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Stripes ultimate mission is to increase the total GDP of the internet. The more transactions that are happening on the internet, the better it is for them. So, from a company standpoint whatever they can possibly do to ensure that companies have the best tools available from stripe is what they are going to do. How hard would it be to expand into Baremetrics product from what they already have? They say that they are not competing, but I think they are. They are both in the business of giving their customers the best possible metric tools, period.
Paper here: http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674%2817%2930584-6.pdf
I would be surprised if the Chinese government doesn't ban Bitcoin at some point. They don't allow their people free access to information, why would they allow freedom in monetary matters?

They certainly doesn't seem inhibited in banning things that may pose a threat to themselves. Bitcoin just doesn't pose much of a threat yet, not until it's generally useful as a payment system and for financing -- thus comprising an actual competition to the PBOC and their member banks.
My experience with Facebook was that it made me a lot less fond of people that I used to call friends. I'm a bit of a nomad, so I have clusters of friends and family that exist in places I've long since left behind. At first, I was curious about what they were up to, but the reality of their curated online selves was more disappointing than enlightening.

I was getting a lot of annoying politics and boring photos of kid play dates, pets, dinners, sporting events, etc. Obviously, the quality of your feed depends on the quality of the people you connect with, but I found myself more disconnected from people who previously occupied a nostalgic fondness in my mind.

On the other hand, the people who I cared the most about were routinely the quietest people on Facebook because--let's face it--smart, productive people don't waste time on things like that.

I'm relatively old (40's), so my experience is also skewed by that.

I left by editing my hosts file to block all FB-related servers and never looked back.
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Do you really, really, really think the architects didn't do their homework? Can you think of no other possible explanation they went with rule 30 and not GoL?
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> Most of the founders I deal with pay their employees before the founders themselves get a dime of salary. Sure the founders get the bulk of the equity. But they also give their employees equity awards, even though the employees get paid a salary, as well (i.e. they don't take on the same risk).

Employees don't take on the same risk because they typically can't bear the same risk. This is the equivalent of lauding the bravery of a stunt double for jumping off a roof when they've got a big blue safety cushion waiting for them just outside the frame.
I feel like you're mischaracterizing the phenomenon, at least when it comes to NYC.

This is not a product of falling demand - but rather rising prices, and landowners willing to endure extensive vacancies to prevent the market price from dropping.

Increased interest in the area raised prices past the point of affordability for businesses. In a normal market this would result in price drops until landlords can find renters.

What we are seeing instead is a concerted effort to maintain pricing through willingness to let storefront sit empty. Instead of lowering rents to attract tenants, landlords are simply tolerating vacancies.

> "who wants to go to SOHO to buy clothes when you can do it online!"

Bleecker St was home to high end fashion boutiques - a segment of retail that is still doing well in brick and mortar, and more resistant than other retail niches to the effects of ecommerce. The idea that everyone went online instead I don't think holds water.

Importantly also, even if clothiers are increasingly online, other types of retail businesses (food? Fitness?) would step in to fill these spaces. This hasn't happened.

>"you can see a lot of startup/coworking spaces taking advantage of the vacancies in these initial stages."

This is precisely what isn't happening. Rents are too high for broad categories of businesses (including coworking spaces) - but rather than lower rents and get these spaces rented, landlords are holding firm instead.
Should add [2003] to the title.
Correct. The link => http://grnh.se/8fcutd
redirects to
https://boards.greenhouse.io/plangrid?gh_src=8fcutd

which says

"The board you are looking for is no longer open."
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If we assume the Chinese government manages to short ALL current bitcoin (16.5 million), and that the gain from shorting will be $2000 per BTC (current value is about ~2300), it'll still not be even a percentage of 3.5 trillion.
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Yeah, that'll be it. There's some info on all the stuff it breaks here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking

The new Google "did you mean to go to ?" nonsense is something else to add to that link!

My ISP (TalkTalk) claims to have an opt-out page but the forums suggest it's been broken for years, and today it is a 404. I have an open issue with the CEOs office to opt me out manually but they've been pretty useless so far.
There are fates worse than death.
Do you mean "cease to be a going concern"?
Our baseline of a single high-end PCIe SSD isn't slow, though. This comparison is ultra high bandwidth vs ultra ultra high bandwidth.
Could someone maybe add "about the open web" to the title? Otherwise it does not sound too interesting.
I read the article and didn't feel the same way, what stood out to you specifically?
Agreed, I'm not pro-nuclear in opposition to coal. But good point.
Marginal costs can be upheld through protection, self-regulation, and enforcement -- essentially of human rights.

I think people who are able to make a living by doing such work - won't burn all the money by buying yachts and party airplanes (like modern Internet "heroes" of entrepreneurship) - but by creating more pro-bono information work.
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As a contrast:

I generally just want to watch videos on my TV.

I have plex and kodi installed on my shield. Plex requires me to setup an account to get videos from one app to another on the same device. It also failed to launch and got stuck in a few loops before I found this out. Trying to set it up just now it asked if I wanted to launch the server, but then couldn't find it. Then when manually launching it from the internal settings menu list of installed apps it said going to the next page would add permissions for storage, but just brought up an error so again I had to go into the internal settings menu list of installed apps and enable the permissions myself. I have already ended up in a situation where it said the server was there, running and connected, but showed me no library and I had to force stop and restart the server. I've also so far not been able to find basic settings like hiding the synopsis of unwatched media.

Last time I tried to set it up was on my NAS, and it consistently tried to re-encode video files which would have played just fine when streaming.

Maybe my experience is rare, but kodi has pretty simply worked and played my files without requiring me to setup anything online. My patience for managing my media has dropped drastically over time.
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Care to say anything specific about Stirner's ideas?
Sure...but if they want Apples, at least they could plant some interesting Apples. Instead of Granny Smith, maybe some Brushy Mountain Limbertwig or Hawaii or Fukunishiki or ...?
One of the first books many many years back, introducing me to software business and open source culture
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
By Eric S. Raymond-
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Reasonableness, rationality, diplomacy, civilization — these are fragile and require the good faith cooperation of intelligent people to have any effect on the world and to overcome our natural tendencies for selfish blinkered tribalism.

An angry and selfish man with power can easily destroy the careful work of decades (or centuries). That doesn't make him smart or right.
> Call it the Amazon effect - who wants to go to SOHO to buy clothes when you can do it online! :)

That's not the effect that's happening here. In fact, a number of brands that have built their reputations online have recently (in the last few years) opened up brick-and-mortar stores in SoHo, and done quite well. Warby Parker and Birchbox are two examples.

The problem, as the sibling comment notes, isn't that people don't want to go to brick-and-mortar stores when they can buy clothing online. The problem is rather specific to New York (and particularly Manhattan) real estate, which is why we have the paradox that brick-and-mortar stores along some streets are closing and staying vacant, while their competitors are opening up new (successful) stores literally two blocks away.
Implicating (wrongly) someone else's $50m to get $2m. A tempting deal for some.
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I'm not that familiar with Stripe, but my first impression is: why spend time on creating an inferior Metabase / Periscope / Power BI / Looker / mariusandra/insights clone? Just allow data export and if you really want to give a ready-to-use product to your customers, Metabase seems awesome for this kind of thing?

Stripe could have particular constraints that I'm not aware of, but it seems to an example of not-invented-here syndrome.
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Kinda obvious, though: it's not like Obama could realistically pledge more. He entered into this agreement unilaterally as it is, with no vote of Congress (treaties do require 2/3rds majority), so pledging the "fair share" would be politically risky at the time. The strategy was to get HRC elected, and get democratic majority in the House/Senate, and then pony up the funds. None of those things quite worked out the way establishment was hoping it would.

So now the only avenue available to address the issue is re-negotiation of the agreement. Assuming the world leaders do actually want to save the climate, and not just bilk the US out of $100B/yr, they have no choice but to negotiate.
But This will always be the case.

A change in taxation and improvements in coverage by the IRS will always be challenged by the Rich and their political agents.

Its is, always has been, and always will be - a power play.

This is the level at which sufficient money accumulates in individuals that it converts to power.

So Earlier - the monied class converted wealth to power to act on the political class.

Now the constituents and political class want to use their diversified/unfocused power to counteract the monied class.

This is the simple transfer of force model.
For those just skimming, here are the top 10 reasons for software developer unhappiness, according to the paper:

1. Being stuck in problem solving
2. Time pressure
3. Bad code quality and coding practice
4. Under-performing colleague
5. Feel inadequate with work
6. Mundane or repetitive task
7. Unexplained broken code
8. Bad decision making
9. Imposed limitation on development
10. Personal issues – not work related

I've dealt with most of these, and I think they betray the mantra of the "modern" software engineer: push features fast. Code quality, adequate explanations, proper planning, and lenient time tables are an afterthought.
His job isn't to trounce oppinents, and ut's his job he's floundering at.
Like what?

They decided meanwhile that they would like to celebrate Wolfram instead?

Or is there any artistic value to celebrate someone with other persons achievements? Some kind of twisted post-modern artistic message about authorship?

Or it looks better for them? For example: lets pay tribute to Amundsen reaching the South pole with polar bear images (because they are so cute)?

By Occam razor: ignorance is the best explanation. ;)
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Think about a single-sign-on service: by definition, the service would have the ability to generate/access tokens that would grant a user access to other applications. Therefore, a breach in any kind of SSO service would result in granting access to people's information -- no decryption needed!
I think the only issue I take with your assumption is that you will end up having more job-seekers. It could just be the case that the abusive employer's business will fail and thus create an opportunity in the market for another company to take over. If you rinse and repeat, you could assume that it would provide a force to push abusive employers out of the marketplace and replace them with more productive employees and employers.

I'll also argue that "improving their standard of living" does not have to be separate from an expansion in the economy. Often the means these irresponsible financial stewards take in "improving their standard of living" is in spending on goods and services, which continues to contribute to liquidity in the market. Not to mention that improving the standard of living for consumers is generally an overall win for society as a whole (lower crime, lower healthcare costs, higher productivity, etc.)
Here's a start: "Here’s a website (made in a couple of minutes with a tiny piece of Wolfram Language code)". He's bragging about his coding prowess, selling his product and basking in the pleasure of writing his own name, all at once. :)
Indeed, the initial results are promising and worth further study with a larger sample size.

We should be careful though... many results don't replicate in larger populations.
We get it - cellular automata. This would have been an interesting article if he had tracked the artist/architects, interviewed them and asked them how they ended up with these patterns, what tools they used etc.

Instead it's the same endless blabber about the damn automata we have heard for the last 20 years.
I was actually just paraphrasing the article when it came to falling demand (though I share the same view):

> At a time when shoppers are buying online and fashion brands across the industry are hurting, “the challenging business environment makes it less interesting to do vanity locations,”

I think it would be folly to think that there's a static or growing level of demand in physical retail relative to online shopping - even at the high end.

I don't reasonably doubt that someone will be able to turn a profit with the increased rents, or that landlords don't want to drop the rent for a multitude of reasons (financing requirements included) but my point is that we're in a period where the sectors which typically could afford the high rents in places like these now can't.

And my statement holds just as much for NYC as it does for other cities in the world - I was simply providing the Australian example as support. Remember when Virgin could afford renting half of Union Square to sell physical music? After it was empty for a while (much like Bleecker St) the DR and banks stepped in with a business which could afford the rent.
> at the same time acquires a bargaining chip with Europe and China that he can cash in later

Bargain with your credibility? I don't think that will work, though. One of Trump's strategy is put something that has been agreed upon on the table again, in the name of renegotiation. For other countries, it might be same thing as, blackmailing. How do you know Trump or his successor will play the same trick again and again?

Credibility is simply something you cannot game. This will cast a long term shadow on US's reputation if a contract can last no longer than 4 years.

Trump's America will still, be treated seriously, not as revered leader, but a unpredictable danger.
"time acquires a bargaining chip with Europe"

Yeah good luck with that. Maybe I'm living in a parallel Europe but that is not what I'm reading in the European newspapers this morning. Trump is loathed here and the notion of always cooperating with (our "friend") the US is sinking extremely fast, politically and also in the mind of the general people. I can't comment for all EU countries, but the view of the US is rather negatively here.

And honestly why would we? While a lot of EU leaders are publicly outraged, the fact that the US is more and more turning back into the dark ages gives a lot of possibilities for other countries. That void needs and will be filled in by others.

For me there is a silver lining here.
Thanks, I think the frequency numbers are important to know how different the issues are. The paper is quite a bit to digest but this is probably what most people who click the link are really after.
Meh, old news at least for me who always has been sceptikal, I point out a lot of those reasons out in my IndieWeb talk: https://jeena.net/media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf
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Interested in makes you think these phenomena are particular to CRE in the city?
> Polling shows that the Russian story is basically resonating with Democrats, but not doing much on the other side of the aisle (granted, Republicans stayed with Nixon up until almost-impeachment...)

What does it matter who is resonates with if there so far is no real evidence of wrongdoing?

> The problem with "Trump is a political savant" is that it's indistinguishable from the "Trump has severe ADD and just does whatever comes up" narrative.

My guess is that you, like many others, didn't watch his entire speech today nor dissect the reasons he is leaving the non-binding accord. I'd love to hear actual rebuttals on his reasoning rather than tireless critiques of his character. It's old, it's boring, it's why he will win in 2020.

He is a bold leader that is making good on his campaign promises, all of them, something I can't remember a single politician doing in my lifetime. Whether or not his policies will manifest in the way he envisions, it's still refreshing.
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No, it didn't. It was a forum with voting.
"requiring then to lower emissions would basically be telling then they're not allowed to become developed countries"

It sounds to me like the effort needs to be in making green energy more affordable than non-green energy. This would benefit all nations.

Money talks. If it's cheaper to go green, even the most die-hard conservative will go green (anecdotal case in point: my die-hard conservative grandfather, who drives a Prius).
Maybe they didn't want gun patterns for safety reasons :) But seriously, static patterns work better for medium that is architecture. I just find it so ironic that Wolfram thought this is homage to HIS work. Does he ever mention Conway in any of his texts?
Maybe they tested both and found one more aesthetically pleasing?

Maybe Game of Life simply doesn't produce patterns as interesting as Rule 30? With GoL you can only show one generation.

Maybe they were going for the randomness that rule 30 provides (you can build a PRNG from it) but Game of Life doesn't?

http://aperiodical.com/2017/05/right-answer-for-the-wrong-re...

They're professionals like you. Give them some credit.
You are a European citizen, but you want to live in Taiwan, or NZ, Canada, or US. I don't blame you, but that seems to be the source of your struggles. I'm sure I might have problems getting into those countries as well. Any particular reason you don't want to live anywhere in EU?
At the risk of confirmation bias, this seems to back fairly common beliefs in developer communities... namely that developers are individually optimistic and problems are largely the fault of mismanagement or other externalities.

> software developers are a slightly happy population

> the vast majority of the causes of unhappiness are of external type. Since external causes may be easier to influence
than internal causes, and since influencing them will impact several developers rather than only one at a time, this suggests that there are plenty of opportunities to improve conditions for developers in practice.

Also noteworthy: this study skewed highly male (94% v 5%). This may be a source of uncertainty.
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Good point - I think I misunderstood the purpose of the article. I'll leave the original comment as a matter of record.
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