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socillion

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About socillion

I'm afraid you won't find me around under this name anymore. Feel free to drop me an email at gmail.

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."

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    I'd guess it's due to rounding. Agreed on C.

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    Comment #7512972

    I'm not sure how much truth there is to that post since I haven't done any due diligence myself, I just remembered seeing it a while back. From the top comment in that thread, it l…

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    Comment #7511686

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20dolm/psa_xapo_doe...

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    Comment #7496908

    What I'd love to see is a version of this tool, which lets you interact with binaries, in Python: http://duschkumpane.org/index.php/mmbbq It's not what is posted here, just what I …

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    Comment #7479187

    Insurance.

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    Comment #7427282

    I recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. It sounds like what you're looking for, although it uses a mix of C and IA32.

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    Comment #7328740

    Here are some links on Japanese bankruptcy processes taken from IRC discussion. http://www.jurists.co.jp/en/topics/others_4007.html http://japantax.org/?p=84 My understanding is th…

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    Comment #7216251

    I'm curious - what do the remaining 70% do?

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    Comment #7165074

    "Some claim" a lot of things. http://i.imgur.com/7LzpYl4.jpg

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    Comment #7135818

    You wouldn't use ints for currency?

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    Comment #7135017

    I mean that putting a large sell order at 224 would make the buys (at the moment, at 220) move lower as the orders are filled by other people selling to them. You could then move t…

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    Comment #7127564

    The way it works is to use a giant bid or ask wall to push the price around. Say the asset has bids at 220 and asks at 222, and you want to push the price downwards. You put up an …

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    Comment #7127004

    You're right, that was a poor example.

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    Comment #7126981

    I only intended to comment on the altcoins that are known scams, but draw investors anyway. Imagine you started XorNotBux, announced you were planning to sell a billion of them in …

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    Comment #7126786

    Some of these altcoins are the epitome of the greater fool theory, where most participants are perfectly aware that it is a rationally poor decision to invest in them but do it any…

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    Comment #7126736

    Right now the prevailing attitude is that it's legal and nobody will get prosecuted for it. It's certainly possible for this to change, but premined altcoins (creators mine a % bef…

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    Comment #7126440

    I'm not sure why it's on HN, but it's real. It was originally happening in the public channel #dogecoin-market on Freenode but was then moved to the private channel #marketmakers, …

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    Comment #7044786

    How does the ban on 3rd party payment processors affect direct bank transfers?

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    Comment #7033182

    Here's another document on the topic: http://www.bitcointax.info/

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