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They're generally (but not all) exchanges that have been banned from having actual USD banking facilities and need USDT to provide something for their customers to trade against.
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I doubt that anyone on the business side considers it uncool to build a small but profitable company. It's definitely cooler than having a VC shove you along the path to an acquisition by BigCorp Ltd.

Engineers sometimes consider those companies uncool, but that's just because they usually can't pay market rate for the best engineers.
Coffee machine is good to have.
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If you are looking for work, describe your self.
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If it becomes unprofitable to continue mining, and miners physically stop (selling gear etc...), will the change in Target just re-inflate the bubble again further down? Or have I misunderstood in difficulty/incentive structure?

From here it looks like the flood of market actors with an unsustainable price have created a crash, the flakes will get out of the game (pushing the price south), and then it might begin to get more profitable again?

Not sure what the outcome will be, but looks like a grass-burning point for those with skin in the game.
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The app store isn't. Apps are.
Here a possible explanation on what Tether is doing and the economics behind why there is such an incentive behind pump and dump BTC. I think they are running a currency board pegging USDT to USD, and then using the BTC gained to push up BTC even further.

Part of the idea of a currency is a stable value, that means supply and demand need to be matched. With a fixed quantity such as all the common cryptos, when demand rises (either organic or from manipulation) there is no way to keep the value stable so the value of the currency will be constantly whipped around as demand is constantly changing.

This is the general problem with floating currencies. They are difficult to keep stable. Fiat tries to solve that by putting someone in change of money creation (in the Feds case until recently this was mostly in the form of manipulating the overnight rate banks charge each other).

Another way to do it is through pegging the price to something believed to have a stable value itself. Various precious metals have been used in the past, but commodity baskets are also thoght of (look at the chart of the CRB index vs gold and they are almost the same). Baskets of floating currencies have also been used but they arent nearly as stable and still rely on central bank decisions.

A currency peggged to an underlying doesnt mean you need to hold all the underlying. You just need to intervene in the market when your target price rises or falls too much. This could be what Bitfixex/Tether is doing. They aren't holding dollar reserves, but they are keeping the exchange rate constant with other traders by stepping in when necessary. That's why they don't have a conversion window.

If you had a crypto that was stable, pumping might not be nearly as effective since the currency you are pumping isn't going to increase in value, just more will be created to cover the demand.

So now we have a situation where BTC is easily manipulated up on artificial demand pressure, but that will also cause a rise in BTC/USDT sales as there are now just more trades. This pulls the value and price of USDT up, but to keep it at 1 USD, more USDT need to be printed and sold. And this is exactly what we see.

So they can sell either USDT for USD directly, or they can sell USDT/BTC. But now they have a bunch of BTC, so they can go sell that too pushing BTC even higher. The party stops when demand for USDT starts falling and the price needs to be defended.

I think if we ever get a good crypto currency it will be pegged to a commodity basket or gold or something. I'm working on the idea of how to control supply algorithmically and fairly though a combination of systems and bonds.
Amidst the craziness that is the startup battlefield, its always a breath of fresh air to hear from the Basecamp founders. I feel more people should take this realistic approach to starting and running companies, and stop putting their life's work on 17 red.
I would guess that the traders who hold millions worth of tether have a good business relationship with Bitfinex and have more information than is publicly available. And that information seems to make Tether more trustworthy. A reason why they don’t want to make their bank statements public is that their bank fears being cut off from USD clearing once it gets known that they are handling Bitfinex funds. So there are actually valid reasons to be secretive and the unsatisfactory level of public information is a side effect of the whole regulatory circus the financial sector is burdened with.
This assumes that demand for a USD-correlated currency will grow with the price of Bitcoin, I'm not sure I buy that. Seems like when people are temporarily bearish about BTC is when they are most likely to move from BTC to USDT.
Oh that's nice - a kit with ready coded components that aren't just images (like far too many on theme marketplaces).

Yes people do want to collaborate on things like this. I'd also like collaboration on a page/email builder, so all of us mugs building SaaS can include something well tested and not reinvent the same software (again).

Good work!
That’s true, but however, what if Bitcoin goes on like the Video Game Crash of 1983, the Second AI Winter, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
Ignoring the false equivalence between US's abuses and SA's abuses, and the tu quoque, Google is incorporated in the US. They can't exactly get up and leave for a country with a better human rights record. But it's entirely within their power not to extend themselves into a country with a terrible human rights record.
Or (assuming they're legitimate) they just buy back tether with their holdings, raising the price back to roughly $1. Which is the whole point of it supposedly being backed 1-1 in the first place.
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The regulators were extremely slow in this case. Bitfinex is/was a major exchange and not performing a proof-of-reserves is not a red flag but a motive for immediate action.
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> Is the point of Web Components to service frameworks? I really don't see who the intended audience is, because any half decent framework is infinitely simpler to work with.

Originally Web Components were a response to web developers waiting for years to HTML elements like date pickers and such to be added to the standard. With web components, it will be possible to create such elements once and integrate them with every front-end project just like you'd use e.g. a <select>.

Using them as a framework for building web applications has mostly been propagated by e.g. Polymer, but as I and many others who have tried it can attest: that doesn't work too well.

Still, for components I think Web Components will be a great addition, and should combine nicely with React.
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If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the SEC can probably decide to regulate it like a duck.

> It has been asserted that cryptocurrencies are not securities and that the offer and sale of cryptocurrencies are beyond the SEC’s jurisdiction. Whether that assertion proves correct with respect to any digital asset that is labeled as a cryptocurrency will depend on the characteristics and use of that particular asset. In any event, it is clear that, just as the SEC has a sharp focus on how U.S. dollar, euro and Japanese yen transactions affect our securities markets, we have the same interests and responsibilities with respect to cryptocurrencies.

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...
This feels like kind of an aside - do those under 40s you know readily pay for news apps, but not for web subscriptions? If not it's not really related to the issue at hand.
Upstream they have "version_added" and "version_removed" but in this package they've changed the meaning to mean "supports". I don't think that's a trivial difference unless all major browsers are going to guarantee that features never break or are never removed. I have no problem with having a boolean to tell whether the current browser supports a given feature but having the featured example be a footgun when people naturally do a simple >= isn't the best showing.

The NPM page suggests that I can query the schema object directly if I'm worried about this but the links on [1] all 404.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mdn-browser-compat-data
Scott Davis, a longtime GE analyst and the CEO of Melius Research LLC, has calculated that GE’s total return on Immelt’s acquisitions has been half what the company would have earned by simply investing in stock index mutual funds.

Good article on how GE ended up in the situation it's in. Very sad to see the decline and fall of what was once a company as revered as Apple or Google.
People aren't assuming they are engaging in fraudulent behavior - there is evidence showing that they are. All they have to do to show they aren't is provide an audit.
Providing coverage doesn't mean that everyone would be availing the full amount every year. That's the fundamental principle of insurance business.
I strongly concur with this. I'd like to point a very specific thing out, which you only implicitly refer to:

homoiconicity

Anything else, you can pretty much bolt onto any other language, but that will never happen with homoiconicity. The language has to be built with it in mind, or you won't get it. Ever. It boggles my mind that there are almost no non-lisp-like languages that try to do this. If I had to guess, I'd assume that any language like this that could have been concieved was so similar to Lisp that it just wasn't worth reinventing the wheel.

It still makes me wonder though - here we are, the concept is 50 years old, and we're still bolting lexers together.
Your comment is pure gold. Get it? To be serious, that was one of the best Hn comments I read in a while.
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Why?

Oh, and why shouldn't I be able to charge and listen to music at the same time? I need another adapter for that?

Adapters are an insane solution to a non-problem.
I'm there with you. Have you found something consistent/stable to debug Rust code? I find the integration with VS:Code to be quite flimsy and friends have been saying that's like the pinnacle of Rust tooling right now, to have a fully loaded VS:Code with the Rust plugins...
I highly recommend reading this answer to understand the Indian budget better. I hope this helps clear a few questions. https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-see-the-union-budget-2018-1...
Plus, it's hosted by Medium. The entire modus operandi of tech Medium is shameless self-promotion.
How come documentation for "embedded" GUI frameworks like wxPython is so devoid of screenshots and graphical explanation?

Compare these pages...

* Overview, https://www.wxpython.org/pages/overview/

* API, https://docs.wxpython.org/

* Demo, https://wiki.wxpython.org/WxSmallApp

...with these pages for Bootstrap:

* Overview, http://getbootstrap.com/

* API docs, http://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introductio...

* Demo, http://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/examples/

For me, this difference made web UI frameworks much more approachable. Visual widget catalogs simplify the task of finding widgets or code samples. Widget screen shots help determine if code is performing as expected.
You're stating this as if it is an argument against the parent's claims, but I fail to see how it is.
And Python's duck typing is for addressing the needless constraints that statically typed polymorphism introduces. Discussions like this can go on forever! :-)
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Great tutorial
If the only reason it's stratospheric right now is manipulation then it could be manipulated in the future to "recover".
From many people I have seen succeed and fail at being quants (in the high frequency trading realm, which is different in many ways than the derivatives analysis world), you don't really need any Financial background, besides being a thoughtful and reflective thinker who has naturally wondered and thought about how Finance works on the national, business, and personal level.

In fact, I don't think you necessarily need to have background knowledge of anything in particular. What you do need, absolutely, is the ability and interest to learn complex concepts and areas of expertise in a diligent and meaningfully insightful way. That is, you need to be something of a Feynman-type thinker, learning statistics and programming and the math of data analysis and algorithmic analysis truly from the inside out, so that if you taught any of it to other people you would be a phenomenal teacher.

If you're not quite sure what that means, consider teaching a statistics class by having the students work their way chapter by chapter through a statistics textbook. Now say that you randomly insert 10 errors in to the textbook: you switch one word for another, you misuse Bayes' theorem in an example, you forget to adjust sample standard deviation to student sample standard deviation, you leave out a crucial paragraph of explanation in a lecture, etcetera. And you don't tell students to anticipate this and point it out.

How many students at a place like Stanford would catch most of these errors or omissions and speak up about their confusion? How many students would already be putting in the consistent, focused, diligent effort so that they could be reasonably confident the problem wasn't just in their laziness or inattention? How many would care so much more about understanding the material than about potentially embarrassing themselves to interrupt you in class?

If you taught that class 10 semesters in a row, in all that time I doubt there would be more than a handful of students who met that standard. If you took those students, with no particular background in finance, math, computer science, or statistics, and put them to work as a quant, it's highly likely they would succeed.

Whereas if you took students who never would have raised a question about any of those errors or omissions and gave them years of experience in all those areas, it's highly likely they would not succeed as a quant.

(Background: I worked as an algorithm developer at a major high frequency trading company for 6 years. Some of the most valuable employees, who generated tens of millions of dollars of value for the company, started with only spotty knowledge of finance, statistics or computer science.)
Regardless of whether web components would actually be a stand-in for things like React: what makes you think that integrating something in the language results in it being there to stay? If Angular 1's two-way data binding had been added to HTML proper, I'd still have moved on to a virtual DOM-based approach.