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I really admire how Stripe atlas has the customer's best interest in mind. I recently incorporated my company through them and without much thought decided to do it near 20th Dec. Immediately I got an email from them that it would be in my best interest to wait till 1st otherwise I'll be paying taxes in March. That one email saved me a lot of work this year, so thanks for that. It's these little things that can be really helpful sometimes.
The difference between a put and a short is a short has unlimited downside (the price you are shorting can go up far more than it can go down).

This must mean Buffett thinks crypto has a good chance of exploding in value! Buy Kodak! /s
Yes, "my friends use it" argument greatly impedes switching to another app, even though it is better. Anyway, slowly, but surely I expand my circle of Signal users. Current version of Signal is actually quite polished, at least not worse than WhatsApp was the last time I used it (before acquisition by Facebook), and I rarely hear complaints about usability anymore from people who have actually tried it.
Nice article, but a tiny bit weird that it calls affine transforms categorically non-linear, and then shows an affine matrix, which is linear by definition.

Affine transforms are linear intermediate transforms in one dimension higher than the source & target spaces. They're intuitively (rather than algebraically) non-linear because we move from 2d to 3d then back, or from 3d to 4d then back.

It can be helpful to think of the translation as a (linear) skew in the added extra dimension.
I've seen literally zero evidence that fiat is failing. If you have any, please provide it.
Clarkson's Top Gear is not a movie where the story has military elements, so that's not quite the same (for example Independence Day is about the US military fighting aliens, so they do need military elements).

For (old) Top Gear I wonder if they have some sort of patriotic elements, because Clarkson is a friend of David Cameron. Maybe the government/military offered them access to make a boys' show, with the unmentioned quid-pro-quo of making the show a bit of propaganda for the UK government/military.
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Do you know about https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_générale_de_Belgique ?

apparently a failed venture on SGB caused De Benedetti to lose money impeding Olivetti to develop new computers in the 80s boom.
But he isn't playing it any different. It says in the articled that it took 300 to 400 hours over 4 years and that he played it when he had some minutes to spare, like on a bus or the toilet. That's how most casual games are played.

The only notable here is that the game is seemingly repetitive, but even there each level is different and requires a new way to hit the ball.

People have played Counter Strike on de_dust2 (a specific map) for almost two decades as this point. They play the same map over and over again, is it repetitive? Maybe, but each time there are new people so it makes it a new challenge each time.

People have played solitaire for their whole lives, again the dynamic comes on each "level" (i.e. new shuffle).

I am 100% sure that the play time of these people dwarfs this guys play time many many many times over.
I wish he'd be alive long enough to see how wrong he is
probably blind-sided from the rage/jealousy of missing the crypto boom

An 87 year old man that's the third richest person in the US and whose tens of billions of dollars will be given away to charity (not even a charity named after himself) in a few short years when the inevitable happens, is blind-sided from rage/jealousy at having missed out on the crypto boom? Come on, you need a better model of other people.
Determining that something is overvalued is vastly easier than determining when the overvaluation ends.

I was one of those who saw the housing bubble for what it was in 2003. Among people who saw it, the causes of the bubble and the bubble psychology among buyers was well-understood. I had zero clue as to when or how the housing bubble would end. It lasted far longer than I anticipated.

In other words, a smart investor can see when something is priced wrong. But only a foolish investor will tell you when or how the price will correct.
When i search for flights or rentals, i get followed it by several days. Its for me a good reminder. So yeah, i click on them and its a good tool for me.
I hope I haven't ruined the mundanity. Is what Wednesdays are for.
Well, roof work is an endless source of work .. and an endless source of material (before Elon). The material gets better every year .. its the workmanship that doesn't unfortunately, nor do the hazards associated with roof work. At any price, solar still remains a "cut the wire" thing, and the more wires you cut to the house eventually the more "free" you live. That said, it does not surprise me that Elon has this problem .. no matter what his reputation is .. because he delivers on the workmanship.
I think it's foolish to conclude that Buffet "doesn't understand p2p decentralization."

I understand p2p decentralization pretty dang well, and I thing the idea of proof-of-work is abhorrent. I know there are proof-of-stake systems as well, and that's clever - maybe they're better...

But maybe you're forgetting that governments love to come down on things like this, and that would make it a lot more difficult for everyone.
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Wow, cool project!

You should try Reddit. It has a lot of niche communities where you could share your project.

Also Google for things someone who seeks for a project like yours would Google. That gives you a rough idea of what kind of sources people use to find tools like yours.

Also some directories list specific tools (like "awesome" lists of github). Try listing your project there. Or even starting your own "awesome" list project on GitHub :)
You could say the same of all Web technologies. Do you actually think it would be better to have software patents and royalties on every Web standard?

For one thing, this would be catastrophic for open source projects (and indeed commercial audio and video codecs have been a huge pain for open source developers and users). Well, you're suggesting that free codecs are bad because they profit Facebook, and you could say the same about open source software, especially those that get contributions from Facebook.

I rather think that advertisers will always pay money to advertise, and when some of that money goes to developing open and free technologies that's a good thing.

There are many free lunches. You can get a universally supported free video codec to use for your hobby project or for your company's product, without having a Facebook account. It is always possible to find hidden costs in free products, so what? You can do the same for paid-for products. The idea that a Blu-Ray player won't spy on you because the manufacturer paid some royalties is... flawed.
So let's look at the mortgage interest tax deduction on a theoretical $3k/mo mortgage ($635,000 loan at 3.92% for 30 years).

The first twelve months payments total $36,028.44, of which $24,689.72 is interest. At the top marginal tax rate of 37%, that's $9,135.20. For married couples your HHI has to be above $600k to be in that marginal bracket so your household is pulling in at least $630k+ in this example.

Does a household making $53,000 a month get anything by saving $9,000? Especially if they need to spend $36,000 to get it?
I thought there are exchanges which allow crypto options trading?
What about The Forecaster, a film about Martin Armstrong? It's critical of banks, government corruption and was effectively denied viewing in the US short of downloading pirated copies for years despite being successful globally. Initially, Netflix was set to stream the documentary but suddenly reversed that decision, yet other movies you list were not blocked.

Censorship in the US may be more subtle than elsewhere, but it is present. Banks and governments have their methods which have become disturbingly effective. Also consider SJWs who effectively drown out or ostracize anyone with a differing viewpoint - you are free to think whatever you want, as long as you agree with us!

http://imdb.com/title/tt4103404/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/cen...
During the 2008 crisis Buffett bought a $5 billion stake in Goldman Sachs. He didn't buy shares on any exchange, he dealt directly with Goldman.

Buffett doesn't need complex financial markets because he does custom transactions directly with companies.

A Winklevoss could easily sell him a billion-dollar five-year put, but he wouldn't like the price.
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Yet easier to be a programmer without being smart.
I agree, researchers tend to focus on more academic problems and industry goes where the money is, leaving some areas without innovation. I’ve come across few papers that cover frond-end development.
Long Blockchain is a publicly-listed company, so it can
raise money from retail investors in the public stock markets

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“Hostile work environment” is a legal term of art in employment anti-discrimination law; it only applies when the hostility is a mechanism of discrimination against protected class, which “racists”, as such, are not.
The site itself is pretty lightweight; the actual torrenting is done through p2p.
I am pretty sure Buffet gives exactly zero fucks about “missing” crypto. Whenever I go to the store, I have never bought Bitcoin. But I have bought a Coca Cola. When I drive a car, I have never needed Bitcoin, but I have needed car insurance. Pretty sure that Berkshire has some idea about what they’re doing.

Crypto currencies might have some uses, but it’s pretty much a fad. Blockchain is interesting, but Bitcoin is pretty useless. I have yet to see a single thing that BTC does that I can’t do with actual money. And ICOs? Just ridiculous. Solutions in search of a problem.
Yes many security will tell you "WhatsApp is encrpyted" and that is true, and it is simply your assertion that this implies that they believe it is secure.

But its not just a false sense of security. Yes, everybody that understands security will have issues with all the problems all of us know that exists. That however does not change that for user there was a real increase in security.

I would rather say it is rather disingenuous for you to claim that it is all false security just because it is not what you would consider perfect.
Yes, exactly. Those made it over to the English version in the old days.

It would be interesting to learn why the German version retains the darkness. Maybe its because Germans get to/are encouraged to read it in the original.
There are two types of investors. Those that don't understand cryptocurrencies and just ride the hype train; and those that do.

To those that do, some rich guy's opinion doesn't mean a lot. It's just another opinion floating in the infinite opinion space. Authority means nothing to them.

To all others: Sell!
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Oh! Apologies, didn't notice that you weren't the parent. Cheers :)
A short has an unlimited downside. A put contract has a fixed downside, the price of the contract, which is paid regardless of whether you exercise the option or not.
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I am based in Germany and would be required to pay my taxes in Germany (?). Going with Stripe Atlas, would I have to pay additional tax in the US as well?
Came here to post this. I swapped my daily news reading habit for an Economist subscription (paper only) and have not looked back. The first 1-2 pages will typically summarise the week's news well enough for me not to feel like I've missed out on anything, and the quality of writing and variety of interesting topics is excellent. I also agree with your second point about feeling obligated to read it!

Edit: for some humorous and UK-specific news/investigative journalism/cynicism I can also highly recommend a subscription to the fortnightly Private Eye. It works out at like £1 per copy and is always a fun read.
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The positive affect on large content providers is non existent when they have to support both and negligible as far as cost even when they do.

It doesn't really have an affect on small content producers. I do live streams for a non profit. We pay one time for Wirecast and the Black Magic hardware. Pay a neglible cost to send the livestream to our provider and they broadcast it. iOS users at least can view from the browser using HLS. We also send another stream to Facebook. How does H.264 patents affect us?

You don't have to "consult a lawyer", unless you are creating your own codec. You pay the licensing fee which in the grand scheme of things is lower than all of your other costs - hosting, development tools, internet costs, etc. and you're done.
At some point things become more valuable as public good than they do with as something sold. Imagine if you needed to pay to use encryption like AES or ECDSA. Would the world be better off?
>Is this model better?

I don't understand your logic, Facebook/Google is data mining your personal information with or without royalty free codecs.

The reason all these companies are banding together to create a royalty free codec is because all of them realize that online video will only become even more pervasive, and as such there is long term gain for them by getting rid of video royalties for good, and the HEVC licensing debacle must have eliminated any trace of doubt.
This was on TED where it demonstrated using Ultraviolet wavelengths at a particular frequency that didn't cause skin cancer but only killed surface bacteria. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brenner_a_new_weapon_in_the_... we good
Crypto currency is an asset. He has bought and sold a lot of assets over time and has done pretty well. Google Tulip mania. The whole point of bitcoin was a form a digital currency. However due to the high transaction fees and volatility you can't really use it for that. I have no idea where it is going, but to dismiss a guy who has experience buying and selling things for a long time seems foolish.
However a put must have an underwriter who must take the risk that it goes to zero
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I'm probably misunderstanding something fundamental. If there's 14 times more 24h volume in LTC than NEM, wouldn't a seller experience more slippage in NEM?
I haven't played Freeway but it looks like similar'ish to Mini Metro[0] which I've wasted an indecent number of hours playing.

[0]: https://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
Note that DVB-T2 is a terrestrial broadcast standard (albeit not used in the US) and terrestrial broadcast is free/low cost in most places, hence US-focused articles about people dropping cable because of high monthly costs has little effect on the success of DVB-T2.

When it does come to pay TV, note that pay TV is still growing in Western Europe, mostly in places where they've historically had very little marketshare (v. terrestrial broadcasting).
> "PR tour"

What PR tour?

All that I remember was that he helped with the implementation and that they have a functioning system that they consider correct.

I think he and everybody else knows the limits of the security model of WhatsApp. Just because they have a working setup, does not mean they are actually using it, or have not changed it without his knowledge.

His assertion was simply that WhatsApp was capable of offering the same service as Signal.

This is from memory, but I don't remember any 'PR tour'.
Just read the Wikipedia, looks like you are trading one hardware bug for another on the Quark. At least you know when a segfault happens I guess.

"Intel Quark SoC X1000 contains a bug #71538[11] that "under specific circumstances" results in crash, known in the industry as a segfault. The workaround implemented by Intel is to omit LOCK instructions in the compiled code.[12] While Yocto Project based embedded systems incorporate this workaround, general purpose Linux distributions such as Debian are deeply affected by the bug. Such a workaround is not easy to implement on multithreading systems as they require LOCK instruction to function properly."
Don't conflate apprenticeships with taking advantage of poor people. Are you pretending there is no difference between these two scenarios?

A) Someone is a gifted tattoo artist and you want to learn the craft from them, so you pay them to teach you. You're responsible for your living expenses and you get by with odd jobs or what-have-you.

B) Someone pays you $5/day to do office work for them.
Futures are certainly available. I haven't heard of options yet, but that may just be my ignorance.
If you're asking this because you've noticed something weird with your eyes, things are blurry, or they hurt, go to the opticians. They're best placed to tell you what to do.

Otherwise, I use a couple of lamps to up the ambient light if the light in the room is otherwise too dim. Eye drops can also be helpful if you're using a screen for exceptionally long periods per day.
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This is cultural.
The Walmart-ification of the worlds products.
Planned Obsolescence.
The short term profits to get the stock prices up by the end of the quarter mentality.
The credit card mindset.

How fast society moves, and how cutthroat capitalism is becoming...its all about short term gain because the future feels chaotic and unstable to most of the world.

I personally think its the fact the money is getting more an more difficult to obtain because more and more is being hoarded in the upper strata of society.
So short term mindsets on financial gain take over because financial opportunities don't come easily.

This is reflected in software development.
Buffet has a lot of expertise investing in businesses where cashflows can be analyzed. Not every investment is like that. Where it's not like that, his expertise is less valuable
What about a crypto with no transactions fees (e.g. Raiblocks)? Obviously volatility is still an issue.
Check out the graph at https://github.com/fwessels/HashCompare that compares different hashing techniques.

And also we've done some predictions for collisions, see: https://github.com/fwessels/HashCompare/issues/1#issuecommen...
The maximum liability a short exposes you to is infinite, whereas a put it is limited to the cost of the contract (Which in this case would probably be pretty high). Shorting technically would work, you’d just be placing a loaded, randomly firing gun against the roof of your mouth.
Wasn't this part of the lure with BTC to begin with? To be decentralized so it would be outside the bounds of manipulation by guys like Buffet?
Same with me.

I refuse to think Mark Zuckerberg

* bought it for north of USD10Bn

* made it free

* stopped all other monetization efforts (paid api gateways etc)

just to provide free messaging service to everyone.

I have two explanations:

* either he felt it was a threat to his future messenging monopoly

or

* (and this is already not a secret anymore) they wanted to feed the data into their already huge tracking and ad serving network.

Both of those are good enough reasons for me to leave as I care about healthy competition and my future privacy.

But maybe the biggest reason why is because they lied to me: they promised to be the service that provided a good messaging service in exchange for a modest fee. They were profitable and yet sold out.
Currently in the process of cutting our "living on" budget from 110% of our yearly income to 50% or less. It is a painful process for sure.
The world is not, nor will ever be perfect. It is up to us cyclist to take our safety into our own hands. Don't end up dead just because you "had the right" to be on the road.

source : full time cyclist for 5+ years
Short: borrow the asset, immediately resell, after price lowers, you rebuy the asset and keep the delta. You're hosed if it 10x, 100x, 1000x

Option:. Purchase the right to sell the asset at a certain price & time. If the price is higher, then politely decline the option. The value of the option is zero, but you've already paid that upfront.

Future:. Purchase a promise to sell an asset at a certain price & time. If the price is higher, you are still committed to make the sale. Safe if you hold the underlying asset in escrow until the strike date.
> cryptocurrency is a financial MMORPG and a pure value-free bubble.

Frankly, I think the MMORPG economic model is more sane. At least in-network consumption is part of the core use case and they've demonstrated 20 years of (incredible) profitability.
Everything that ends, basically comes to a bad ending. Otherwise it wouldn't have ended.
As someone with a long history in shared hosting, I have to agree. Basically requesting that ".acme.invalid" SNI proves ownership only of the ".acme.invalid" name and not the actual domain name in any way. I don't see any way this scheme can work.

The only way I can see this working is having to pre-install a self-signed certificate with the same private key as the requested certificate to sign, on the actual domain name. I think that can work, can't it? I'd have to try it with openssl..

They may be able to fix it for larger providers but you'll forever have many smaller providers that will never mitigate the issue.

The obvious problem with that is temporarily killing the real SSL certificate during initial setup. Though in theory they could re-use the private key.
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Investing in Bitcoin, the currency, is just that: currency investing/speculation. Buffett knows and understands that. Investing in the blockchain technology is no different than investing in any other technology: invest in companies you think will use the technology effectively to create profitable businesses. It is actually the technology people that conflate the two and are getting confused by it.
Companies have EINs (Employer Identification Numbers) that function like SSNs and are probably what they submit for that.
What's your point? The OpenSSL CSPRNG is a userland RNG, not Debian's built-in RNG.
True, yet the downside is still limited. The worst case for the option seller (or writer) is that she has to buy an asset valued at zero for the pre-agreed strike price. That puts a cap on her loss.
> How is that more “parasitic” than Facebook funding the technology to help people upload their personal data to its platform, which they then monetize through ads?

You can refuse to upload your personal data and still get the free codecs. All gain, no pain.
Tech stocks are assets, but Buffett has always said he purposely avoids most of them because he doesn't understand them well enough. Taking him at his own word, we shouldn't put all that much weight on his cryptocurrency opinions.
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The post is remarkably devoid of any content and just a series of assertions. So, as you said, its the same take rehashed.

But apart from that, bitcoin and the concept of cryptocurrency are conceptually not that difficult. And even if they were, their value is not due to their technical novelty but due to their fundamental nature as financial instruments.

If Warren Buffet is warning against them, we do need to look at them and try to understand what is the problem he sees. As he knows more than most here about financial instruments.

The risks need not be technical in nature at all. For example, governments could fail to recognize cryptocurrencies as valid contracts thus voiding the benfit of legal systems. So, you own tokens of a house? Good luck enforcing that.