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Stopping optimization, evolution, growth?

Go outside and yell out, "Hey world, I'm good! You can stop evolving now, thanks!"

When people say a phrase like that it implies that it happens often, not that people don’t leave for other reasons.

Crypto's value is derived from its usefulness as a currency. It has many advantages over current fiat systems. You can expect if it's practical adoption expands then it's value will go up.

A bitcoin is as real as anything else. It's ones and zeros stored in a distributed ledger on computers around the world. I'm sorry you're having trouble predicting the price, look up supply and demand. Either way it doesn't make it any less real.

How is that different from any other asset? One day it can be valuable, the next it might not. It doesn't change the fact that it is immutable.

When you put money into blackjack you're not buying an asset. A crypto coin is an asset that can be held. Just like a share of a company, or a dollar itself.

Wooo this is awesome! Robinhood gets it :) I already use Robinhood for trading, so this would be a one stop shop. Plus the fact that it integrates with TurboTax means there's zero work to pay taxes on trades. Keeping track of the taxes is my biggest hassle trading crypto.

Hey Robinhood if you're reading I'd like

BTC, ETH, LTC, XMR, DOGE, XRP, XLM, XEM

Visual programming is also very popular among engineers. All kinds of test, automation, are monitoring systems are built using LabVIEW.

Being able to 'find all references' of a variable, do a safe global rename, and 'go to definition' saves an immense amount of time.

Not to mention preventing tons of run-time bugs which saves a ton of times having to figure out.

For Go and/or C# lambda support would it be worth even running the garbage collector, or just allocating a block of memory and cleaning it up when the function ends?

Side note I think that should be an option for web servers as well for languages with managed memory. Light isolated non-threaded api endpoints shouldn't be interrupted by garbage collection.

Yea sounds like you need all the CPU you can get. Good decision.

Different cryptos are not compatible with one another. And the value is each is determined by a myriad of intrinsic properties. At the moment I'd say LTC is the most attractive.

Keep in mind relatively we're still in the early days of crypto. Though it's not like fiat currencies are immune to crashes. Look at history.

History has shown us that relying 'prudence of a central banker' is a really bad idea. Eventually shit hits the fan and they go on a spree printing money. The huge advance crypto has brought us is a solution to this very problem.

'if people agreed it had value' - That is a big if, don't trivialize it. The value of a currency is dependent on a ton of the properties I listed above.

I pay my friends for drinks in crypto, they pay me (usually ltc, ether, or doge). It's quick and easy with a wallet on your phone like Jaxx. No venmo, no paypal, no bank account necessary. I use crypto to store and exchange value today. It will only get more popular as it becomes easier.

I encourage everyone to try it. Send $100 of crypto to a wallet on your phone and use it to pay people you owe for small stuff. It's fun and easy. It also gets your friends bootstrapped with crypto without needing to use coinbase or gemini or whatever.

Also wallets like Jaxx are deterministic, meaning you can use 12 unique words to recover your wallet anywhere - even if you lose your phone.

Tulips can be created by anyone with some dirt. Mineable crypto is super difficult to create yourself. Tulips are also hard to distinguish, difficult to transport, ephemeral.

Understand that and you'll understand why most of your arguments above are poor.

Mineable crypto is not fiat because it cannot be created or destroyed at will. That is what gives it value over a fiat currency. You don't have to worry about a central government devaluing it or inflating it artificially.

If there were a bug found in a crypto currency, it could easily be worth zero the next day.

The fact that the current blockchain design has withstood people trying to break it for so long gives the currency a greater value.

Would you rather store value in a crypto that is a brand new design, or something that has withstood the test of time?

Crypto is already being used as a currency. And governments have no ability to depreciate it. I don't know what will happen next, but that is the reality today.

What I do know is a lot of people find value in a currency that cannot be depreciated at will.

You make it sound like 'anything' could be a currency. When in reality finding a common medium of exchange is extremely difficult, and must meet a lot of the properties I listed above. In terms of 'currency technology' crypto is a huge advance over our current standard currencies.

Which one of these properties of cryptocurrency is imaginary?

  Coins cant be faked or duplicated
  No one can create them at will
  They can be transmitted quickly/globally with low fees (excluding bitcoin of course) 
  You can store them yourself, no bank needed
  Sending huge sums of money is no problem
  Relatively simple design, 8 page white paper
  Has worked as designed for almost a decade

The only thing imaginary is your imagination. Crypto is very real. Even people on an island would eventually find a common denominator in which to store value which has many of the same properties above.

What about the people who bought new phones because of performance issues?

What has been the most successful use of smart contracts so far?

It's not just fun, it's really practical.

Every time I have to wait days to transfer money between Robinhood, my bank, exchanges, etc.. I'm reminded of the value of crypto currency.

Wire transfers and moving money internationally has higher fees and is more complicated than sending crypto.

Also I don't need a bank account to store it. I don't need to go through middle-men like paypal, venmo, visa, etc.. to send it.

The biggest problem with crypto right now is not enough people/business are using it so we have to currently exchange it to/from USD, etc.. Also the crypto of choice (bitcoin)'s parameters aren't optimal so something like litecoin is more practical.

Except those carefully designed URLs are often behind a client side RPC library. So what was the point of doing it REST style in the first place?

It's often new employees fresh out of college who are the worst. They can be obsessed with doing things 'right', which you can't blame them because they have little experience. The internet tells them REST is right, so anyone who doesn't agree with them is wrong.

If I had a nickel for every time someone said "don't really understand REST".. often people who both think they understand it say it to each other. It's pretty funny. Guess what, we understand it fine, and we don't like it.

People treat the dissertation like it is a standard. It is nothing close to a standard. It is the source of a decade of time wasted bickering over it.

Agreed I'm very much in favor of JSON body in, JSON response. The URL is just a way to hierarchically organize the endpoints. Just like in binary APIs where public methods are organized in classes and namespaces.