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Such utter nonsense. It's a news story about news that might be. Provide conclusive evidence and strong correlations, please.

Welcome to the world of the banks.

I worked at a currency exchange for years, and this was a constant problem. I wrote software that would allow us to easily switch banks and accounts, because it happened at times once per week.

At one point, we had spent 6 months negotiating with a bank to get a solid account that would supposedly never go away. They spent that time auditing us and assessing all risks. They gave the green light, then mysteriously one week in, they closed our account. They wouldn't tell us why immediately, but we found out later through back channels that 'someone from the government called us, and we were at risk of losing (some license, certification, whatever), so we can't do business with you'. We just accepted that we'd have banking problems indefinitely, and kept going.

The gov't and the bank don't like the competition with USD. They're under pressure from the Treasury, the Fed, and FinCEN to make difficult transactions for exotic currencies (we bought and sold the Iraqi Dinar).

I'm not surprised BTC consumers and traders are seeing this. I'm hoping that it'll help put pressure on the government to change its policies.

You're trading one monopoly for another. There's no guarantee that the city will provide the same or better quality of service that Comcast has.

People are somehow okay when the monopoly is government, even though time and time again government does a piss-poor job when given control.

Does that invalidate the arguments put forth in the document? Did it not result in greater freedom for all and eventually lead to massive prosperity?

It happens in any type of economic system, except in capitalism, it happens much slower. I'd prefer eventual stagnation with the possibility of reviving innovation to a forced stagnation by a particular economic system.

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It even has a Facebook like and unlike button. Amazing!

This looks like another result of CLEAR opening up their network for other vendors to sell their data. Freedompop is doing a similar thing, just without the Karma component to it.

Nice to see what happens when a company like CLEAR opens things up -- all sorts of innovation springs.

Yeah, I did the exact same thing. No love for LA :(

$162M operating expense? Is that normal?

I'd be interested in how the devices talk to their servers, and if they have control to unlock the devices. It would be smart to have public / private keypairs for each device capable of unlocking, so that even they could potentially not be allowed to unlock it. I want to see if this service gets hacked and someone issues a mass-unlock signal.

It probably has a proximity timeout -- if you're out of range for more than x number of minutes, it will consider you 'gone'. It may not be passive, and may send you a request via Bluetooth for unlock. I imagine they have this worked out well enough to advertise it :)

I guess the difference between them and Facebook is that you consent to Facebook spying on you...

I imagine they'll still need to install traditional lighting for offices that have late workers and for when it's overcast. But, neat otherwise.

Is the job market so flooded that highly skilled labor is now offered for free? These kind of jobs skills are worth 70k, easy. Most kids are better off quitting college and working in the market, for pay, than finishing their degrees. Clever, though, to pay nothing for highly skilled labor under the guise of 'opportunity'. I think I'm going to adopt this strategy for hiring.