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There's a reason private money was outlawed in the 1900s.

And the reason is probably a bit more nuanced than this sentence projects. Furthermore, reasoning in the 1900s should not be used to justify government monopoly on money in 2019.

I can see why online ordering would look attractive to a small pizzeria but you would still need to market that feature.

As a test pilot you could probably use a small WordPress plugin to see if anybody tries out the added ordering medium.

have you done a feature analysis of your competitors that you feel is hindering your businesses growth?

I would think marketing / branding efforts would have a greater impact on the local pizza market than technology solutions.

Charged, settled and Site never went down

You created your account 3 hours ago, with a creative name and then annonymously post you work on money laundering cases ... As if that is supposed to add credit or show some sort of background. You are anonymous, don't try and take some high ground to reinforce an invalid argument.

My point is the issue is not as black and white as you are making it out to be (hence, don't be an alarmist). All things are subject to interpretation and your position attempts to definitively categorize this activity as fraudulent behavior based on a 1000 word essay by a developer.

They are selling content through different payment services, this is not money laundering, stop being an alarmist.

"the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses"

Illegally obtained money being they key term!

literally what the feds took down Backpage for recently.

Also, incorrect. Backpage was taken down because they facilitated human trafficking https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/501214002

Standing on the side lines, indirectly referring to participants as animals (crypto-zoo), shaking your head from your percieved superior position, generalizing participation as gambling / speculating demonstrates you are squarely in the biased 50% camp.

My Disclaimer: I have positions in several crypto projects (not IOTA specifically b/c I don't like some of the decisions they've made). I make no predictions as to which (if any) cryto projects will succeed but ultimately I think that the long term outlook is positive for a few.

edit - typo

I know this will get down votes (but I'm generally a sarcastic guy so please take this in that spirit): if half are biased and half are morons what camp do you fall in? :)

An alternative method: 1. Write a white paper (about anything, just include lots of buzz words) 2. Launch ICO 3. Party for 10 years 4. ? 5. Make money

Great comment, thank you. I love the idea of education as a differentiating factor, so my question would be, "from a customer's perspective, does the educational material have to be original content or would it be better to reference 'non biased / not affiliated' material?

Agreed, that growth hacking was the wrong terminology, I think I was being to aggressive with the description.

Yes, an RRSP is not a fund and like you said, a vehicle to hold an investment position. I was not trying to insinuate that an RRSP was a fund and I will edit my previous comment.

I don't want to get in a debate about what a hedge fund is, but while the term "Hedging" is the practice of reducing risk, the goal of most hedge funds is to maximize ROI. The term hedge fund comes from the historical tendency of the first "hedge funds" to hedge against the downside risk of the market by shorting the market (as where mutual funds can not usually take a short positions). In today's terms, hedge funds employee many different investment strategies so it isn't accurate to say hedge funds just hedge risk. Hedge fund managers usually make speculative investments and can sometimes carry more risk.

The funds is bench marked to Credit Suisee HF Index, Citibank Prime +5%, S&P 500. It is beating the bench mark since inception and that historical statement is verified by our auditors. Your point regarding "attracting huge amounts of capital" holds true when a fund reaches a certain size, typically greater than $120M, getting to that point is where a lot of the work happens. The point from start to autonomous growth must be managed with extreme care and diligence, it is imperative that a growing fund manages their growth to not try and grow faster than their operations can support. -- Which is what I'm asking HN, I am soliciting opinions and experiences from smart people, maybe growth hack is the wrong term.

I agree that as a fund grows it definitely gets harder to scale, and at this time, we haven't begun to scale at our full potential, so that point remains in the central view of the risk committee.

Thank you for contributing your opinions.

The fund is a RRSP eligible investment in Canada (I think the equivalent of 401K in USA?). We are not currently serving the American market, sorry, I should have mentioned that but I think the growth management would be similar in both markets.

Great project. It would be cool if you added work from other sources, I'm thinking - Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, LinkedIn. Maybe add a ranking algo based on 3rd party engagement of your contributions. I wish I could find some time to contribute to this.

As a customer, that is literally of no concern to me. I'm not taking a position on who is right or wrong. I don't care who did what and to who, the only thing that matters to me is how my service(s) are interrupted. As the customer, I will first choose the provider that I perceive as providing me with greater benefit and then remove any resistance to that provider services. Anything outside of the equation ultimately doesn't matter and therefore won't enter into my individual purchasing power.

As an Apple and Spotify customer I will quickly stop being an Apple customer if they try to control / influence Spotify. I use it all day at work and at home on my Sonos. I never knew that if challenged I would be more loyal to a music streaming company then my main hardware providing company, but, it would be a non negotiable issue for me.

What about businesses? Should they expect all their computers to be public and if so, doesn't that have serious ramifications for data protection and the prosecution of hackers?

I would say that a positive effect of sex robots could be the reduction (and possibly elimination) of female human trafficking. Overall, I don't think people will just abandon human contact, but the underserved segment of people who already struggle with those social norms will have a better outlet - rather than providing a market to a horrible and dehumanizing industry.

agreed, how does this get voted to the front page? I'm a bit disappointed.

Well, we are currently exploring the idea and i'm doing a bit of research right now. But, if you were really interested in moving out here I would be happy to point you in the right direction. my email is on my profile page.

WOW, your company sounds great! I agree with point 2, but not sure 1 & 3 are economically feasible at that scale.

I'm just trying to keep the conversation broad right now. Not sure if we will go the Cayman Islands route, or open an office onshore and hire local talent there.

check out the amazon reviews - http://www.amazon.com/Actress-Computer-Engineer-Barbie-Pictu...

I'm a bit conflicted on this one.

The kid in me is constantly enthusiastic for the latest ... whatever.

But the perfectionist in me always wants to wait until the next version comes out. I've gotten to the point where I wait until v.3 before I get on board.

For instance the new Apple Watch, I'm very excited for the it but I think there are a lot of short comings - battery life, wireless charging, water proof?? So for now, I'll just watch from the sidelines until I think they have it right.

Now the MS Surface, has come a long way: v1 sucked, v2 was an improvement on suck, and v3 was good, I think v4 will be a perfect refinement on v3 - and therefore ready.

I wish this was on iOS, I've been looking for this exact solution and would love to try it out. I think you have hit a very under served market here. Well done, I'll watch for a iOS release.

If defense firms are constantly under attack then maybe a good counter attack would be to embed exploits in documents that would "phone home" when opened outside the firms networks.

What i'm really hoping to see is a phone that can have a keyboard, mouse and monitor attached to it. When that happens then Windows Phone UX turns into Windows Desktop UX on the monitor. Or a laptop with a dock for my phone ... ???

Here's the press release http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsA...

I so wanted to edit the title of this post to development of SkyNet begins.