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That also reminds me of Yves Klein's Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle::

In the performance piece, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) 1959–62, he offered empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In exchange, he gave a certificate of ownership to the buyer. As the second part of the piece, performed on the Seine with an Art critic in attendance, if the buyer agreed to set fire to the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the river, in order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_de_Sensibilit%C3%A9_Pictu...
Unless they're also planning to repeal the $100K limitation on ISOs (after which they're all treated as NQOs) this will only be a modest benefit.
I'm far from an expert, but my understanding was that those kinds of adversarial attacks would be prohibitively difficult without full access to the learning system used by that product. If so, there's a vector if you can hack the company and train your own model to generate the adversarial examples to fool it, but it's not a trivial thing
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For my first couple _years_ with Git, I just passed the -a flag in upon every commit. This is a pretty easy, low effort habit to form, so this reduces to a question of which default to set. Git's approach seems to be that the default should be to nudge users toward power usage, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. (Note that git's approach to defaults in other areas, like potentially destructive actions, is actually a problem).
I have the only question and I would really appreciate to get a clear answer instead of many down votes. Why are you doing this?
Highly unlikely. You'd only deprecate them if they serve the exact same purpose, but they don't. Many users will switch, but not those who want a posix runtime environment for a win32 executable that can run on machines that don't have WSL installed (cygwin, and the fork msys2 which git-bash is based on); or to use the gcc compilers to target win32 executables that use the windows native (non-posix) runtime - mingw. Do you know that you can use gcc to build windows executables and dlls from Linux, Mac, or WSL? That's mingw and it's not going away.
Anecdotally yes FWIW.
More specifically

Openreach sells products only to ISPs, it won't deal with consumers at all. The main products it sells to ISPs are:

* ADSL last mile to a customer (in most places ASDL2+ but in some places it's plain ADSL because they never upgraded) at the maximum speed the line will do

* VDSL capped at 40Mbps down / 10Mbps up over last mile to a customer [in most but not all places, unless line is too long]

* VDSL capped at 80Mbps down / 20Mbps up [ditto]

* FTTP at 330, 500 or 1000 Mbps to the customer's premises. [ Only if there is actually a fibre, most won't have one]

* Line rental to make a physical line work with any of the above.

* Backhaul from the customer's exchange to your preferred POP where you take over the Internet access

A small ISP buys the line rental, backhaul, and one of the actual last mile packages, bundles that up with maybe some webmail and telephone support, and sells that as an Internet service for a nice margin. They need a POP somewhere vaguely sensible, with enough bandwidth to service their customers, and that's them done.

Bigger ISPs might arrange to have their own fibre at some exchanges, they don't buy backhaul from those exchanges, they pick up customer traffic themselves, but they buy everything else.

One interesting thing that you can see as a result of Openreach was that the true "line rental" cost Openreach were charging to make the line work was falling slowly over the years. But the _advertised_ line rental price had been rising enormously, because ISPs hid it in their small print. They'd say "Superfast Broadband only £5" and then in tiny print "(plus £20 pcm line rental, offer expires after 12 months, normal price £28 per month)"
Finnish government seized 568 k€ of Bitcoin from drug dealer, now worth 15.4 M€
In 2016, Finnish government seized 1666 Bitcoins from a drug dealer, in what was the largest seizure of drug money in the country's history.

At the time of arrest and seizure, Bitcoin was at $400. 5 days ago BTC rate exceeded $15000, today it is over $17000.

Thus, at time of arrest, the seized Bitcoins were worth 568 000 €. Currently they are valued at 15 400 000 €. Government will sell the Bitcoins as soon as the sentencing from appeals courts is final. It seems that the delay caused by appeals of the dealer have resulted in the best monetary investment the government has done in recent history - assuming that Bitcoin valuation does not collapse before the government can sell.

Source (in Finnish):
https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000005487636.html
It's hard to know if you meant this fatuously or seriously, but it doesn't really add any substance to the discussion either way.
You can create a company that has ludicrously limited opportunities to return its capital, and sell those to the public. You simply have to comply with the SEC's registration and disclosure rules --- in particular, you have to publish quarterly audited financials confirming your limited prospects.

That is the difference between the "3x leveraged ETF" and the "company that has a chance at profit" in your example, not some weird value judgement the SEC is making.
No, those are the people the NRA claims will stop the bad guys.
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Not what options are designed for!

Not "deferred compensation"?
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That's an absurdly specific grievance that won't effect 99.9% of people in any given year, and it certainly doesn't answer why Bitcoin isn't in a bubble.
I had a similar experience recently. I finished a contract job and received a check too large to deposit over my banks mobile phone app and unfortunately my bank doesn't have any local branches. I have a backup bank to do local deposits, but the transfer took 5 days to fully clear at my primary bank.
Considering people frequently drink in casinos, I'm ok with people being reminded that they have a gun on them.
Yeah this just looks like poor/risky financial calculus on the part of the former employees.

Also I always incorrectly think that these sorts of option traps are public knowledge, but then every now and then I'm prove wrong by even very smart people I personally know, not being aware of these traps.

Not sure how we fix this situation tbh. For starters "don't join a company without an extended option exercise period" is a decent first order heuristic, but not everyone has that luxury.
Banking isn't an uncommon problem.
How is this different from the more established GopherJS?
Instead, it ensures that the only people who benefit from good ICOs are accredited investors

It also ensures that the only people who lose money from bad ICOs (the vast, vast majority of them) are accredited investors.
It isn't just powerlines. Anime -- especially well-done anime -- has a way of focusing on the mundane in order to establish an emotional connection to the setting.

Thr anime movie Your Name is riddled with brief, but sumptuously animated and richly detailed, close-ups of doors opening and closing. These include simple doors on a rustic rural home as well as the automatic sliding doors on a Tokyo railway car.
There's an entire section on this on the author's website.
From the brief peak I have taken it looks interesting, but you seem to be missing a lot of pretty key information (privacy policy, a basic "about" page, etc.). Typing in my e-mail address doesn't quite make sense yet.
14 years worth of users. Plus a lot of fraudulent accounts in that time period.

It was a very unique situation, in all honesty.
I used M4 15 years ago to configure multiple systems (PHP, MySQL, Apache.) that were delivered in a bundle.

Since then, I haven't.
Well, the exciting part might be that the line between investment and utility instrument is blurring. It seems to me that these two categories needn't be separated by a bright-line.
Is that the senate version?

Also wasn't there a further amendment to that after lobbying to exempt private company shares from this? I recall fred Wilson writing something to that effect.
Then use localbitcoin.com, localethereum.com, etc
Someone with $800K in savings who makes $150K/year can easily afford to lose a $5K investment, but is not an accredited investor.

That's why we have the JOBS Act now. I'm hoping some ICOs start using it.
It says - right there in the SEC statement - that their top priority is essentially to protect Main Street.
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You are right. If I put more thought into my comment I would have urged them to prompt the user. But I rushed, and the post was invalid and senseless.
http://www.airdemontcuq.fr/

It's already sold in France. "Air de Montcuq" -> air de mon cul ( air from my ass )
Macross and Gundam did this in the 80s. Macross was even viewable here, as Robotech.
Usually the companies that make trading cards can also print more.
Well, it was your choice to work for the UK gov, why should you be entitled to a gold-plated final salary pension? Because it's - supposedly - a reasonable expectation for the opportunity cost of taking a different kind of job than you would find working for a corporation. Nowadays of course public sector salaries outstrip the private sector, so probably the pension should be scrapped.
According to editor Lionel Barber, Fowler was up against the likes of Macron, Xi, MbS, Musk and Bezos.

https://www.ft.com/content/7ab21e44-de85-11e7-8f9f-de1c2175f...
But that should be a percentage of net worth, rather than a binary function that flips at an arbitrary $1M.
With all due respect, this is wrong. Selling SPVs (or stakes therein) containing the shares of a single company is a common institutional tactic.

It sure is. But that's not why the large investors get to sell their stock of Uber. They get to sell because they negotiated the right to sell, which may have included the right to use an SPV to hold their Uver stock. The SPV could have been a corporation, partnership, or LLC; the choice of the LLC form is not what gives the large investors the right to sell. Though based on your response, you probably meant in your original comment to refer to SPVs rather than LLCs.

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer. This is not legal advice, it's legal commentary. The difference: advice applies to a client's specific legal circumstances; commentary applies to third parties.
Sure, it can even with the same Smart Contract as Ethereum using Counterparty.

It's just not done like that, or show me Bitcoin's Crowdfunding calendar, let me show you the hundreds there are for Ethereum...

Not to mention, both are doomed with very high fees.

I own both, but there are many improvements to go :)
> How can there be any kind of innovation in fund raising space if the SEC wants every thing to be registered as securities?

That regulation protects the layman who doesn't know that an ICO is a glorified trust.
Will change to organ donor rules mean more transplants?(UK)
Haven't seen any discussion yet of the licensing aspects of accessing a Windows server via SSH.

Linking an independent Microsoft licensing consultant discussing fun terms like "External Connectors" vs. "Client Access Licenses" (CALs), the "Primary User of a Windows device" and the current "Web Workload" exception... maybe a new exception is on the way.

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/926#issue...
I wish one could just give a fraction of your stock equal to your marginal tax rate to the IRS, perhaps plus a small fee.
If Famous Company is a multinational, they can probably open doors to visas that would otherwise be unavailable anyway, like an L intracompany transfer.
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It seems clear that you won't stop violating the guidelines, like we've asked, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SCTP is a superior protocol, but it isn't implemented in many routers or firewalls. As long as Comcast / Verizon routers don't support it, no one will use it.

It may be built on top of IP, but TCP / UDP levels are important for NAT and such. Too few people use DMZ and other features of routers / firewalls. Its way easier to just put up with TCP / UDP issues to stay compatible with most home setups.
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How do you manage your jobs, contracts, payments, etc? Is everything done in a google doc or are you using a CRM?
Coinbase is not using their own money to buy/sell bitcoins, but the money of other people in gdax, taking a cut. They are not doing fractional reverse banking where a bank run could happen as far as I know.
Not speaking dismissively of Susan's contribution, but I think so. Her story snowballed into a lot of shady shit going on at Uber, and Kalanick wasn't ousted as a direct result of her allegations. Weinstein himself kicked off a pattern of high-profile ousters based directly on the allegations. I think they're slightly different scenarios, and contributed culturally in their own way, and why she was one piece of a broader picture in Time instead of person of the year by her lonesome.

(I realize the irony in my typing this, that I appear to be saying Weinstein was responsible for something a number of people would argue a woman started, but hey. That's not what I'm saying, and you get my point and what I'm trying to say.)

Put another way, Susan didn't go after a high-profile leader directly. She went after systemic issues in a company. Weinstein, on the other hand, showed a lot of people that high-profile leaders are vulnerable to public attention, and that became a slightly different species of snowball. Both are cultural contributions.
The solution is to increase taxes and properly fund the NHS.

What would you say that involves? The current budget is £125Bn, so are we looking at £150Bn, £200Bn, £500Bn? Put a number out there and we'll have a national debate on what we are willing to do to finance that.

Noone seems to know what "properly fund" actually looks like, and noone has any appetite for tackling waste, such as missed appointments, or IT outsourcing contracts. £10Bn flushed down the toilet on NPfIT, when you say "save our NHS" you are really saying "save CSC's shareholders", do you realize that?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...

Windfall tax on Accenture et al I say.
There is a major difference in what people say and what people do. It is easy to say "I don't mind losing $10k" when you believe that there's a non-negligible chance you will come out with $10M. When that $10k gets lost and the $10M never shows up, the tune is different. Humans will always deflect blame.

When this happens to a substantial number of people, the discontent is palpable enough to threaten social stability and the civil order. The SEC was formed specifically to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such incidents before they have the opportunity to escalate.

Call this what you will and take offense if you must, but the consequences of anarchy are not at all as rosy as most "anarcho-capitalists" imagine in their thought experiments.
The basic idea is that you pick a bill and a representative and state how you'd like them to vote. If they vote the way you want them to, they get the money as a campaign contribution. If they don't, it goes to their next opponent.

Here's the bill to save net neutrality: https://stituency.org/bills/hr4585-115
And here's the current tax bill: https://stituency.org/bills/hr1-115

The site is live and contributions will be delivered.

I'd love feedback on the experience. Particularly, I have a theory that choosing a representative can be overwhelming and I'd like to brainstorm ideas on how to fix that.

I'll be sticking around to answer any questions.
Thank you for the explanation -- I was wondering how securities law is written to exempt the classic-Ford case, when "investors" expect a gain in value that isn't e.g. related to dividends but rather popularity quirks. Your distinction makes sense.
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A lot of huge and successful companies are using .io domains (e.g. Github, filecoin, etc..)
Solution: stop using CF services for phishing which is exactly what CF wants them to do
> If Oculus had done an ICO instead of a kickstarter, my $400 wouldn't have been merely a preorder. The $400 would've become quite a handy sum by the time Oculus got acquired.

And Oculus could have just as easily took your $400 and vanished without a trace. Or you could have unknowingly purchased shares that were worthless to begin with.
Sure I understand that. For BTC at least I am not sure I agree the rally will last as long as the stock market rally. I think we'll probably see a decent amount of selling in January when the gains are moved forward to the new tax year.

Litecoin is another animal. I think we'll continue to see a lot of what we're seeing now. People seeing a low price (compared to btc), sad they missed out on cheap BTC and dreaming this one is going to $15k.
Bitcoin has integration into a lot more payment options. But, that doesn't mean the price will come crashing down any time now. I think a drastic correction is due.
If I recall correctly, Lain was fairly popular both in the West and Japan, largely for similar reasons, although it was less big in the West since at the time it came out anime had not really become A Thing yet.

To your point, Cowboy Bebop can probably be considered to be one of the biggest causes for anime to gain so much traction in the US due to being on Adult Swim and having a killer feel and soundtrack, but its lasting power wasn't nearly as strong in Japan.
If we're talking about bitcoin I think ~$15 and ~4 hours average right now which isn't much better.

If we're talking about other currencies, you have a good point. I think lumen (XLM) is the best right now, ~$0.0000015 fee, ~3 second average right now
> and have far fewer benifits and protections after they leave

Really? From what I’ve heard, the American benefits system is so messed up that literally everyone in the UK gets better benefits than anyone earning less than about $50k in the US can hope to afford even with assistance from their employer. And that’s just regarding health insurance.
Can you give any other data-point that shows the dangers of deflation that didn't happen during during a world war and wasn't actually caused by fractional reserve banking and government interference?

Gold has existed for thousands of years, surely this commonly accepted idea is based on more than one or two heavily flawed data-points.
Is Hodl everything still the best strategy?
GP writes specifically about how the SEC "does not protect anyone's freedom or agency", which is a typical libertarian viewpoint. I.e. that the gov't shouldn't regulate anything about disclosures, published financials, etc.

E.g. if a company wants to sell and promote a new radical weight loss drug, it should be up to each individual consumer to decide whether it's trustworthy, not the FDA.

Not agreeing or disagreeing with this line of thinking, but I think you're arguing from a different angle.
For me it’s much simpler and more fundamental than that. I think people can make their own choices and it’s not the state’s place to meddle in those choices. If someone wants to get a second mortgage on their house to buy an ICO, I say more power to them. Why shouldn’t people be able to take risks they’re comfortable with? Some of those risks might pay off. Regardless, even if it was the equivalent of flushing money down the toilet, I don’t see it as anyone’s right to interfere with that personal sovereignty.
"If you have the dollar amount and the # of shares, then you can backtrack it to a rough percentage."

Perhaps. But if a company will not give you a percentage of ownership and expects you to accept this as compensation, you should quit. Full stop.

If the company won't tell you how to fairly evaluate your options, they're operating in bad faith, and should not be rewarded for their sleazy behavior.
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And yet, that worthless fraudulent garbage is one of the few ways to get rich.

Historically, this has not been true. Depending on your definition of "rich", very few wealthy people have gotten there by investing in other people's companies where accreditation was required. Most wealth is built by via ownership of your own company, real estate (which is a type of company), or by investing in public markets. These pathways are all still available to you, and almost certainly still represent a better long-term risk-adjusted return than ICOs.

If Oculus had done an ICO instead of a kickstarter, my $400 wouldn't have been merely a preorder. The $400 would've become quite a handy sum by the time Oculus got acquired.

This actually is an interesting point, but it does require some serious cherry-picking. I'd be interested to see the data behind a scenario where all the funded startups for the last decade had been ICOs instead of venture-backed. I doubt it'd look so rosy in that scenario, especially when you consider that many more failures would likely have been funded, based on how easy it is to raise money from an ICO based on nothing other than a pretty website template.
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