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Of course, it's the loudest voices that always get heard and are oft repeated, but I'd say most of us in the industry realize that cryptocurrency will never be a 1:1 replacement of traditional fiat currency--barring some significant breakdown of society and government. It's more of a complementary thing. Something more like internet and radio (i.e. both are still used today, one did not completely replace the other). Not the best example but you get the picture. And then there is 3rd and 2nd world countries where crypto can be used as a sort of stop gap solution until a viable form of government and banking can be situated.

this a remote-first company. they will have different physical locations but most of the company will be working remotely. regardless, given that SF was the original HQ, that will likely always be the de facto HQ... since the higher ups are already coalesced around there

As someone who works at a large cryptocurrency business, and who's welfare is thus bound to the ongoing success of cryptocurrencies, I would like to state my unequivocal support of the notion presented in this article.

I think the potential of life improvement for many unbanked people in non-first world countries extends a little beyond the life improving characteristics of ham radio, but overall his sentiment on how inaccurate the "BTC is basically 90's internet" people are, is entirely correct.

that is exactly what Twitter has done. they didn't block Trump's tweet, they added a box basically saying "be weary of this statement you should fact check it"

As a person who used to work in produce in the US, just wanted to say the visual image of a produce clerk dumping a box of apples to the display is ungodly.

Where are you shopping? A few discount stores might do that, but there's no way any prominent stores do that. I mean, first of all, virtually all brands of apples don't just come loose in boxes, they are layered with cardboard trays. So you couldn't just dump them all out at once even if you wanted too. Unless you want to have cardboard trays flying everywhere. That's just not a simple or quick way to unload even if you are being careless!

What company is this? Sounds cool what you are doing

Wow. Great response. These comments are why I come here. Thank you!

It's cool to see the math/statistical analysis behind this, as it's something I've always done just intiutively I guess.

I will always have more trust for a 93% review with 1,000's of reviews, versus a product with a 100% review with only ~20 reviews. Much too easy to manipulate and/or pay for reviews to trust a product with such small sample size of feedback.

Fair enough-- I suppose that makes his decision moderately more reasonable

I get the impression that he views his declining of severance package as analogous to Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, or some other righteous form of protest. But you're right it doesn't carry the same weight given his quarter-mil. per year salary

also giving up a $50k severance package doesn't sound as exceptional when you've already collected $660,000 from them. Yeah it's still a lot of money, but apparently being able to promote his blog with anecdotes from Pivotal was worth the $50k to him...

Honest question:

what did he say that you would presume he's been "sitting around waiting for life to drop an opportunity in his lap?"

I dont think it's necessarily a bad thing

I think I read an article like this on HN a few months ago, ty for the share