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This article should be titled "The Disaster That Ensued When I Forgot to Look Up Fee Schedules." And this is from a self-professed day trader?

I'm guessing this also makes me a "Bitcoin defender."
I can't speak for CA but what you described is how it works in MA
Bitcoin transactions are not easy enough for general consumption.

I think in the Bitcoin lifecycle a number of these early services exist at the pleasure of serving pioneering Bitcoin users / miners who have a lot of digital currency already.
> It's unrealistic to expect cryptocurrencies to behave as flawlessly as wire transfers.

Wire transfers are $35.

You'd think that BTC would be able to be cheaper than that.
Most fears in the comments here are uncalled for.

Let me narrate to you an alternate view from a formerly a socialist country, India. Prior to the mid 90's there was immense resentment towards computers, there were heavy import duties on computer products and anything related to them in general. It was so expensive to work with automation that it almost throttled the economic growth for a good two decades.

I hear a lot anecdotes from my dad from around 80's. Unions in India called for a national strike, like a total shutdown when the prime minister wanted to introduce computers to the country. It was believed job losses would be so immense it will impossible for the ordinary person on the streets to meet the basic needs. Also around about that time, most factory assembly workers used to protest against PCB assembly machines all the time, government offices hated digital record keeping etc.

I remember even in the 90's telephone connections used to take years to get, and things like TV's/Refigerators used to be considered very expensive to own. When Washing Machines came around most people used to identify the lazy with those buying these machines.

Yet today all of this is common. Every house hold has these devices. And the introduction of computers and automation only increased jobs and overall quality of living has only improved.
> Look, it’s the whole ecosystem that is fucked. All these fees, complicated steps — it just doesn’t work for the normal Joe.

Yeah, cooperative/reversible financial fund transfer systems that interoperate with bitcoin are at enormous risk during these transactions, so they charge large fees and create red tape to avoid/mitigate fraud. It's probably been bitcoin's biggest stumbling point since forever. I don't think that it's a disaster though.

> The Bitpay invoice has a 15 minute timer. So I wait and wait ... last few minutes on that timer so I start to get a bit nervous.

This problem could've actually been one to blame on bitcoin. It might be due to bitcoin's low transaction throughput. I haven't followed the blocksize debate but IIRC there have been lots of talk about slow transactions.
One thing people need to remember, business is all about giving people what they want. A business that fails to do so will fail.
I would argue that aftermarket prices are artificially low for EV's because of the tax credits.

There are quite a few dealers in my area that sell used Nissan Leafs as fast as they can get them in, they are really nice cars for the price. We also happen to have better than average charging infrastructure and most of it is free currently.
I think it would help discuss validity of an argument very efficiently. I often find myself having to parse premises out of prose in order to express what I disagree with and as surprising as it sounds sometimes it gets difficult because the author might like being wordy.
I've never heard this, could you provide some sort of evidence of this? I was always under the impression that warranties were purely manufacturer defined and could be voided for any reason the manufacturer stated up front.
Let me explain how these leases work, MSRP for OPs Chevy Spark EV is in the 25k ball park, lessen the 7k government incentives is 18k. If OP is paying 80/mo (we don't know if that payment includes sales tax but let's say even if it doesn't) that's 2880 paid over a typical 3 year/10k mile a year lease. So now the balance on the car is 15k. Looking at cars.com a comparable EV Nissan Leaf (Spark EVs haven't been around for that long) 3 years old with 30k miles are going for 7-10k range. Now who do you think pays for that difference? And that's even assuming these cars all can be sold. Scraping is a bit extreme but is definitely not unheard of. The issue with EVs is that where most ICE cars can be sold at auction and exported to other countries, EVs aren't desirable to that market since there's a lack of infrastructure for them to be usable in, let's say, Latin America or Africa.
In the 80s and 90s they used to sell little paperback books that contained all the calorie information for all the popular chains in the US. People who wanted to be informed bought them.

Now you have the internet. There's literally no excuse. If you want that information you can pull out your smartphone and look it up, right there, standing in the line.

If you are a restaurant owner, it's just one more choice that's been taken away from you - what you want to put on your signs. You may think it's trivial, but it adds up. These choices are never ours to make again.
Transferring bitcoin when all relevant parties are using bitcoin is more efficient than transferring USD when all relevant parties are using USD. If people are presenting bitcoin as a good alternative to wire transfers then they are being misleading.
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Specifically in the context of the usage (that is, transferring USD), the fees were about 6 times what they would have been if he were to use a bank account. In the big picture I do agree with you, though. 1% fees on individual services are not a lot, even when they stack across different services.
Drugs are rated against state of the art treatments. In driverless cars, this would be against human drivers.
It's freaking huge when you consider a wire transfer would have been less than 1%.
Incidentally, if you're like me, and know nothing about stocks, but still want to get rich off companies you believe will succeed, I highly recommend Robinhood. It's like stock trading for chimpanzees. Install an app, fill out a brief profile, click a big shiny button to deposit money, select your stock, and click another big shiny button to buy.

I don't have any affiliation with them. I just always thought trading stocks was schleppily difficult, and was delighted to discover it was not so. I believe some company will do well; I'm not interested in understanding spreadsheets or hiring anyone; here's my money; how do I buy shares? What is the Uber-like, magic-button product here? Robinhood, it turns out.

https://www.robinhood.com/
And the consistent hours and hours of hard work in the gym. Day in, day out. A lot of which was before he was a millionaire.

Im also pretty sure he does most of his own cooking. The current Mr Olympia, Phil Heath, certainly does.

Diet > Training > Meal timing / cycling etc > Drugs.
> I don't generally perceive satire as context free

I agree, but in this case the context of this satire is The Toast as a whole, and Mallory's writings specifically.

I really recommend reading her stuff, she's geeky and incredibly hilarious.
Heh, I get it. Anyone should go with what works for them. I sure as hell have tried handfulls of different macros/diets/regiments to see what fits me physically, socially, mentally, timewise. Good luck!
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his Post-Doc. He said if it were not for her, they would not have looked at it. The chemical itself was kicked out by a massive screening of small molecules, but originally not looked at because it was not very soluble.
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Reminds me of something my mom did a few weeks ago. She got a scam call from some guy saying he was with Microsoft and he detected a virus on her computer. (First clue it was a scam? They have an iMac. Why would Microsoft be calling?)

My mom started playing dumb and saying, “You mean my Commodore has a virus?”

“What?”

“Yes! I have a Commodore 64!”

“Uh..Do you have Windows?”

“Well, of course! I can look through them and see the birds outside! My cats LOVE my windows...But I don’t let them up by my computer after someone told me that computers have mice.”

“Uhm...Ma’am...Is there someone else there?”

“Nope! Just me, my 12 cats, and my 4 dogs!”

The guy hung up on her at that point. :)
If it helps at all, here's a transcript of that talk: https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2015/blob/master/t...
EV driver who rents here, I charge at work, at a free station a mile from my house, or I run a heavy duty extension cable out to my car. My landlords are cool so YMMV but it's definitely doable depending on your setup.
You can't separate the currency from the ecosystem for anything but academic purposes. The ecosystem is a mess. A commonly cited benefit of crypto-currencies is that they'll eliminate friction and fees in the system, and I think this is only because the systems don't exist. People want security, verifiability, and reversibility when dealing with money. There has to exist companies to do this whether they are Citibank or Coinbase, and they're going to charge money.

So you can take the Gov't control out of the equation, but I still have yet to hear a scenario that crypto-currrency itself makes better than fiat - it's always about the cost, complexity, and regulation of the services on top. Eventually, those will reappear because people and business want them.
The internet (at least theoretically) a neutral infrastructure though. Bitcoin is just an application like email, the web or IM.
Does anyone have experience with ZomboDB?

"ZomboDB is a Postgres extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch. In order to achieve this, ZomboDB implements Postgres' Access Method API.

In practical terms, a ZomboDB index appears to Postgres as no different than a standard btree index. As such, standard SQL commands are fully supported, including SELECT, BEGIN, COMMIT, ABORT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COPY, and VACUUM."

https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb
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> no reason to give a woman a go just because she is one

It's a bit like going to a different restaurant just to mix things up. It's not because you have some belief it will be better, it's because you think the possible unseen benefit is worth something.
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This smacks of the kind of "fear the inner city" black kid BS that we heard in the early 90's.

I can just picture this reporter talking to one of the guys I grew up with listening to their bullshit and just eating it up with a spoon. It's not to say that the world isn't violent and screwed up, but the nexus of crime and youth culture is always over inflated to "national panic". It just keeps happening.
Has the W3C commented on this proposed change?

Has ECMA?

Was there an RFC on this proposed standards-breaking change that we missed?

I ask these questions sincerely. This seems too much like "hey, trust us, we know better than you do", and I really don't want to believe that's true.
* US electricity is about 1/3 goal, and constantly using less coal.

* Emissions out of a tailpipe happen in cities and places with people. Power Plants tend to be more remote, so the toxic gasses are emitted away from most people.

* Even if EV's were 100% coal powered, you would still be better off in CO2 emissions, because coal plants + EV is more efficient than digging up oil, refining it, transporting it to gas stations, and using in tiny, mobile, low use, low cost power plants.
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As electricity sources get cleaner, so will electric cars. Diesel and diesel-hybrid will stay the same.

Solar, wind, and storage are getting so cheap that they will completely change the electricity generation profile over the next few decades.

Even without that, a factor of 2 would be considered a revolution by pretty much any measure.
If you are able to receive BTC and pay for your costs with BTC, it's cheaper by quite a bit. The last transaction I sent using BTC cost me $.09.

If you have to exchange BTC to USD to pay for your costs, then sure, it's going to cost more than PayPal.
4% is a huge fee on $5k.
I'm working on a piece about living in my truck. I live in a major metro area (not a top five most expensive however), as a software developer making over six figures.

It's impossible to find rent for under $900/month. My anger boiled over when someone wanted $975/month for a 6 month lease for a 350 square foot "studio" that has no kitchen.

Yet, supposedly there are 18 million vacant homes in the United States [1].

It's time to put together an Airbnb for these vacant units that provide the new transients of America with affordable and safe places to stay. Interested in helping, or just want to have a conversation about this topic, check out my profile.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EVACANTUSQ176N

Additional info from the Census: http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/index.html
I would love to use it. Unfortunately it's only available in the US (and Australia?). If there are any alternatives that work in the UK and/or Switzerland then please let me know.
Thanks. Do you know someone who has used it? Are they good?
Or rather "The Disaster That Is Bitcoin Services Around Bitcoin". I'm wondering if there would be the same kind of article that dollars is very bad, because bank wants some money for wireing them e.g. to Europe, and the exchange rate between dollar and euro could change overnight.
News from the future: "Google Chrome browser, which recently grabbed 96% market share, is going to only allow JavaScript for websites that have EV SSL certificates issued by Google Inc. The change is effective tomorrow September 24, 2021. This all done with a better security and performance in mind, so no need to worry. Third-party developers can enroll into certification program for just $99 per year and 30% cut from the revenue, which we all know is bargain. Just about time. Internet users eagerly waited for improved robustness and security of the websites. JavaScript was used to deliver malware, so now we all can sleep well and take a deep breath of the fresh air."
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And if you love the simplicity and lack of informed investment Robinhood represents, you'll love slot machines too. Put money in, pull lever, boom.

If you don't know enough to stock pick, buy the index.
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Emerging evidence for: acne, cancer, PCOS, MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
One way is through hardware that supports the current wave of innovation, i.e : GPUs.

Nvidia has been on a tear recently. I'd love others' input on this.
You can show that the car did its best, statistically, or at least no worse than a panel of drivers (jury). Black boxes have a long tradition and self driving and assisted driving cars should have one.

The answer really sometimes is "you are out of luck".

For a bug or a really bad known issue, authors and designers (car company) should be liable.
Well let me be the first to invite bitcoiners to rejoin us back in reality where the internet isn't. If the entire argument of the bitcoin community is "providing an alternative to fiat currency" and they can't, what's even the point?

The internet IS NOT neutral. Never has been, never will be.
If my granny had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
Not sure why the ubuntu.com is linked instead of the crowd supply link which has all the information including the ability to purchase one. See https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
To your first point: I agree that it's not the key format that's the problem with forwarding -- so, you could use a PGP key definition for a different message format that worked better, and as long as you ignored all of the extra stuff in a PGP public key definition, it's no harm no foul. At its core, it's just a public key.

But that's not what breaks forwarding, the actual message format does, and that isn't just a UI/UX problem. You must personally decrypt and re-encrypt the message against the public key of the person you're forwarding it to, and if the original author signed it you then need to somehow encapsulate the signature (which is outside of PGP spec), and then you're still left with the key distribution problem, which becomes exponentially more difficult with each tome the message is forwarded. That's not just a UI/UX problem, that's also a fundamental technical failing of the PGP message. PGP is incompatible with social.

That's not to say, by any stretch of the imagination, that these are unsolvable problems. Quite the opposite, actually; I hope at the very least that my company has made some decent progress down the road to solving them. I'm saying only that PGP simply isn't the vehicle to take us there, because it is (in my experience) a very poor design for general-purpose usage (especially social).

To your edit: unfortunately PGP encapsulation is really, really poorly situated to construct general-purpose abstractions on top of. It just doesn't work with reused (ie forwarded, replied, etc) data. Building an abstraction facade on top of that to ease transition to a new format, though technically possible, is definitely infeasible: both your storage requirements and computation requirements are going to increase linearly with each reuse of existing data (meaning it would grow exponentially with the number of shares, assuming the worst case, that everyone re-shares it).
The things that will determine whether Bitcoin "wins" or not will not be the use cases where Bitcoin is supplementing existing infrastructure, but rather whether or not it can sustain and grow use cases where it replaces it. Even if those are fringe or even sketchy, that is what matters.

"Blockchain" initiatives at banks are just about implementing cryptography as part of solving larger technical challenges they have. Using Bitcoin as "rails" isn't there yet. Using Bitcoin in places where only Bitcoin makes sense will make it a cockroach, and open protocols that survive tend to become important.
Been very good in my experience for going from San Francisco -> East Bay.
On that topic - what's the general feeling about RDS?

I'm running pg on ec2 with a hot standby slave. I need the postgis extension but am not doing anything particularly esoteric. Ideally I'd like to have the certainty of aws handling backups for me.

I was researching moving to RDS today and would love to hear thoughts on whether it's a good general solution or not. What happens about downtime during upgrades or swapping instance sizes?
What's so troubling about Hillary's deals and ties? I can see that many people are upset about them, but when I look into details, I don't see anything particularly serious. I don't think her ties are any more troubling than, say, Romney or Trump, and no one really talked about those.
It's nice to see that Chrome and Node.js communities are working closely together. The --inspect flag was a huge improvement and makes Node.js a lot more attractive as a programming environment.
Yeah, drinkable desserts (soda, milk/ice cream drinks) seemed to be best intersection between "easy to address" and "removing would cause a major calorie reduction" in their fast food picks. The food portions wouldn't have looked quite so small if they'd bumped those up to account for cutting that crap.

Then again maybe they were going for the typical order, which I'm sure does include a giant soda or shake.
You're comparing a 100k luxury Tesla with a $80/month lease. Yes I understand the EV market is maturing and will find more niches while it develops but least not ignore the reality of the $49/month EV (yes you can lease a Golf EV at my local VW dealer for that little). See my other comment on how these leases work and why they're not economically sustainable. There's also the issue of California's EV credits that force every manufacturer to have an EV. Why do you think Fiat sells the 500 EV? Not because the couple thousand they sell a year are worth it economically, I can say that much.
People can't use bitcoin for everything, the network can't support enough transactions per second for even a small city of people to use it for everything.
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yes, 4% is huge.
> The last transaction I sent using BTC cost me $.09.

And you denominated that in $$ instead of BTC why?

Because the value of BTC fluctuates so much that its worthless to denominate goods in terms of BTC. Only USD is stable enough to actually denominate the value of goods with.

And its not like USD is rock solid: we've got an inflation-based government pushing the value of USD down ~2% each year. But that's a lot more stable than BTC.

As long as BTC remains more volatile than my freaking stock portfolio, it is worthless to trade goods with it directly. Everything will need to be converted to and from USD if I'm actually to run a business. BTC could double in price (or half in price) in the next year and no one would be surprised.
Curiosity: are you from US? Is software engineering seen as less valuable than computer science? I'm asking this because for me software engineering is a more complete discipline and would encompass pretty much everything computer science does.
Isn't Virginia a huge coal-mining state? I'm surprised nuclear is that high of a percentage.

I recall visiting a coal-mining museum in some state that had a big coal industry, and it was amazing how optimistic and pro-coal the whole thing was. (Note that I said "amazing", not "surprising".)
What is BDR?
Thanks for responding here. Appreciate it.

Yeah, it's been a while since we used MyCrowd. Good to know it has improved a lot since then. Will check it out again.
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Sounds like someone hasn't tried to buy a pound of meth with a bank wire!

No seriously, though. Who knew that the libertarian cyberpunk dystopian future would be full of people trying to scam a nickel off you every couple of seconds...oh wait, everyone ever. That's the market, man. Don't taunt the market. Don't even look at it funny. It's sentient and can hear your insults.
I hope Musk gets together with Robert Zubrin, Zubrin would make a great ambassador.
3250 even though im currently injured. This might not end well ;-)

I still follow the 1g per pound even though im aware its too much based on research. Its a habit now. I was just answering in the the context of why high protein in general. Not high protein zero carb. I should have made that clear.
I found this article after the author argued against my post How to Pay Freelancers in Upwork with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any other Altcoin [1]. The problem with his argument is that it is based on his very tiny vision of the world based on the country where he lives. This is not the "user experience" the rest of the world currently have and that's why cryptocurrencies offer an alternative, even with a lot of limitations.

[1] https://medium.com/@sondre.kolaautomat/how-to-pay-freelancer...
They rolled a version of this out in DC months ago with a marketing campaign cleverly tied to major track work on the Metro.

http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2016/07/29/uber-dc-monthly-pass-...

Very reasonable price (I suspect, in fact, they lose money on it). Service is OK. I prefer to take a bus but not everyone has a convenient bus line.
So would you get similar surface brightness performance out of a larger telescope by decreasing the size of the detector, by adding a couple lenses to focus the light onto a smaller area? It's been a while since I took astronomy courses and I try to keep up with the basic physics.