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BrokenPipe··on Flexcoin is shutting down
Or much much lower cause you bring worldwide competition with no infrastructure.

Disclaimer: I'm with GreenAddress.it

BrokenPipe··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
GreenAddressIT - https://greenaddress.it - REMOTE, Work From Home

Secure multisig HD wallet

We have implemented a multisig HD wallet as a base for more services, including transaction limits, green address instant transactions etc

We are looking for a Python developer with reasonable Bitcoin understanding, for both frontend and backend development.

Bonus points:

- Twisted

- SQLAlchemy

- PostgreSQL

- AngularJS

Send emails to info@greeenaddress.it

Please include your CV and any relevant information about your BTC experience.

BrokenPipe··on Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected
And is cheaper and less people go to prison for Prohibition like laws.
BrokenPipe··on Willow garage, robot research lab, heart of ROS, will shut down
Me too!

Have you seen the UBR-1 ? Should be fairly similar and quite cheaper!

BrokenPipe··on Microsoft killed my Pappy
While Google is becoming or is already as bad as Microsoft this is not a good enough argument to excuse Microsoft for bullying the mobile market with the FAT patent.

I remember the J# lawsuit!

From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J++ "Some observers have remarked that this was deliberate from Microsoft, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology."

BrokenPipe··on Willow garage, robot research lab, heart of ROS, will shut down
I didn't know it was funded by an ex-googler, Mr Hassan, however I did try ros a few times and it seems a very well designed platform to get started on robotics.

I really like ROS:

- it has an arduino plugin to immediately get the arduino integrated in the ROS ecosystem (i.e. rostopic) , ideal for novices like myself

- it has lots of packages from kinect/xtion to drive servo motors like dynamixel's

- OpenCV bridge

I mostly use the python bindings as I find them easier to deal with than compile everything (and possibly cross compile given i'm running ROS on arm and that it would take forever to build there)

Sad news!

BrokenPipe··on Should App.net Accept Bitcoin?
YES!
BrokenPipe··on I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
Even rape and slavery was accepted not long ago, not enough reason to continue do it?

I'm seriously disgusted by some people capacity to accept brutality as normal and worse defend it too.

BrokenPipe··on Introducing DogeAPI - A dead simple way for you to accept dogecoin
Isn't the joke over?

Alternatively, if dogecoin is not a joke, what does it add to Bitcoin? Is there anything it does that Bitcoin yet doesn't do and that can't be added to Bitcoin if enough people in the Bitcoin community want it ?

BrokenPipe··on Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'
Relevant when peak oil was just US.
BrokenPipe··on Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'
Isn't that already the case? Isn't this "present supply vs future demand" already part of the pricing that makes oil ?
BrokenPipe··on Bitcoin may be following this classic bubble stages chart.
We kind of do.

The tendency is to say that it either incorporates a lot and becomes very valuable and the de-facto international store of value and currency (as well as representing a number of assets such as stock or estate property) or it goes to zero.

It's volatility is certainly decreasing as times goes by and the big picture is certainly positive as things stand although I agree that it would take a simple coordinated move to ban it in the western world to take it down.

Yet this has not happened yet and I can't stop but wonder why given what it has happened to Liberty Reserve and we have seen coordinated moves for far less (Kim Domcom with Mega for instance).

It would be enough for it to be regulated such that tax or vat needs to be added and bitcoin would immediately be heavily affected.

Furthermore we do not know who created bitcoin and their real motive.

In my view it is much better than the current central bank situation but it seems there is a side of it that means it has no one accountable.

Should mining ever get compromised (if it is not already) it is not really clear to me that we would even notice.

BrokenPipe··on Bitcoin Value Sinks After Chinese Exchange Move
Have you seen before a functioning globally distributed ledger system being speculated on in the markets ?
BrokenPipe··on Payyr app – Direct Debit for friends
And will it support Bitcoin ?
BrokenPipe··on Should You Build for iOS or Android? Discover What 7 Mobile App Experts Say
Personally I avoid iOS because of their restrictions. Investing on an iOS app is much bigger gamble than Android because of this.
BrokenPipe··on Bitcoin Value Sinks After Chinese Exchange Move
Today I've seen it back at 530 and now at 520. Who knows, I wouldn't be surprised if by EOB we're back above 600.

As parent said, with Bitcoin you have to look at things in a different way since it works in a very different way than anything else we've ever seen.

BrokenPipe··on Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator
Not on blockchain.info is not.
BrokenPipe··on Inverted totalitarianism
Doesn't sound like frige ideas to me.
BrokenPipe··on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
> Fortunately no-one has invented AI yet.

Not that we know but if someone did create it, is it reasonable to think that an AI would soon learn that humans should not know about its existence and kill the creator by hiring bitcoin paid killers ?

Obviously the bitcoin will be acquired via hacks on wallet, mining on hacked boxes, etc

BrokenPipe··on Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills
Come on, the rest of the world is not "children" they are adults which intentionally lie and deceive the larger population into prohibition and other things that fuel criminality and state oppression.
BrokenPipe··on Bitcoin market price app, 'Bitcoin Alarm,' is carefully cloaked malware
I knew I should not have used linux or freebsd! Damn!
BrokenPipe··on Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
Would you stop wasting time on the internets and just take out the trash ? While at it, can you bring upstairs the mirror in the garage ? I may have a cookie for you.
BrokenPipe··on Dell tells staff: If you haven't got stomach for private era, leave
Because usually if they offer this is because they want to get rid of you and your team.

And if they do, there's not much do there anymore.

So unless you're there solely for money, you won't stay there any longer and take the extra (assuming you feel you can find a better than gotten rid of job)

BrokenPipe··on “No-fly” trial: Closing arguments
This is nuts.
BrokenPipe··on Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator
I really don't get the point of password estimators that need to send the password server side. I may as well just not have a password then.
BrokenPipe··on China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions
Or the beginning of another soar.
BrokenPipe··on China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions
I certainly can't burn the dollars in my bank account.

Not directly anyway.

I have to go somewhere and take cash out which then I can burn, assuming the bank has that kind of money available when I attempt it and assuming I will be allowed to take it out.

Furthermore in many places such activity would be illegal.

Anyone arguing about Bitcoin without admitting that there is demand and basing everything on outdated/flowed theories is bound to be wrong with their predictions.

BrokenPipe··on How to Buy Bitcoin
If you find no value in a distributed zero trust public ledger you probably are not appreciating enough the internet.
BrokenPipe··on Bitcoin – The Internet of Money
“The internet is just a fad” … Newsweek, Feb. 26, 1995

I grant you, just like with the Internet there is a transition point where to get on the internet you have to pay high fees (similar to exchange fees) but once internet is cheap and everywhere then lots of services become cheaper and more accessible.

The same goes on with bitcoin. As adoption grows you won't need to exchange for USD, EUR or whatever as much, therefore no exchange fees.

Banks will have to adapt, re-purpose themselves to a certain extend.

BrokenPipe··on Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer
More likely to be within 2014 at this velocity and no reason to think it won't be S curve adopted.
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