electic | 7 years ago | on: Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether
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electic | 7 years ago | on: Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25
Any advice appreciated.
electic | 7 years ago | on: VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
Secondly, is there anyone out there that has a solid emacs step by step guide that might be able to replicate the functionality of vscode? I haven't had time to look at it but I think the time has come where I can't put it off any longer.
electic | 7 years ago | on: An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
electic | 7 years ago | on: Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
electic | 7 years ago | on: Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
electic | 7 years ago | on: Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M
electic | 7 years ago | on: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own
electic | 7 years ago | on: Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
It is not longer cost prohibitive to be vertically integrated because you don't have the upfront capital costs of manufacturing. With that, Apple is excelling at what they are doing. AMD is excelling at it as well. Historically, this type of behavior would be risky if not foolish.
electic | 7 years ago | on: Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
Case in point, you can see Intel really struggling because not only do they design their own hardware but they also make it quite literally with their own fabs. This has resulted in a lot of delays moving to 10nm and beyond.
AMD on the other hand spun out their fabs and now use fabs around the world to handle the actual manufacturing. This frees them up to actually design hardware and innovate at a much greater clip. Heh, they are even going to 7nm.
The same applies with Apple. It is quite cheap to be vertically integrated because you simply don't really have to make anything. The capital investment is quite low. It is something that Sun didn't have the luxury of.
electic | 7 years ago | on: Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing
Beyond immigration talk, the constant spewing of racism coming from the administrations is a clear signal that immigrants of different backgrounds are not wanted.
To that end, they simply pack up and build their business and wealth elsewhere. We won't feel those effects right now but it will hit hard in a few years.
electic | 7 years ago | on: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
It didn't improve my life in any way.
The instant I asked and answered that a few times, I started cutting down my usage dramatically.
electic | 7 years ago | on: Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
electic | 7 years ago | on: Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
electic | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Coin Registry
electic | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Coin Registry
It's been awhile since we posted here about our release of CoinHub[1] and everyone gave some amazing feedback. Since then, we’ve expanded to build our own data network because we grew frustrated with the lack of real-time pricing, news, and social posts. Most of the stuff out there is polled and could be up to 15 minutes late. So we’ve launched Blockmodo[2].
One thing that we had a huge issue with is keeping track with all the coins that are in the market. We decided to open source our entire token database:
https://github.com/Blockmodo/coin_registry
We’ve spent hundreds of hours curating information on hundreds of coins and we wanted the process to be a community process going forward. Let us know what you think!
- Blockmodo Team
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15403495 (New Version Soon)
electic | 7 years ago | on: Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
Does anyone know if the keyboard they plan to replace it with is better? Or is it the exact same keyboard that will end up sticking again after a month?
electic | 8 years ago | on: Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency
Another reason not to use Facebook.
electic | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
- iTerm2
electic | 8 years ago | on: Cryptocurrencies Are Selling Off
If you want the price, you need to aggregate the USDT trades across all pairs to get the price.
https://blockmodo.com/quotes/USDT
It moves up and down but it largely comes back to a dollar.