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>I almost bought 1,000 btc

Are you just as bitter that you missed Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Priceline, Intuitive Surgical or CNR?

Point being, these opportunities are everywhere, always. You're surrounded by them right now, they're just not obvious. But neither was BitCoin. And with the above you're actually buying into a real company, rather than speculating on a price change.
https://www.bitstamp.net/ ?
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It doesn't sound reasonable to me - how do they find the violations?
> "Remember, it's reasonable in your culture, not in mine."

It's not really, Ireland is as backwards as anywhere else on the issue.

> "My culture is not a communication problem"

Your culture is not an excuse for discrimination any more than it might be an excuse for enforced dress codes or genital mutilation. It's all disgraceful behaviour, no matter how you might like to dress it up as your culture or tradition (and therefore somehow deserving more respect).

"Tradition" and "culture" simply translate to "fear of change". If your culture is a culture of repression then no, I do not have to respect it.
Why does anyone deal with MtGox? Nothing but drama.
> I do not know what you are talking about.

Search for Katyn massacre.

Looking at your tone, you are either very indoctrinated and full of complexes OR it's just a provocation/joke.

I prefer to think it's a second one.
Simon Marlow wrote a book recently on Concurrency and Parallelism in Haskell [1]. It's a good read for learning more about this kind of stuff as well.

[1]http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929
On German marketplace bitcoin.de the price fell from roughly 605€ to 500€ some hours ago, but now it's "back" at 550€.
I'm a system administrator, and I've generally found that local people seem to remember me fondly and offer me work - whether it is tuning nginx, setting up a small cluster, or similar.

Actually finding remote people to hire me for longer jobs is hard though, so unless I receive contact out of the blue I've more or less given up looking for it.

(I do keep pondering the value of being a "Remote Sysadmin", but I receive conflicting feedback: http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_is_unfortunate_that_many_compani... )
Backblaze is for backup, this is for storage.
BTC-e dropped $100 compared to two days ago.

Localbitcoins ~50 pounds compared to two days ago.
Does anybody on Hacker News think they could design a system with a 0% error rate?

Whenever you design a system like this, it's just a matter of time before a mistake is made.

Small errors don't necessarily mean that the whole system should be gotten rid of.

If there's a benefit to the system existing you might want to consider adding an undo feature [0] or simply using it less.

It's becoming pretty clear to me that system designers are needed at a government bureaucracy level.

[0] Other UX features like authorisation or confirmation boxes would decrease the error rate but not zero it.
You would probably have sold when they got to $5.
Coinbase has already recovered some today. It had dipped below $700 when I woke up this morning.
Bouncy Balls physics simulation using your microphone
Those were times, a gamble every 10 minutes, I didn't shave for weeks. I wonder why today lotteries are held only like once a week or so...
I can think of one reason: long term risk. It's probably an easier ROI calculation to determine that selling a miner will be profitable vs deploying your own and hoping you'll get large enough returns over a much longer period of time. This is especially true if you take pre-orders.
Too bad polygraphs are pseudoscience.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/225/do-polygraph...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph
How do you quantify jailtime in the 'price of breaking the law'? Also if the CEO has no knowledge of the CFO breaking the law, how can he be held accountable?
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BigData Startup Cambridge Intelligence created KeyLines, a visualization toolkit
Ducati Has accepted bitcoin payment.
There could be even more blood on Monday.

Short term the price will drop even more dramatically, but once recovered, it should increase more, as main exchanges will get more busy. Or is there a flaw in my logic?
Buying into a real company is not speculating on a price change?
This is a nice one to solve for yourself. The two-dimensional (and higher) problems are still research material.
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1. Number of users holding bitcoins

2. Number of users SPENDING bitcoins to purchase goods

3. Number of merchants accepting bitcoins for goods

4. Total $ value of bitcoins being spent to purchase goods

5. Total $ value of bitcoins being spent to perform international money transfers

6. Amount of press (bad press OK, good press is worth much more) that bitcoins are getting as it drives 1 and 3.

I'm sure others have their own list of fundamentals.
The question as posed was whether one would condemn a culture for depending on slavery. If we should then we shouldn't look to Greece and Rome as shining high points in civilization. What I was trying to get at is what distinguished Greek and Roman slavery from the American experience.

But my point also isn't about violent persecution particularly. If you have a culture where it is expected that one will retire with the kids, then it is a social duty to get married to someone of the opposite sex and have kids if possible, because otherwise you are a burden to someone else's kids. If your goal is equality you can't tolerate that and must persecute that model. There is no other way around it because of the power dynamics across generations will always favor heterosexual couples in such an environment. If that's acceptable, and the only objection is to the propaganda law then that's one thing. If the goal is equality, though, you can't stop there.
and talent pool availability
Le Conseil d'État is a French institution whose decisions can be broken (sadly) by European courts.

I think Google is not fighting for its reputation, but if they pay now they will open the door to more fines from over countries.
Coinbase.com is a great one, and they recently received venture funding
There's no time to explain! Just open the box!
or different implementations all linked to the same DB ?

Although it seems a bit of a waste of time.
That statement would make sense if the distros we are using were mainly just Linux kernel + GNU tools. If we are going to give everyone their deserved credit, we should call it GNU/Linux/KDE/Apache/LibreOffice/...

Good thing 4-clause BSD never caught on in the Linux world.
Only if they see it as a bad investment or they need cash. Otherwise, it's probably fine to leave it as is and defer the taxes.

[EDIT] Oh, and they have a 5% stake in lenovo, which should benefit android and chromeos (and maybe keep MS in check).
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There have been prosthetic arms that can be controlled by thought alone for a while. I think the new part is getting real-time feedback from the arms back to the brain.
Google places pro gay statement on its homepage
The same reason that people would package and sell mortgage-backed securities, but not keep them for themselves.
I asked the same thing on BTC StackExchange a year ago: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5975/why-there-ar...

The most popular reply was:

It is not guaranteed that purchasing mining equipment will generate in its lifetime more than it cost to purchase. That depends on the future of BTC price and the difficulty, both of which are hard to predict.

"Those who believe, for whatever reason, that it will indeed be profitable, will purchase devices. But most companies selling mining hardware are in the business of designing hardware, not of speculation and running datacenters - in terms of both risk profile and expertise. So long-term they should just sell the hardware."

and also

"In the gold rush the people who made the most safe/constant returns where not the miners but the people who sold them the shovels"
> And Russian reaction was correct right?

So, it's Russia bringing itself to war only to screw up media coverage of China olympics.

Nice conspiracy theory...
The Warsaw Uprising Museum commissioned a computer simulation of the destruction of the city, visualized as a view from an airplane flying over. It's another way to see the scale of destruction.

Article and trailer:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/28/simulation-wars...

Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7UOB5hGHg
Indeed very important, and this goes across industry.

What happens when the head of risk management and head of compliance report to business unit heads rather than functional lines? (See most big banks)

What happens when the local partner can overrule national standards committees? (See Arthur Andersen)

If the watcher reports to the watched, you're just going through the motions. Very informative.
Some coconut farmers use trained monkeys to harvest crops. I am sure a monkey would make a weak opponent in a fencing match, but they are pretty good with planning and motor skills in addition to being great climbers. In this sense, computers (and AI) of our time is very useful. Furthermore, computers and programs are super flexible and they do not have hard coded limits to their capabilities as humans and monkeys have. As humans, we might be the all powerful masters for now, but compared to the improving AI we'll soon be what the SHRDLU is to Watson.
Had bitcoin started with the satoshi as its base unit (i.e. what is called a satoshi was just called a bitcoin) then we might not be having this discussion.

But they didn't, and marketing matters.
Is there anybody publishing reliable numbers for any of those?
I've considered this. Multi-touch would be great for this. Pinch horizontally to shrink the selection, anti-pinch (I've never really though about what that motion of moving your fingers apart would be called) to expand the selection. Pinch vertically to be able to drag it around and drop it where you want.

I can't wait for a 28" touchscreen at my desk with some software to make the touch interface and excel, CSS and other random statistics programs work together a little better. It will genuinely make work easier, and make me more productive.
> As to get a better look at the process the system needs to be in a static state.

The fact they can't spin up a new MtGox environment with cloned data stores is troubling.
Maruti 800 has no more 'miles to go'
So they are perfectly happy to admit liability and pay up, as long as they aren't forced to publicise that admission to the people that the court case itself was on behalf of.
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Consider this a reminder that while Bitcoin may be an interesting technological achievement, as a tradable asset it is still basically a toy. Crappy exchange technology combined with low liquidity is a perfect recipe for this kind of volatility.
As it says in the article, this is the discovery of parity, P, violation in a system where it's not been seen before. In a "nice" universe, one might expect mirror images to behave the same, but here they've discovered that interactions between electrons and quarks are different depending on the spin of the electron.

So, it's related to CP violation in the sense that it something "violates CP symmetry" if it's behaviour changes when you flip the charge and the parity of the system simultaneous. Here, they only flip the parity.
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Large corporations hold on to all sorts of assets as investments. This can range from stocks and bonds to real estate or intellectual property. This is very common.

Tangentially related to this transaction you may or may not be aware that pretty much any company that funds its own insurance (most large companies) are required by law to hold investments that will help carry them over for any insurance claims. So there is some fund they hold that has stocks, bonds, etc. set aside so that they are covered for insurance claims. The same is true of pension funds.
but realize how long it takes for humans to learn to speak/comprehend complete sentences.. heck to be potty trained even.
"Keep in mind that no-one but the Germans were aware that blitzkreig would be as fast as it was"

Yeah, that's a great excuse. That should be written in the anglo-polish military alliance:

"in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence, and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power... Unless of course the germans use tanks and move very quickly. In that case, sorry".

The UK did not ally itself with Poland to help them from being taken over. It was a way of saying to Hitler, that he can't just do what he wants in Europe (like anecting Czechoslovakia) without the Germans and French approving it. The war was immenent, and everybody seemd to know that except for Chamberlain. This was only an act of self interest on behalf of the UK, and hey, who could blame them for that?

What you can't reasonably argue though, is that they tried to really help Poland in the beginning of WW2, and that they didn't betray them at the end in Yalta. And the occupation by the Soviets really wasn't much better than by the Nazis.

There was no real plan to take the Soviets on, because the Allies had no real stake in it.
For the curious...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/07/03/daily1...
Suppose one day you notice your neighbor beating a crap out of his kids with a baseball bat, should you ignore boundaries of his property (house) and stop him in order to defend his kids?
Although it becomes common this days people would just pull out their phones and start shooting a video for youtube instead.. maybe you are one of those.
>realise the software is better

At the risk of noshing down some trollbait, could you perhaps qualify this statement or are you just going to go with your subjectiuve view as fact?
This was one of the first iPhone games I ever REALLY enjoyed back in 2009 ish. Stoked it's back
I've been using http://www.kraken.com of late and it's been great - no problem wiring money to/from my bank account, easy to convert between LTC and BTC and market orders close immediately.

I've only been trading in small BTC amounts though so not sure if you'd hit liquidity problems if trying to trade large amounts (kraken's volume is quite a lot smaller than the bigger established players like bitstamp)
That depends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Righ... (note that the signatories to this treaty also signed the original treaty and obviously, that means they were lying at least once)
Coinbase is great for exchanging BTC/USD, but it's not a trading market like mtgox.
A string of thefts hit Bitcoin's most reputable wallet service
Hubic is run under French law, this means that you need first to get a complaint, the complaint must go in front of a judge and then if the user is found to have broken the law and if the result is a compensation, the user will have to pay. But of course, the user can push against the judgement to a upper court etc. Standard copyright law, dura lex, sed lex.
It's not a matter of "not giving" them access to surveillance - they can apply technology like anyone else.
Incidentally, I too was intrigued by Chromecast [1] and the similar Miracast because these are technologies that dance awfully close to where user interface push and pull should go. But they are constrained by narrow thinking, leaving them frustratingly limited and merely bite-size demonstrations of what multi-device life should look like. Both only push views, and are only read-only without a whole lot of context adaptation.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/chromecast-a-miss
Yes, you can, in SOME places in the United States. The reason being is being gay isn't a "protected" status in FEDERAL civil rights legislation.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. Before that one could say "black people need not apply" on a job description or ask women if they were going to be having children soon on a job interview. Being gay was never defined as a protected group outright.

That being said, SOME States in the United States have taken it one step further and made homosexuals a protected group and disallowed discrimination against them under STATE law. Some companies have specifically outlawed discrimination against gays via official company policy and extended employee benefits to same sex partners.

I don't know if you can see this video outside of the United States, but try to watch it! It gives some examples of people being fired for being gay, and an interview with a completely clueless State lawmaker.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-3-2012/free-at-las...

EDIT:

Looks like I'm slightly wrong.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been interpreted to apply to gays recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_State...

In 2011 and 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that job discrimination against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders classified as a form of sex discrimination and thus violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm

The EEOC enforces the prohibitions against employment discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), Title II of the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. These laws prohibit discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, and genetic information, as well as reprisal for protected activity. The Commission's interpretations of these statutes apply to its adjudication and enforcement in federal sector as well as private sector and state and local government employment.

The EEOC has held that discrimination against an individual because that person is transgender (also known as gender identity discrimination) is discrimination because of sex and therefore is covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See Macy v. Department of Justice, EEOC Appeal No. 0120120821 (April 20, 2012), http://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0120120821%20Macy%20v%20DOJ%20.... The Commission has also found that claims by lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals alleging sex-stereotyping state a sex discrimination claim under Title VII. See Veretto v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Appeal No. 0120110873 (July 1, 2011); Castello v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Request No. 0520110649 (Dec. 20, 2011), http://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0520110649.txt.*
Yep, I think that sums it up. The fine is pocket money for Google so surely it's not about that.
Is there anything that grasshoppers eat that isn't kosher? Maybe Watson is much smarter than we think.
While I am in no position to predict the future of bitcoins, all new markets have these problems. At an early point in their history, stocks also had low liquidity and crappy technology. Both of these conditions will improve as an asset becomes more popular. It is a chicken-and-egg problem.
my comment was a response to the question "why do some companies have the GC report to the CFO?". it was not about the company in the originally linked article, which obviously does not use this structure (and for good reason).

regarding that CFO from the linked article though, the federal prosecutor seemed to believe she was a criminal, and proved it enough that a jury agreed also and she eventually served jail time. we're not mind readers so we don't know how she felt about her actions, but honestly, it kinda looks to me like she really was a low level sociopath. just because she was surrounded by people who reinforced and validated her behavior doesn't mean she was acting morally.
The CE also decided that Google have to go with that. They said that anyway it's okay for Google to say that they do not agree with the decision and that they are waiting for the final decision of the "juge de fond"¹, alongside with the CNIL message (the apology) they have to display, so it won't be such a problem for there reputation.

The thing to know is that, since it is very difficult to quantify how much damage (in €) would be implied by the displayed apology, the CE would certainly not have maintained this punishment if they weren't almost sure that the "juge de fond" will take the same decision (otherwise France would have to reimburse an uncomputable amount).

¹ no idea how to translate "juge de fond" in English, but the idea is that this time it was a fast-track procedure in which Google asked to waive the sanction while waiting for the "deep" procedure to take place. This is what have been rejected by the CE.
Well, even if the price doesn't go up you may be able to increase your original investment with a DRIP. BTC don't give dividends.
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Britain kind of volunteered to join the war in the first place though.
Perhaps it's possible, but it would be harder to chain an actual sound with a part spectral print of another sound. I think here they are cropping out the part of the vocal recording that falls outside of the range played by a piano, and then pressing the appropriate piano keys to emulate that recording. A piano key when pressed doesn't even really create a simple tone, but a sound wave with its own structure that sounds like an exact note, even though it contains a combination of other frequencies that mature and decay with their own pattern over time. My guess is, in order to determine which keys to press and when, they assumed the keys were exact notes. It would be impossible to do this with anything producing true white noise (many percussions), and hard to do so with most natural sounds.
What else would you buy it for (assuming no dividends are being paid out)?
Are you living in a fantasy? It's not just the NSA - all governments do electronic surveillance. And even if USA didn't, there would still be surveillance on the American public by other powers.

Besides states, there is a growing number of companies that engage in surveillance - search engines, social sites, defense contractors, companies supplying MPAA IP addresses to sue, etc.

We are in a world where there are many parties doing surveillance. The cat is really out of the bag.

NSA can just say: ok, suppose we stop surveillance - then we can't defend you against other countries doing surveillance on us. It's an arms race and it doesn't matter who started it.
IMO Bitcoin's limited amount incentivises speculation/hoarding over spending. Dogecoin, on the other hand, with its inflationary approach feels much more like something that can be used as a currency.
When you're an At Will employer, they can fire you for any reason that's not discriminatory. They gave you some BS reason because the real reason either made them look bad (can't afford you, or someone better came along after you accepted) or was illegal (they don't like your ethnicity) or was just stupid (they don't like how you dress).

In any event, you're best to just move on, and be glad that you're done with them.
This time, yes, because it's about privacy and the CNIL can't do much more than 150,000€.

But France also asks Google for 1 billion € of unpaid taxes over the last years, and this time I guess they will really try to avoid paying (hopefully they won't be able to, but we'll see).
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