Also, life isn't about a list of accomplishments.. Make sure whatever you do it affords you the lifestyle which you want to live. Rich and famous isn't necesarry and life style business' are complete awesome even though they seem to get a bad rap in the startup world. A business that simply provides jobs and pays your salary isn't good enough.. Everyone seems to need the billion dollar exit or its "not worth it."
companies who fail to live up to their end of the bargin in a bitcoin world won't survive long. I've been shopping on the internet since the 90's and not once have I had to place a chargeback.. Chargebacks are mostly fraud and people wanting shit for free.. In turn goods become higher priced and that cost is passed onto all the other customers.. Anytime I have been unhappy with an internet purchase the company has always given me a refund. The need for chargebacks is truly minimal. Any company that wants to keep their customers is going to issue a refund. Companies that won't are shady and need to go out of business anyway.
>companies who fail to live up to their end of the bargin in a bitcoin world won't survive long.
Yes, just long enough, like Butterfly Labs. (Credit card purchasers: could do a chargeback. Bitcoin purchasers: SOL.)
Chargebacks and reversibility in general are essential to consumers. If shit goes wrong, it's gotta be fixable.
(This is also why nobody actually wants smart contracts. They know that the plot of Dr Strangelove is literally an irreversible smart contract going wrong. Consumers want fixability, business-to-business wants the option of lawyering out of a bad deal. The only people who want smart contracts are the businesses who currently screw over their customers with mandatory arbitration clauses.)
so that you don't have to give your CC info to companies who don't protect it and then have it stolen, so that some jack off in Texas can go buy 200 rolls of TP from wal-mart. That's enough reason. Push payments > Pull Payments
How many banks have been robbed now? We must be getting into near 4 or 5 digits by now. Anytime you store large amounts of money in a centralized location, people are going to go after it..
I don't understand why you would want to be your own bank at all? A proper bank will have some level of security as well as the scale to not fall over if a single branch is robbed. Surely being your own bank will not give you any of that security? You'll just doing extra work to make yourself a target?
what security does a bank offer that a hidden paper wallet can't? Bank security is a false sense of security.. Your money in a bank is not yours. Ever tried to withdraw more than 10k at once? You'll be given 50 questions you need to answer on why because of fractional reserve banking and other bankster tricks. FDIC is smoke and mirrors so don't even say you're insured against theft. It's far easier to steal money through identity theft with a pull payment system.
I want to be my own bank because I know how to use and protect my money better than some crooked bankster. I'm tired of the poor being prey'd on by fee's, and overdrafts. I'm tired of banksters creating money out of thin air backed by nothing but a gun. I'm tired of the wars, really i'm just tired of the entire fucked up system.
Yep, lets arrest everyone.. FOR THE CHILDREN! Everytime a case comes up you law enforcement bring up the same big scarry bad men.. Drugs, Pedophiles, and Terrorists.. GET LOST
love that they're trying something new and exciting.. you're gonna fail when you're going for it.. but at least someones going for it. looking forward to hyper loop.
People always compare him to Jobs but I don't think it's right. Jobs hated any sort of public failure. He pushed the envelope in some ways, but never put something out there until it was polished and consumer-ready. Jobs was great at seeing how technology could be combined in novel ways and how to boil products down to exactly what they needed, but he didn't push forward entirely new tech, and I can't imagine Jobs publicly showing a video of his flagship product exploding into a fiery mess.
More business sense than Tesla. Less in the way of personal technical/scientific achievements.
He's not very popular on the internet for a variety of reasons, but I think that Edison is a better comparison. Not the first person I'd compare him to, but I'd sooner compare him to Edison than Tesla.
My point was using 'Tesla' in the same sentence as Elon Musk is ambiguous and mildly confusing in this case. I was saying the poster should have used Tesla's first name as well to remove confusion.
