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Re:Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:15AM (#17399548)
Pretty clever
Yep. Just started playing it. It's like Diablo 2 with materia from FF7. Perfection.
Path of Exile
Couldn't agree more XD so funny.
It doesn't rust.
Everyone has a price.
The dip.
Re:Vitalik Unveils Ethereum 2.0 Roadmap on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:45AM (#15786082)
You're right about the infinite supply being dodgy. But I'm so sick of hearing how it's not fair that the early crypto adopters are doing well for themselves. Wah wah wah.
"After the election of Donald Trump, thousands of technology workers signed a pledge against building government databases for targeting individuals based on race, religion, or national origin. The effect was immediate, with numerous companies publicly declaring they would not cooperate with such a policy."

A) What policy are they talking about? B) Why isn't political affiliation on that list?

Good to see some of them take their job seriously.
This is very nice. I usually watch the combined order book on bitcoinity. I just leave it running in the back ground and check it now and again. One day the IT admin at work noticed that I was downloading 6GB per day from there. I was shocked.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Almost by definition, these people can't manage their resources as efficiently as the wealthy.
Re:The Final Days of a Tax Haven on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:38PM (#15710102)
The tightening of the screws against tax heavens gives me warm fuzzies. The rich will retreat to Bitcoin soon.
Re:The Final Days of a Tax Haven on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:34PM (#15710095)
"There's no reason, to purchase these items and leave them empty, as a hedge against whatever is going on in their country."

Not even as a hedge against whatever is going on in their country?

Very nice XD
I imagined something along the lines of a chain of signatures that gets broadcast as a transaction when all the pieces are in place. I've got some reading to do ..
Hold on. So the multisig wallet itself is a smart contract? Why isn't it this stuff handled client side?
Did he propose a vote this time? I must have missed that.
Vitalik was in no way responsible for the DAO fiasco, yet...
Re:Why gamers are outraged over the latest Star Wars game on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:32AM (#15703581)
This works fine in games that are free to play like League of Legends, I actually think it's a fantastic business model. But unsurprisingly, the attention maximizing dopamine slow-release algorithm causes cognitive dissonance when you can bypass it by paying but you've already paid.
Why isn't Vitalik bailing these people out?
It is a recent tradition, only 20 years old, but it is a tradition none the less.
Re:Ask HN: Any tips on personal productivity? on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:47PM (#15701310)
Have a go at the pomodoro technique.
Re:Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping? on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:40PM (#15701283)
I made a little BTC price ticker on an OLED with and arduino. I used BeautifulSoup to get the data. Went from knowing nothing about web scraping to getting the thing working pretty quick. Very easy to use.
Re:Ask HN: Is short term crypto currency trading profitable? on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:35PM (#15701267)
Does the bot try to maximize $ value or total ETH? It could be a terrible bot and he could still be up $ wise purely because the value of ETH went up.
Re:NumPy makes plans to drop Python2.7 support on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:22PM (#15701226)
Ok, I guess it's about time I made the switch too.