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I like the attention to detail this feature reveals - in particular, how if you're in Stripe test mode in browser tab X and type `stripe login`, the cli will open a page in browser tab Y that gives you a test mode webhook secret, without prompting you to select a mode again. Very intuitive.

Nothing listed on AWS Personal Health Dashboard related to this incident. Also nothing abnormal listed on the AWS status page under S3, which is seemingly having DNS resolution issues for buckets with the `[bucket_name].s3.amazonaws.com` pattern.

Right, not unclear on that, just unclear on whether IKBR domiciles the accounts in such a way that you'd trigger filing requirements, and how to know this when using the platform.

How do you use Wealthfront if living abroad? Their FAQ states that they require a permanent US residential address.

Also unclear to me whether Interactive Brokers transparently moves funds to brokerage accounts domiciled in your new jurisdiction, triggering FATCA filing requirements, and if they do a good job of making these clear to customers.

I'm looking to move to Bodrum from NYC for many of these same reasons :-) Turkey has a lot of potential to be a remote work hub.

Even on decentralized networks like ethereum/bitcoin, it's possible for governments and companies to have a major impact on network direction. True economic decentralization is more likely to come from products like Stripe Atlas that give small players scaling and distribution tools that previously, only big corporations or well-resourced founding teams had access to.

> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted.

Even if we were to grant that these claims are true, we still have to ask what classes of application benefit from slower, more expensive distributed systems. Blockchains solve only one problem, which is consensus formation on ontrusted networks. They do not solve politics, governance, downtime, and certainly not application failure.. these things all exist on blockchains.

Essentially none of the application ported from centralized systems to Ethereum or even Bitcoin actually face Byzantine consensus issues when deployed as centralized systems. Bitcoin can be used as a 24x7x365 global collateral and value transfer instrument - such a system would face consensus problems if implemented on top of traditional banking infrastructure. That's hugely valuable, but pretty much the only problem-solving application to date.

For things like asset ownership and transfer, any kind of voting, real estate, IPOs, etc, most people still have to deal with incredibly bad centralized systems, that would be amazing if rebuilt as centralized node.js apps that talk to a MySQL database. This stuff is low hanging fruit that's a huge pain for massive swathes of humanity. And despite the fact that no Palo Alto real estate broker is talking to the city's land deed system over unreliable networks, where enemy messengers might swoop in and assign your deed to the wrong buyer, there's this myth that we need distributed consensus for this and other problems best solved by... databases.