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Snackchezon Investor Bulletin, July 25: Initial Coin Offerings

The reason some ICOs release a white paper in LaTeX is that there is often a lot of math to be written out. Take for example IOTA's white paper: https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

Often, it's easy to spot the ones that are doing the faux-academic thing.

Snackchezon Investor Bulletin, July 25: Initial Coin Offerings

... This is exactly what you are supposed to do. In the ICO world, this is part of your due diligence if you're thinking of investing / speculating.

Snackchezon Woman Banned from US After Border Agent Finds Proof of Drug Use on Phone

This is somewhat unrelated, but when does a person ever deal with a doctor via email / texting?

Snackchezon Swift 5: start your engines

This! I tried to learn Swift with the playground that came from "A Swift Tour"... A lot of examples didn't compile and it took WAY too long to figure out that it wasn't a problem on my end.

Definitely not a good way to introduce new programming languages to newbies.

Snackchezon There is no such thing as EQ (2016)

The quote is mentioning success, rather in the sense of accomplishments not of financial worth. For example, I could be a billionaire and just hand my fortune to my children and someone with a high IQ might never reach that level of economic status. But comparing success in the sense of accomplishments, a high IQ person might have reached certain milestones, for example getting a PhD, maintaining a successful business, moving up to a higher socioeconomic status, etc.

Snackchezon Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’

Missed the part about Bitfinex not being able to bank anymore and then creating Tether, a non redeemable cryptocurrency.

Snackchezon Update on Bitcoin Cash

I still don't understand how removing my funds from CB into a wallet VS into an exchange has any issue on wether or not I'll get equivalent BCH. Also, I don't understand how removing my funds from CB (into a wallet, I guess) will guarantee them giving me BCH VS having not done anything and just left the money on CB. It seems the latter would have been easier for them to debit me BCH, no?

I'm so confused.

Edit: if I know my private keys for my BTC, does that mean they are the exact same for BCH? If so, how would I then "acquire" said BCH?

Snackchezon Update on Bitcoin Cash

Maybe I'm just not getting something in my slow brain, hopefully someone here can explain. How does taking out my BTC out of CoinBase ensure I will receive an equivalent amount of BCH?

I bought 200$ worth of BTC in the past from CB, and promptly moved to an Exchange. Does that mean I will get whatever amount of BTC I purchased back then in BCH? If so, why? I understand there was a fork, but I don't get why I'm entitled to the same amount of BCH... what if there are more forks in the future, I'll just keep getting more of those offshoot coins as well?

Snackchezon Bankers Ditch Fat Salaries to Chase Digital Currency Riches

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131

They've been warned, but what does that even mean?

Snackchezon Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

*Adam Ondra

Snackchezon Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence

Could you help explain how to interpret the list of effect sizes? I'm having trouble understanding what the numbers mean. For example, black hair is 0.00 heritable. Does that mean one cannot inherit black hair? (Is this black in the sense of asiatic hair?)

Snackchezon Night Shift compared to f.lux

Not really. These artifacts are very bright white coloured. It's almost as if F.lux can't deal with certain shades of white and forgets them.

Snackchezon Night Shift compared to f.lux

I have artifact issues with f.lux whenever I'm watching videos in full screen mode. It seems that anything "white" coloured becomes fluorescent. Making the nav / time bar pop up with my mouse seems to make this all disappear. This is on a 2014 MacBook Air running the 2nd latest version of OS X.

Snackchezon Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family

Link to text?

Snackchezon An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It

Not true: many lawyers work entire careers in the human rights field. Many modern law schools have produced these types of lawyers. It's just not as glamorous as what people have in mind for a lawyer, and thus not as publicized.

Snackchezon Ask HN: Has technology benefited the classroom?

Ah, I knew I had forgotten something. I'm specifically looking at "brick and mortar" schools. The reason is that I've noticed in my school board that a lot of new technologies seem to get implemented very quickly and without proper reflection on choice. For example, almost all schools in my school board have been equipped with SmartBoards. These are huge money pits: they break down often and I see very little ROI as a teaching tool (especially within the senior level courses). But somehow, their numbers keep proliferating... This seems to be the general outlook on most technologies being implemented in the classroom.

Snackchezon A Child Thinking About Infinity (2001) [pdf]

You're being downvoted, but you're right. This article was somewhat silly.

Snackchezon Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits

From the perspective of a humanist, borders are kind of arbitrary. Simply because you had the shit luck of being born maybe a few kilometers South of the most southern states, you end up getting a way worse experience in life and your ticket is almost entirely predetermined.

I agree on law and order, but again, isn't it a little crazy that in one state you have one set of laws and then once you cross an imaginary line you get an entirely new set of laws?

Snackchezon Which Occupations Are Priced Out of Homeownership?

Who are these people you speak of that have similar credentials to a fire fighter?

Snackchezon My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

The article clearly states how you can take a screenshot of a snap, thus saving it forever. That has always been an issue.

Snackchezon Is serotonin the happy brain chemical?

Your statement should have an "or" instead of an "and". Ex: MDMA does not have high dependence but does require an increased dosage due to plateaus

Snackchezon Scientists have discovered why running makes you happy

Pretty sure he meant 8pm - 8am and that's probably including sleep. So I'm assuming it goes a little like this:

Get home, exercise, 8pm, eat a meal, eat snacks, get to bed, wake up before 8am, eat a meal, go to work.

Snackchezon Programming in D – Tutorial and Reference

This might be a silly question: what is D used for? I "scanned" the site fairly quickly and didn't grasp the general application idea behind it.

Snackchezon Methylphenidate Exposure Induces Dopamine Neuron Loss in Mice

Are there any similar types of research being done for Modafinil? I've recently been prescribed a "therapeutic" dose of Ritalin (I reacted severely to the lowest regular dose of Concerta) but have not started taking it. I'm wondering if this is as bad as it sounds as my technical reading comprehension skills are not that astute.

I was using modafinil before with some success. The only problem was that my sleep patterns were all over the map and getting regular good sleep was becoming difficult.

Snackchezon Shoes By Jews launching today (yes we're real)

Fair enough, I'll agree with what you've mentioned regarless of your lack of proof. However, I still think confidence plays a bigger role and will more than compensate for a lack of height. But you got me; I don't have research near my armchair to convince you. My experiences are purely anecdotal.

However, it doesn't remove from the fact that these shoes won't help you out. If anything, they'll make you look even more out of touch being that they lack any sense of style.

Snackchezon Shoes By Jews launching today (yes we're real)

Square toe shoes are extremely dated and unfashionable. In fact, they all look awful. Who did you guys consult on what styles to put out?

On another note: I do not understand the short person complex because I am 6 feet tall, but my shorter friends have never tried to hide their height. In fact, by doing so, you would come off as extremely insecure and lack confidence. You might be putting on 3 inches of height, but you're not kidding anybody when you take the shoes off. If you're artificially increasing your height because you think you'll increase your odds at picking up women (or men?), two things you need to realize: they're going to eventually find out and you should probably work on yourself (and your confidence) before shelling out cash for ugly shoes... You could at least spend that same money on a nicer pair of shoes / outfit.

Snackchezon For Frustrated Gifted Kids, A World of Online Opportunities

Why stick to bouldering? Although I'm a huge bouldering fan, the intellectual and physical concepts of solving bouldering problems translate just as well onto roped climbing (whether it be sport climbing, traditional or top roping). Moreoever, you get to introduce your kid (and potentially yourself) to learning about knots, how to build anchors and the physics behind falling (all of which are awesome theoretical concepts to experience and play with in real life).

Snackchezon Calling all Geeks: Chattanooga Pays Techies to Relocate

Correction, a third kind: techies who rock climb. Chattanooga has epic bouldering.