hvasishth

You sell BTC to USDT if you are not looking to cash out of BTC. Instead, if you think that BTC is at a peak in the short term and you simply want to sell at the peak and get back in once it drops, selling to USDT is just fine. That way you can buy back BTC once price drops.

When you do want to cash out to real fiat, you have to sell to USD.

USDT allows a large number of exchanges to allow you to sell BTC and hold in something that looks like USD. Without USDT a number of exchanges won't see anywhere near the volume they get. By enabling a larger volume, USDT is indirectly helping inflate BTC (and other currencies) price.

At the moment, not really. In several hundred years it might become a nebula when it will look very different with a telescope. For example look up crab nebula.

True, but thats because for a startup other benefits of being in CA far outweigh the disadvantages.

I don't think it is limited to companies. Didn't Arrington move to WA just a month or two before Techcrunch was sold to AOL. Coincidence? I think not.

That would work as well. I didn't realize there was an open source license which lets me do that.

Yup reselling the software without any significant changes is the main thing I want to avoid.

10 bucks I say you get pulled over for more thorough pat down

I am curious why don't they keep the defendants and jury in a seperate room. They can let the jury hear all the arguments etc. I suppose the voice would still be a concern, but it should take care of the unattractive problem for the most part.

how?

While I agree with fast + time wasted = normal speed, in reality it is not the wasted time that plays the role. In most companies developers don't have a fixed 8 hour job and most of them work more than 8 hours a day on a routine basis. I have seen managers who valued the total time spent working more than the actual work accomplished. So a developer who works about 8 hours a day was ranked below someone who spent 10-12 hours a day working even though it was the former who was accomplishing more tasks.

The policy has already been changed due to the local backlash.. I don't think this debacle is going to help the brand.. I for one won't ever buy it again

I have tried Azure and I have to say it is super cool