD lost around 1-2% a year to inflation, which is essentially a backdoor tax. That's only true of cash, and money in checkings accounts. Money deposited i…

That is by no means a fact. Nobody expected war in 1914, and most of the Great Powers did not want war. Franz Ferdinand was a force for moderation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A…

The EU is a $16.5T economy, most of it on the internet, vastly underserved by internet companies compared to the U.S. Even Facebook was English only until 2008. Big business opport…

Banks fail for other reasons than being run by crooks.

Congrats, we're a customer and we're approaching 10K builds...

iTunes did that at one time because people complained about the shuffle algorithm for similar reasons.

The innovation subsidies (WBSO) require 1225 hours/year, I believe. Pretty hard to get (lots of red tape) but worth it though, very happy with them.

Oh, but we're laughing at them!

What's the difference between in-app purchases, and what Quake did (the first episode free, pay for the other three)? There is a big difference between in-app purchases for extra c…

I must have missed part I and II, namely "The game industry has been destroyed", and "It was in-app purchases that destroyed the game industry." Any links to those?

And also previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804907

> BitCoin might be a harbor in the face of runaway inflation. Even the swings of BitCoin pale in comparison to periods of massive inflation in several countries. It might be, but t…

If Singapore chooses bitcoin, what will happen to the SGD? If it will be phased out, who will buy the current owners of SGD bitcoins? If not, what are the advantages of adopting bi…