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The live exhibition match definitely made Alphastar look like a machine making the decisions, not a super smart being. The micro was obviously impressive but that should also be the easiest part to master. I share the sentiment that DeepMind is hosting big events to paint a very one-sided picture of man vs machine, so this last win of mana feels oddly satisfying.

Completely agree with how ridiculously complex AWS is already, with new services and products added every month. To me digital ocean sort of is AWS light, also really hope it stays like this.

Sorry for the late response, but yes definitely done for our marketing insights. Our whole team is very data driven and Slack gives us a perfect opportunity to be transparent.

I've added a couple of small cloud functions for daily statistics that are pushed to our company slack in dedicated reporting channels. Pagespeed reports for our websites, keyword rankings, crawls from Google Bot etc. Definitely reduced the monkey work for our team.

Dogecoin started as a currency to tip users in forums and other message boards, like Bitcoin. Right now though it actually offers a lot:

- lower transaction fee's than most other coins, faster processing

- high volume, so it's cheaper to shift from Coin A to DOGE and transfer, than say LTC, ETH or BTC

- it's a pair to trade small cap coins against, which BTC currently fails to do, as the smallest BTC unit 1 Satoshi is $0.0001459864 as of today

I personally have never bought it, but it's more than a meme right now.

I agree that it's far fetched and an extreme example, but still interesting to think it through. As it does shed some light on the different actors and their potential motivations.

Receiving tax payments is essential to countries in our current global monetary system. USD are spent by citizens but also by the government itself, both depend on system stability. Now assume that one day a large enough number of people/corporations decides not to pay their USD taxes anymore. The FED would issue new bonds to ensure liquidity of the government. Banks would have to buy these bonds from the government and how would these banks be convinced that this is a one time event and tax payers will return to normal behavior and their large USD reserves don't turn worthless? The military. Trust in the military force is also what gives foreign and domestic investors trust in the dollar.

This seems to be the paper referenced http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517...

>Not true.

Massive gold reserves are still held by all central banks, so I'd say it is true. Gold and the military back the US currency.

If you look at Bitcoin as a store of value like gold, the energy consumption is actually not that high.

From a wired post

But in his paper, Vranken counters that in the 100MW to 500MW range, bitcoin mining requires between 0.8KWh to 4.4KWh per year, but the energy required for mining and recycling gold – which backs US currency – is 138KWh a year, while printing paper notes and minting coins is 11KWh.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-...

Whenever I read longer articles on macro economic theories it feels like torture. Overly complicated explanations, the urge to model every event and attach a probability to it. A while back this was on the hn frontpage https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-o... Definitely put things into perspective for me.

looks amazing! mind giving some insight about the stack you used to build this?

Very helpful and great explanations. To me Airbnb's JS styleguide was also very helpful, which showcases best practices and lots of examples. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript