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Hey everyone!

I’m Anthony the founder of HodlBot.

I’ve been working on HodlBot the last year with two other co-founders, completely bootstrapping our way to $100M in executed trades with +10,000 users across 80 countries.

As big fans of indexing & passive investing, we initially created HodlBot because we were frustrated there weren’t any simple indexing solutions out there for everyday investors.

Historically in the equity markets, indices have outperformed 90% of active managers over a 15-year period. We believe a well-diversified cryptocurrency portfolio will yield similar results compared to active traders.

Existing solutions either were only available for accredited investors, had terrible liquidity, or simply didn’t track the price of the underlying assets correctly.

We took a different approach by directly integrating HodlBot with the APIs of popular cryptocurrency exchanges (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Kucoin, Bittrex). Our users hold the underlying assets, we don’t have withdrawal access, and we follow best practices to encrypt user data.

When we first launched a MVP last year, all it did was diversify your portfolio across the top 20 coins by market cap.

Since then we’ve added the ability to:

-Create a custom portfolio weighting users can tweak
-Create a custom index based on a starting & ending rank, with percentage caps, and different weighting strategies
-Automatic rebalancing (custom frequency or threshold) that keeps your portfolio on track
-Backtest a portfolio to see how it would have performed in the past
-Blacklist coins you don’t want to include in an index
-Cash-out a % of your portfolio into any coin in order to exit the market
-Track the performance of your portfolio
-Diversify your portfolio across cryptocurrency exchanges (Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, Bittrex, Coinbase)

We’ve grown completely organically with $0 spent on marketing by focusing on niche community engagement and content marketing.

Here are some of our best blogs:

https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/when-does-portfolio-rebalancing-...
https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/how-many-cryptocurrencies-are-si...
https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/how-cryptocurrency-prices-affect...
https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/a-thorough-investigation-of-the-...
https://hackernoon.com/the-3-types-of-cryptocurrency-traders...

We’re big believers in being transparent and writing down what we’ve learned. If you want to learn more about how we’ve grown, here’s how we bootstrapped to $2kMRR in the firs month.

https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/zero-to-two-thousand-mrr-in-one-...

Wiki: https://wiki.hodlbot.io
Telegram Group: https://t.me/joinchat/IjezjhAAC-...
>... I disagree with the assertion that there is no ergonomic benefit.
>... I no longer have any cause to remove my fingers from the homed position while I type. Ever.

Any time a QWERTY user says anything about "ergonomics" and "the home row", I know they don't know what they're talking about. The home row is utterly useless on QWERTY because you rarely use any of those keys; I never keep my fingers on the home row with that keyboard layout, because it's just a waste of motion, and results in more finger strain (try typing "minimum" with your fingers on the home row). I end up just hovering my hands over the keyboard. With a Dvorak layout, however, the home row is actually useful, and it's actually useful to keep your fingers there.

Any talk about "ergonomics" with QWERTY keyboards is a total waste of time IMO. If you're worried about ergonomics, you wouldn't be using QWERTY, a keyboard layout that was specifically designed to be as un-ergonomic as possible.
Google will provide you with downloads your data for a lot of their projects: https://takeout.google.com/
This is, to some extent, what Feedly did. They started off as a really nice, somewhat niche magazine-style news reader built on Google Reader. When Google Reader shut down, it was in their best interest to implement the API themselves. They had the very clever idea to make that a _public_ API, just like Google Reader, so in the end all kinds of apps and services wanted to use it, and it seems they're doing really well. (I'm still a big fan of their own news reader, and have a Feedly t-shirt somewhere…). I'd be very interested to hear the full story of the Google Reader debacle from their end :)
So is what Equifax did, but guess what, they're still in business. You can see the "settlement" at [1]. And guess what?

"Whether or not you choose to get free credit monitoring from Equifax, the company will continue to collect information about you."

In other words:

"Even though we got hacked, we're still going to collect your information so it can get leaked again, lolz".

Awesome FTC right there.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
>I disagree. That's effectively how modern journalism works where the news is "objective" by letting each side say its piece.

Even that level of objectivity is rarely met these days. One advantage of this is that it's easy to mandate and enforce.

Honestly, this would probably kill off most false advertising, though. Who would run an advert saying that a candidate had died when on the same advert you could see a response on the same advert from the candidate that he's alive and well?

Even subtle lies would be easily countered by giving right of reply.

>The fundamental problem is that manufacturing lies takes less effort than explaining the truth.

This isn't a new problem and never was. The Spanish didn't destroy the USS Maine. There were no WMDs in Iraq.
Don't forget there is already https://killedbygoogle.com/
I'm in LA if ever wanting to connect
Most of these are a function of China's population than "evilness". Support for dictatorships is bad -- but even Europe burns more coal per capita.

> greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, France, Spain, UK, US, Japan

Oh come on. You are basically saying a poor country doesn't have a right to get rich. This is hardly evil - in fact a net good thing for the world if you valued a Chinese citizen the same as one in a developed country.
Explain to me how any of those things are remotely similar to jokes based on someone misspelling a forum post and joking about bag holding.
It's been described vaguely as a flat disk about the size of a pizza box that only needs to be pointed mostly skyward. [0] It's extremely unclear how complex the radio setup will be in these so I'm not sure a simple SQR dongle would have the resolution to decode the signal.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/24/spacex-reveals-more-starli...
UK metal detectorists guilty of theft after concealing £3m hoard
Google Brain’s Nicholas Frosst on Adversarial Examples and Emotional Responses
Post-Capitalism for Realists
That describes me as well, as a kid and a teenager I was mad into gaming, lost interest as I entered my 20's, now in my 30s and want to get back into it.
It blows my mind that anyone would support something like this. You're spending full price on a _streamed game_ that will be instantly remove when a) Google deems the service not profitable and closes the doors, rendering your money wasted, b) rights expire for certain games, c) some PR nightmare occurs from a CEO of a game company or something and they respond by removing affiliations.

Digital games are bad enough in that they can be pulled out out of the respective stores whenever, but when you can't even have it downloaded to your own console? Get out of here. What utter nonsense.
I appreciated that Wirecutter's review of VPN services began with investigating which ones had contracted for 3rd party security reviews. This presciently excluded many providers that were all about marketing, like NordVPN. I think this is the best approach rather than the litany of mostly useless criteria that's cataloged on ThatOnePrivacySite. You want to extract out the high signal, and "will my VPN service get hacked and all my traffic get leaked?" should probably be your first question when choosing a service.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/#how-we-p...

Full disclosure, I'm the author of AlgoVPN, a set of scripts for hosting your own VPN rather than using a 3rd party service, and was interviewed by Wirecutter for their article. You should use Algo if you're at all capable of doing so: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
I am surprised to hear this because I OTOH thought Google's attempts to corral people into Inbox when it came out were obnoxious. The app notifications, the Play Store nudges, etc. I tried it since I got the impression from the nudges that maybe Gmail was going to get knifed; I hated it and went back to Gmail.
I’m entertained by her characterization of herself as a “cog” in the marketing machine. It’s not her fault, it’s the system.

I bet she doesn’t leave a note when she backs into another car in the parking lot either. The parking spaces are too narrow...
> it costs money, the service costs a monthly fee, and on top of it you have to buy the games

While this is true now, you'll later be able to play games by only paying a monthly fee or only buying the game for the normal <=$60 price. The subscription isn't necessary to play games at all.

The problem you have with the service potentially going away also applies to Steam, to a lesser degree. I acknowledge that they have a proven track record now and also require much less to continue serving games though.
1.Try to be independent and ask for help when you need it
2. Make memories. you live with your memories.
3. Age is just a number.

Cheers!!
Looks amazing! How did you make the SVG/animations?

I'm just a developer, but seeing stuff like this really makes me want to learn design.
No one is forcing any of those people to buy it. It is not the only way to play video games. Don't like it? Move on with your life.
Tested from Telus to a SMS voip.ms phone number (and also in reverse). Messages beginning with "secure communication" are not delivered.

I tested with the exact string "secure communication" and also with "secure communication does not work" - in both cases, the message is not delivered.
You'll have to find some early adopters who are willing to take a risk in order to solve a critical business problem. Once you have those few reference customers, additional sales become much easier and you can afford to hire more employees.

In the short term try offering to put the source code in escrow so that if your company fails the customers can take over the product themselves. This reduces their risk a little, at least for large enterprises with competent IT departments.
> They'll have a completely new set of disingenuous talking points (unsubsidized fuel would hit the poorest hardest!) ready to confuse people and to stall that action as well.

Wasn't that literally the left's argument against carbon taxes on Oregon?
Yeah, Fox News is pretty crap in general. You're not going to find happiness on the front page. But there is this:

https://www.foxnews.com/category/news-events/fox-news-invest...

Where you find things like this:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/veterans-face-more-delays-on-agen...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jon-stewart-burn-pit-victims-psa

It's not sexy contentious lies, it's factual reporting about veterans and 9/11 first responders. So naturally, it doesn't get promoted by algorithms designed to push clickbait to the fore.
>Stadia is different, with this product Google is trying something really innovative.

Google is not the one being innovative here. This has been done before, to no real success. Google was first to the finish line (kinda, seems more like a beta in implementation), but other offerings are coming down the pipe shortly.

I don't see Google winning this one. MS is in a much better position here, and NVidia also has one in the works.

I would short Google on this in an instant if someone would take my money.
Which new reality? The one where most of the population can read and write and where most hold degrees and diplomas? This isn’t the 1900s industrialization era, where employees were picked out of the farm fields to work in factories, having never gone to school. People are smart these days, layoffs aren’t as destructive as they used to be.
I have no idea how it works, but it would be fascinating to learn about how the video is encoded/decoded in such a latency sensitive environment.
I think I can help answer your question, but just watching the keynote will be best. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM. The tl;dr of the whole keynote is what's different about Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure. Outside of Amazon and Microsoft I don't know of another company that will be able to match the latency and computation requirements to make this all work as marketed. What really stood out to me from their keynote this year was the number of edge nodes that Google has on top of their datacenter infrastructure. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM?t=1360
"Air pollution is a big deal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560916 Didn't work very well.

Then someone posted "Air Pollution Reduces IQ, a Lot" https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/ai... and it scored well despite being just a rehash of Patrick Collison's blog post. :) The moderator dang since then has changed the url and title to "The cognitive costs of air pollution" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565624 Amazing! over 1000 points!
The Eighth
> "...it costs money, the service costs a monthly fee, and on top of it you have to buy the games."

WHAT? I've been under a rock and I assumed that it was a service where you buy a controller, already own a streaming device (or maybe the controller has the device in it), and pay monthly for the whole service. You have to buy the games too?

That is an immediate about-face for me. If they shut down the service then I just stop paying the monthly fee. This is perfectly comfortable for any service. But if I have to buy-in to every game...
In a ~20y professional career I've done it once.

We did the whole bit: Hired a special company that had rooms with one-way mirrors so you could watch the users use the thing.

It was brutal.

One person went to this really cool subpage, and we were all so excited to see what they were going to do. User waved the mouse around for a few seconds and then clicked back. We were jumping up and down in our seats, just losing it. Our special thing was so cool (we thought) and this person literally couldn't begin to understand what it even was.
I feel like "X was too early/ahead of its time" is kind of a red herring.

What it's basically saying is "this failed until it succeeded", because the alternative option, that of being able to accurately predict the exact point the technology is 'good enough', has proven effectively impossible to do (given how so many companies that manage it occasionally also fail at it most of the time; it's a crapshoot).

To that end, given Stadia is here, does anyone think the tech is ready? No. In fact, people seem to think the opposite, that Stadia is Google's attempt to get the tech to a specific point, or to offset the cost of the tech serving another use case.

The only way Stadia has a shot is if Google stays viewing it as a way to profit from having unused GPUs sitting around within its cloud offerings.
I don’t really see why it’s his fault investors over valued his company — he believed in his own spin and was phenomenally successful at building a large, real business. This was not like Theranos where he was straight up lying about a product working — anyone could analyze the business based on the fundamentals, and investors seemed ever willing to invest at high valuations.

The self dealing was reprehensible and evidence of low morals in my view, but none of those events actually materially impact the value of the business. Instead, overnight, investors just came to their senses about what kind of value this type of business is worth. Definitely a strategic misstep on his part, but it’s not like he stole billions of value away from the company. The drop in value is more like what happened to Uber or Blue Apron post IPO, except, unfortunately for the employees, it happened before they could exit.
>I also haven't met anyone that touch-types 100% to the book. Everybody does some movements which aren't considered correct. The problem is that at some point you reach a level which you consider sufficient

That's because touch-typing on QWERTY by using the home row is stupid and counterproductive. The home keys are some of the least-used keys, and the whole layout was designed to be as un-ergonomic as possible.

If you want to touch type "correctly", you need to switch to a better keyboard layout like Dvorak or Workman.
>Realistically, there is little incentive for China to cut back on coal usage.

How about the 10's of millions of their citizens being poisoned or dying from pollution related illnesses?

>The global economy needs China to keep on growing.

They run trade imbalances with almost the entire world. The Chinese are not the best consumers.

>Germany, arguably the most important economy in the world outside of China, India and the US is nearing recessions because of slowing Chinese consumer spending.

Huh?

>It's difficult to expect China to curb it's growth for the common good when more advanced economies ignored the science for decades

How is China not a 1st world nation? Or not an advance economy?
> SSMS is an unusable hog.

...huh? SSMS (plus the free Red Gate SQL Search addin) is hands-down the best DB tooling I've ever used. If you're aware of similarly full-featured equivalents for Postgres (or any other RDBMS), I'd love to hear about them.
The Homeownership Obsession
I was really surprised to learn that according to Okta’s Businesses at Work 2019 report[1] Microsoft Office is still significantly more popular than G Suite, at least in the workplace:

> Office 365 increased its lead and continues to dominate the total pool of apps by number of customers, and it’s growing its active unique users by 55% year over year.

I wrote a bit about the report[2]. Another interesting finding is that people actually prefer using Microsoft Office products:

> Our survey found that 67% of knowledge workers prefer Microsoft Word over Google Docs, while only 15% report the opposite. When it comes to email, 49% prefer Microsoft Outlook over Gmail, while 35% report the opposite.

[1]: https://www.okta.com/businesses-at-work/2019/

[2]: https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/31/office-suite-market-...
I'd argue it'd make more sense for the keymap macro to load a json/toml/yaml config file and then generate the code but that's just me. Would be a little more straightforward too using serde, just type out your schema in normal rust, automatically derive the deserializer via serde, load a file with a function like macro, and synthesize the C compatible code from there.
That's what I figured. Sad state of affairs. It's the same on Amazon Prime Video. You can download for offline viewing, but it can only be watched inside the app.
Stadia does not have a monthly required. It has a monthly fee only for the highest quality streaming tier (4k@60). If you stop paying that fee, you will keep games you purchased (with the exception of those given away for free with the subscription).

There is certainly room to be concerned with what happens to purchases if Google eventually pulls the plug on the whole service.
Exactly one of the following two claims is a lie:

1) “Vaccines are safe”

2) “Vaccines cause, rather than prevent, illnesses”.

If 1 is true, the antivaxx movement is risking tens of millions of lives and >>billions of disability adjusted years of life expectancy.

If 2 is true, vaccines are a multibillion dollar fraud.
“WeWork isn’t really a real estate company. It’s a state of consciousness, a generation of interconnected emotionally intelligent entrepreneurs.” -Adam Neumann.[1]

Even after hearing that media raved about him/WeWork, analysts were bullish and investors pumped Billions. Startup media are generally happy with their funding related news as it is glamorous.

And due to the funding noise, Startup ecosystem has forgotten that a Startup is a Business and a Business should make money, else it's just a hobby.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/business/the-wework-manif...
I download anything I want from youtube, but, for obvious reasons, I don't expect youtube to serve me with a direct download link for a movie I've rented.
The UK has a much stronger Rule of Law, if the monarchs are constitutionally granted wealth it's different than taking things illegally from the treasury. I'm sure in the past you could argue that happened, but if a royal in the UK attempted to assert themselves as ruler and raid the treasury for their personal fortune, one would think the system would move to prevent them. Perhaps Brexit and Boris Johnson are going to prove us wrong, but currently I don't believe UK == Swaziland is a valid comparison.
I imagine if the service shuts down, they'd provide full refunds for any purchased games. Microsoft did that when they shut down their ebook store.
I'd guess UDP support and form.
My opinion is that Sony doesn't have the cloud chops to put something like that together.
People doing this may find they are subverting more than Amazon's review system.

One of the more interesting schemes to smuggle goods into the US is "selling" things on Ebay or Amazon cheaply and sending the goods to somewhere other than the buyer's location in the US. The buyer's name/address are correct on the paperwork, but the shipment is forwarded to them via a package carrier that doesn't exist or otherwise diverted to the new location.

Whatever the goods are make it through customs without question because they have the name of a real citizen who is willing to say they're buying the item on the paperwork.

The sellers apologize and give refunds or compensation (or nothing) for the items that never arrive at the paid reviewers' houses, then sell the items which are now stockpiled in the US, never paying an appropriate customs fee (personal importing vs. commercial) for a nice profit. They also bypass things like checks for counterfeit goods being imported because there is far less scrutiny on individual, personal packages than commercial imports.

Using the name/address of a real person who is actually expecting the product hides the activity from most of the algorithms that search for things like this.. because they exist, they are where they say they are, they pay taxes, etc.

So Amazon shills may be inadvertently allowing their identities to be used to bypass US customs... and potentially also getting scammed out of the purchase price of whatever they ordered.
>The innovation is not necessarily in the product but in the engineering required to make the product feasible.

Yet their launch has been plauged by issues and latency is still a massive problem. They didn't crack the nut, so again, what's innovative here?
> A hugely formative part of my childhood was just browsing the bookshelves at home and pulling down whatever looked interesting

This is precisely how I widened the scope of what I read as a youngster. I get very excited when I visit a new friend's or acquaintance's house and see they've got a bunch of heavily populated bookshelves, and there are books lying around everywhere.

Another thing I forgot to add as a reason for the continued existence of paper books is flicking through older read books and discovering a bus or train ticket, or a receipt, used as a makeshift bookmark which can evoke strong memories or feelings from the time and place you'd read that particular book. And getting your favourite authors to sign first editions at book readings.
Emissions = number of capitas * per capita emissions. Most people aspire to a western lifestyle. Multiply global population with western lifestyle emissions. This is wildly unsustainable. Minor western lifestyle tweaks are not making a dent. Something major will have to give.
Doesn't hurt to ask. Even Apple eventually made iTunes music downloads DRM-free, but I doubt they'd even consider it for video.