Yup treat it like a non expiring option.

Gold does not generate revenue... its still worth 11 trillion

At least you'd still have the physical gold (which has utility) if the price went to zero. With crypto, all you'd be left with is a wallet address.

If the market price of gold goes to zero, then no, by definition it has no remaining utility.

That's also why it'd probably never get close to zero - its utility means it'd always have some value to someone.

Even if we were to come up with a way to produce a synthetic gold, the price of gold would only fall as far the cost of synthetic gold.

Does this line of reasoning imply that if Bitcoin never goes to zero then it must have some utility even if the random person on HN cannot articulate it?

previous one - now stellar ceo wasn't great either

I am not sure why all the crypto channels are on discord. Why not an open source system like matrix?

Twitter is also so much better... but people don't DM much.

As you get deeper into it they hook you into the server and other stuff and it ends up costing 000s.

Pandas is better but requires programming.

I second pandas, and would also highlight seaborn, plotly, and dash as complimentary data visualization libraries.

Tableau is fine for what it is, but I've found that the requests from stakeholders often grow to a point where you either can't do it in Tableau or have to move mountains to get it to work... so, in essence, sunk cost fallacy makes tableau millions.

PSA: If you haven't already learned pandas, learn dplyr/ggplot2 instead. Yes, R is a pretty clunky language (but it's closer to lisp than pretty much anything else as popular) but ggplot2 and dplyr are 100% the best currently available way to visualise tables in SQL.

I would second the decision to use ggplot2 / dplyr, and would also add data.table to the mix. That combination has been invaluable for me, allowing me to visualize all of my structured data.

I started with R, but then switched to Python because all pipelines were already written in Python (web-scrapers, some data-processing scripts, REST APIs), so I just learned pandas and it's been fine, although I do think dplyr's syntax is great and I prefer it to pandas'.

Yeah, totally. I spend a lot more of my time writing Python for anything that isn't data exploration/analysis, for exactly that reason.

I still refuse to learn pandas enough to replace dplyr though, as it's just so painful to use the API compared to how easy this stuff is in R.

Do you load the whole table into memory though?

$70/mo includes a server (Tableau online)

there were a couple implementations of stellar blockchain projects in nigeria that used sms as a base technology.

yes with taproot that just went live. there is also bitcoin liquid which is hidden as well.

with taproot bitcoin lightning transactions can be mostly private, scalable, not using energy, and cheap.

I think that changes are happening faster and slower than you imagine.

We are very bad at exponential math. I think changes in birth control, dating online, and social changes are faster than ever before.

The developed world will shrink and people couple up in ways people only 5 decades ago couldn't imagine.

Governments and societies are not ready for this or a system where we need to work less. John Maynard Keynes in Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren opined that, by 2030, the average work week would be around 15 hours (3 hours per work day).

Personally I think they:

1) benefited from Indonesia (refining their oil etc) like HK did for china back in the day and cheap labour

2) Now benefit from HK Chaos with China as a kind of Switzerland of Asia

3) Are hard to compare with a large country