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Comment · 8 years ago
Wireless has traditionally been left out of common carrier / nn talks because its easier to compete in infra-structurally compared to running cabling.
Comment · 8 years ago
From personal experience: Hiring your designer buddy who lives in San Diego while the two other guys in your company lives elsewhere entitles you to pay $800 a year in somewhat unexpected tax, even though you're not selling any services to any CA companies. Yea, jumped in feet first, but really did not enjoy the $800 bill that came with it.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think this is a great example of the saying "There are two types of companies: those who have been hacked, and those who know they've been hacked"
Comment · 8 years ago
They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable.

Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.

Comment · 8 years ago
And if you realize it I imagine your strike price was $0, so its full profit. IANAL tho.
Comment · 8 years ago
I do this for manual buys when I'm doing large purchases/sells. However something I am willing to pay this .25-1% fee on is monthly automated purchases of cryptos for speculative holding.
Comment · 8 years ago
Because they can get more money faster by selling the mining units. Mining is not a guaranteed return but selling a unit is. Plus large scale mining requires a large capital risk (electricity), that is compounded with the large capital investment into the hardware.

Plus if they have significant BTC reserves (I believe they do) then selling mining equipment strengthens the BTC network and improves the value, maybe, of their current holdings.

Comment · 9 years ago
"There are two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors"

People give up on the naming things because the name they're seeing makes sense to them in that moment and they may not realize how confused they'll be when they come back to the code in 3 months. May be a lack of experience in maintaining "old code" or just part of the programming culture they're in.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'd wager that uranium (as with all the heavier elements) is spread throughout the solar system as it is forged and spread in stars going supernovae/hypernovae
Comment · 9 years ago
You also get write access to private profile information:

"This application will be able to read and write all user data. This includes the following:

Private email addresses Private profile information Followers"

Comment · 9 years ago
Yes that may be true, but that also means BTC is essentially in a deflationary period as the buying power of the currency is currently going up with time (unlike most Fiat, which the buying power tends to decrease during an inflationary period) so holding BTC makes sense to a lot of players with it. So there is a bit of an incentive for its use as a speculative instrument.

A lot of the speculative buyers don't really understand how volatile BTC can be and that it is a usable currency.

The reason I say its in a deflationary period (while demonstrably false as more BTC are being produced by miners) is because its BTC / person interested in BTC seems to be decreasing.

Comment · 9 years ago
If a single entity owned all BTC produced it would be largely worthless. There would also be no speculative value in it as no one would have any horse in the race. The value of BTC is driven by the network of BTC and its ability to be used in transactions as well as a speculative instrument.

Given that, If your question is altered to somehow own all of it while keeping its value, i'd rather the 100B easily liquidated assets over 10B revenue yoy.

Comment · 9 years ago
I think they're legally required to have drivers at the moment.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think sending from a no-reply with a reply-to defined works though.

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