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Why don't rich people need protection? Here's the answer: this is their protection. It reduces their competition.

Seriously, these securities rules keep people like me from investing in AirBnB and Uber (two that I caught very early and wanted into)... but we can all go to Vegas and lose $100k in a single weekend. But putting $10k into Uber's seed round is somehow a crime I need to be protected from? Truth of the matter is this is the essence of capitalism-- it is my right to invest in Uber's seed round and Uber's right to have me as an investor (if they consent), whether I am "accredited" or not. This is basic "Freedom of association" which underpins everything from gay marriage to the right to refuse service to barefoot people.

Also, of course, I've lost my own $10k on more than one occasions starting companies. (And I've made much more as well.) Why do I need protection from myself? Especially when the terms of that protection are written by people who don't know what SHA256 is.

No, these regulations mainly keep the middle class and the not-quite-wealthy-enough from investing in the highest upside opportunities. I know it's better to put $10k into 10 different seed rounds than $100k into one seed round. I don't need to be accredited to know that.

And I've certainly lost a lot more than that (and made even more) in the stock market using complicated options strategies involving multiple legs and expirations-- I'm the very definition of a sophisticated investor....

.... but I can't be trusted to give a startup $10k?

This is what regulation tends to do, which people don't seem to get -- it raises the bar keeping the little guy out.

Once again, the rich get richer and the poor and middle class have less opportunity.

PS-- To those responding: Yes, I have heard "but what about the grandmas? won't anyone think of the grandmas???" before. I'm acutely aware of the history of this type of regulation in the USA. Ultimately this stuff keeps grandmas poor.

You should all read G. Edward Griffens "The Creature from Jekyll Island". It's a history book about money, but it's not in the least dry.

Government always has an excuse, usually a claim to be helping or protecting people, when it violates our rights.

Keeping me out of Uber's seed round is a violation of my rights.
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I'm sorry. You're quite wrong. Jira does suck, not because people change their work flow, but because there are many parts that fail integrating with each other as soon as you make any settings changes.
Most designers are actually pretty lazy (or just prone
to following trends, like other professions?)

If it means more people's buttons and checkboxes look the same, I'd say that's a good thing.
It's really awesome that Fujifilm allows us to customize our film simulation choices and adjust various parameters such as Color, Highlight and Shadow Tones. This article in particular shows how to set up your camera to emulate some of the masters and their film types.
Bitcoin at least is original and has the digital gold aspect going for it. But all these new ICO tokens are complete copycats with just updated branding.
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Seriously, I had this conversation with someone on Twitter and it was like they had no clue this was an option.

A state power isn't going to let some random currency come in and compete with their sovereign currency rules.
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I'd charge someone the same if they required immediate service for something silly. People in the USA will go to the ER for the common cold
This is easy for the people in high positions -- the vast majority of these types of emails are simply forwarded to the appropriate underling, with only the implicit comment "please handle this".

Many senior managers are little more than human message routers.
I'm not sure this argument holds much weight. All investments have inherent risk. It's the job of the investors to assume how much risk they're taking. You cannot ban all digital currencies simply because a large amount of ICOs are poorly thought through, if not malicious. That would block a huge amount of innovation in a technology with huge potential to revolutionize many markets, if not all markets.

It's the equivalent of banning startups to protect investors from stupid/malicious founders, which has obvious negative effects on the economy. And with crowdfunding making its way to startup investment, it's not a reach to compare the two.
Would you dispute that a lot of people are idiots?

Would you dispute that even (otherwise) smart people can and do get taken in by dodgy financial schemes?

Regulations are there for good reasons...
> makes an attack even more obvious and maybe harder to detect

eh? more obvious and harder to detect at the same time?
I don't exactly agree with this. As a scientist myself, the term "terrible programmer" is a little bit harsh.

Scientists (and the general population) are not professional programmers. If the need arises, they hire one. Scientists usually need to jot down a prototype and a model in order to see if their theory works.

It's like comparing a physician with a prepper. A prepper might know how to use some first-aid methods and tools, but is not expected to act as a trauma surgeon or emergency doctor. She has just the right knowledge for the task in hand. Yeah, Python might simply be Hansaplast in this case, but who cares if you are alone? :p
You didn't read the link, and you've linked to a YouTube video of some guy opining into a camera as some kind of primary source. Awesome.
Your behavior in that case will be less than ideal. It will be better to talk to your reportee and the individual and understand what's going on if you weren't in the loop. This could have easily been the birth of a strong partnership between sales and the dev team to understand how people both really use and demo the product.

Assume positive intent. This business of putting in complaints behind someone's back (bear in mind OP asked for permission!!!) is just childish
Keep trying and trying, It wont work. By that's none of my business
But note which he mentions first. In that phrase software clearly takes primacy.

When NeXT was on the ropes they got out of hardware but kept making the software. Likewise when Apple was in trouble they opened up the hardware but kept the software close to their chest because that's where the value is.

Why is this the case? Where is the value in the OS? Its all about the ecosystem. The OS is important because of all the applications that users can run on it. Word, Excel, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. The key advantage NeXT had over Beos was an ecosystem of applications - modest compared to the Mac but it existed, there was no OmniGroup for BeOS - and there was a robust set of developer tools and frameworks to build those apps on.

PC hardware is a commodity. Anybody can build a computer from components in their bedroom. Building a new OS from scratch is a whole different ballgame. And no, rolling up a new Linux distro doesn't count.
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> the scammer's bad reputation will ensure no one will trust doing business with him again in his field

That doesn't like a problem for people who can fill a ~20 million ICO in half an hour, do they need to work (=be trusted) ever again?
dagw, true. That's exactly the path I had taken - but I had enough experience as a pure hobby to begin with to know exactly what I was choosing.

For example - I ended up in a deep learning department just a few months before it became a thing in the media. I knew it was beneficial for me due to a huge amount of statistics involved, even if I would later not get a job doing this. But if I did not know it - I would probably have taken another subject as it appeared too theoretical and didn't seem to be in any way truly relevant today (and there were alternatives as theoretical and as good).

How many students had any idea which subjects to pick for a study in such a pragmatic way? I was not aware how lucky I was at the time, but later on I realised that I actually were.

It's great to say something along the lines of "just study for 5 years and it's probably going to be good for you, since education is generally good". But then you start meeting people with Ph.Ds from mediocre universities who had spent a good chunk of their lives on something that landed them a mediocre job and that's where I believe the problem with modern system lays.

Smart dedicated people will probably find they way anyway. What about somebody who isn't an architect but who could become a great builder solely because he's not so interested in the industry on a higher level, but is capable given the circumstances?
Because the first dozen ICOs that turn out to be scams can break consumer confidence across the whole market. When people stop trusting, the system collapses.

This isn't hardship, just put your money somewhere else.
affiliate links with companies that have programs. But that doesn't influence the rankings. You'll notice companies without programs like Amazon, Azure listed. Also companies like Digital Ocean who don't offer cash, but only credit rated quite well. I let the data sort it out, it's nice when they do have affiliates because it's a business after all, but the existing shitshows of affiliate garbage just pumping the highest paying companies has done tremendous harm to thousands if not millions of people over the last decade+.
I wish people would stop saying "feature X is already here" when it is missing Edge and Firefox support. What projects are people working on where they can happily overlook the fact that something simply won't work in 2 out of 4 major browsers in use today?
First off, bubbles are a side effect of the money cycle which is created by central banking -- both the Dotcom and 2008 bubbles were created by the Fed selling money below cost, building a massive carry trade in, for instance, houses.

Secondly, if there is a crash, the best thing to do is nothing. Let the people who invested poorly get wiped out-- it's better for the economy. (There are examples of this too- crashes that happened before the federal reserve which were much worse than the 1929 crash, but which are forgotten to history because they didn't create Great Depressions because there was no Federal Reserve to "bail out the system")

The bailouts of 2008 were the worst thing that came out of that. Government shouldn't be bailing out these businesses, especially after those businesses made billions getting below cost money from that same government.

IT's not really economics you're talking about here but the corruption in the system.

Bailouts are part of the game-- thats how they scam us. Bailouts don't protect us (that's the con.)

For an excellent history of money and the last 100 years of bailouts and how this exact same thing has been done dozens of times already-- check out G Edward Griffens "The Creature from Jekyll Island" -- it's a history book about money, but it's anything but dry.
In Paris, "ligne 14" of the subway has been built fully automated, it opened in 1998 (~20yrs ago now!). "ligne 1" has also been transformed from manual to automated in 2012. "ligne 4" is in progress of being transformed.

This is possible. Easier for subway because the tracks are fully protected from any external impact: trees, animals, cars, humans, ... There has been a problem once with some stuff that fell onto the track from works on a roof. Quite rare in the subway though compared to trains.

Also, in a subway, the distance would be shorter for employees of the company to come and assist passengers: it might take a few minutes between stations, where it could take dozens of minutes, even hours, on train tracks.
Ugh what? If you're not directly hurting someone there shouldn't be a law against it.

For instance, a law against DUIs make sense, it's so you don't kill people. A law requiring seat belt wearing - not so much.
Which is a lot people in this thread want regulation as opposed to a flat out ban.
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Having done a quick survey (size: 1), I can confirm there is at least one (1) British person in London.
This was a needed move. Too many scamcoins are appearing and selling their overpriced offerings. It's like Kickstarter, but for larger sums of money and less accountability if things don't materialise. We are heading for a pretty serious ICO bubble if ICO's can continue to operate like they are and I can only hope that the USA follows suit next.

The crypto markets right now are in a free fall as a result of the panic. This is a ban on ICO's, not a ban on cryptocurrency. People don't realise how instrumental China is in the crypto world, quite crazy. I am taking this opportunity to buy up promising alt coins like TenX ($pay) which are all incredibly unvervalued right now as a result of the drop.

As we learned with Bitcoin, panic is temporary and eventually things will bounce back. We are entering a brave new world with cryptocoins as they reach the mainstream.
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sorry for the low substance comment but...

OMG! I almost never watch videos(low content to time ratio), but this is hilarious. I don't know what the word for phrases that are buzzwords(cliche?), but this has most if not all of them.
In this subthread I am arguing that someone who can create an altcoin or ICO from their home in a weekend is not necessarily a financial genius who should be paid millions, as it's fairly easy to do.

In other subthreads I am saying why I think the ban on ICOs might be welcomed, even if it could take the good down with the bad. I'm not arguing in any thread for an outright ban on digital currencies.
Further, other than a handful of metro areas the entire country is "Cartown."
While I agree that you definitely can get treated for anything, I find it very hard to believe that you've never had to wait more than 45 minutes to be seen by someone. The past few times I've had to go to emerge I had to wait around 5-6 hours each time.
I don't like the idea of a safety net that depends mostly on the contributions of those who least want to be party to it.

Regarding looking out for each other with bans on dangerous goods/services, I have no problem with a voluntary program that people enroll in to be looked after in this manner. We could have a state-backed coop that we voluntarily cede some of our rights to for a predetermined amount of time (e.g. 5 years), and over that timeframe, we are obliged to use the government's software guards on our smartphones/PCs, that prevents us from transacting with entities not on the government's whitelist.

But people should be able to live without those protections if they so choose. Accepting anything otherwise is accepting a servile existence for oneself and everyone else.
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The law you're referring to is more about marketing investments.

You're still free to give your friend 10k for a startup.

It's to prevent boiler room style organizations that quite effectively convince people without much information that an investment is sound when it's not.
I really don't understand how libertarianism doesn't collapse at first contact with actual human beings.

>Libertarianism is about the rights of an individual to engage in transactions they find beneficial.

>Libertarians support individual rights at a vastly greater level than anyone else

And who protects these rights? Who defines them? Is it really possible for everybody's rights to be protected simultaneously (whatever those rights may be)? Who decides ownership? Who guarantees the avenues for beneficial trade?

The rule of law cannot be enforced without an element of coercion. The best we can hope to do is to make it as enlightened as we can.
A more cynical reason is that Western states have three pillars of exploiting the middle class: Taxes, health insurance and housing costs.

The cost of these redirect the value that a middle class person produces to protected interest groups like civil servants, the military industrial complex, doctors and landlords.

It is vital for the system that everyone either has to pay a high rent or buy a house.
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The reason ICOs were such a boon is that there has been no other path for the middle class to invest in startups.

ICOs gave a level playing field and produced a resulting boom.

Most people don't even know what a cryptocurrency is.
Did you just morally equate investing in a failed startups with shooting kids?
The thing is these are a huge haven for money laundering which is probably the best explanation for the amounts raised.
> This was a needed move.

> We are entering a brave new world with cryptocoins as they reach the mainstream.

You can't have both. decide
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As another user TheOtherHobbes noted, humans share this characteristic with insects to some extent:

> Wild solo humans are only a little smarter than wolves individually, but being able to share and externalise invention and learning created a massive advantage.

This seems to resonate with a strain of Philosophy of Mind https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/ which deals with our mental content being distributed not only around the brain and body, but on paper, computers and relations with other people.
Sorry I mean the possibility for an attack, how and where you would implement that etc. Can't edit my post anymore.
Germany has private insurance companies and all US insurance companies negotiate drug prices. Even the specific drug prices that the talking point says Medicare should be able to negotiate are negotiated (by the private companies that administer that part of Medicare...).

Most Germans are covered by "sickness funds" but those with higher incomes have the option of buying private insurance. And the sickness funds aren't really single payer, spending is negotiated regionally, not at the national level.
Yep, but it would only run up to 8.x. I think, 8.5, but it could have been 8.1. They Mac OS after 8.5 changed a lot, and I think the BeOS version of sheepshaver stopped being able to load the OS.

It worked with no extra files on a Mac running BeOS, on a BeBox it required a dump of the toolbox ROM.
I would dispute that either of these justify banning people from making decisions for themselves on what to spend/invest their money in.

If people really don't want the responsibility of freedom we can bring back indentured servitude, where people sign away their rights.
I use both Windows 7 (desktop) and windows 10 (laptop). I haven't found much difference between the two, unless you count the time after Win10's release when they "accidentally" screwed Win7's update feature.

The Win10 features I like are the multiple desktops and bash on windows. I don't think these alone warrant an upgrade. Win10, however, has become much better since launch, when I found it to be utter trash.
maybe companies should have a maximum size, if after a certain amount of they are still market leader they need to split into two?
>> I don't like the idea of a safety net that depends mostly on the contributions of those who least want to be party to it.

Yet without such things we end up with millions in penury, risking starvation, because they never thought they'd be the one to hit hard times.

As for the rest, yes I get that you're a libertarian. I'm not. I understand its appeal, but it's a recipe for literal social darwinism, with those who are poor, unlucky or ill getting to die, free, in the streets.
Here's the thing though, I did not invest in the Ethereum ICO because I considered it a scam coin.

It's really easy to just say all these ICOs are scams but we have not seen many outright scams.

I have seen a lot of very young enthusiastic teams promising things that it would be very hard for them to deliver on.

And I imagine every Silicon Valley VC can see the same thing about their pitches.

How do you know which are scams and which aren't? There's no objective measure.

So basically this is banning the middle class from investing in the next massive technology cycle.

Reserving it once again only for VCs and accredited investors. Keeping the little guy out and making the rich richer.