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DiNovion The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy

and a distributed system of trust means a lot of well paid jobs (accountants, lawyers)will... not be necessary

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

blockchains with smart contracts can automate away entire financial industries; title holding company comes to mind.

DiNovion Coinbase is down

Holy shit, it's not a plaintext password. sigh read about plaid. I linked to it.

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

I assume you sold him on the investment tho

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

Polo Exchange is sketchy; but Ether is on many, many exchanges now

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

You could say that about the internet 30 years ago...

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

ICOs lock away ether, which makes the price rise - but there are 5x the amount of ether than BTC, so I am skeptical this is even a large % of the reason

DiNovion Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin

oh well if whale panda says it.

DiNovion Coinbase is down

it's a third party service that provides your routing numbers to gemini. they aren't storing your bank password anywhere.

DiNovion Coinbase is down

That's not what's happening at all. They are using a service called Plaid for bank authentication. It's used a lot of places. And you are doing ACH transfers; not bank wires.

https://plaid.com/

DiNovion Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone

thinks about his old palm pre cries

DiNovion L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much

looks at prices in upstate NY and the South, and then Midwest

ehhhhh seems pretty damn cheap

DiNovion L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much

surprises me, since LA has so much sprawl

DiNovion How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide

Ah, have fun over there

DiNovion What if the Bitcoin bubble bursts?

It is the number one wedge issue in the community right now. It's also why alt coins are doing well - they present solutions

DiNovion What if the Bitcoin bubble bursts?

I can only think of a few the past 4 years. Granted, 2 were in the past 8 months

DiNovion Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

your anecdote is the opposite of your recommendation... brain explodes

DiNovion Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

Have fun with your just asking questions? posts, but everything you said can be easily looked up and debunked.

DiNovion Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

sigh national polling wasn't wrong, and hillary won the national vote to match the polls. it was the state polling that was off; and national polls don't poll the electoral college.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/ho...

Anyway, what you're saying is wrong - my parents are extremely conservative, voted trump, and are very upset about this.

Why? They live in a sinking state where you can actually see climate change(LA).

Many things have become factionalized - but climate and healthcare are much less than people think.

I think the real problem right now is the right is engaging in identity politics and victimhood - ironically the same things they accuse others of. "Trump can never do anything right in the eyes of others" and "I like this ebcause the other side doesn't" reak of it.

DiNovion Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord

this is super backward; 30% of people approved of pulling out. It doesnt win him any support at all. Shocks me people think these things mean he can read a room.

DiNovion WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

FF has memory and rendering problems

DiNovion WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

Or use the browser that works better for you...

DiNovion Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

that might not matter

DiNovion Crack in CRISPR Facade After Unanticipated in Vivo Mutations Arise

the article headline kinda belies a bias before you even read it

DiNovion Thoughts on Tokens

Bitcoin has grown "not that much" from 2013 you say

DiNovion Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom

ETH is not a token that runs ontop the network, it is the asset that powers the network.

DiNovion If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native

this is amusing when you consider how reluctant Steve Jobs was the native app development when the iPhone first came out. He wanted everyone to build web apps!

DiNovion FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed

Well, not really, because it's not that the video is zero-rated, it's that everything else has an upcharge, which would go away due to competition

DiNovion Ask HN: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript for teenager?

Sure, but a lot of useful machine learning libs are still dependent on 2

DiNovion Ask HN: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript for teenager?

Sounds good, but then someone asks: Python 2 or Python 3? And then you realize python has it's own problems...

Ruby and Python are so similar though just go with one.

Also, a plug for Hanami, because people are still supporting non rails frameworks despite Rails dominance.

http://hanamirb.org/