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This is my fear. The cities are offering up fantastic deals so that their politicians can get credit for those mythical benefits that never materialize. By the time the results can be evaluated that politician will be long gone. It's completely impossible to evaluate a proposal like this on the time scale of 50 years.
I guess their secondary use is offering them in support of a prospective acquisition (or dissolution) of Amazon, in exchange for which the acquirer or trustee would offer some other value at that time.

These events both seem very unlikely right now, but they provide a last-resort value for an ownership interest in Amazon.

(I don't mean to support other people in this thread who are criticizing cryptocurrencies for their lack of inherent value, but stocks do have a particular basis for their value that cryptocurrencies commonly don't.)
The difference between you and me is that you believe poor people are stupid and I don't. Otherwise you wouldn't have felt the need to qualify how difficult it would be for "poor people" to figure out how to buy disability insurance, a product that's largely off the shelf.
This is strange. FF dev tools are a lot quicker for our apps then the Chrome dev tools. In fact, the Chrome dev tools are snail speed compared to the FF ones. Again, this might be related to the type of app you are developing.
I think it could.... It is the "do not keep doing the same thing if it isn't working".

Of course we are in a novel high stress environment so I think it can be triggered erroneously or we just need to now live through really shitty situations at work, etc.

I wonder if antidepressants in some cases encourage an individual to stick out/survive a situation they should really be escaping from?
I'm on 54, probably forever as there's no response from the developer of the RSS addon I use. (I tried 15 of the most popular alternatives, and didn't like a single one, so Firefox 54 it is.)
To be fair, people could also stop thinking gold is worth much. Maybe a modern-day alchemist finally figures out the formula. I don't know. Probably far less likely than the Bitcoin scenarios though.
How can I be sure that DDG is actually following its own privacy policies?
Well, sure. I get that sort of argument for something like tax policy.

But is this actually an experiment that should be run at the state level? I mean, having 50 different net neutrality laws that all actually mean and require different things doesn't strike me as being efficient.
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That's right but it's not so bothersome anymore esp on faster devices.
Sorry for the confusion; I didn't mean to group those together. I meant that I'd lost sight of other nice features with all the excitement of Firefox performance lately.
> strengthening the housing market, and much more. That's interesting that you call it pollution.

Talk to anyone who grew up in Seattle or SF pre-tech boom and you might find a different perspective. I think it's worth considering that while it's great for us in tech it's not like it's a net-win for everyone else.

If you work in an industry outside of tech(or a part of tech that doesn't track payscales like the game industry) you may get pushed out of a city/metro just by nature of the impact tech has.
It would be great if it could be connected to something like the MIT Media LAb inFORM table and/or some kind of under the table system of magnets. That way physical objects could be moved instead of just the projector displaying an image of the cargo ship. Right now the physical manipulation seems one way, from the physical world to the digital. It is “easy” for the the system to motion track an object as a student moves it, but the system doesn’t really have a way for it to move the object itself.

Imagine students exploring gravity by placing spheres on a “magic” table and then the table causes the spheres to orbit around eachother. Students can adjust mass or gravitational constant and see how that affects the system, or even come up with their own laws of gravity.
if you are going to invest $1000 then diversify across a bunch of coins in which you understand (or can pretend to understand) the technology and potential use cases. Then after purchasing and storing them securely forget about them and set yourself a reminder to check them in November.
The "right" way is to accept that privacy-conscious visitors reject your use of third-party tracking, and if you really need to track their visits you must use a first-party tool (Piwik, GoAccess, plain old logfile parsing...). It may not seem fair and it may be frustrating, but blocking third-party tracking is just so easy and anyone who cares about privacy can do it with minimal effort.

As a side benefit, when you start doing your own tracking from server logs, you gain valuable insight into where the gaps in data are from the third-party trackers, and precisely how many visitors are under counted.
> Not only is Bitcoin purely sentimental, it represents has huge costs in the form of raw energy.

> Bitcoin's only claim to value is that it is an artifact of an act of ritual sacrifice. One might imagine a precedent in some system of tokens issued by some ancient priesthood.

I mean, in this respect the analogy to gold is not an awful fit.
Well, that also creates a further negative effect toward the "Patent Troll" system prevalent in the US.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
Purpose maybe isn't quite the right word, but depression is evolved, and has a de facto social function, albeit a maddening one. It's a bit like chronic pain in that regard. Crudely, winning at social games and conflicts tends to impart hormonal advantages that help an organism win more. Being chronically frustrated tends to make the organism drop out of the games.
I guess part of why I posted that is the audience - I imagine in submitting this article to HN, it is meant to resonate with two subsets of people here:

1. Entrepreneurs running gig economy startups and the implications for how they should treat their workforce

2. Tech workers who work in the gig economy (e.g. Gigster developers, PullRequest reviewers, independent developers)

So I read this and bring up my point because it seems like contract work, inherently, is not the problem. The problem is, what others have mentioned, that the government regulates employment in such a way that we tie benefits like health insurance to the employers, and do not align incentives properly. Would you say that's an accurate assessment?
In other words it is about as rigorous as any other Internet listicle[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listicle
True. But it's zero fraud from your perspective as a business.

You also have full control over false positives:
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- If we reject, you have a force approve time window to approve transactions if you disagree with our decision. You have final decision-making. None of our merchants use this because they end up trusting us so much :-)

Our customers (some case studies here: https://bolt.com/case-studies) have switched from top-tier providers and seen substantial order approval lift.

Furthermore, we're also your payment processor. Typically fraud providers and payment processors are separate, so if fraud providers make a mistake, payment processors will slap the merchant on the wrist with what can ultimately be serious fines + more reserve requirements. We don't, because we're also your processor.
I've definitely had this thought before. Humans are like a long shot bet. It comes at the cost of the risk of a major extinction event but, if successful, could seed life across worlds directly.

Imagine a hundred worlds all with life forms subject to evolution.

Basically two ways of that life growing past its planet:
1) A lucky asteroid strike or other outside event
2) A form of creature that can build tools to get out of the planet

Only #2 would have an inbuilt strategy for galactic survival.
This is why the Lightning network is something more than just payment channels. If you have 2 or more channels open on the network, you are a node that can have payments routed through.

Same with trying to pay someone on the network whom you do not have an open channel with: the LN's purpose is to facilitate a network of channels.

Certainly hubs will form, but there should be many of them, and if there's a path to your recipient, you don't need a dedicated channel with them.
BS. Bitcoin had small casual transactions up until recently. It was one of its main selling points.

Again, people don't like Satoshi's endgame vision. This is working as designed. Bitcoin was designed to evolve into this. It was not intended to stay static; it's in the whitepaper.

Break out of the groupthink. It's worth realizing when everyone around you is being irrational.
you guys, what even is "liberty".

if in in fact you are referring to competing for resources in a zero-sum game, that is a different thing than say, Free Speech.
I have intermittent issues scrolling the fullstack job post (https://bolt.com/jobs/fullstack-engineer) in Chrome for iOS. Requesting the desktop site seemed to fix it. I was also able to get it working by randomly clicking the other postings and coming back. If I wasn't eating lunch I'd try to debug it better but it's easily possible this is only affecting my phone.
I think they're being careful not to signal a negative sentiment towards crypto, because they're still bullish on crypto being the future of payment infra. Just bearish of BTC.
Why aren't cities and towns already doing this then? Every new business or new resident, of any size or wealth or income, is a potential new "net positive" contributor to their tax base.
You are forgetting that capital gains tax applies to cypto-to-crypto trades. Meaning, if you buy 10 ETH with 1 BTC, then sell the 10 ETH later for 1.2 BTC, you need to pay capital gains tax on whatever the dollar value of 0.2 BTC was at the time of the trade. This is super hard for the government to track.
We cap it at low absolute single digit percentages. Business capture way more upside than we do.
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"Purchases are made using an app to scan a barcode and paying over the phone."

That's like the difference between a fully autonomous car and an automatic train.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting [...] anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Besides that, there's a certain shifting of the goalposts going on when people who used to talk about Bitcoin replacing all the world's currencies instead start talking about the rising value of Bitcoin.
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Looking into this thanks.
> people who foolishly purchased Be Inc. shares

I disagree with your use of the term 'foolish' in hindsight.

We can imagine an entirely reasonable alternate universe where, by pursuing this 'Internet Appliance' idea, they ended up inventing the formula for what in our universe became the iPad. Apple's success was far from guaranteed at this time too.
You don't have to regulate the transactions, you just have to regulate the usage of them.
It was easier before SIP, but this should work (not tested myself)

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135766/os-x-maveri...
If you want to make this argument, then guns, shelter, food etc have no inherent value, if you don't value survival. Gold, and jewelry, have been appreciated for millennia as pretty objects. Pretty objects improve life quality - and so, if you care about life, you can say that gold has some inherent value.

Finally, you could also reduce it to the fact that possession and distribution of pretty objects can increase your likelihood of reproduction. From an evolutionary standpoint, access to reproduction is an inherently valuable thing.
Thanks for the reply. I edited my comment to note that I was experiencing this under 57. I don't know if it will continue under 58 because it seemed more like a random issue, but it is good to know I'm not the only one.
It's also linked to operational milestones, so market cap has to be met with actual progress. That's much better than market cap alone.
No, you are missing the "network" part of "Lightning Network" it uses an onion-routing-like protocol to allow you to pay "through" other people.

So if I have a channel with you, and you have one with coinbase, I can buy bitcoin from coinbase through you without ever opening another channel, entirely counterparty-risk-free.

And in that scenario if you "refuse" to relay my transaction, or you try to do something sneeky like broadcast an old transaction that we made where I had .1 BTC and you had .9 BTC, that's breaking the agreement we have made and I can broadcast a counter-transaction to the blockchain proper which gives me all of the money in the channel (1 BTC).

And if I try to backstab you by broadcasting the "give me all the money" transaction when you haven't done anything wrong, you have a "counter-counter-transaction" you can broadcast that forces all the money in the channel to you (1 BTC). (and the counter-counter-transaction only works if you HAVE NOT broadcast the original transaction)

There is a bit more complexity to it, but that's the gist.
Even at the high school level, I spend a lot of time trying to develop number sense with my students (especially with units). It would be great if I could somehow show students how numbers and units “flow” through a science problem.
The lightning network will not work. Yes, you can run a node and connect to ACINQ's lightning hub (called endurance), and you can even buy coffee at https://starblocks.acinq.co, their lightning demo site, but that demo was designed to be misleading. The only reason it works is because the endurance hub has locked up its own funds in a channel with Starblocks -- and it's no surprise that it did, since both are owned by the same company.

Let's say I wanted to set up a competing coffee shop, Starbricks (now with a brick of coffee in every cup!) I could certainly connect my own lightning node to the endurance lightning hub, but no one could pay me through that hub because the hub would first have to commit its own funds to its side of a payment channel with me. It won't do that, and I have no way to even ask it to, so I can't get paid unless every buyer opens a channel with me directly. And if they did that, it would be slower and more costly than just sending a Bitcoin transaction in the first place.
When something is good for the landed and bad for the landless... it's generally bad.

Now, we could reform our policies so that the landless get a fair shot, but realistically, what are the chances of this happening?
I'm quite sure this goes in hand with the poor education that the U.S provides.
> To be fair, people could also stop thinking gold is worth much.

They've already noted that:

> people's perception of its value will change

But as they say, a gold bar will remain a gold bar, until and unless it is actively destroyed. Not so for bitcoins, which only remain so as long as they're actively maintained (not just individual coins but the mining networks which allows the creation of new transactions)
This will likely happen more if the current administration continues signaling that the US may not necessarily be there for other countries when they need it.

How conservatives who usually correlate with nationalist feelings (which I sometimes sympathize with) can tolerate seeing the US lose its status as world hegemon is beyond me.
I know of only two: Tether and Dai

https://tether.to/

https://makerdao.com
> Yes, that national average of $20/hr is after expenses.

Where on earth is that number coming from? Uber?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/internal-uber-driv...

"In early 2015, a study commissioned by Uber found that drivers in 20 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, were grossing around $17 an hour.... But the $17-an-hour figure was based on data from 2014, when Uber rates in most cities were higher than they were in late 2015. It was also based on gross earnings and did not account for driver expenses."
Lightning has been close to readiness for what seems like an eternity. It's an exciting prospect to be sure (centralization worries aside) but I think it's important to keep our expectations reasonable. The long term future of cryptos is harmed by baseless hype.
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> it's supply will remain constant after it has all been mined

Even this could change if the miners and thought-leaders decide that it should.
The impression I'm getting from this and other comments is that San Francisco is basically a bunch of small mountains where people get mugged.

I live in a pretty flat city, but there's so much transit in the inner city (<8 minute frequencies most of the day) that seniors just take it everywhere. It's safe, it's warm, there's room for grocery carts, there's special seating for the mobility-impaired....maybe it's just implementation.
Really interesting article! As a long time developer and hiring manager both, this survey reflects what I have seen in the market place as well.

I found it really interesting that problem-solving is rated so high, yet many interviews and screening is still focused on skills. Hopefully sites like HackerRank and other online assessment tools can improve our process.
I never bought anything _with_ real estate, stocks or gold. I always traded them for fiat currency first.
marshray never denied any of that, they just pointed out that the intrinsic value of gold is significantly lower than their valuation.
Better than nothing. With an uncooperative federal government, we'll take what we can get.
For what it’s worth, I’ve come across maybe 5 bitcoin atms and they’ve all been out of service or completely unplugged. I’ve never actually seen one on and operational.
I agree, I was discussing the total market cap of all coin offerings in general as being around $500B which is just over half of the value of Apple.

I'd take ownership in Apple all day over any coin, as I suspect more people out there value the Apple Stock over the ever-increasingly tough to exchange Bitcoin.
>US is planning to spend 1.3 trillion in Israel in FY18

That isn't what your source says... where'd you get that number?

[0]: https://www.foreignassistance.gov/explore/country/Israel
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It's not a "protocol" maximum, it's the currently allowed max in a lot of node software, since it's still VERY new and the probability that it will have a bug forcing you to lose all of your money is high right now.

So the developers put a limit of .04 BTC to keep that risk lower and prevent over-zealous users from losing a ton if something goes wrong. As the code matures and the network grows, that limit will be lifted in client code.

It's basically a "you can only easily lose this much money" max while the software is new. And you can compile it yourself without this max right now if you want to be a crazy person.
Charlie Stross has a similar position on cryptos, perhaps even a bit more vehement about it.
This is exactly what it is. Agreed.

I got a bit excited and should add more detail: we're in a time when taxes are being shifted more and more away from those who have (rich & corporations) to those who have not. A public/private partnership seems insane to people because it is. The private companies have all the resources and need to leverage further their wealth from the public sector. They can easily front this by themselves and still be printing money without a care in the world. Didn't the corporate tax rate in the USA just get reduced from 35% to 21%? Private top-tier income tax was something like 96% during WWII and now it's down to what, half of that? So not only do you blatantly and overtly go out of your way to avoid contributing to the public fund but then also get politicians to give you deals and project-specific loans out of that exact same reduced, exhausted public purse? OOkay. Then you tell us that we should be thanking you because you're providing jobs... what kind of jobs and to whom?

I'm always skeptical of these things to say the least. Then to claim that there's proof... umm.... are you referencing Atlas Shrugged?
If someone discovers a huge lode or if something crazy happened like the US Government divesting, it could cause a pretty wild swing, in the manner of Mansa Musa's pilgrimage.

Guess it's one of those things that seems impossible, until it isn't.
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Is this hard to achieve or something? Most developers I know work relatively low hours.
How easy it is to accept stocks as a payment compared to cryptocurrencies? How easy it is to send stocks to some other person?
Bitcoin isn't like gold. You cannot launder money or evade tax using gold. No need for trust means no trust. We know what "gold standard" means. You can guess what "bitcoin standard" would mean. Those who think bitcoin is an asset storage are delusional.
Would that be your first ML job?
That's a pretty high number, good luck!
Somebody once pointed to me that the reason internal combustion engines vehicle require so little gas is because half of the energy in the combustion comes from the air around it, and therefore does not need to transport it.

One of the few times I felt "mind blown".
Engineers undervalue it, users overvalue it compared to other criteria. Mostly because users are not engineers and so have no way to look at why a product is engineeringly superior; they can only look at how easy/simple it is to use.
Someone's been reading their Georges Bataille...

Edit for less smug more content: sacrifice is an interesting lens through which to look at bitcoin. You could argue that burning "excess" compute power is the real point, not the tokens.