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Re:Bitcoin approaching $1000 on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:39PM (#6805926)

Something I've been thinking about is if the entirety of currency in the US was represented in bitcoin (bitcoins were the currency rather than dollars), how much would each be worth?

So there is about $1.2 trillion in circulation [1] and the cap for bitcoins is 21,000,000

1.2 trillion / 21 million ~= $57,142 per bitcoin

Is this right, or am I missing something?

[1] - http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm

Google Updates Its Octane JavaScript Benchmark

Posted by pnispel on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:30AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/google-updates-its-octane-javascript-benchmark-adds-asm-js-and-typescript-tests/

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Why Internet shoppers will wreck Amazon.com

Posted by pnispel on Monday November 11, 2013 @02:06PM
from the marketwatch.com dept.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-internet-shoppers-will-wreck-amazoncom-2013-11-11

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Re:Fundamental Attribution Error on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:24AM (#5661516)

The reverse case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias

What's the best way to rate programming skills?

Posted by pnispel on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:29PM
from the self-post dept.

In an interview I was asked to rate myself as a programmer on a scale from 0 to 10. I had a really hard time answering that question because I had never really considered it.So the first part of my question is: what makes a programmer rate higher than other programmers? Is it proficiency in multiple languages? Is it the amount of Github repos you have? Or perhaps how fast, clean, and modular...

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for some feedback for my tracking startup on Monday October 08, 2012 @05:36PM (#4628841)

Pretty sweet Ill be signing up