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Yeah, more or less. Basically if Bitcoin is ever going to get to the same market cap of the stock market or the gold market, it's going to have to get up to a certain price, and there are quite a few people that are fairly confident it will get there. It's gone up well over 10x just this year alone, it's not too crazy to believe that it could go up another 10x in the next 1-5 years (I would have said 5-10 years six months ago).
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Options have an expected value (EV) that isn't too hard to calculate approximately. They also have a relatively high variance. But it's trivially easy to prove they're not worthless, even if some become so when the company fails. I've personally had one "hit" and a few misses.

Whether to accept options instead of salary is an individual choice that depends entirely on their risk profile and the terms...how much salary are you forgoing, how much equity are you getting, how likely do you believe a liquidity event is.

If you could sit at a roulette table that paid 40-1 when you hit a number, would you play? That's a +EV bet despite the fact that 32/33 times that bet will lose. If you had infinite funds and infinite bets, you'd be a fool not to play. But if you're betting you last dollar, you're probably going hungry that night since you'll be losing 32 times as often as you win. And that same bet at the traditional 32-1 is a loser no matter how much money you have. The terms of the bet and the individual's circumstances dictate whether to play.

Options are the same, you just need to be familiar enough with the whole situation to judge the terms you're getting. Many startups are very good at selling the upside and underselling the risk, so people give away salary at -EV terms. But that doesn't mean that equity is worthless.
Except under the current "Net Neutrality" rules, we've seen Cloudflare shut down Stormfront because the CEO woke up in a bad mood.

If Net Neutrality really worked the way everyone described, it would be great and I would be all for it.

As is, it appears to be more of a religious mantra instead of an actual policy.
There have been a few incidents of penny stocks "pivoting" to blockchain this year, just to see their prices soar.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/27/want-to-make-your-companys-s...

I can't find an example, but I'd swear companies did this with "dot com" back in the dot com boom of the late 90s.
as was mentioned below, you don't really have a choice with road tolling systems. i don't like having to pre-load $xx, but it's better then the only alternative. people can stop interacting with Patreon, but you can't really avoid toll roads very easily.
Czechoslovakia was a communist country, and while it did pretty well relative to others, I'm not sure it's a great model for UBI under capitalism.
Yeah, super annoying. They likely have some content marketing campaign that shares old posts at various intervals.

Looks like it was published 6 months ago - 'Thu, 11 May 2017 09:14:20 -0400' to be precise.

Source: The /rss feed for the blog, which shows the following for this post.

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<title>Server-side I/O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go</title>
<description>Understanding the Input/Output (I/O) model of your application can mean the difference between an application that deals with the load it is subjected to, and one that crumples in the face of real-world uses cases. Perhaps while your application is small and does not serve high loads, it may matter far less. But as your application’s traffic load increases, working with the wrong I/O model can get you into a world of hurt.</description>
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Source: https://www.toptal.com/developers/blog.rss
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There's two predominant end-games:

0) Recruit to a three-letter agency, putting talent to positive use under extra scrutiny and a short-leash.

1) "Throw away the key," squander his potential and make him a better criminal.

Hmm, which is better: repay society, generate taxes and give someone a second chance... or be "tough" on crime and let the cycle repeat again?
A friend was working for the EPA and she didn't have access to all the journals to do her work so she had to ask me to fetch them for her from the university library. Remember seeing the prices for each article and each subscription and thinking - they are making some nice profits charging $30 per paper.
Yes, I, too, would be curious. Seems fabricated.
I'm pretty sure that I don't understand this, but can't you represent that problem with this sql?

SELECT mileage FROM table WHERE customer_id = 1;

Am I on the right track?
I started http://www.manypixels.co with under $100!

My goal was to launch a single digital offering / service or product and launch it in less than 6 hours and make USD $10,000 in the first month.

1. Find value proposition (Bootstrapped startups need quality design services but don't want to pay agency prices)
2. Find business model (fixed fee per month for almost unlimited design service)
3. Find how you can fit value prop with business model & be profitable (flew to SE asia to meet designers there & live there a few months)
4. Make it scalable (set up quality control processes & communication processes)
5. Code (actually did not code much, used Paywhirl for the payment / membership system)
6. Launch

Here is the breakdown of my expenses:

1. Namecheap .co domain name - $8.88
2. OVH vps - $6/month ($72/year)
3. Themeforest template - ~12$

Total: $92.88

The project generated ~$3k in the first week of its operations (though most of it is not actually profits - but I am already in the green :))
exactly, I stopped at the second slide because of that. "I ask for your undivided attention for two hours" is what it says, the background animation seems not helping that goal, quite the opposite.
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Back in early 2011 when I started looking at Bitcoin, they were worth 0.70 each. I talked to people who had 100,000 BTC that they’d mined in the early days on their CPU. For kicks. Some of them are still holding it.
Interesting. Thanks and a fistbump for the username. :-)
The highest tax bracket is high, but tax laws also have many, many deductions and loopholes. As a result, US corporations as a whole pay about 18% in tax, which is somewhat lower than most western countries.

If these laws were changed to make a flat 20% tax with no deductions, it would be revenue neutral or even slightly positive, but then the companies would all complain about the loss of deductions.
Lots of casting variables as `any`. This is an anti-pattern in TypeScript and, while convenient, basically destroys the key benefits of using TypeScript.
> Bear in mind, neutrality laws could be just as applicable to platforms as infrastructure.

You had me here. No they cannot. Google is not selling telecommunication services. Should the Butterball turkey hotline be regulated as a telecommunication provider? No, no they shouldn't. Just because they use phones to do business does not mean they ate a telecommunication provider.

Now, there are a couple things leading to your confusion, I think.

Right now net neutrality is tied to Title II, which gives the isps some leeway in antitrust issues in exchange for more regulation. If you would like to discuss that issue, I'm all for it. However, Google is not a telecommunication provider and net neutrality doesn't need to be tied to Title II. (However, Congress would need to step in at that point.)

So, if your point is why are we granting ISPs any monopoly privileges via Title II (which doesn't happen in quite a direct way), I refer you to why telephones, electric, gas, water, and sewer are regulated as utilities, that is given a monopoly in exchange for tighter regulations.
This is not a fair summary.

The NRA lobbied Congress in the 1990s, and Congress reduced the CDC budget by the amount that had been used to study gun related deaths. This resulted in the CDC no longer funding research relating guns to deaths. Congress has specifically rejected amendments that would allow such work.

The research that was de-funded was peer reviewed and appeared in the NEJM.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-exte...
> have an annual registration tax based on distance travelled

Now the hard part is getting accurate distance traveled figures from all road users. Good luck with that.

> As to the sister comment on how do we pay for the extra electricity infrastructure... through your electricity bill?

Yes, and the system is breaking down because of solar. Typically, most of what you pay for electricity goes towards maintaining the line to your house, not towards generation. When you get solar panels that cover most of your usage, but keep the connection for use when the sun does not shine, your bill goes down to the point where it's no longer enough to maintain your grid connection.

The correct solution to that is to disaggregate transmission and generation, and for transmission bill you for the size of your main incoming fuse instead of consumption. However, in much of the US the utilities are heavily constrained in how they bill you by law, and cannot do this, so the only thing they can do is hike up prices on everyone, so solar is even more appealing and more people get it, resulting in even higher prices...
You only used one space in this comment ;)
Adding monero would be a good move for coinbase.
>Now imagine if all these brains could be freed and god knows how much innovation, progress and intellectual output can be unlocked into a completely different kind of society.

This may sound cynical, but those who can actually deliver innovation, progress and intellectual output of a meaningful magnitude are already doing pretty well. To a big extent, because they can be determined and can work hard. Most people (myself included) are rather mediocre and have no capacity to advance the society beyond its current, rather advanced state.
The signaling example is quite interesting. Thank you
One of the worst I've seen is Franklin Templeton. They sent out snail mail telling everyone to go to a URL like "accountservices.biz" and reenter private information like your social security number in order to update your account records.

The site itself is branded just like Templeton's own site. From what I could gather, it is actually their site but even the whois is something non descript. Quite ridiculous. And of course they don't have any way whatsoever that I could find to report things like vulnerabilities or phishing attempts.
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I honestly don't know why it takes Walmart so long to switch over. I live in Atlanta and I've seen one that has it... And another a few miles away not. I've never used the new layout, but the old one sucks.

I was there to pick up photos (thus store has online pickup and photos at the same place)... They screwed up my order and I waited 45 minutes and left empty handed because no one there knew how to make a photo calendar and doesn't k know where mine went. But I digress.

I basically witnessed 45 minutes of a train wreck of people trying to pick up orders (probably Christmas presents) from a disorganized and understaffed center. No one was happy...
This is a rather hard question to answer as it would depend on how elastic demand is for fish and how efficiently the phosphate is converted to fish.

You could choose to run the whole operation semi-inefficiently where you chose to only catch and sell a portion of the fish, or use the fish as feed for other higher value fish like salmon and bluefin tuna.

My minor contribution to the idea was to workout that you don’t need purified phosphate to fertilise the oceans. We could just use phosphate rich rock to make a slow release pumice-like fertiliser that floats on the surface (using a photo-degradable polymer). This gets the phosphate cost down from around US$1600/t to something under $50/t. I wrote a paper on this many years ago, but I never got around to publishing it. I might try and turn it into a blog post if I get a chance.
The NRA is no longer seen by many gun owners as a pro-2nd amendment org...they have become a mouthpiece for the gun INDUSTRY and will periodically support curtailing rights in favor of increased sales for gun manufacturers

I don't know why America thinks gun owners universally support the NRA
"I'm voluntarily contributing a small piece to a body of work that I love and want to see more of."

I suppose that can be construed as a warm fuzzy feeling.
My bank only recently upgraded max password length from 8 to 12. Oh, and no special characters please.
It's so ingrained for me I probably won't ever stop. Unless I'm on a phone that does automatic spacing. The fact that you stopped to me indicates you probably didn't do it that way for 20 years.
Many large corporations are structuring themselves around this kind of model. I recently started working for one of Canada's largest financial institutions and they've managed to check most of these boxes for me. I do front-end development though, so it might be different for more technical roles.
Worse, it's probably an emulation of a Unix mainframe running the original Cobol code - with the emulator running in machine generated JavaScript in Nodejs on AWS...

(Obligatory xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1926/ )
I second that. Edge is fast and efficient, in my experience. But when I use it, it crashes just a little too often. I've never been a Chrome or Google kind of a guy, so I was actually using Edge instead until FF57 was released. I think they could also improve Edge by making the browser frame and controls a little less plain and blocky in terms of design.
Yes, absolutely Weinstein made that choice.

That he was comfortable making that choice, that it was seen as normal or just something that happened, that women felt their careers would be in jeopardy if they spoke up, that demanding additional sex scenes at the last minute wasn’t laughed off the lot...

... these are all symptoms of the broader social normalization of his abuse of power.

This year has been a turning point for pointing out it exists and some consequences for the individuals who do it... but it’s barely scratched the surface
I work at a name brand company (a really well known brand, honestly, over 200,000 employees), and I dream of switching to an exciting startup.
Paying for lunch is pull out cash and go vs. handing card to waiter waiting on them then signing and go.

In that case cash can save ~5 minutes.
Your initial counter-argument relies on the existence of the first.

So logically the first is right
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They have large selection and because third party vendors can store their items in Amazon and fulfillment centers and get it shipped via prime. Unless Target also does that, Amazon will always have a much larger selection of items (like 1000 types of iPhone X cases).

Walmart offers third party selling but not as streamlined and its not shipped by Walmart. Just another ebay store.. If you have a problem with an order, you deal with Amazon and not the vendor.
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I've been asked to do a data processing job by a friend. As part of the job, I'm supposed to download and process roughly 1.5tb of data. That's a problem because my local ISP data cap is 300gb a month.

So I'd like to ask: what recommendations does hn have for me? I was thinking of getting a private server and trying to get some cheap storage, but I'm not sure where to go for that.

Side note: not only do I have to download a huge data set, but I have to make a bunch of whois calls based on some IPs in the data set.
Others have pointed it out that it may but its also for Indian startups being able to easily accept payments internationally without setting up a US company.
Interesting, how is that?
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this is the inverse: a small minority (tech elites) squelching popular opinion. owning a gun IS objectively popular in the US (there are more guns than people)...even in Silicon Valley. at my current startup roughly half of the developers visit the range regularly. at my local range I always see people with Google and Facebook garb. Bass Pro Shop in San Jose sells out of bulk 9mm ammo within hours of putting it on the floor.
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Thanks for helping create this. It made my day, and I'm already thinking over and over on how to fill my application form in the best way possible.

Go YC!
The whole department that does the statistics modeling is based on one guy starting it up... And he probably has nothing to do with the rest of Target's operations.
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> Especially if we were to hold to the initial representation in the constitution of 30k people per representative. But that number has ossified at 535 for how long now?

That 30,000 number was decided before many advancements allowing for much higher population densities. London had a population of around one million in its first census in 1801. That's 33 representatives. New York City alone now has around 8.5 million people, or 285 representatives. The entire US would be 10820...
Semis don't pay more fuel tax per gallon but they pay significantly higher registration, and higher tolls on toll roads, and probably other taxes and fees depending on state. They also face substantial fines if they are caught overweight. Whether this approaches the cost of the road damage they cause I don't know, but they do also perform the useful function of moving goods from place to place.
...and not the former 'workshop of the world', i.e. the UK.

There was a historical difference in manufacturing and how that gets invested in. In the UK, with the all important stock market, the culture was to take the profits and invest them in the city. Meanwhile, in Germany, if, for example you were 'BMW', then the thinking was different - let's invest in the company and make even more cars and even more profit.

What remained of British machine tool manufacturing was utterly crippled and gone for good when Margaret Thatcher arrived on the scene. The UK then gave up on manufacturing anything except weapon systems, if you were 'smart' then you would speculate on property rather than invest in a manufacturing company.

The cultural problem in the UK was short-termism, a focus on the share price and the profits for the quarter, not the next decade.

The robots came later, after the UK lost manufacturing (okay, not all of it, but manufacturing used to be what the UK was about). If you are already making die-casting machines then it is kind of logical to make a robot arm to get the part out of the die, so the German/Swiss/Scandinavian machine tool companies were able to move into that space.

As mentioned, when Thatcher came along it was game over, it was also impossible to sell European presses etc. into the UK market. So I am pleased to see these vast and wonderful machines being fully appreciated and used in China.
>The friction of entering and it demanding so much information is a killer for me.

Quite the opposite, i find it a plus. I want to be found by people who need exactly my skills and profile.
I wonder if their anti-virus also delays the start of their Edge browser.
that's because of shitty software. chip should get faster: https://paymentweek.com/2017-5-2-wait-no-more-quick-chip-tec...
This "hack" takes all of a minute and provides access not to the data on the desktop, but to every website or web based login used, if the user relies on chrome for such things. This isn't "if a thief is physically in your data center you've already lost". This is "I went three doors down to the vending machine for a soda and Oh My God they got my bank account credit cards and all my social media"
The current permitting process is likely to blame for the cyberpunk aesthetic not permeating the built environment, not enough dystopianistas on planning commissions.
You realize this is a self defeating argument right?

It's no longer a Universal Income when someone who makes $120k contributes $12k... and then receives 0. That's just wealth redistribution.
Vast majority of the wealthy pay every dime of their taxes, because one of the few things that wealth can't buy is protection from the IRS.

Now of course they do everything they can to avoid taxes, but very few evade them. I'm not so wealthy, but if I can legally avoid paying a tax, I will. That's more available for my retirement, charitable causes, and my family. I don't expect more from the wealthy than I do of myself.
That’s a rate that a brand new company just starting out might get. For that to be the actual rate Patreon is paying they’d have to be extremely incompetent.

For comparison, both Square (which is not known to provide the best rates) and Stripe advertise better than 2.9% + 35¢, and that’s the rate you’d get without any negotiation at all.
The funny thing is, I actually like sears online pickup. It is faster than anyone else. You can park outside and check in and have someone bring it to you. Or check in at a kiosk and someone is out within a minute. There is a timer that counts down from when you check in.

The online pickup is directly in front of a lesser used entrance so you don't fight for parking.

Also sears has lots of online loyalty incentives through shop your way that makes their prices probably the best... Problem is they don't have a large selection of items.