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I would disagree that our on street political conflicts are at the same level with internal citizens.

We don't have protests at the same scale, nor organized crime being hired to beat people.

A DD I was involved in should have disqualified an acquisition, but the chairman of the acquirer said he had a "good feeling about these boys". That acquisition turned predictably sour and downed several other projects at the company.

Running a fintech startup - real time, 24/7 B2B settlement, and we're never in the money. I only wish I had time for side projects!

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In general, they use hydro, but it is all over the map. Some are geothermal powered.

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I'm moved by what Bill said about Paul - in many ways, he was still the geeky guy on the teletype, ferociously well read, and driven not only to understand the world, but also to protect it and share it with others. I miss him.

I'd prefer if they gave us the full functionality of the device though - the imager is capable of global shutter but it is locked out.

I cannot agree more. I know quite a few hard working but unlucky folks - and the hard work is generally necessary to capitalize on the luck.

That's not optimism. That's willful ignorance.

This is a reasonable approach - a forcing function to require working code (social or otherwise) would be a good first step.

I have thought it through. There are multiple major papers that are published each year that purport to show an advancement, but fail to demonstrate that advancement under different random parameters.

This was a major topic at NIPS 2017, yet doesn't seem to be important enough to address.

The editors, previous to accepting. If it doesn't run out of the box and reproduce the result, it doesn't get published.

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Are you upset with how money works? We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring settlement up to the speed of the Internet. We offer competitive base salaries, great benefits, all of the control in an early stage start-up, and of course, equity.

We’re looking for strong backend engineers and applied cryptographers to join us. We’re a fun, nimble, collaborative team and we trust our engineers to make smart decisions. We’re using Rust, Terraform and Docker, and looking for engineers who have experience designing and developing distributed systems with a passion for quality.

I'm the CTO - my personal email is in my profile if you'd like to speak directly.

If you want to have a huge impact on a team that’s truly doing something that hasn’t been done before, please reach out directly to careers@transparentsystems.com or apply online: https://jobs.lever.co/transparentsystems

Also, "dark kitchens" that support various food delivery services exist: https://disruptionhub.com/rise-of-the-dark-kitchen/

If you could summon gold from the ground in a more efficient way, would you?

Bitcoin mining is meant to be inefficient - why not try for a better way with similar guarantees?

They don't _want_ to do anything but maximize profits - regulating the level of lead in those products directly impacts the bottom line, hence the need for regulation.

The free market is awesome, but it can't effectively price externalities, especially those which have diffuse origins or targets.

Transparent Systems | Backend Software Engineers & Applied Cryptographers | Seattle, WA | ONSITE

Are you upset with how money works? We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring settlement up to the speed of the Internet. We offer competitive base salaries, great benefits, all of the control in an early stage start-up, and of course, equity.

We’re looking for strong backend engineers and applied cryptographers to join us. We’re a fun, nimble, collaborative team and we trust our engineers to make smart decisions. We’re using Rust, Terraform and Docker, and looking for engineers who have experience designing and developing distributed systems with a passion for quality.

I'm the CTO - my personal email is in my profile if you'd like to speak directly.

If you want to have a huge impact on a team that’s truly doing something that hasn’t been done before, please reach out directly to careers@transparentsystems.com or apply online: https://jobs.lever.co/transparentsystems

Not to mention the tax implications.

While strawberries are a smaller market, they're also high value and under threat from decreased labor immigration and terrible conditions. If I were working on truck crop robotics, that'd be my first crop to look at (especially because the strawberry industry realizes they're in trouble).

Which are you working on now?

Yes.

Tax returns and a credit score for your business? Or are they asking for a personal guarantee?

Check with SVB or Lighter Capital?

International transfers are where crypto or other modern payment systems can shine - currently, low cost startups still charge ~2-3% plus onboarding fees to send funds (in comparison to banks 7-22%), and they have volume limits.

Ah, perfect - I had forgotten that banks had up to 60 days! Just nuts.

Zelle has the following limits: https://www.mybanktracker.com/checking/faq/zelle-pay-limits-...

If you're a business, I think you can get up to a $100k/mo limit - not enough to run most firms.

Wires are required at times because they're "good funds" faster - ACH may take up to 6 days to clear in bad cases.

Also, wires can't be reversed (generally). If that's a good or a bad thing is dependent on the transaction and transactors.

I'll add that Zelle has significant volume limits and is only roughly real time.

The US Federal Reserve is currently trying to work towards faster payments - and seems to want to let private industry solve the problem.

It really is terrible though and has been for a long time.

ACH is incredibly cheap at scale, but not free.

Frankly, the US financial infrastructure is abysmal - we've papered things over for a long time. I'm happy to be currently working on fixing it.

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Are you upset with how money works? We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring settlement up to the speed of the Internet. We offer competitive base salaries, great benefits, all of the control in an early stage start-up, and of course, equity.

We’re looking for strong backend engineers and applied cryptographers to join us. We’re a fun, nimble, collaborative team and we trust our engineers to make smart decisions. We’re using Rust, Terraform and Docker, and looking for engineers who have experience designing and developing distributed systems with a passion for quality.

I'm the CTO - my personal email is in my profile if you'd like to speak directly.

If you want to have a huge impact on a team that’s truly doing something that hasn’t been done before, please reach out directly to careers@transparentsystems.com or apply online: https://jobs.lever.co/transparentinc

To borrow from AI, Good Old Fashioned Algebraic Topology?