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How does limiting the timeline to 5,000 years enhance our ability to predict the future?

This isn't how short selling works.

If I short a stock, I borrow the share and the sell it on the market. If I loan the share to someone else and they sell it then it is still only sold once.

In my opinion it's more likely that people were either selling naked calls (which would convert into an IOU for stock) or that people were selling shares that didn't actually exist on the open market.

I don't know enough about settlement to verify the latter claim, but there are some reports of shares taking an excessively long time to settle. Those kind of irregularities should probably be more closely investigated.

How does it handle symbols that aren't legal javascript identifiers? Is that on the user or are the some safety conventions in place in the compiler?

6) Liability.

Doesn't it centralize control of the encryption and data to your company and your authentication provider?

So the only decentralized/blockchain part is authentication?

Can you provide any details as to how it will be free, scalable, and decentralized? The word blockchain doesn’t inspire my confidence.

Being able to discern large scale themes and patterns in data, then using those findings distill the original data input to minimally redundant messages, is similar to the goal of an AGI that can comprehend any input data.

Only the citizens who like to keep inert piles of cash buried in their back yard.

What is the value of the society that raised him and all the research and effort that came before him?

I interviewed at Facebook with the intention of getting an offer letter I could use as a bargaining chip with my first choices. I was rejected, but fortunately got into my first choice anyway. Despite all the perks and compensation, I would never want to work for Facebook.

It's not pronounced from the throat like the German "ch" but otherwise it's as close as it gets.

I suppose leveraged betting is done best when backed by worthless collateral.

If and only if you got your btc out of mtgox.

It works that way if he transferred the private key and then they murdered him. Blockchains and meatspace have different rules.