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Stock lending for short selling is regulated by FINRA.

https://www.finra.org/filing-reporting/regulatory-filing-sys....
Right. My point is that many federal agencies have mandates that dictate where they focus. For instance the SEC may come after any privately-owned startup, after the fact, if there’s overwhelming evidence of fraud (see: Theranos).

But when you go public you enter into a whole new level of scrutiny, because regulating public markets is why the SEC even exists.
I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country, and I wouldn't want to live in a country where citizens had easy access to guns, and suffered the violence and mass shootings that seem to come from that, like in the US.

Hope that helps.
The SEC intentionally does “regulation by selective enforcement”, as shown by their actions following the 2017 ICO bubble:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/11/21/regulation-by-sel...

It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone in this space.
> The country leaders have been legitimately elected, which means the leadership is the direct reflection of the country people's will

I think this is only true if the Australian voting system is Condorcet based. Otherwise I think technically you can elect someone overall less popular, but that has a very strong base of dedicated voters.
After reading the description of Coinbase Lend in this article I have no idea what it is.
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There is a difference between lending assets and staking assets. Of the ones you mentioned, I've only used Gemini and Kraken. Gemini Earn offers similar lending products to Coinbase Lend (a % return is given when certain assets are lent) [1][2].

Kraken offers staking services [3], which are technically not "lending", but are staking rewards gained from staking assets in proof of stake protocols such as Ethereum 2.0, Polkadot, Kusama, Cosmos, Cardano, Solana, etc. These staking rewards could also be earned directly from the protocols, if users wanted to stake via their own hardware, but Kraken takes a fee in this case due to reducing the hassle for users to need to do this themselves (and some proof of stake protocols have slashing which means users would lose the coins they have staked if their hardware goes down or their connection is interrupted), so there is some reduction of risk as well for the user in that case. However, this also means the staking power is more centralized at the exchange level, which is a downside, but that is a different part of the discussion.

FWIW, Coinbase has staking services as well [4], but Coinbase Lend, which hadn't even launched yet, was going to be something different. It looks like Coinbase was going to achieve that 4% interest on USDC in Lend via Compound [5] (which is a DeFi protocol they actually helped launch a few years ago [6]). Assets can already be lent directly to Compound via users, without Coinbase as an intermediary.

Anyway, my point in bringing this up is there is difference between lending assets and staking assets, and actually both lending and staking can be done directly by users, without any of these exchanges as intermediaries.

[1] https://www.gemini.com/earn

[2] https://www.coinbase.com/lend

[3] https://www.kraken.com/en-us/features/staking-coins

[4] https://www.coinbase.com/staking

[5] https://blockworks.co/coinbase-compound-labs-launch-usdc-hig...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/16/cryptocurrency-compound-in...
Being a mimic and being a leader/creator are not exclusive; you can do both in various fields. One can even mimic and eventually start creating their own things on the back of that: “fake it until you make it” is a real thing.
That's less than 50qps. I can't count that low.
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Lots of things are different from 1929 today!

Why would the rules for highly regulated, specially-privileged-under-the-law banks have to do with what individual consenting adults should be allowed to invest in?
Sounds like a good habit, yeah. But the fact that an attribute access in a template (which might be quite far removed from the view code) can kick off a db query is an indication there's something a bit too magical about the design. Often front-end developers without much knowledge of the data model or the SQL schema are writing templates, so this is a bit of a foot-gun.
First of all, I don't think SIPC covers loaned-out shares? See https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46942 for example.

In any case, digital currencies are outside SIPC's remit.
Hmm...each of these videos is rendering the same clips for me. The web player will render new ones though.
I read this paragraph in a paper on ADHD and learning disabilities literally after replying to a comment above yours...

> There is also evidence of domain-specific cognitive deficits that contribute to specific learning-related disabilities. For example, phonological processing difficulties have been found in children with poor reading performance, whether or not they also exhibited problems with ADHD symptoms or math, but not in children with deficits in ADHD symptoms or math only. Similarly, both with and without a reading deficit, children with ADHD symptoms exhibit significantly impaired object naming and behavioral inhibition, and math-disabled groups demonstrate visuospatial and numerical processing deficits, while those with only reading problems sometimes do not.

There's significant co-morbidity between learning disorders and ADHD, and despite dyscalculia being as common as dyslexia (~3-7% of the population) it's a lot less well-known, isn't as frequently diagnosed and there are fewer tools to help people with it. It would be very possible to have both ADHA and dyscalculia, given you used symptoms listed for both that are almost word-for-word identical with those in the paper...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079676/

(paragraph 3 of the main discussion)
"And in 2016, Harvard University scientists concluded the molasses disaster would have killed fewer people had it happened in the summer. They figured the winter air cooled and then thickened the goo, making it harder to rescue victims."

Does it take some scientists to figure this out? If so, are there any papers to explain their findings?
coinbase should figure out why so many people are having problems with its withdrawal functionality before trying new products
A student may be confused about why just these axions and not some others? It can then be explained that there in fact be alternate set of axions.

But still most teachers give us the same standard set of axions. Why? What would happen if they dropped some of them or replaced them with others?
It's politically incorrect to blame anyone for this virus. I hated the way Trump politicized it, but let's not deny accountability because we had an absolute head banging idiot for a president.

Let's just act like that Chinese lab was a top notch research facility, with strict safety protocols in place?
Sounds like Canada
Shadowrun, Physical Adept might be what you want. :-P
> To sum up, we have some fairly crude stuff working now, but it’s looking for a killer app

I think it's quite a bit earlier than that. If you get motor imagery working, which is the most reliable signal (your brain is electrically very active when visualizing motor tasks), your accuracy rate is still crazy low. And it doesn't generalize across people since our brains are all pretty different. Some people can't make the EEG work.
In a system where there are many more parties, and ballots can still be spoiled, I don't see how that would be different.
The former.

"Data dumps" are privacy-friendly. For example, a user can download Wikipedias dumps and search through them to her hearts content, and never use the network. Zero data collection by third parties. All those observing the network can see is that she downloaded some data dumps.

"Web APIs" are "tech" company and surveillance-friendly. Network access is required and all activity is observed and recorded. Web APIs are also used as a means of controlling access to what is often publicly available data/info. The company does not own the data/info, its a middleman. "Too many" requests, API user gets cut off.

Too often its publicly available data/info that is being served by APIs. Hard to sell data dumps of public data as a "product". I sometimes see entities that provide "data dumps", e.g., a corpus, for free who then try to restrict usage of it through a license, yet they do not themsleves own the data. Whether they even have the rights to "license" it is debatable. They are never legally challenged so we cannot say for sure. The more interesting issue is whether they had the rights to collect the data thats in it. The so-called "web scraping" issue.
I can't believe anyone hosts their stuff on Medium. It's an increasingly trash platform; you go to some website.com and then get n announcement that you've viewed too many medium stories this month. That didn't happen with this specific story, but the fact that Coindesk a relying on someone else to host their blog creates a poor impression - why would I trust their security or anything else, before I get near their financial products? Strange decision.

Incidentally, I do think the SEC owes people clarity in matters of legal reasoning, but am not sure Coinbase is being fully forthright with readers here based on various other observations in the thread.
The USA has dozens of dry counties, most famously the home county of Jack Daniel's.
Getting paid for ads is not "backed", Googles budget for Chrome dwarfs all competition.
Upon my personal reading of even just the basics of capitalism, allowing the fed to reverse repo trillions of dollars on a nightly basis, and allowing partner banks to lend out 10x the money they actually have control of, is patently egregious.

ETFs, Short manipulation, Options in general all beside... America is broken. Capitalism is broken. It's all a joke.
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Wow, better answer than I could have hoped for. Thank you!
Rectangle{} debugging in QML, just like printf(), but for QT
It's still available on https://medium.com/@coinbaseblog
I've used the "pour-on" version of IVM which is used on livestock. I could hardly avoid it: we were deworming and branding a herd of cattle; the method of application was to pour IVM on each critter's back and spread it with your hands. Doing so probably put enough ivermectin in my system to kill any parasites I had 50 times over. Never suffered any consequences AFAICT. I have noticed that the guys who regularly do this are extremely healthy but they're all cowboys, so a selection bias is likely present.
A few prior discussions and related articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13043559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361913

There were a number of other submissions over the last 12 years but no others with many comments.
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What if the communities are the ones creating/supporting these policies? Are the being racist to themselves? As from my reading this is often the case.

I'm not an expert in this field but it seems to me you are vastly oversimplifying the policy and without context. And using language like 'punitive' seems unfair as I dont see how this is a punishment, even if one were to believe it was misguided or ineffective. And I respect this policy has flaws and questionable value, while at the same time feel its fair to recognise it is being done in co-ordination with the community itself and and with altruistic intent.

What are these other alternatives you mention? Please suggest. I suspect they come with a whole set of other flaws and failures as rarely is a solution to these problems without a flip side.
I believe the source is https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/12/16/good-mathematicia...
sleep deprivation, or deterioration of performance on U shaped curve?
What is actually financed by crypto denominated loans? Who is paying the interest that’s remitted to crypto-denominated savers?

AFAICT the chief borrowers seem to be other crypto-denominated savers initiating loans against their crypto, hence the apparent demand[0] for stablecoin denominated loans. So USDC savers on Coinbase may be much more exposed to BTC and other crypto assets / securities than they expect. If BTC goes way south and borrowers get called, USDC savers have only Coinbase’s promise of a peg to support them, and Coinbase/USDC may have less fiat reserves than expected, having sent some or much of it out on margin loans.

[0] https://blockfi.com/rates/
Establish a daily cardio routine ( for example run, cycle, swim on successive days ) and forget about abs and pecs.

Six-packs don't indicate 'fitness'.
Interesting, yeah I like the analogy. I'll throw these on the reading list and give it a shot
it's a money surrogate, and like almost anything else it can be used as a medium of exchange / means of payment / barter.

"an investment of money" in the Howey test is not about literal money, it can be anything with monetary value, e.g. orange groves.
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The only way to fight deception is through education, and a certain political party within the U.S. has spent the last 40-50 years completely butchering the public education system to a point near beyond repair.

Our last secretary of education was the heir to the most pervasive MLM pyramid scheme in the U.S., and is also part of a cult that believes a certain pre-determined number of cult members (very small percentage of them) go to heaven and every other human on Earth is condemned to eternal purgatory.

Now, maybe call me a crazy bigot, but I don't exactly see how such a person might have strengthening our public school system as part of their best interests.

MLM products don't buy themselves, you know.
Concept is very cool. The PineNote seems to nail some of it, though I'm not sure about the battery life (definitely not the battery type). If the PineNote could output its desktop when docked it would be a very interesting product I'd happily purchase.
So we do need to repay the debt, but you (and others) said we won't pay part of it. So what's the deal?
Censorship can whack all moles that are not the elite establishment. And yet the masses want censorship so we only get to hear the elite dominant narrative.
not disturbing. good.
Are we heading for a future where dissidents in non democratic countries are marked as outlaws in democratic ones? Are we there already?

Seems pretty sad. Where else could they bank? Bitcoin?

It would be good to hear from the other side, but the “no comment” isn’t very reassuring.
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- are you using a custom auth or a third party service?

- how do you keep your access token and user info on the browser?
> into the nature of functions which the calculus sequence is kind-sorta supposed to give you a tiny and very distant taste of

How about instead starting with Lambda Calculus? It's all about functions and how to define them
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PR post that backfired. This is hilarious I wonder what they thought was going to happen.
Coinbase is even shifter then PayPal. It took several months and numerous support tickets before they clarified that they take a percentage of all ACH withdrawals regardless if it is cash you deposited or proceeds of a crypto sale. If you take money out you pay them a percentage. They try really to hide that in their pricing matrix. Every time I asked about it I would either get a form letter pointing me to the pricing matrix, or a form letter explaining my bank may charge a fee for ACH. If I asked in a way that was clear that I had read the matrix already and verified my bank charged no ACH fees - they would stop responding. I think some manager was closing stale tickets and they gave me the exact answer.
Well, I think that's where individual rights and a constitution is supposed to help. If at least you enjoy the rights you get, there's that. Maybe you disagree with how best to run the country so it can protect those rights, but at least you'd have them. And then you could argue that if a majority thinks one way, it might be right even if you disagree.

Otherwise, I forgot which philosopher said this, but the only real freedom is the freedom to choose where to live and the choice of many places with different viewpoints and social norms. That way each individual could pick what matched their preference best and move there.

Unfortunately the freedom to choose where to live is not really something the world provides. So you might be stuck where you are, but if you're lucky, you might manage to get into another place you prefer.

If that doesn't work, your last resort is the activist route. Make your case and change people's mind. It's happened in the past, but it's a tough road.
No, it's not your computer if you run Windows on it.

The only way for you to get control over your computer is to run Linux, and today that's very easy.
I hope it's clear that I meant "in a very weak sense" - just noticed the typo.
> They may just vote "screw you" just for revenge.

Sure, but how is that worse than them not turning up at all?

> The right to vote includes the right to abstain from voting when one does not care.

And you're free to cast an invalid vote.

> Forced voting sounds like a recipe for bad election results.

Forced voting eliminates some variables from elections, including:

* inequality regarding who can afford to take the time to vote.

* which parties can rile up the most people so that they're actually motivated to vote.

* to some extent, the ability to disenfranchise groups of people who tend to vote against you.

I'm curious as to how it'd make the election results worse.
You left out "How can I help the project?
: I need the computing power to train models.". Seems reasonable that someone who has spare computing power available would offer that to expand the available models.
> If you have punitive anti-drinking policy, and a racial group susceptible to that problem, it becomes a racist policy.

No it doesn't. A law does not become racist when one race disproportionately breaks it, otherwise every law everywhere would be racist.
Red flag:

> Researchers analyzed health data from over 33,000 adults ages 18 to 44 included in US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveys in 2017 and 2018.

Weed is still illegal in several US states, even more during the years listed, so I don’t see any way they could control for people NOT reporting use - equivalent to confession of a felony offense in some cases - within the data set.

Also it mentions usage “within the last month”. How much usage? If somebody smokes 5 joints a day, hell yeah they’re going to have health problems, but once a month? That’s radically different.

Always be skeptical whenever a “study” is reported by “the news”.
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe banks are allowed to lever at the multiples necessary to offer a 4% interest rate (the collateral requirements are prohibitively too high).

Coinbase is not a bank and doesn’t have to play by these rules.
I mean why not go after Coinbase? The argument that everyone else is doing it why not go after them doesn't hold much water. Sometimes it makes sense to go after the biggest fish first.

Also, is Coinbase saying Lend isn't an investment contract? It sure sounds like one to me. Lend my crypto to Coinbase and I get a 4% return? I like the idea but it sure sounds like an investment contract to me.
Nothing is democratized here, this is pure marketing.
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I'll try this one last time.

> Quarterbacks aren't anonymous guys who throw a ball around. They're celebrities with a direct connection to the brand of the team they play for, and fans are familiar with whatever they do during a game. If they get involved in some controversy, it affects that brand.

Quarterbacks are employed to play football. CEOs are employed to run companies. If you can't see this, you're either intentionally being obtuse or aren't capable of having this type of conversation.

> If a CEO's controversial personal political tweets can affect revenue to the point he should be fired, a QB's in-game controversial political statements can too.

I'm not sure what point you're making. He was fired. He was actually cancelled, in that the people that disagreed with him prevented him from ever getting future work, which is unlike the Tripwire CEO, who will land somewhere else just fine. Employers are within their rights to fire whoever they want. The difference is, again, the purpose for which that employee was employed in the first place. Firing your plumber because of their facebook posts may be unnecessary. Firing a spokesman for damaging your brand is not.

Again, if you can't see this, you're either intentionally being obtuse or aren't capable of having this type of conversation. Either way this'll be the last exchange we have on this topic. Have an excellent day.
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It opens on Medium app for me and I can see the post just fine.
What? How did you derive "we should get rid of all security features" from my reply? I'm saying your idea of using virtualization on-device is not feasible due to the power envelope available vs customer demands.
The world has been seeing an uptick in religiousness; Christians have been amassing political and publishing power in many countries. Maybe that has something to do with the ”darkness”.
How do you know it only needs 20 launches ?
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“ First, it seems improbable that in the narrow area of expert performance we find that practice dominates, whereas in everything else, we find that genetic factors have an equally large (if not greater) effect on outcomes. (This latter bit — that genes matter in determining IQ, mental health, personality traits, aptitude, and others — is so well replicated so as to not be in serious dispute any longer.”

Now that’s a pretty huge claim, and I don’t think that linking Guardian articles backs up that claim as scientific consensus.

Neurons + culture (aka, practice) are essentially the biological solution to DNA being too slow. It’s not “improbable” that practice dominates here, in fact, I’d say that our genetics specifically evolved for practice to be more important there.
The best kind of joke is one that nobody gets.
All of us in the band are engineers (I work at Snapchat) and we take the band super seriously and make time for it
Yup I know about the SEC vs CFTC turf war. I've actually had meetings with both of those regulators where they've staked overlapping claims to regulate certain things. As nice as it would be to have a clearer setup, the way financial regulations work in the US is that there are lots of areas of overlap (state vs federal as well as with multiple agencies) and if you're a regulated entity you have to keep all of the regulators satisfied. And even if you're not a regulated entity they can (in certain cases) just decide you are. For example if you make banking software believe it or not at some point the OCC will just decide you're important enough that you have regulatory obligations and they will examine you (I know about that case specifically through personal experience).

I really don't see why you're saying they have a poor claim to regulate here. There is a clear investor protection angle and that's in their remit. Coin issuers can't claim that it's only qualified investors that are affected and the SEC has traditionally protected retail investors. Secondly the SEC could make a case through their remit on orderly markets and capital formation.
It's also like saying - I can't believe they're not letting us operate an Atlantic Slave Trade - because of some supreme court cases from decades ago.

Why should the decades matter?

Supreme court cases matter...