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Why are volumes for EUR:CRYPTO trading pairs so low?
Of the top ten EUR exchanges by volume (Bitfinex; Coinbase Pro; Bitinka; CoinsBank; Kraken; BitStamp; Exmo; Cryptonex; Bits Blockchain; xBTCe), only Kraken's EUR:CRYPTO volume is more than its USD:CRYPTO volume USD22.7m:USD21.3m. For all the rest the relative EUR:CRYPTO vs USD:CRYPTO volumes are lower than 50% (2%; 11%; 43%; 41%; 52%; 13%; 17%; 38%; 23%; 17%, respectively). The deposit processes for Coinbase Pro, CoinsBank, and Kraken are all quite reasonable. The fees for deposits and withdrawals are in line with SEPA (0.15EUR-1%). Since we know people with EURs are trading crypto, then why are the volumes so low?
Without collateral peer-to-peer lending is nothing but altruism
TEACHERS? Teacher's Unions (as well as various other service workers...like the Department of Water and Power) are notorious. Their authoritarian and misappropriation has been the top story in California off-and-on for decades. This isn't to say that unions are a bad idea, but there's a direct correlation between union leadership corruption and 10th percentile income bases those unions derive from. They fail uniformly (over a long enough period of time) to prevent bad actors from subverting their purpose.
Unfortunately I often see developers asking for complex diagnose in urgent emergencies. When it's literally like a 30 minutes reaction time frame.
So from business pov there should be first quick and dirty unperfect analysis which is necessary for emergency decisions.
Sometimes you can just prolong caching time as quick fix, but sometimes there is no such option.
Programmers like nice and calm working environment but business often is very different place. So, please have in mind what business goals are.
And yes, I see there is a lot of stupid managers in It and basically you're right, we should use precise data. Just one point: when available...
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We found that even a well made Honda petrol genset was highly unstable feeding volts into a UPS for a machineroom. They are good at lights. They are good at a cooker. They suck at anything which expects regulated, non-noisy volts.

Lots of homebrew 'you can plug this magick cable I made' methods to supply volts across the fence to neighbours houses when the power goes down are really bad: behind the meter is just as lethal as in front of the meter, if you get it wrong.

TL;DR if you need to read a website like this for clue how to avoid losing power, you are putting your life at risk if you don't follow code, and don't know what you're doing.
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> The returns are worse than a bad year on the stock market holding ETFs.

In 2008 the stock market fell 50%.

The last 10 years we've not had any bad years in the stock market, largely due to trillions of dollars of money printed by central banks in order to prop up the markets and to create a so-called "wealth effect". Expect a reckoning in the coming years.
I think of the "bro"/"brah" stereotype.

Yes, almost all of the bros who fit the stereotype are male, but I've seen a few skateboard and surfer ladies who are just as "bro" as the men.

If there was a term for girl Bernie supporters, would that make this better?

Berniechick?

One can't win this. Man is gonna be argue about genders until the Second Cumming.
Persuasion is about filtering out welter;
Manipulation is about deceiving others;
Apple should have registered that domain name, like they did with apple.net. But somehow when a domain with the same name uses Unicode it becomes a problem of IDN
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Besides running on old hardware, the main benefit of distros like Lubuntu and Xubuntu is that they run well in VirtualBox without reliable GPU support. Ubuntu with Gnome 3 is almost unusable in VirtualBox.
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Why not just public? It makes perfect sense.
I feel depressed about this, on how the industry promotes and even supports extreme technical incompetence. Maybe is a consequence of "everyone should learn to code" campaigns and bootcamps.
Your comment made me think about the tragedy of the commons in a different light....

Looked at another way, smaller buildings are a necessity. From that point of view, the NYC politicians allowed people to cram too many buildings in too small of a space.

Or, maybe there are not enough roads. NYC could go double or triple-deck roads. It would be ugly as heck, but would ease the problem.

Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the root cause of the tragedy of the commons is that each person is fine with such a small space. If we made a minimum amount of space that people could own/rent/live in, then the problem would never exist. (for instance, Kansas doesn’t have this issue)
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Not quite, but a very healthy percentage of all start with 'The'. eg: 'The Fitbit Alta Heart Rate Monitor' [0][1]

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[1] https://www.hammacher.com/product/fitbit-alta-heart-rate-mon...
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Seems at least from social media discussion that people are less inclined to seek their fortune on the 'open market' nowadays, since Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are paying so much, and startup equity has become even more of a gamble than usual given that companies are taking 10 years to IPO.
Google already has a winsome search engine for mobile platform
> As every country should

It is tiring to hear continuously what an exceptional country the UK is. We are all exceptional, but we all abide by the same rules. That's kind of the point of having a union.

> The Guardian or [Russian-owned and ever deteriorating] Independent

I read both too. I didn't know The Independent was Russian owned, but little matters. It seems a bit populist, but more balanced than the Telegraph. I find the Telegraph interesting because it is the Government's paper (/s), it seems to reflect the views of a big chunk of the British population, and because it is so extremely one-sided that it seems incredible that this is what nowadays passes by mainstream opinion (and by serious journalism) in the UK. The Guardian seems very balanced (boring?).

> As Ireland or - good Lord, Luxembourg do now? As France intends?

Sure. And if they cross a line, we have EU institutions to correct the situation. That is the point of being under the ECJ. The EU is not a "I blindly trust you" organization: it is a "you'd better stick to the agreements, otherwise you'll get into trouble: look, you signed here". This is how to build a community.

Ireland, for example, has been fined for its tax practices (Apple).

And you are overlooking a very important aspect: one thing is to have Ireland or Luxembourg offering discounted tax rates (which is already a problem, as we can see with all the tech companies being in those countries). But Ireland is nearly a tenth and Luxembourg a twentieth of the UK's size, in GDP terms ([1]). The UK being a tax heaven is a huge problem for the EU.

> Hardly surprising when the EU is the only principal reserve currency suddenly insisting that its clearing be done 'in-house', apparently with the sole intention of clawing some banking onto the continent.

The EU is also the only economic area without clearing being done in its territory, post-Brexit. It is a huge risk. If the only way to balance the situation is going against the interests of a third party, so be it. The EU does not concern itself anymore with the interests of the UK, in so far as those interests are not related to EU's interests.

> I'm not sure what you mean by this

I mean the repeated threats by the UK about withholding intelligence from the EU if other matters (trade deal) are not agreed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
The most convincing argument against the commodification of sex is, in my opinion, that such intimacy holds a special enough place in human psychology that even an efficient sex market wouldn't make people happy.

I'm not sure if it's too linked with pair bonding to be its own thing, but that's certainly something to consider.

Still very much in the camp of legalization myself. If only because I can't fathom why the State gives itself the mandate to ban the exchange of this particular service in principle.
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Agree, I'm from Mexico and over here Uber had to change their payments methods. They started allowing cash payments to prevent missing a good portion of the market. And yes, I've used WhatsApp since the early years and I never paid for it, actually I don't even remember WhatsApp being insistent about it.
I think we’ll come a full circle … not only with e-commerce but also with search in general. Instead of being bombarded with 1000’s of products/blue links, we will want few, highly curated products/links that we can blindly trust.
> it was obviously not used "to show that you liked" to somebody else the content of his/hers message

Specificly, according to the pictures, the “thumb up sign” by General Magic was designed as a decoration for an own creation (a clip-art kind) not as a signal “that you liked” what somebody else wrote or done. So the association with the more recent use of the symbol for the Facebook use case is unsupported.
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They started offering local results on their searches, I opted out so I don’t know how well it might work.

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Yep that's a great point, maybe they are not communicating what the unique benefits of Lubuntu will be in the future, or maybe they don't actually know what they'll be.

Right now Lubuntu's niche is really clear for me, if I want a lightweight, general purpose distro I use Xubuntu. If I want a really lightweight, general purpose distro I use Lubuntu. (A step beyond that if I wanted "so damn light there are probably a lot of things I don't be able to do, I would think of Puppy or Damn Small or something, neither of which I've needed to touch in a long time, not sure they're even still maintained.)

So if Lubuntu is no longer my super-light distro, erm, what is it. A competitor to Xubuntu?

(Total side note, I really love the space of light, clean, functional desktop operating systems. The most exciting development in computing for me personally would be if someone figured out how to commercialize one as a competitor to Windows and Mac. If I thought there was a good business model I'd start that company myself.)
Interesting fact: years ago it was designed to build electric infrastructure above the ground because air friction addsup about 20% of electricty, free. It wouldnt be possible underground. But then, you know, whole State of amedium size country like California, would have no power interruptions in heat spikes.
Which API is it referring to for getting the projects ?
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> Maybe LXQt will be great, may be not, but at this point it reminds me of Ubuntu 10.10 which, IMHO, was as refined as Ubuntu (or any linux distro at the time) could be, and then they just decided to throw all that maturity and refinement away and start from scratch.

I don't know if you know this, but LXDE is GTK2 based, so the decision to "throw all that maturity away" isn't quite the same here. Ubuntu bet on convergence that never happened, Lubuntu has to eventually accept that GTK2 is getting long in the tooth. And since the LXDE maintainers moved to the LXQT project, QT it is.

EDIT: Also, given the choice between GTK3 and QT, the latter is the less resource hungry IIRC, at least when sticking to the basics.
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It's currently pulling random projects from the SciStarter API
I don't understand. "I evacuated the building" doesn't make sense to you? It makes sense to me. If it does to you too, then why not pluralize and apply to a region instead of a building?
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"there's no waveform to sync with" is technically correct and a very poor excuse

A residential no-break has no waveform to sync with as well.

Something capable of syncing to the grid and then more or less keeping pace even if the main grid goes down should cost very little today. (And when the grid goes back it shouldn't have drifted too much unless something ridiculously big happened)
Thanks, will have a look at the API for 1 of my projects
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Minor correction: the Boston Dynamics robots don't use machine learning. This is a common misconception, but almost all robots today still use hardwired control laws. We don't really know how to make robots that can teach themselves how to do things yet.
Let me guess.
You can't pay a salary yet but its going to be the next Facebook and we will be rich when it takes off.
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Oh, I think you cannot watch a single movie or show in my country without encountering some translation errors. Idioms seem to be the most common source of mistakes, together with some missed cultural references and misunderstood slang.
I guess you get what you pay for.
I remember about 20 years back when I was studying for my MS in astrophysics we got a call from the translator who wanted to make sure that he got some trivial thing right. As you can tell I was so impressed with his attitude to remember that two decades later. That makes it even more baffling today, when translators do not even try despite having Google and Wikipedia always available.
A lot of people here talks about lack of load testing and other "do it the right way" type of advice, but remember this is a startup. In my opinion, solid testing foundation will be such an overkill and the time is better spent on implementing more features.

Also I bet they did some manual testing. They didn't catch it because this latency can only be seen by the account with a lot of followers.

I agree that their first solution to upgrade is a bad idea...
You should understand what caused the bug before trying to fix it.

I highly encourage you to monitor the load/pay/request graph on a daily basis. Even better if you hang a screen on the office that displays these. The graphs are already provided by Firebase. That way you can catch these type of anomaly on day one. Also Firebase supports "Progressively roll out new features" https://firebase.google.com/use-cases/#new-features
Looks like gitlab just wants to be in news since Microsoft's aquisition of GitHub.
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This is one of the more important books I've read on this matter recently:

The Discipline of Delusion: How Secular Ideas Became the New Idolatry

https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Delusion-Secular-Became-Id...
Of course I am more than willing to share any knowledge I might have and do it with every person in my team that might want to discuss anything. Uunfortunately, I don't feel at the same level of insight as my mentor. Maybe one day.
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No I can pay salary. And yes it’s going to be better than Facebook thank u very much.
youre all somewhat ignorant if you think that solar is even remotely a solution. if humans could get along for more than 2 weeks we could have unlimited clean power through nuclear. even jeff bezos has articulated this.
yeah being agile is good. I meant by incorporating Agile frameworks like Scrum.
If you can't charge people even $1 for your product, then I would argue that you might as well close up now. As others pointed out, ads won't work either, because if you can't afford to pay $1 for WhatsApp, then I'm not going to be able to profit from showing you ads.

Ads aren't magical things you can slap on a product to make it profitable. For ads to work you need an audience that technically could pay for you product, but who opts not to. You need to understand that Google isn't a create example of ads working, they are the exception. Facebook sort of works, but the US (and to a minor extend the EU) audience subsidies the rest of the user base.

Your right in that the $1, even at $1 per year, Facebook wouldn't be able to recoup the purchase price of WhatsApp. They won't be able to anyway, WhatsApp was never worth $19B. Facebook vastly overpay for the company. The WhatsApp purchase should be seen solely as a way of removing a company that "stole" screen time from Facebook, and now they're looking for an excuse to shut it down and roll the users into Facebook Messenger.
I read about it in The Almanac [1]. Also, note that the map that shows higher and lower risk zones doesn't actually indicate what locations may be affected by outages. They only show where the affected lines are, but those apparently feed homes/buildings that appear to be in the clear.

1: https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2018/07/25/pge-may-cut-powe...
>How deep into conspiracy theory territory is positing an entire secret market of buyers and sellers of stolen artifacts?

Well, we do know (1) that fences' [1] are a thing and have existed since time immemorial, (2) all kinds of stolen jewlery and art pieces found buyers all the time, and (3) the majority of heists and burglaries (as opposed to symbolic or terrorist acts) are simply motivated by the money. Very few thieves ever proceeded to made some political statement (e.g. the Bonnot gang).

If it's intended as a "political statement", then they chose a very roundabout and ineffective way to go about it, not to mention one that could land them in jail. They could just as well storm the palace or the place where the goods were kept and put out some banners or make some (non felonious) noise without stealing anything (much less covertly). The "happening" statement in such cases has been done lots of times (has happened in the Luvre, in Notre Dam, in various palaces, in Italian museums, in official conferences, etc. Pussy Riot are a good late example).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)