It's not risky in and of itself. It's risky because scammers are getting _really_ good at scamming people on localbitcoins. I've seen stories of criminals printing up fake receipts from Chase. I've also seen stories of…
Ever heard the term, "don't knock it til you try it"? What do you have to lose by trying free operating systems? It costs nothing to run GNU/Linux in VirtualBox on Windows, and learning to interact with your machine…
261 days ago, I stated: Facebook's market cap is $63,000,000,000. If the market cap of Bitcoin were just 10% of Facebook, each Bitcoin would be worth about $500. 1% and it's about $50. Can a global financial system…
160k btc is worth $64M at $400/coin. It's a drop in the bucket. The Fed prints 40X that amount in USD on a daily basis.
In the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts-tresor/
I've provisioned and maintained dozens of servers all running Arch, and currently have four home PCs running it. I've found Pacman to be one of the easier and more pleasant package managers to live with. You can sort…
A solution exactly like what you've just described is in the works. Zyocoin is a P2P Bitcoin exchange utilizing multi-signature issued "debt", where debt can be BTC, USD, EUR, or bananas. Real contracts are created with…
Really? Have you had extensive, first-hand experience with Rick Simpson oil? Are you prepared to tell me there's zero medicinal benefits to it? Listen, there's just not going to be scientific proof behind a mostly…
Beautiful tale, saddening turn of events. Please consider watching this video: Surviving ALS with Dr. Bob Melamede. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeeVBSERb-c If I only knew him, I'd make it my mission in life to get…
Yeah, some guy recommended I mine back in the earliest of days. "If only I knew then what I know now" ... hahah. So sick to think that my old Core 2 Duo could've made me a millionaire. I was turned off by the ugliness…
Facebook's market cap is $63,000,000,000. If the market cap of Bitcoin were just 10% of Facebook, each Bitcoin would be worth about $500. 1% and it's about $50. Can a global financial system conceivably give the world…
http://configserver.com/free/csf/license.txt Looks like an interesting piece of software nonetheless.
* citation needed
It's a double edged sword. The unique point of difference benefits of BTC itself remain unchanged regardless of current market price, and furthermore, should early adopters dump all old coins onto the markets all at…
Surely the BTC price couldn't have anything to do with factors external to the market participants themselves ... ? Whenever the BTC price moves up or down, do you honestly believe "It's those blasted early adopters, at…
Money is ultimately just a standardized indicator of wealth with no intrinsic value on its own, a definition shared by both USD and BTC. The downside of USD being that it can be counterfeited, illegally by unscrupulous…
http://imgur.com/ITACaEL What the hell am I looking at right now, seriously? Your idea has merit, but I truly didn't understand what your site did or offered until I scrolled down to your second headline. That is…
This is very thoughtful of you, but the key phrase here is "at least in our industry". Truthfully I believe running a groupon offer should be done by very few businesses and only then after intensive numbers crunching.…
Yes, thanks for pointing out the fully rugged CF-31. Have an upvote.
> ThinkPad build quality is unrivaled. The keyboard ... Having briefly owned (and subsequently returned a W520), I found the keyboard tolerable at best, and the trackpad was an utter disaster. I hear Lenovo build…
Highly recommend you try Skritter in addition to Mandarin Tap. No affiliation, just completely and utterly blown away by how much faster I could study Chinese during a year long intensive immersion course solely by…
+1. SendEnv in ssh_config? AcceptEnv in sshd_config? No specifics cited in the man pages.
Are developers choosing mobile because it's new and big, or because they see it in coffee shops all the time? Mobile devices give unskilled users access to incredible computing power everywhere they go. All else equal,…
Mail is a joke of an app on Windows. But unlike on iOS, the Windows Mail application can be replaced. If you were frustrated with the default Mail app, did you seek a replacement? Do you have a better example of an…
It's not risky in and of itself. It's risky because scammers are getting _really_ good at scamming people on localbitcoins. I've seen stories of criminals printing up fake receipts from Chase. I've also seen stories of…
Ever heard the term, "don't knock it til you try it"? What do you have to lose by trying free operating systems? It costs nothing to run GNU/Linux in VirtualBox on Windows, and learning to interact with your machine…
261 days ago, I stated: Facebook's market cap is $63,000,000,000. If the market cap of Bitcoin were just 10% of Facebook, each Bitcoin would be worth about $500. 1% and it's about $50. Can a global financial system…
160k btc is worth $64M at $400/coin. It's a drop in the bucket. The Fed prints 40X that amount in USD on a daily basis.
In the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts-tresor/
I've provisioned and maintained dozens of servers all running Arch, and currently have four home PCs running it. I've found Pacman to be one of the easier and more pleasant package managers to live with. You can sort…
A solution exactly like what you've just described is in the works. Zyocoin is a P2P Bitcoin exchange utilizing multi-signature issued "debt", where debt can be BTC, USD, EUR, or bananas. Real contracts are created with…
Really? Have you had extensive, first-hand experience with Rick Simpson oil? Are you prepared to tell me there's zero medicinal benefits to it? Listen, there's just not going to be scientific proof behind a mostly…
Beautiful tale, saddening turn of events. Please consider watching this video: Surviving ALS with Dr. Bob Melamede. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeeVBSERb-c If I only knew him, I'd make it my mission in life to get…
Yeah, some guy recommended I mine back in the earliest of days. "If only I knew then what I know now" ... hahah. So sick to think that my old Core 2 Duo could've made me a millionaire. I was turned off by the ugliness…
Facebook's market cap is $63,000,000,000. If the market cap of Bitcoin were just 10% of Facebook, each Bitcoin would be worth about $500. 1% and it's about $50. Can a global financial system conceivably give the world…
http://configserver.com/free/csf/license.txt Looks like an interesting piece of software nonetheless.
* citation needed
* citation needed
It's a double edged sword. The unique point of difference benefits of BTC itself remain unchanged regardless of current market price, and furthermore, should early adopters dump all old coins onto the markets all at…
Surely the BTC price couldn't have anything to do with factors external to the market participants themselves ... ? Whenever the BTC price moves up or down, do you honestly believe "It's those blasted early adopters, at…
Money is ultimately just a standardized indicator of wealth with no intrinsic value on its own, a definition shared by both USD and BTC. The downside of USD being that it can be counterfeited, illegally by unscrupulous…
http://imgur.com/ITACaEL What the hell am I looking at right now, seriously? Your idea has merit, but I truly didn't understand what your site did or offered until I scrolled down to your second headline. That is…
This is very thoughtful of you, but the key phrase here is "at least in our industry". Truthfully I believe running a groupon offer should be done by very few businesses and only then after intensive numbers crunching.…
Yes, thanks for pointing out the fully rugged CF-31. Have an upvote.
> ThinkPad build quality is unrivaled. The keyboard ... Having briefly owned (and subsequently returned a W520), I found the keyboard tolerable at best, and the trackpad was an utter disaster. I hear Lenovo build…
Highly recommend you try Skritter in addition to Mandarin Tap. No affiliation, just completely and utterly blown away by how much faster I could study Chinese during a year long intensive immersion course solely by…
+1. SendEnv in ssh_config? AcceptEnv in sshd_config? No specifics cited in the man pages.
Are developers choosing mobile because it's new and big, or because they see it in coffee shops all the time? Mobile devices give unskilled users access to incredible computing power everywhere they go. All else equal,…
Mail is a joke of an app on Windows. But unlike on iOS, the Windows Mail application can be replaced. If you were frustrated with the default Mail app, did you seek a replacement? Do you have a better example of an…