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Yes. More decimal places can also be added later on.

If we really get to the point where 1BTC = USD100,000, I could see the decimal point shifting and rebase (e.g. 1BTC now = 100,000 new BTC)
I'm 30, and while I have never considered leaving my wife, I have been through some soul-crushing shit. The kind where you sit on the third story of a parking garage ledge contemplating options.

During that time, I never considered it leaving my wife, as my life insurance policy covered suicide and would've left my wife financially secure forever ($1MM+).

I hope you never have to experience such despair, but having been there, I can see how people decide to split even if married. When things are at their darkest, nothing is off the table.
>but if bitcoin is really un-hackable

it may be un-hackable, yet not irreplaceable. One can imagine a government initiating a similar crypto-currency, controlling it through humongous server farms built somewhere where real estate and electricity is cheap, and accepting tax payments in that currency and blessing businesses to accept it as well.
Most font files have hand-hinted letterforms/glyphs for multiple sizes, that is pretty much the cornerstone of modern type rendering. So while the glyphs are contained in a singular file, they are not necessarily rendered from the exactly same curves.
To revise his analogy with music: Garamond would be the genre, but the analogy falls apart from there. Adobe Garamond Pro is a typeface, so maybe that could be likened to an album? Adobe Garamond Pro Regular is a font, as is Adobe Garamond Pro Bold Italic.
That hardly seems like a full currency, just a short-term transfer medium, with a very dubious role as a long-term store of value.
Looks cool. Just subscribed to it. Thanks for the tip.
If a sizable portion of the market is in it because if thinking like the above, it'll behave in highly relevant ways like a penny stock.
> most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon

Perhaps that should be "most Groovy people are excited for Kotlin". The reason "Groovers" look at Kotlin before Ceylon could be because Groovy creator James Strachan and Groovy++ creator Alex Tkachman jumped over to Kotlin.
It seems weird that the NFL would complain about this when NBC already streams Sunday Night Football, their biggest game every week?
This was posted 14 hours ago. It's since jumped to $750.
Bitcoin isn't a company. It's not comparable to much that has existed before, actually. So, while I won't try to predict where BTC will end up, I think it's not a useful analogy to compare it to a company and discuss market share in those same terms.
Sorry for the delay -- it took me a while to dig up a version. I posted it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hiLQjlCIfBQobLwj2lecohUq...

These are raw, rough notes -- we didn't bother to polish them much since they were only for our own usage. But hopefully they're still useful as an example of how one team prepared for the interview.
This is the third time bitcoin price has spiked this wildly, you just need a log plot to see it:

http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?showDataPoints=fa...

going by history, it would be wiser to buy in the dip after the spike.
So are you claiming that there are no older people in those comedy writing jobs? At all. All are gone? Somehow I don't think that is the case.
Firefox Nightly on Linux (KDE) http://i.imgur.com/OySdVCX.png.
It must depend on a lot on the library, which must depend a lot on the city. I have read of cities in New Jersey winding up in litigation over trying to push out the homeless essentially camping there. I believe that a co-worker used to complain of the homeless crowding the main DC library.
Marriage isn't easy, and we have no idea what is being glossed over in this excerpt. We don't even know if his family was supporting him in other ways (meals/doctor's appointments when he visited, money sent, etc).

It'd be interested to read the book and see just how 'casual' the wife's departure was--I'm guessing after 8 kids it wasn't.
depending on the market dynamics, it is quite often that "someone" can capture 1/4 of the market (it just may not be you).

if there are many perfect stores of digital value then bitcoin will be one of many, not that special, and unlikely to dominate. i am not familar with the alternatives. my post is a thought exercise on potential value of a digital currency.

with regards to bitcoin dimes and quarters - i stand corrected. although i confess to having a hard time imagining how folks will keep track of all this.
Seems like pure speculation; finance stripped of any contact with the real economy.
I can relate to the behaviour described in the article.

A smile is a signal, as is a frown. If you center your origin in the middle of the scale, you can use a smile to signal positive things and a frown to signal negative things. If you smile a lot you will move the origin: you're "always" smiling so what do you do when you're really happy? Or if you're always frowning what do you do when you're pissed off for real?

If the default signal is neutral, it's easy to give a little smile or a little frown and have that convey a lot of meaning, conscious or subconscious. And you still have reserves for the truly earth-shattering moments.

I'm not very qualified to comment on Americans but they do talk a lot. For what I've observed they seem to smile and then express with words such things that maybe someone from another culture could express with a slight change in his facial expression.
I think you need to be using the 45 deg imagery.
I think that depends on to what extent Bitcoin will replace the current money system. [1] looks into the price of Bitcoin if it becomes as widespread as Bitcoin or PayPal.

[1] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/11/17/bitcoin-bubble-or-val...
I have, it's definitely an interesting language, more ambitious than Kotlin and more bold too (lot of new keywords, disjointed types, etc...).

I prefer the most conservative, slightly incremental Kotlin myself, but it's purely personal and certainly not a knock on Ceylon, which was implemented by people I have a lot of respect for.
I am not familiar with this particular site, but the general idea of an "assassination market" is that such a market is "actually" a dead pool where all participants are guessing when somebody will die, and anybody who guesses correctly gets the payoff (or a share of the payoff, if there are multiple winners).

A dead pool 'becomes' an assassination market when the dead pool participants realize that by being an assassin, they can accurately guess when somebody will die.

So, in an assassination market set up this way, the prize does not necessarily go to the assassin. It just goes to whoever correctly guessed the date of death. If the assassin puts money down on April 15th, and I do as well, then the assassin would get half the money and I would get the other half, even though I had nothing to do with the assassination (besides in part 'funding' it. Also "half" assumes that both I and the assassin put the same amount on April 15th...). The problem of other people besides the assassin winning money isn't actually a problem, it is just the system working as intended.
Thank you. I think you wrote it the way I think/feel about it. I've just started to let it wash over too :-/
I was looking for something like this. Awesome stuff, it worked great!
how easy is it to sell your BTC for USD?
There is some backstory to these pictures. At least there was on Reddit when it was first posted, can't prove that it's true or not.

Anyway, his wife died and he is visiting all the places she/they went and making pictures to close himself of her.
The Winkelvosses must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Must have at least made one trip to cash out a portion, since they first started stashing the coin. [1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/video/winklevoss-twins-mine-11m-bit...
Ahh, thanks. Not as intuitive as just pinching/dragging, that's for sure!
Thanks! I'm making a list of things to be aware of so that those concerned may avoid missing out. Not taking anything to the word for sure.
It's been blurred out now (http://imgur.com/1GcROpY).

Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?
I've been seeing the bitcoin news hitting [more major] news outlets. Seeing an article like this http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/michael-santoli/bitcoin-price... with a picture of physical coins worries me. Why? All the uninformed people that want to get in on this bitcoin action may be sold of physical coins by scammers like the coins in the pictures. I'm concerned for the technically illiterate.
For some people who have not left their home country, other cultures might seem weird like that. They may themselves seem to be from some alien race as well, from someone others' viewpoint.
Yes, you're right. If people had trust in said government that such a currency would hold value, it would probably win.
consensus haha
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Karl Marx should have envisioned that someone like Stalin might exist in the future and will take over the power, otherwise his perfect Communism system is only applicable to perfect people.
Indeed.

Imagine a similar page to this that searched a whole bunch of NSFW sites doing the same trick - and then a site that feed your whole address book through them.

Imagine HR depts routinely feeding applicant's emails into such a system.

Hard to imagine that someone isn't already doing this sort of thing...
I would post a link, but I have no idea how to do it with the new Google Maps Beta. Much like everything else they've done recently, they've hidden all the functionality with absolutely no benefit, and exposed utterly useless functionality.
That's it? What a load of fuss over nothing.
I've been watching since about 20 minutes in; it is overwhelmingly positive.

There seem to be 2 'groups' of testimonies, the first coming from law enforcement and government bodies; the overwhelming consensus was that existing laws are satisfactory to prosecute bad actors using bitcoin.

The second group is still talking; again extremely positive.. analogies to bitcoin being similar to the internet in the mid nineties; its scary but overall good. The lawyer from the bitcoin foundation is really driving home the idea that the main problem right now is that bankers are too scared to give bitcoin business bank accounts.

I see overall nothing negative; and the chairman seems extremely reasonable and open to the notion of bitcoin and brought up the bitcoin-now <-> internet-in-the-nineties analogy himself.

No one is asking for stricter laws, everyone is asking for clarity. Much, much more positive than I expected; only the secret service guy seemed to be very cautious; he never said the word bitcoin and mostly spent his time saying the secret service was awesome.
Thanks. It sure is relative depending on each individual, but I think there are some things that those who experienced them can tell us about, so that we don't end up missing out either.
Not even a good commodity; its extreme volatility makes it more like a penny stock.
Groovy doesn't get enough love as a post-JVM language because they missed the static typing boat.

People that like static languages use Java, Scala, etc.

People that like dynamic languages use Python, Ruby (JRuby), etc.

Who's left over to use Groovy?

The people that like Grails and Gradle. Which is fine, but the popularity of the whole language is resting on these two frameworks, IMO, which seems precarious.

It's original thesis, a scripting language for the JVM, was interesting when it first started, but since then the JVM implementations of traditional scripting languages has gotten really good.

Personally, I believe that if they'd pivoted to static typing around Groovy 1.0, they would have been the Java next by now. They would have won.

They were years ahead of Scala. And it's always sounded like a great, working man's language/compiler, e.g. powerful AST/meta-programming/etc.

There were people in the Groovy camp who wanted to do this (the @Typed annotations that they have now), but it took too long, AFAICT, because the core committers had spent so much time convincing everyone that a dynamic language on the JVM was worthwhile that they didn't realize a static one would have taken their adoption to the next level.
Divorce rates are easily googlable. From it, you can extrapolate that your ideals are not shared by your countrymen. You can wonder if they lack moral fibre, or if you lack experience.
That's a good point. There could be another side to the story we're not hearing. (I updated my post to remove "casual").
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What difference does divisibility make wrt deflation?
Coin scorned
Next to the tracks: http://i.imgur.com/6XFwOq8.jpg
Thanks. I feel like there should be an app for knowledge discovery.
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You've done nothing to connect obesity rates to sports viewing in this comment. At best, your anecdote connected obesity to being in sports bars.
Nah; some of us are just amused.
In other words, it's an ideological project for Ron Paul types. The rest of us are not interested in going back to a rebranded gold standard
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Of course. Many Finnish people are like that too. If I can't think of a single reason myself why that unknown person might be smiling at me then I must conclude s/he's just pretending to be friendly and probably trying something, too. Thus, smiling must have a context: friends smile to each other and that's all right because they're already friends, and friends like each other.
You know what? There are americans that feel the way you do (and that I do) and they were raised in immigrant families more than likely. (As I was.) So it doesn't surprise me at all to hear that your father did what he did and now you see how glad you are that he made those choices which you benefited from. Not to mention what you mother went through.
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> I think the biggest lession we've learned ....

True, but in that case an Excel or Access "front end" is almost certainly more than sufficient and where it isn't, whatever built-in system for writing "front-end forms" for the DB backend would be.

Web applications are certainly overkill for these use cases, and native applications are even more so. However, few who use these applications are interested in thinking of their jobs as rote and easily automated, and even those who recognize and are comfortable with it will likely have managers who want to increase their visibility.
Yes, true for now, but I'm assuming it'll settle down eventually after and if it goes mainstream. Edited above to reflect.
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There is no logic in it. Holes are bad because holes are bad. I'm sure I can make up a reason for you, but IMO, its better to cut out the bullshit and just tell it to you straight.

Holes in a resume are bad because most people who look at resumes think that holes are a bad thing. Its simply the bias that exists in most jobs (that I've come across... anyway)
Bitcoin is indeed designed to be inherently deflationary, but the volatility is far too great to be explained by that; it's likely in a speculative bubble.
Ceylon 1.0 released
Is that a popular place for bodies? I swear I can see a body at street level here: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-12...
Wait, does that mean that iterating across the members of a Lua table is not in deterministic order? I assume it just uses the naive hash ordering for iterators... this is relevant because Lua is used as a scripting-engine SpringRTS which uses a lock-step-based multiplayer approach so anything non-deterministic risks breaking sync.
>one just gives up on the other person when times get hard.

That's a pretty simple summary. You don't go from prosperous to poor without a lot of stress and frustration, and that can change people, usually for the worse. If your partner used to be very loving, and spend time with you, and now is working all the time, and angry at the world in general, and lashes out at you for not doing something trivial, and you fight all the time... at some point you just move on.
There should be a bitcoin recovery service, those coins could be worth serious amounts of money, now.
You don't sound like a Russian. You don't think like a Russian. You don't know like a Russian.

Russians don't smile because any person who smiles to a stranger either wants to sell something or is insane. Smiles are for friends, real friends - whopping 2 or 3 of them.

"And if anything goes wrong you can be... No sense of community..."

This part betrayed you. You don't know anything about Russia or Russians. If an African college student attacked a bunch of skinheads, entire subway station would rush to rescue the skinheads.
I don't think anything can put the smile back on their faces due to the fact that they still feel as if someone stole their $100 billion idea.
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It sounds like the father's reason for requesting the removal is that it causes him grief, not that he wants fewer people to see it.
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I'm glad the survey highlighted the issue with clojurescripts repl ease of use. I know for myself this is the number one issue I would like resolved. If I could interact with the browser in a painless way I would probably ditch Javascript as my primary browser language and push for it at my company.
How about 870CAD right now according to btc china (biggest exchange out there) and google's rates?
I had to look up what "ethnocentric" meant, but I don't think I am "evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of my own culture" here. Perhaps you could elaborate?

(Also, even if I was, don't we all unconsciously view things through the lens of our cultural upbringing? Fail to see how this could be either comical or depressing. Or perhaps you want opinions to be restricted to only people from your own culture?)
I don't think that is correct. The encoding transforms each pixel (1 bit) into one of 4 possible patterns, each of which having an equal chance of being chosen for a given on or off pixel.

Perhaps the information that would leak is the maximum amount of data that could be encoded in a human readable-format. Someone could then make guesses as to the content on that basis. I do not think, however, that the limited choices per 2x2 block leaks information.
True, startupconfessions.io is inspired by codingconfessional.com, which I'm a big fan of. The idea to test a similar format on other subjects came to me during a teacher strike this spring, where the was a lot of classic thrashing in the media between the involved groups (government <> teachers). After that, this subject of startups presented itself. Ultimately I hope the site can bring out some truths and valuable lessons that everyone can learn from.
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Probably as soon as all the stolen coins in circulation have been cashed in and suddenly there is no market manipulation to keep it up.
Finding friends for kids to stay with even short term is doable because grown ups take pity. Finding friends that'll let you stay - the threat being for extended periods - is a damn sight harder?

Why do you think his pride stopped him accepting help? Would you put up someone down on their luck?
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Requires a US bank account...
Bread, margerine and weak tea...
How is bitcoin income reported and taxed? Is it the same as holding a stock?
He seems like a nice guy but comes across like he didn't really think through the implications of his life choices, and when they piled on top of each other, it put him in a bad place. (I'm almost his age & have faced many of the same issues but made different decisions.)

My take-aways:

- being a single-source-of-income family is risky

- the above is esp true if you have high cash outflow (big family & big mortgage in expensive part of the country)

- if you've saved less than 2x your current annual income, don't make the mistake of thinking that's a lot

- taking years out of the workforce, esp in the 2nd half of your career, can hurt your changes of getting back into a decent job

- industries can change really quickly, so don't get too comfortable just because your skill set is hot stuff at a given moment in time

- always have a plan to build up a secondary skill set or source of income (for example, imagine if he'd bought a small rental property back when he was flush...)

- think through the lifestyle implications of jobs/careers: for example a job that requires a lot of travel or long hours or relocation will have impacts on your family/ non-job life

- think through the implications of having a kid (much less eight) in terms of the stress on family finances, your time, your marriage

- there's resources online that can help with almost any problem you encounter in life, you just have to find and use them
As I said in the parent, don't bother nitpicking. To appease you, substitute the typical American living room on "game day" for the sports bar. I guarantee you the obesity rate is not lower.
"For a while, as he also acknowledges, he was "married to his job," and didn't give his wife enough encouragement and support as she brought up their children."

Great comment but it's unclear to me how giving his wife encouragement and support as she brought up their children would have changed the outcome?

Are you saying they wouldn't have gotten divorced? And if they hadn't he would still have a place to live?

From my experience if you don't "bring home the bacon" spouses have little sympathy or care about little else. Money is a basic necessity.

The most important thing is earning a living. No spouse that I ever know of ever cared about how many ball games or how you helped around the kitchen or shared responsibilities if you don't bring home a paycheck.
No, the main reason he failed is because he had 9 dependent humans.
>>tied to Gmail

Use GMVault once, and at least the archive of old emails is no longer an issue.
> The fundamental problem is that engineers are treated as a commodity in the Valley, and investor money is prized. It should be the other way; funding should be the commodity, and high-end engineering talent should be the seat of prestige.

I wish I could upvote this more.
well, I have 1.something bitcoins which I once mined because it seemed like an interesting idea for "pseudonymous" online.payments. What it primarily has become utterly disgusts me. I always felt (yeah, it was uneducated) that bitcoin would be something opposed to our financial system with all its unsocial speculation, lies and deceit.
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And if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time.

More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.
I have such a tiny holding of BTC that I don't have much of a monetary interest in seeing it explode like it has (I bought 1.5 BTC when it was trading at $200, and 1 more when it was trading at $516), but I do have an interest in seeing the old banking and finance model fail (I might like to see some of the banksters rotting in jail, also, but I'm unlikely to get that dream fulfilled).

So, I want BTC to succeed because the world would be a much better place without the old monetary middlemen. Without credit cards taking exorbitant fees from both vendors and consumers. Without banks charging fees to hold your money. Without banks socializing losses and privatizing profits. All of those things become a possibility (not a certainty, but a possibility) with an alternative worldwide currency like Bitcoin.