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PLEASE bring them back!
Smells like BS to me. Just an excuse to not have to do the logistics.
Surely that's only true if you're trying to use BTC as an investment to make capital gains in USD with? If your BTC stays within the BTC community and is traded directly for goods/services without conversion to USD then there's no such requirement.
Now, as it stands the vast majority of transactions are actually basing BTC's value on USD. I think this is a misstep, but perhaps a necessary one.
What I'm saying is: you're right as long as people see BTC as a vehicle for USD gains. But the grand idea is to replace USD entirely. When we start seeing people routinely selling things for fixed BTC amounts, regardless of the 'exchange rate', then bitcoin will have succeeded.
At present it's largely just a proxy for USD, as Warren Buffet has noted. But this is just the first stage.
perhaps a mod can update the URL.
> On the plus side, they don’t send you your plaintext password if you click on the forgot password link, so maybe they don’t store it in plaintext.
Paypal has a max of 20 chars.
I love it; side effects of life hacking. Nice tip though, I might try that.
When I read "What if all 89 voices said the same thing?" I thought I understood the thrust of the article; that overpersonalisation creates an echo chamber devoid of the dissent and reflective views that allow people to make their own minds up and that therefore overpersonalization has insidious potential.
I was dismayed to find that "What if all 89 voices said the same thing?" was seemingly being asked as if the answer was obviously "Oh God yes where do I sign up" (and I do understand that their target audience would likely reply as such).
>> I disagree that he was being exploited.
Yes, I think that might be what this whole thing hinges on.
I can't quite express the difficulty I'm having in a comment so I'll try to write it up some time.
I can't argue it yet, but my intuitive feeling is that it's socially irresponsible to create this economy for them and then pull the plug like this. The bigger picture, I think, is that OP got his code stolen which sucks, but the contractor (or one like him) may have to sell a kidney or go back to working 18 hour shifts in the factory with toxic fumes now. That doesn't seem proportionate.
edit as I'm being downvoted rapidly. All I'm saying is that oDesk typically connect a westerner with a developer in somewhere like India who thinks that being paid $3/hour is fantastic, and who's other options for a job are basically hard manual labour.
Obviously I don't know the details of this situation which is why I just said I wasn't convinced.
It seems very plausible to me that the worker really was unable to feed his family after having his account terminated, and it seems like a bit more lenience on the part of oDesk would be more reasonable.
In the western world, if you steal code you expect to get fired. I totally understand that and that's why I just said it wasn't clear-cut to me that the right thing happened here. It might be, but I'm not sure. In the western world if you get fired you have a lot more options.
Maybe situations that involve basically exploiting workers in other countries need a bit more sensitivity. I don't know. Maybe not.
I'd appreciate a discussion instead of just downvoting.
Well, that's a good thing right? You're pretty much saying "I knew this person once who wanted to do something, knew it was illegal and so scaled back their plans to fit within the law. What a scumbag."
Without data, you wouldn't have asked that question, and you wouldn't have got an answer.
Analytics doesn't give answers, it gives questions.
This is analogous to saying:
"Have US Dollar ever officially explained the reason the dollars were gone?" after a bank was robbed.
I am 95% sure that I never sent them a passport scan. I remember getting as far as scanning it into my computer before my "what-the-fuck-am-I-about-to-do-ometer" went haywire. But it was a long time ago and I can't be 100% sure that I didn't send it to them. I'd really like some way of finding out.
The only email I ever got from them was a "thanks for registering, please confirm your email address" email, so I think that means I never took it past that point (there's no "thanks for verifying your identity" email).
that's sort of the whole point. The community are apologising on behalf of Newsweek. Not as a publicity stunt, not to convert the guy to bitcoin (he will receive a check in USD), just because it's the right thing to do.