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Uninstalled. Period.

But there is another factor for cryptocurrencies. Anyone can create a new network and do an ICO and as long as the protocol is sound and audited, the new network can still enable money transfers the same way as a Bitcoin network. The collection of networks can potentially never become as scarce as, for instance, IPV4 range or the radio spectrum for telephony in the earlier analogy that I mentioned.

It is fixed at 21M but technically, this can be changed through an Economic Majority [0][1].

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3945/how-could-t...

Thanks for the input. It does put things into some perspective but I am still wondering.

So something analogous to owning a part of the network, would it be correct to say that, for instance, governments own and auction telecom spectrums to businesses. They do make money out of that ownership through the initial auction price and then potentially tax you later. So a cryptocurrency could be looked at in a similar way in the future. When you later sell the currency you have owned for a while (given that it takes off well over the couple of years), you are basically transferring that "spectrum" ownership to another party.

Exactly my point. They add certain value to the economy and have fundamentals. From my understanding, I don't even consider Gold (a limited resource) a long-term investment.

From the school of thought that I would adhere to (Jack Bogle, Warren Buffet), Gold on its own is not an investment.

Okey, calling it a "long-term gamble" only sounds fair to me.

Talking about value, isn't blockchain / crypto analogous to a medium that enables moving money quickly? If yes, internet would be similar in some sense (we have instant local money transfers these days) but we don't have anything that tracks internet as an investment.

Coming back to it, I can rationalize myself investing in a money transfer business that is build on blockchain (think Transferwise that uses a mix of technology and banking agreements) and generates some revenue for me. But if that middleman can be removed, I cannot suddenly start considering that piece of technology, an investment.

Someone please explain this to me:

How is any cryptocurrency even considered an investment vehicle? I would classify myself as Boglehead and I believe in the fundamentals of investing in stocks because in all it's technicality (and given the buy-and-hold strategy), you are investing in a business by owning a part of it which naturally means that you will and do get the returns on it, both in terms of profits (dividends) and and value growth (appreciation of the stock value). And conventional wisdom of lending also applies to bonds.

That being said, again, why would cryptocurrency ever be considered as a good investment vehicle? Isn't it analogous to me investing my money in buying USD or the British Pound (or a well diversified currency ETF), something I don't see a lot of value in as well.

Question: How is Apple's 30% cut different from the transaction fees that are charged by Visa / Mastercard and payment processors like Stripe? I can see the big percentage but is the argument in favour of removing the entirety of the cut or reducing it down?

I don’t get why exactly this is bad. The listed competition, namely Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm are all American multinational corps. More competition within the US means more innovation within the US, no?

Oh is this why I couldn't play anything on Spotify during my morning run as it kept crashing! Had to play Apple Music's Beats 1 radio instead.

It adjusts the toe of front wheels and it's called DAS (Dual Axis Steering). This is only currently being used by Mercedes in F1. In simplest of terms and from what I have understood, it can reduce friction and tyre wear on long stretches by having 0 toe (parallel front wheels). And achieve better grip on corners by moving the front wheel outwards.

This is a nice video explaining all this: https://youtu.be/TxKhi6Qsrog?t=67

Link without paywall: http://archive.vn/YQeJY

I am wondering if Revolut would follow the course as well?

It seems like the post on event driven architecture couldn't handle the click event load from Hacker News and is throwing a "Database Error".

I am also a tech worker and I second that. Currently paying 2000 per month in rent for a small 1bhk in downtown Toronto. 29 years of age with 4+ years of experience and a masters in CS from one of the top schools in Canada. I am making just north of 100k per year and not at all content with it. Interviewed at several companies in Toronto but failed negotiating something better because what I am being paid is above median for Data Engineer position here. I know I can make it much better in the States by all means and might consider moving there in future.

Have you tried LastPass yet? Their basic offering is free and offers cloud sync and backups.

Also from Vancouver. I thought the service was quite successful here and didn’t see this coming.

I think the biggest difference is that it’s a Message Store as highlighted by the preceding comment.

Some clarity by example: In financial systems, it’s extremely important to keep track of all the transactions between your microservices (if your architecture is based on that). You could potentially lose a message delivered to you via a broker if your service fails to write it to a persistent storage. If the producer of that message never stored that message or it was produced on wire and transmitted, there is no way to recover it anymore. A system designed around a Message Store can mitigate such problems. You can build that similar architecture with brokers as well but for each of your application, you will have to implement something analogous to a Message Store to handle idempotency and things like that.

This one is really cool! Never seen anything like this before.

This used to be the case in Dubai when I used to live there. The defacto classifieds website in UAE is called dubizzle (dubizzle.com) which is a subsidiary of OLX. People used to use similar (in fact, worse) haggling tactics to get things for cheap. Couple this with spam and selling an item becomes a nightmare. On the contrary, I have had a far better experience on Kijiji and Facebook in Canada.

As a segue, is this a good time to buy AMD stocks?

It wasn't a surprise for me in the sense that I was already suspicious of this behaviour. I made this video as a proof. The problem is that if a product feature is being marketed as "incognito", it is inherently meant to wipe off all the session information for the duration of use. Youtube not respecting the choice of a user to go private as part of it's own provided feature is extremely misleading. Not sure if this is violating their own privacy terms or not.

I have always felt that Youtube's incognito mode is not so incognito as it keeps on suggesting me videos of interest even after quitting and launching the session again. So I did a bit of investigation to figure out if this was actually the case.

I have recorded a demo video that seems to be validating my point.

The video is recored on a fresh install of Youtube on iOS 13.2.3. That means I uninstalled and installed the Youtube app. The demo that you would see is on the very first launch of the app.

Here is the timeline, also posted on the video description.

0:04 I am logged into my personal account. You can see Formula 1 video suggestions because I tend to follow Formula 1 quite a bit

0:10 I switch to incognito mode in Youtube. The popup says that once incognito is turned off, my activity from this session will be cleared. At this point, suggestions in incognito seem random to me

1:00 I search for Formula 1 while in incognito mode

1:26 Quit incognito mode. At this point, I believe that my session is cleared

1:35 I switch to incognito mode again. My video feed seems to be heavily skewed towards Formula 1 video suggestions. This holds for subsequent incognito mode activation as well

You can get it from here: https://pytorch.org/assets/deep-learning/Deep-Learning-with-...

To those who don't want to submit their email: https://pytorch.org/assets/deep-learning/Deep-Learning-with-...

That’s the first thing I thought after going through the linked article. We strongly need some aggregating tool for all events happening around a particular location.

I am getting a "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" for the twitter link you shared.

It moved my Anaconda installation to a relocated folder with all the envs gone. So I had to reinstall it and recreate all my envs. Also had to reinstall Xcode because git stopped working.

Just wanted to say thank you for this!