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If the economy is being boosted by the cost to the environment being ignored, that just means the world is taking on a type of debt.

Poverty reduction programs, not trashing the planet, is the correct response to that

Don’t bank transfers take 3-4 days?

I was going to simply quote:

> I, not my cofounder and ex-best friend Miguel Angel Maldonado, was to blame

and note: “this is not apparently something the author actually believes”!

> Meanwhile, in Delaware

More worryingly for the French, it’s as easy as it is in Delaware in other nearby EU countries, and cross-border EU commerce is easier than cross-state commerce in the US

I make a decent business bringing European developers — especially Germans — without degrees into the UK where nobody gives a shit.

The solution is political, not technical.

Have you ever seen an RT article deeply critical of Putin’s regime?

There’s some weird Russian connection here isn’t there?

No, that’s just bullshit. It’s very easy to write Modern Perl, and most companies with large Perl codebases break their codebases into service based architectures and then rewrite them bit by bit.

You haven’t noticed people with gills behind their ears?

I feel like at this point it’s not too far-fetched to say with absolute certainty that earth is in the process of a long-term terraform by some alien species, and that humans represent the final step of that process, by warming the earth and making sure carbon is properly distributed through the atmosphere, as well as collecting and separating the metals that our alien overlords will feast on. When they’re done feasting on us.

> Do you seriously believe this?

I know that even on a pretty small spend AWS had assigned us an account rep who would have moved heaven and earth if this had happened to us. I know Amazon retail has real humans in Ireland who will take my calls and take me seriously when I have problems.

I got an email recently from Google saying they were required to inform me they’d hired another gigantic Indian outsourcing company to do ... some kind of customer support work.

> A CEO of tech company

I worry we are approaching peak hubris

This was my experience too, and then it abruptly changed. I couldn’t figure out if the tool or my brain was at fault

That Jeju Gimpu route is all sky blue KE 747s

> That's why one of the first 2 will probably replace Bitcoin until the end of 2018.

It may be time to evaluate if you, yourself, are the mark.

Sure, if you don’t factor in the conversion to and from money that can be used to buy groceries and petrol.

> That should work perfectly for banks

Is the price of interbank transfers / clearing really a big deal for banks?

> why wouldn't you think it's a bank?

The Bitbond site says “See no bank. Hear no bank. Speak no bank.”

Thanks for the data point! What’s the spread between BTC and your local currency vs BTC/USD? Is Bitcoin legal in your country? Are there reliable exchanges? What’s the cash-out wait? Thanks in advance!

> “Traditional money transfers are relatively costly due to currency exchange fees, and can take up to a few days”

I would like to see some worked examples here that take into account local Bitcoin pricing and the time taken to withdraw from exchanges, vs Western Union and other commercial “Send Money” organisations. The space is intensely competitive, so I suspect the margin consumers pay if they do a minimum of research is tiny, so I’m skeptical that Magic Bitcoin Magic is somehow making this better.

I’ve been a huge fan since I was about 7, and that only intensified in my 20s

If you don’t comply with GDPR, screw you for playing fast and loose with my personal data.

You may enjoy learning more about Differential Privacy. https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/12/06/learning-with-p...

Missing option: Apple iPhone. Just works, aggressive security team.

I don’t believe any of Harry Potter really happened either, but that doesn’t mean I can arbitrarily claim the story is different from what it is.

He didn’t stop himself, according to the story, God intervened. He was willing To go the whole hog

Hopefully they’ll be quieter, too; noise pollution from planes is a big deal, and avoiding it creates congestion and all sorts of other costs

I wonder if comparing different populations in Utah and adjusting for % mormon would work? Provo vs SLC for example