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I hate job post jargon. "Fast paced environment" == we give you more work than can be handled in an 8 hour day. OK thanks, now I know not to apply.

How does this negate mutually assured destruction? If anything it enforces the idea that this is why we have only had close calls. No one wants to be responsible for starting the d…

Very simple: Mutually assured destruction

If you can trade futures on the weather, then why not sports games? Why should Las Vegas be the ones getting all the money on sports bets?

>They might be 30% slower in virtualization and should be about 5-7% slower in real world usage. Virtualization IS real-world-usage. This is going to damage Intel where it will hur…

>I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful... If you can train yourself to do the opposite you could make a lot off this stock. Buy fear, sell greed. …

>This is a product of SF being extremely welcoming and supportive of the homeless and the poor. >NYC has less of these things because it has undergone extreme gentrification and ha…

Joke is on them, only grandparents and mothers of young children use facebook anymore.

don't know, but I would think leaving it on an exchange is a terrible idea (Mt. Gox)

you can't talk about value without talking about supply

Your example is a reflection on counterfeiter and the person being deceived. That has nothing to do with the value of bitcoin.

that is exactly how markets work. > bitcoin has no intrinsic value, just a exchange rate with other things 1. It has proof-of-work, which gives it value 2. Supply of the coin and d…

Good point. I am taking for granted that people will have their coins in their wallets, and lot just leave them up on an exchange.

> fully determined by supply and demand With bitcoin you cannot manipulate the supply, therefore you can't magically create $800M out of thin air.

Because you can't lend out a Bitcoin you don't have, unlike fiat currency.

> For example, 800M has been artificially pumped into the Bitcoin. This is impossible with Bitcoin. Bitcoins can only be created via mining, Bitcoin mining is a proof-of-work crypt…

I think even more are holding out for Epyc.

This tone of this article is pretentious and just plain douchey. The author is largely assuming that their small niche (and petty) use case is what everyone who uses a KVM would wa…