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Comment Re:I would start with Plex (Score 2) 163

I never had 3. Well, only for about 9 minutes or so, and then his twin was born.

And then I had 4, and what the heck, why not keep going at that point?

Back to the original topic some of my favorite memories a few years back were me and the six oldest dogpiling onto the couch Saturday mornings to watch cartoons I'd selected and downloaded. I still run us a playlist on Saturday mornings but the oldest kids are too big for us to fit on one couch together any more, which is a bit sad.

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Coinbase Is Making $2.7 Million a Day (bitcoin.com) 91

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bitcoin News: In information released to shareholders this week, Coinbase revealed that it recorded turnover of $1 billion last year, which works out at an astonishing $2.74 million a day or $2,000 a minute. As America's largest bitcoin broker, Coinbase claims the lion's share of the money that's pouring into the crypto space at a dizzying rate. 2017 was a bumper year for all crypto exchanges, which reported record numbers across the board: new signups, new staff hired, new trading pairs, and new revenue. Those revenue streams have turned into a torrent that has caused Coinbase' coffers to swell. Recode reports that the company's revenue exceeded $1 billion last year, most of it derived from the trading fees it levies. These vary from between 0.25% and 1%. and quickly add up: in the past 24 hours, 36,000 BTC were traded on Coinbase, accounting for more than 15% of the total market. Coinbase isn't the world's largest exchange (and is technically a broker rather than a conventional exchange -- that duty falls to its GDAX subsidiary) but it's the best known and carries great weight in the cryptocurrency industry.

Comment Time quantization? (Score 0) 188

the smallest time unit which is LARGER than a nanosecond ... For comparison, a nanosecond is 1/1,000,000,000 of a second, making a Flick roughly 1.41723356 nanoseconds long

I'm confused - why is a flick 1.41723356 ns and not 1.3 ns or 1.41723354 ns? Does this have to do with time being quantized and Planck time? I thought planck time was on a scale much smaller than nanoseconds, but I'm possibly remembering wrong.

Comment Re:You need to do some soul searching (Score 1) 423

I don't believe in the government trying to punish people for abortion

Then you're not pro-life.

I believe a fetus is an unborn human being and abortion is murder in most or all circumstances.

And I believe the appropriate way to handle crime is to force the perpetrator to make restitution to the victim or, in the case of murder, the victim's heirs.

And in this case the perpetrator is the heir, so what are you going to do?

Besides, I can't imagine anything worse to do to a person than to kill their child. The crime is its own punishment. No other is necessary.

Comment Re:Swedes try product because of marketing (Score 1) 423

you would rather just see paupers begging street side, the masses of old poor dying from malnutrition and exposure, education only for those who can "afford"

No, I sincerely think the government is the biggest causer of all those problems and I want to follow the pareto principle to help those people.

Comment Let your kid make up his own mind (Score 1) 327

Tell your kid your opinion and why you believe it, and let him come to his own conclusions.

My brother used to say how ironic it was that I didn't believe in copyright but followed the law scrupulously, while he did believe in copyright but he and all his musician friends violated it willy nilly. It's interesting how we grew up so differently. We can still be friends.

Comment Not $12 (Score 1) 128

Right now it will cost you about .03 ETH, or $12 to buy the least expensive kitten in the game

Whenever you read a story about cryptocurrency, no matter how timely, know that the prices you read are always going to be out of date by the time you read. The cheapest cats right now are going for 0.06-0.07 ETH.

My son and I watched this last night and it was possible to get cats for 0.03 and below, but they were snatched up immediately. Now you don't even see them for that price.

Comment Freedom (Score 2) 61

These days, there are so many third-party resellers, who generally are allowed to resell goods they have lawfully acquired at whatever price they want, that companies see few ways to stop them.

Good. We'd all like to be able to stop people from competing with us, but nobody should have the power to do so.

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