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Why? This is unnecessarily encumbering the utility of money.

Real and Useful: people can use the money as a store of value, medium of exchange, and a unit of account - and enough people believe in it.

I'd love to learn more about the company and technology! Using radar is an interesting adaptation. Do you have a site?

Neither are instant.

Partially this is due to self interest - holding the cash longer and getting interest - but most of it is actually due to self protection. Small banks have less cushion to recover from fraud, have less people to process payments quickly, and generally lack technological sophistication. NACHA represents all of the various institutions, from JPM down to the First Bank of Your Hometown, so it has limited flexibility in adopting new things that increase cost/requirements.

Just the B2B part of SEPA.

I think you'll find that people (broadly) are capable of altruism, but persons (narrowly) act in their own self interest and take advantage of the altruistic.

All communities, including this one, require curation and moderation. The down vote is a way to drive out "non-HN" ideas out of the square, as determined by the broad subset of HN users (and a small number of super users).

It isn't aggressively conventionally minded, it is pro social, as well as likely the only way to maintain a level of discourse that the majority wants.

Also, there are wolves in both of the "aggressive" camps - people who would acquire power by any means necessary, no matter the costs to others. It is very hard to draw the line between "failed visionary" and "power hungry manipulator".

Historically Black College or University

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Fluids/moltens are a nightmare.

A good number of the breweries in Seattle are turning out excellent lagers, pilsners, and sours.

Even weirder, sometimes those brand names/logos are _shared between companies_ - for example, Ryobi is made by various different entities who all partially own it and agree on packaging/branding.

> How do you motivate yourself?

Competitiveness doesn't only belong to the small company, sadly. Also, they pay very well.

If you want to play with ML racing, AWS DeepRacer is free for May (and you can compete against NASCAR drivers).

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-formula-1-deeprace...

Trading is inherently zero sum.

There's a great Planet Money story on the Onion King.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...

Treasury Prime has been amazing to work with - a truly great team!

... how do you judge the nice explanation? Why wouldn't you want to hear from someone who studied/works in something over someone who is a random observer?

I don't know if skewed over imprecise. There's all of the ancillary industries that support OTR trucking affected as well - that'll bring the total numbers back up.

Trucking will go the same way - it is far more efficient (and allows you to grow faster), therefore market pressure will drive every trucking company to autonomous.

Common is an understatement: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-...

It is the #1 job in 29 states as of 2014.

There will be one "driver" as a tender for 10+ trucks in a convoy.

People rob 18 wheelers all the time - there are particularly valuable loads from particularly interesting places.

Source: my father had to prevent this for film/cassette/DVD distribution, especially prerelease goods.

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Sadly, the Orkneys could provide even more renewables if Scotland would build a larger export cable. Instead, the islands are forced to build hydrogen plants and turn off wind generators. Last I checked, they were at 108% renewable.

Look at what Satya did - he directed a broad effort at the entire organization (a book, etc), and simultaneously pushed the ELT to get in line, firing them one by one when they or their directs didn't comply. They're all in line now, as are their directs.

The broader culture change takes more time, but the ship is definitely moving.

I used to design and build these - if you have a simple yard, you can use the inexpensive mowers, as long as you don't care about having striping in your lawn. I had one for two seasons, and it was awesome - your lawn looks like it freezes in time and is healthier to boot.

You just have to install an "invisible fence" style wire around the perimeter.

AFAIK, if you CAN rent a property for $X and it remains empty, you can take it as a loss. $X tracks inflation/value, which was a huge problem when I lived in Pittsburgh. Places that were empty for 40 years had ludicrously high rents (4X+ new places), so they just remained empty as tax write offs.