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Not a bad idea. Elon Musk has Gwynne Shotwell as president at SpaceX and has been really effective at focusing SpaceX on effectively focusing and executing on Falcon 9.

SpaceX effectively has two strong leaders, not just Musk. Musk would be lucky to strike gold twice and find another leader as great (and as complementary) as Gwynne to help run Tesla.
I do think the value in all these currencies is that it will change the value Banks in general bring to society.

If we see a widely traded and daily useful crypto-currency in use for general goods and services, we'll see a deleveraging of the banking system.

Right now how often do you exchange a real Dollar or Nickel for goods or services. Chances are your token of exchange is your credit or debit card, with a balance maintained by a bank.

Would be very interesting to imagine the world we will live in if the banks are no longer keeping the ledger for society.
Haha, good point.
Privacy is cool and all, but I switched because Google was very obviously suppressing results. I don't want to be in a political bubble, completely unaware of events that might not be pleasing to Google employees. I'm not Google's small child.
No, the difference is that I factor in structural factors that keep people poor, while you pretend they don't exist.
The current Yankee Stadium was built less than a decade ago. The stadium that was built in the '20s is just a block away tho (and now a park).
I found the blogpost to be genuine, as far as corporate statements goes.

In my opinion, the intimations of a "bad breakup" and of festering resentment, are grounded more in the cryptocurrency-community's insecurities than anything specific to Stripe.
> I obviously don't think anything is wrong with using alternative currencies, but I'm not sure that separation of currency and state can happen the same way separation of church and state has. Even if the government doesn't control the issuance of currency they will undoubtedly have an outsized influence on whatever currency they choose to support.

I honestly don’t see the big difference: the people, by voting on representatives, choose both which religions and means of payment the government accepts (assuming a democracy, of course).
If you don't try to enact these projects how are you going to know the value they derive. The data collection is a necessary part of optimizing the solution.

Edit:
The Sidewalks Lab project is building a city. Toronto can move any people who need assistance into the society. It almost sounds like a thought experiment, but with the resources they have access to, they would be better able to assist than the city.

For example, Toronto doesn't have enough safe injection sites. The data would help to highlight that if it is collected.
Tell it your elected official, because the law currently obliges your employer to subsidize your insurance if they have greater than <X> employees.

This is not evil corporations pushing their insurance choice upon you, it's government pushing employee insurance mandates on corporations. If that bothers you(enough to compel you to take political action), then vote or write your elected official. If your elected official ignores you, then consider that you are not the majority, or your elected official simply does not care, and is motivated by something other than their constituents well being.
I don't like the notion of "hacking my brain".

First, it can create long term unwanted needs, such as requiring you to treat yourself for every little achievement. This could lead to a lot of things - weight gain, guilt, or all kinds of addictions (coffee, games..)

Second, I think that improvement is achieved by slow and consistent practice. "Hacks" are... well, hacks. They aren't supposed to be used over and over again.
You seem to have posted on the wrong thread. :-)
Maybe it's snooty holier-than-thou posts by users of password managers, lacking in substance or any real argument, that lets the majority of password users remain unconvinced.
Nightly is surprisingly stable. In my past few years of using it, there have only been a few days when it has been unusable. On those days I just used Chrome. The e10s transition was pretty rough. It was common for every tab to crash at once, and sometimes there were long delays for tabs to paint when switching.
I imagined that was talking about a certain level of fluctuation in the exchange rate of gold to dollars, not a radical change like happened to, say, aluminum (considered rare and precious at the time it was put on top of the Washington Monument; not so much today).
So........ did you get a little design inspiration from Stripe's site? Maybe changed that background to a dark color and toned down the nuance a bit?
> Given that bitcoin isn't a medium of transaction anymore and a store of value

Due to that, I think Bitcoin has failed and I no longer see it surviving long-term, simply due to the fact that there is much better tech out there now in the form of "alt" coins. (Not going to shill any specific coin here.)

What do I mean by "failed"? I got the impression from what I've read from Satoshi that they wanted Bitcoin to be a type of electronic cash and not necessarily only a store of value (see e.g. [0]). Yes, decentralized and trust-less, but still useable for even micro-transactions (from the linked article):

> It could get started in a narrow niche like reward points, donation tokens, currency for a game or micropayments for adult sites. Initially it can be used in proof-of-work applications for services that could almost be free but not quite.

Bitcoin seems very much inspired by Bit gold [1], which summarizes with:

> In summary, all money mankind has ever used has been insecure in one way or another. This insecurity has been manifested in a wide variety of ways, from counterfeiting to theft, but the most pernicious of which has probably been inflation. Bit gold may provide us with a money of unprecedented security from these dangers.

A currency (read: gold) only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does. Gold is a "good" store of value because we have currency depreciation with fiat, so storing your long-term value it in doesn't make sense. What happens when (not if) we stop storing our value in physical things like gold and we create a global digital currency that's fast, secure, trust-less, decentralized, and most of all a stable store of value? (Open to hear discussion on if that is even possible.)

A cryptocurrency with those characteristics has all the benefits of gold, without the need for carrying all that expensive-to-move, heavy metal around with you to be able to exchange any of it for goods. And you could exchange on a global scale, something not possible with gold. Banks would be on their way out, because the people would be in control of their own money.

What happens to government-backed fiat when people can exchange their gold like they would fiat? I'd think fiat would start to lose favor. But I'm not sure what affect that would have on world governments and society. (Again, open to discussion because I'm not super well-versed in these subjects.)

Currently, Bitcoin can't do that in its current form—that is, be easily exchangeable for goods—its simply turned into a digitized gold that has the same issues when it comes to exchange—but I think we'll eventually get there with a coin, and there's some promising altcoins that have awesome tech right now. Maybe that coin ends up being Bitcoin after all. Maybe there will be coins, plural, who knows.

Maybe all that is a bit too utopian and it simply can't work on a global scale with governments. Still interesting to think about.

[0]: http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/17/

[1]: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html
Tax avoidance is one of the benefits of using cryptocurrency as a currency. Yeah, I'll say it.

But what is bitcoin except a database plus some math equations? By "owning" bitcoin, you have a cryptographic key which lets you do certain operations on the database. At what point does this all get abstracted far enough from real money that it becomes ludicrous to tax it?

Obviously, the US government and most cryptocurrency users have widely differing opinions on that.
> The point is - crypto-currencies are fairy dust. There is nothing real or tangible about them.

Most money in circulation is 0/1's on hard drives.

I'm bearish on cryptocurrencies because frankly the entire thing is hilarious but modern currencies aren't entirely dissimilar.
I'd guess a large part of the value of Stripe being in that market was "We're Stripe, we are a serious payment company, even if this stuff is a bit weird you can trust us to handle it" vs "hi, we are a BLOCKCHAIN startup nobody has ever heard of, trust us plz". That's hard to provide.
"Strengthening the housing market"

Other than code for "making everything much more unaffordable", what does this mean?

And yeah, it's pollution for those who don't have high paying tech jobs. There are more people living in those cities than Amazon employees; their interests and needs need to be taking into consideration as well.
Is this supposed to compete more with Sonos, or with Google Home / Alexa? I can't tell.

I have a Sonos setup for my home and I absolutely love it. The sound quality is great, and the Play:1 speakers are less than half the price of the HomePod.
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How do you think the story would end for gold, if it became unpopular and the exchanges closed? You can sell your gold bar, and you can sell your private key. I see them as the same and no, I don't own Bitcoins.
I was (and still am) looking forward to HomePod but at $350 I just can't really afford it. I have a series 1 echo, 2 dots Smartthings Hub, 3 bulbs, 2 power outlets, and 1 wall switch. In total I paid somewhere in the range of $400 TOTAL for all of that. HomeKit approved devices have been, on average, more expensive (and yes I understand why) than their Smartthings counterparts. I love being able to control the majority of lights I need to switch on/off with just my voice and having Alexa in every room makes life easier for setting alarms/reminders/music/lights/etc.

I'm not saying I will never buy a HomePod but for me: control > sound quality. And when price IS an issue you can't beat the Amazon ecosystem.

PS: Also writing skills and the like for Alexa is pretty easy from my experience
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Depression has a role in our nervous system and technically even lobsters can be depressed but it doesn’t mean that it has the same secondary social effects as with humans.

To put it simply purpose of depression can be completely different than the effects we experience it’s just that it doesn’t have any major disadvantages as far human reproduction goes so we didn’t had the chance to fuck it out of our gene pool.
The whole point of cities is economic agglomeration. If you don’t want that, why live in a city at all?
The feature landed in the nightly trunk, it has to go through the alpha/beta release channels.
But you're not the only person in the world, so I don't see how this is an accurate portrayal at all. To _you_ it's a value store. To electronics companies it's a consumable used in manufacturing. Same to a jeweler, and to a jewelry consumer it's desired.

Crypto has exactly zero real world utility or inherent value. You, Joe Schmoe, do not by yourself and your own desires dictate what does and does not have inherent value.
Because it's a cheap, lazy insult to throw out at people who have different preferences than you do. It originally applied more to things like power plants that we collectively need but that basically no one wants to live next to. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with a city not wanting an Amazon HQ because of its impact on current residents when plenty of other places do.
Personally I have too many ops responsibilities. I'm essentially always on call and work anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours a night after I'm done with the 9-5. Usually 1-2 nights a week are 2+ extra hours.
My bet is that they're different people motivated by different things.
No it doesn't. Last time I moved Bitcoin, it cost me $19 and took 8 hours to confirm once. It's completely useless for transactions.
I think you're onto it. If an organism is not successful in whatever circumstance, then it is for the benefit of the herd (and species) that the individual drop out and not propagate its genes further. It is a braking mechanism. A psychic-emotional watchdog.
I think the researches described in the article might have over-generalized the concept of "depression" a bit...

I feel what we call "depression" is actually a spectrum of symptoms -- although those symptoms might have certain shared common traits (such as strong inertia and not wanting to do anything), they actually could be quite different in other aspects. For instance, when you are not doing anything, it could be that you are ruminating; or it could also be that your body and brain are simply numb, and not thinking about anything.

The article says,

In this view, the disordered and extreme thinking that
accompanies depression, which can leave you feeling
worthless and make you catastrophize your circumstances,
is needed to punch through everyday positive illusions and
focus you on your problems. In a study of 61 depressed
subjects, 4 out of 5 reported at least one upside to their
rumination, including self-insight, problem solving, and
the prevention of future mistakes.

Well, I don't know the structure of their sample pool...If the experiment is performed on a campus setting, like many other psychology experiments, then the conclusion actually has a bias towards a certain group of people -- although that group certainly might have its own spectrum.
What on Earth makes you think they aren't doing this? There's no single corp announcing a possible move to anywhere as big as Amazon to illustrate the incentive to compete, at almost any price.

In other words, construct a hypothetical move for a hypothetical corporation to some example town, and I'm sure that town could come up with an incentive package that would be beneficial to its citizens in place of having the company not move there. Do you disagree?
Lot's of schools don't put robotics in CS. They put it in EE or ME. Computer vision is often a CS class, but control theory and other subjects that involve interacting with the physical world are often placed in other departments most CS students avoid.
Tangential, but this psychologist argues that depression evolved as a behavioral shutdown mechanism to prevent humans from over-investing in tactics or behaviors that did not yield any benefit (from a dopaminergic standpoint) -- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201604.... The reasoning is that we conserve energy by not pursuing "dead-ends". Naturally, this evolutionary mechanism is thrown for a loop in an existence where survival is assured, and meaning becomes the main spectre psychologically.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/27...

This is from an article complaining about how little Uber drivers make...

>But in three large metropolitan cities, drivers make far less than the national average, about $20 per hour, after expenses.
* except for the bitrot problem

I agree with the observation that the difference is that gold is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it. Bitcoin does.

There is a difference between simulated gold, and actual gold, that is. At least, under current conditions.
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Stripe is ending support for Bitcoin payments on April 23
Bitcoin absolutely can still be exchanged, and (in many cases) far more easily and cheaper than gold. It can also be stored and secured much cheaper, and even large amounts can be easily taken across borders. That is real value, even if transaction fees are high, and even if you don't directly buy things with it.
How prevalent is masonry in the bay area and the startup world?
Ask HN: Does it feel like 1999?
In the late '90s, dot-com era, every day was a party on Wall Street. The market was up 4 days out of 5. In the first week of 1999, AMZN popped 49.4%, and the NASDAQ finished the year +77.1%.

I'm getting that same, strange sensation of 'giddy dread' that I had that year, like I'm having a fantastic time at a great party that I know is about to end with constables and handcuffs.

Anyone else?
This is where the EU is working: they just capped interchange fees.
It explores how entrenched interests might suppress knowledge or betrayal of secrets. Fully relevant here on HN, since some might employ the same means to:

> avoid exposure of dark-market secrets (ownership, participants, funds flow, sources, infrastructure location etc.)

> call down almighty vengeance on ransomware hackers or malicious telemarketers (a movie about the violent end of a virus-protection racket would be awesome ... I'm tired of superhero movies)

> others
How would you correlate an Apple employee's job title with a recruiter's requirements using just a license plate number?
If anyone else is confused: the dates there are MM.DD.YYYY not DD.MM.YYYY
Seriously? This would be a deal breaker for me. It would also be nice to be able to save preferences so that I only ever get results from the past year unless I specify otherwise. It just takes additional clicks and is a big pain from the search engine that's supposed to be user friendly.
There are many people, especially on HN, that have traded stocks for many other assets without first exchanging them for fiat.
Being a contract developer is a happy place to be. Here are some things you haven't mentioned.

* Contract developers have greater flexibility on taxes. "Pass through" entities are big now.

* Contract developers are more independent in a lot of ways. Some employees have clauses where they give up all IP they create.

* Contract developers often move from project to project more, which gives them a better network effect then their W2 counterparts.
Hi, developer here. This is a small passion project to solve a simple problem - sometimes you just need to temporarily demo/serve something over http and be done with it.
The idea is simple, you drag and drop your files (for Chrome and Firefox directories work too) and get a link in return, that expires in 24 hours. That's it. As always, feedback from the community is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use.
Some things are valuable because of their inherent utility. Soliris (which has the distinction of being one of the world's most expensive drugs) is valuable because it has obvious utility: it treats medical conditions and saves lives. Even if it has inherent value for things like electronics or tooth fillings (it has inherent value for jewelry too, but a large part of why we use it in jewelry is because of its high price), gold is mainly seen as valuable because everyone seems to agree that it's valuable. Even if I live in a culture that doesn't particularly value gold, I know that it has a high market value and I can trade it for things that I do value.

Still, is extremely valuable and has been extremely valuable for hundreds of years. It's got the added benefit of being something that people can show off to display their wealth. Even if it's arbitrary why we value gold in the first place (I think aliens looking at our society would find our gold obsession strange), it's probably not going anywhere as a store of wealth. If I buy gold today, unless Armageddon happens, it's very very likely that it will still be highly valuable in 10 years times.

Bitcoin might be valuable in ten years, but like many manias in the past (for example, tulips in 1637 Holland), its value will probably fade at some point unless it has some inherent usefulness as a medium of trade for other useful goods. Gold might eventually lose it's value as well, but it's been artificially inflated for millennia so I'm not betting on it collapsing anytime soon.
... and stocks are a legal claim to some percentage of the assets of a corporation.

The only things that I can think of that are somewhat similar to cryptocurrency as a "store of value" are things like baseball cards.
Because university administrations tend to prioritize job security and regular raises for themselves over providing an affordable education.
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It sounds a little like denial. I mean, Bloomberg does a great job, its pretty simple: "The 2018 ranking process began with more than 200 economies. Each was scored on a 0-100 scale based on seven equally weighted categories. Nations that didn’t report data for at least six categories were eliminated".

So its an equally weighted average of 7 categories. The data was reported by the nations themselves.

Now the key takeaway is that the US dropped out of the top 10. Comparatively, you can tell something is changing in the US causing a drop.

Metrics are just indicator, and can sometimes misrepresent the reality, but more often, there's truth in the metrics also. Its hard to say what the impact of this innovation score is, is it economic, or is it social, but clearly the score change is due to real realities changing.
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The difference between gold and cryptocurrencies is that gold is something that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.

Simulated gold is not actual gold, in other words. They are under current conventions interchangeable, but the context that allows that is contingent.
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Yea - we can work and pay taxes to give you a "boon" as you try out your next big idea. Sounds great for you, not so great for me. Hard pass.
Consider aluminium. At one point it was more expensive than gold (due to mining+refining challenges). When those were overcome the cost plummeted to it's current "cheap" level.

Personally, I think a better comparison is to the diamond trade. Through a series of machinations (price fixing, artificial supply constraint, marketing) diamonds are deeply overvalued if you consider just the fundamentals of them - aka they're in a bubble. However, due to those same expertly administered steps they've maintained a high retail value for decades.
>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...

"hubs" are incentivized to open channels, because they can charge fees for any transactions that go "through" them. Locking up some BTC for a short amount of time (roughly 3 days on average right now) to make some fees for routing transactions counterparty risk free doesn't seem like that bad of a deal...

> ...and I have no way to even ask it to...

The protocol has a way to "ask" for a new connection, you don't need to do anything but point your node at a funded address that is willing to accept new channels.

>I can't get paid unless every buyer opens a channel with me directly.

Or a single buyer opens a channel with you, that also has a channel open with that hub, and now you have a path to everyone and anyone that wants to buy coffee from you. Or maybe a single buyer opens a channel with you, that has a channel with another buyer, that has a channel with the hub.
Do you have any reputable sources on Stadiums being an economic benefit?

Everything I have seen suggests otherwise, eg. https://news.stanford.edu/2015/07/30/stadium-economics-noll-...
Not having a tailbone has probably not been an evolutionary advantage.

Hair is an evolutionary advantage, not a big one but bald women don't mate as successfully as women with nice hair do, on average