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When something doesn't make sense, usually it's because information is missing.

Every market participant knows that Tether doesn't prove their reserves, and yet the market exchange rate to USD stays in a tight band between 0.98 and 1.02 across multiple exchanges.

If the market doesn't trust Tether, then it should trade at a deep discount to USD, not at parity.

Similarly, the conventional wisdom says cryptocurrencies are in a massive speculative bubble. The negative sentiment on Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT, Twitter (not to mention HN) far outweighs the fanboys.

This is the most unregulated free market we've ever seen with many exchanges in many countries, person-to-person facilities like https://localbitcoins.com, margin trading, short selling, futures, options, etc.

If everyone knows the whole thing is a Ponzi-bubble-hype-scam, why isn't that information reflected in the markets?

There must be missing information that would make this make sense.
Every last bit of the spectrum will be privatized and they will eventually make it illegal to use the Mesh.
Hah, yes and no. The card said we wanted the money to go to the person we thought needed it the least. However, he knew he was not well-liked, presumably connected the dots, and thought it was funny anyways.
I guess it is still an assumption when they use Russian emails, submit through API, and are so formulaic as to be near identical ... but maybe it was legit. Sure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/fake-view...

https://www.wired.com/story/bots-broke-fcc-public-comment-sy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/24...
That is a skill requiring study and practice.

I call it "being a good programmer."
I'm going to play devil's advocate here; I don't actually know what my own opinion about this is, and I never gamble online so I don't even know much about it or how horrible it might be. So I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions that should hopefully help you work out exactly how you got to your opinion and either change it or hold it more firmly.

Why do you say "online casinos are designed in such a way to attract addicts"? Aren't they just designed to attract people who want to use them, which happens to include addicts?

Aren't you assuming that addicts are helpless people with absolutely no agency of their own? Given that this isn't a question of chemical dependency, aren't they morally responsible for exercising better judgement? I mean, many people gamble without any problems. Why should the casino be considered immoral because of someone else's poor choices?

Is online gambling especially heinous for some reason you haven't clearly articulated, or do you apply this thinking to other things people may become addicted to as well with a similar joy/grief tradeoff? It would apply to recreational drugs, I'm certain. Someone else already asked about social media. Do you think this way about other aspects of society?
In theory? Sure. But this is not something that can be guaranteed - it depends on how value is being exchanged. When the majority of the users assess bitcoin's value on the USD and there's a lack of bitcoin-exclusive productions, then you can safely say that unless bitcoin can propel itself on its own feet (and drop A LOT in price), it is a fiat currency.
It's true and documented, though:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/fake-view...
I didn't downvote you.

I fail to see a Betsy Devos type character in either the Bush or Obama admin. She even wrote in a tax benefit to her neocon college in the Northeast.
There are countless ways you can use traffic discrimination to pad your own pockets without adding any value to the economy.

In the past we've seen ISP's block apps and websites that compete with their own services. For example, Verizon blocked tethering apps and AT&T blocked FaceTime at one point. A slightly different example is the time Comcast imposed a monthly cap on users (250 GB), but then exempted their own streaming media service.

We don't know how it will play out in the future. Most likely ISP's will act slowly at first to avoid excessive backlash. They may try to shake down websites instead of customers directly. For instance, they may take payolla form established players and slow down their competitors. Or they could do the cable TV style bundling thing. I suspect that VOIP, VPN, streaming, bittorent, and cryptocurrencies will suffer first and hardest.
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> Even if they wanted to, service providers would have a hard time extorting money from huge companies like Google and Netflix, because each service provider needs Google and its billions of users a lot more than Google needs it.

Didn't Netflix agree under duress to pay Comcast for peering? If the strategy was successful for Comcast in that instance why does the author feel it would not be successful for other ISPs?
"I understand that a machine could kill people. But will a machine want to kill people? That seems to go back to that philosophical notion of consciousness."

This is exactly the issue with a lot of journalists and people talking about AI/ML. There is no WANT or DESIRES from the programs, there is no self-awareness where the programs ask themselves if what they are doing is right or wrong. They are doing exactly what they were programmed to do.

With his example of adversarial networks, one network is learning to detect fake news and other other is generating fake news--they are working towards their reward functions and optimizing the weights to reach the goal. It's math, that's all it is. It's so silly to bring up consciousness, desires, awareness, fears, etc. in these AI programs.
What is UPI and Adhaar?
I wish women didn't have to work for their own protection.
Here's the argument from an Effective Altruism perspective: if you want to earn money from gambling, you should offset the "badness" with some "goodness". Volunteer your skills for charity or open source, and contribute money to high impact charities (maybe even ones that help gamblers?).
I'm having a hard time believing someone would have had a phone capable of receiving text messages at a Christmas party if nobody had ever before successfully sent (and therefore received) one.
Well yes, but the elegance here is how they layered their scheduler to be on top of scheduling the resources they paid for at AWS with a meta-scheduler, which when they originally did this was rather novel in the consumer market.
How is this different from Apps on the playstore ? Insurance/Banking/consultancy ? Or, I have to say, sometimes I wonder how the amounts people spend on music truly vary. The merchandising for most bands means that if you really want to spend millions on a band, you can (e.g. the "pharma bro" Wu-Tang clan saga). Bands themselves say that this is where most of their income comes from ...

This whale principle certainly seems to cover quite a bit of the economy.

Even movies are similar. You want to spend a million (or a few) on star wars ? Not a problem. [1]

From a psychological standpoint I would strongly suggest that you never make it your mission to save people from themselves. There's only 2 ways you come out of that experience: evil (lost belief in mankind, and therefore anything goes), or mad.

[1] http://mentalfloss.com/article/53388/6-most-expensive-pieces...
Are the jobs specific to blockchain development or all jobs in blockchain companies/startups?
With the basic permissions the keyboard can only type, it has no capability to send the keystrokes out to the internet or store them where they could be sent.

If you don't trust the keyboard developer to not be an idiot with your keystrokes, better to not give that access.
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What past data is being stored?

Is this simply frequently typed emoji/words?
Yes. Developers that obtain approval for neighbourhood plans operate in exactly this manner, putting in sewage, roads, schools, parks, etc. in order to improve the value of the commercial/residential units they are selling.

Additionally, some less 'saleable' improvements end up being included as concessions in negotiation with the local municipal authority to get the development plan approved.

Public transit financing in greenfield areas works similarly.
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Calling bitcoin a bubble seems like the wrong word. There are basically two possible outcomes: total market cap zero, or in the trillions. How much you think bitcoin is worth depends on your guess (and it really is just a guess, nobody has any idea what is going to happen) about the relative likelihood of each.
You probably didn't realize but the post is (I think) referring to comments on the FCC website, where several investigations have shown beyond all doubt that many "repeal NN" comments came from automated bots (though whether Russian in origin is not known).
I feel like this happens with every president. People like to blame the person in charge when in reality, there are a LOT of other people doing nefarious things behind the scene.

Not trying to let trump off the hook, more so trying to get the message across that we have more to focus on.
It's pretty unreasonable to believe you should be able to just move somewhere and put 20% down on a >$1M house after working for one year... If you are making $400k a year, you can rent a modest place for 2-3 years, and then you will be totally fine and able to buy a pretty nice home without issue.
Mark Cuban has been writing about this since at least 2012:

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-co...

https://www.inc.com/mark-cuban/video-student-loans-bubble.ht...
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Please don't release a toolbar ;)
Nice lib and library tests!
Typical shitty reporting from Bloomberg. Other than the dollar amount outstanding, there's nothing else in the article that draws any similarities to the junk bond market. It's about as meaningful as saying "Apple's market cap approaches the size of the US junk bond market" or "Student Loan Debt surpasses Apple's market cap in size." In fact, there isn't really any interesting information in the article at all. There seems to be an insinuation that the size is a bad thing, but even then they don't come out and say why.
Security is one reason. You need to be able to put absolute trust in the developer of the keyboard.
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What's interesting though is the huge change of opinion of people in the last 15 years. When I first came to China, everybody was optimistic, the future was bright, everything would work out.

Now when I talk to people from the lower classes, they are bitter and tell me that, yeah China progressed, but their life is worse. The gap has increased between the rich and the poor and I don't think China is a great role model in term of progress.
It did. The author's "theory" has no basis in reality.
Do companies themselves have to post jobs or you also scrape for jobs from other job boards?
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How do you go about doing such a thing? My Nexus 9 could do with a new lease of life...
Honestly, evolution says that it won't. Long-term, breeders will "out-compete" those that limit their household size. Without external political forces or wholesale genetic engineering, we're in for a rough ride.
Something is wrong with the math:

* Video encoding is 70% of Netflix's computing needs

* Stated cost savings on encoding is 92%

This equals a 64% savings on "Netflix's computing needs", which must be a good chunk of their budget.
5 years ago I heard of US banks printing a check and mailing it across the country (followed by all the usual delays due to clearing the check) in reaction to an online banking transaction (or ACH or whatever).

That seemed like a joke to me, but apparently a paper check in the mail was the only universally accepted interface for inter-bank transactions.
> Strong state and local laws protecting the right to form municipal ISPs would be a good start. Those seem to scare Comcast & friends the most. If corporate ISPs become significantly restrictive, I think we'd see a big upsurge in interest for municipal broadband.

Yeaaah about that? The GOP is no friend of muni.

Not that Democrats love it[0], but Obama's FCC did try to defend muni against state restrictions alongside its move towards Title II ISPs (it lost[2])

You probably won't see Pai's FCC defending municipal broadband.

[0] The map of muni restrictions as of 2015[1] is fairly evenly split between 2016 "red" and "blue" states on restrictions (red 4 blue 2) and outright bans (red 3 blue 2), however the deep south wins "regulated" for red team by a mile (red 7 blue 2)

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198661-fcc-may-kill-stat...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/fcc-admits-defea...
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The statement that "this is impossible with bitcoin" is false. While initially bitcoins are issued as proof of work, as soon as there is a somewhat liquid secondary market then bitcoin becomes a financial asset with a value determined by the market. That value is effectively completely indepdent of any "inherent value" and fully determined by supply and demand
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I'm not sure but, isn't this how the real banks operate, too?
For example let's take a legal, legit, Bank named X in a country. If all the account owners wanted to retrieve their money, at the same time: can that bank serve that demand?

Because normally for every 1 dollar deposited inside, bank can give away 5 dollars worth of credits to other people. (the ratio changes in every country probably).

So accusing a virtual currency corporation with "you don't own all that money you claim" applies to a real, physical currency banks. I guess.
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Bear in mind that this is bitcoin. People continued pumping money into mtgox for _months_ after it was clear to anyone who’d been paying attention that it was dead.

And currently bitcoin’s in an unusually large bubble, so there are lots of people buying into it who’ve never previously had experience of it. I see ads for, basically, “get rich quick with bitcoin” every day now. The people clicking those are not the world’s greatest critical thinkers; if the site on the other end says “buy tethers with our affiliate code to BUY BITCOINS AND GET RICH”, they’ll do it.

There are sufficient people buying tethers at face value, from the company, to keep parity. And I don’t think there’s really a facility to short sell them (that might change things a bit)
> Presumably, specifying "India-first" is intended to convey that these apps are developed specifically for Indian users and their needs.

Oh, I understand this completely. It makes perfect sense for Google to focus on an emerging market to become a monopoly there, and I feel it's a fantastic strategy.

What I'm more curious about is why an Indian-first focus is met with fanfare and acceptance, while an American-first focus is met with derision and contempt against something anti-globalist, and that these two opinions often come from the same group of people. I just find it an interesting dichotomy.
There is plenty of blame to go around here. However a major cause of this has been the push by the left that college is the only path to success. Trade and vocational schools as well as military service are all great options for young adults who may not know exactly what they want to do with their life right away. Spending 4 years of your life taking on debt, simply because society tells you college is the path to success is wrong. Also, colleges themselves need to be held accountable here. Most universities are sitting on billions in tax free endowments and not using that money in useful ways. How about use some of that money to help offset some of these debts?
Part of the problem comes from having a DAO that mimics your use cases when writing data. That is, adding a new Pipe is a business concern. Here, the author has turned it into a data concern. A business concern should be modeled in the domain layer and persisted through the data access layer. By the time we write to the database, there should be no thought involved. The work has been done and we want to record it. How we do that is purely up to our technical requirements.

Several years ago, I wrote an application using the repository pattern and there were repositories everywhere. But they seemed like a step up from the unstructured chaos of the DAO. It was a bigger mess when all was said and done.

Having struggled through the same issues as the author, I can say that after having learned and applied and DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing, I don't see the problem anymore. My concerns are one or more levels above "how do I write to or read from the database?". The database becomes a technical implementation detail and not the cause of crisis in architecting a system. In the past few months, I've used EF as an ORM, EF using just stored procedures, and Dapper, both through a DAO interface. All of these solutions worked and were easy to implement because I was simply recording changes to data, not putting the data at the heart of my logic.
At a minimum, a comparison of the default rate between the two would be nice.
You're assuming that money laundering is unethical.
Surely it must have also reminded you of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1838/
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I found this comment, by Richard Berger on SeekingAlpha, compelling:

> STOP! and think about what this author has revealed. Even IF Tether is NOT running a fraud, the arbitrage positions that automatically exist between Bitcoin and any tether are real and do create incentive to create an arbitraged feedback loop whereby a pegged tether between Bitcoin - any_generic_tether - USD does exist and self feeds, driving up Bitcoin exactly as the author contends may be happening with the current Tether. So long as such a scheme emerges naturally out of the system design, the design is fatally flawed and must asymptotically compound grow to an infinite exchange rate (impossible and unsustainable by definition), or it must ultimately collapse.

> Thus, the author has demonstrated a basic inherent flaw to crypto-currencies that can not be repaired other than by legal estoppel. Legal estoppel will never occur because jurisdiction is off-shored and proving a case by case would generate infinite litigation along with each estoppel creating a crash. This in itself would kill the cryptos as surely as the fatal flaw itself will.

> It is meaningless to argue WHETHER the author's speculation as to Tether's actions are fraud. The ONLY question is if his identifying of the nature of the available arbitrage can exist in reality. If it can, crypto is dead. No other conclusion is available.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129543-bitcoin-one-way-go-...
I disagree. She was appointed for two primary reasons that I see from my admittedly limited perspective. One, to shore up support of the evangelicals. Two, because of donations made by her brother and similar people. Once in office, abusing her position to give favors to those who get her appointed seems little different to me than bankers donating and getting bankers cabinet positions and then those people doing similar things. (For example, I can almost guarantee if I did some digging I could find similar tax break schemes for their base under each admin) I feel like just because the neocons are slightly easier to hate on than bankers it causes a bit of willful myopia on the subject.
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If Apple doesn't manufacture iPhones in China, can the combined manufacture capacities in these countries satisfy the demand of iPhones globally?

What I want to say is that Apple does not only sell products in China, it also manufactures its products in China.
Complementing this good list, if you really want to understand what the stock market is (despite all the advertisement), read Frenzied Finance: The Crime of Amalgamated. In this book, a participant of the early markets in the 20th century explain what they really do under the covers. The laws changed a lot from that time, but the goals didn't.
> My boss had this theory how betting small amounts of money is just another form of entertainment people enjoy, just like going to the cinema or playing a video game, and thus we were in the entertainment business.

For some that's true. I know people who like to responsible gamble from time to time. It's entertainment for them.
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Thank you for the feedback. I get the impression he is fairly legit. He's not sale-y and he doesn't share his trading strategies in the book. It's more on how you go about it i.e. setup, back testing... My understanding is he still runs money today and the books are a side thing. I could be wrong though.

From reading your submissions, I might guess your British. Is that right? If so how do you deal with stamp duty on shares? Or do you avoid it by trading else where like in the US?
Tether's surging supply is the major driver behind Bitcoin's appreciation
Yeah, but with modern technology everyone is almost always reachable.
>as well as military service are all great options for young adults

Getting shot at for an education doesn't seem that great. Better off just moving to a better country.
Note that this basically happened with mtgox. It took a surprisingly long time to shake out.
This exactly. The big data technology is automating a ton of the distributed systems difficulty from what mixpanel is creating. We built n in house version of mixpanel in six months, that is more customized and more expansive.
Do you have a source for that?

I find that figure incredibly dubious considering that tobacco requires years of chronic use before it kills you, and it typically doesn't kill you in a way that is entirely attributable to that single cause.
How does this compare to Istio or Envoy?
The only reason this is a "landscraper" and not a 50 story building is because of land use regulations, namely, London's height limits.

Asia, unburdened by the West's ridiculous land policies, is skyscraper heaven.
The question is about ethics. How is it relevant whether other people are taking advantage of addicts as well?
There's a company named Conduit. Possibly incurring into trademark violations.
I wonder how educators are handling this. When I was set to graduate high school a decade ago we spent a portion of our home room hour planning our collegiate futures. I think I may have been the exception -- where my advisor stressed that we had to do something. Too often I hear that, "college is the only option." I personally never experienced that, but I wonder if educators are stressing that 4 year universities aren't the only option, just one of the many options. I think, with the lack of skilled workers, people can do really well with a vocational degree in a trade. Then again, that type of work is much more physically demanding than my job as a software engineer.
I don't believe this. Because your managers generally know who is a good worker and who isn't. The rest of the workers definitely know.
That's because liberal arts degrees are junk bonds.

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