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About 35 million USD in trades on the public bitcoin-paired markets today. About 40 million USD today in total volume for all pairs on these exchanges.

http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info

Works if I open Amazon in a new Chrome incognito window.

Simple... versus the tools inside the top investment banks. I'd estimate that the publicly available tools are at least 10 to 15 years behind.

"which Ello says makes it legally impossible under US law for investors to require Ello to show ads, sell data, or sell the company to any buyer who would violate those conditions"

Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever seen written in Techcrunch.

> It’s rare that a company can stay relatively secretive while raising a huge amount of funding, but Florida’s Magic Leap has managed that.

Only rare because journalists are extremely lazy by default, and need their stories pre-drafted and handed to them on a silver platter, which companies tend to do. Avoiding press is very easy, just don't do the journalists' job for them. :)

"Homeownership Rates in Select European Countries" -- That graph left out some of the countries mentioned in previous graphs that actually have higher home ownership rates :)

"cheap, no-frills, and amazing content and people. And, of course, little to no introductory remarks."

Love that. Seeing EU events headed in the opposite direction... increasing fees, more showmanship, speakers all trying to literally sell you something, not very genuine or down to earth.

Makes me wonder why those bittorrent-for-streaming-video startups never were able to take off.

By the way, it's working now. Just have to keep refreshing.

Get out of Montana. Seems you already feel you should. Top people in top cities will laugh at the idea of a degree being everything as much as you do, probably more.

I can't believe this has been up for 4 hours and I'm the first person to suggest this.

The system has not performed "a lock on the target", at least not in the way that the language leads you to believe. The tool is making a prediction, that within a certain level of confidence, and given the present parameters, that firing the missile will result in the neutralization of the target.

There's growing number of ways, both active and passive, that targets can be tracked or future positions predicted. One of the answers on that page hints at this, the other answer is misleading and often not how it's done in many modern systems.

Source: engineered parts of these systems before.

Thanks for that. Great stuff.

Forcing employees to sign a non-disparagement agreement? -- Screw that. (Edit: force, compel, persuade, strongly hint: semantics.)

Saying that a former employee violating a non-disparagement agreement means that it's now a good idea for the company to take use an eye-for-an-eye policy in return? -- What.

No (American) non-executive employees should ever be forced to sign anything. I never have for any job. Employers are in too powerful of a position by default.

No, not like that.

Burnout:

Whatever you do, constantly be looking for ways to actively mitigate it. Just working less is NOT the only way to prevent it. Everyone has had times when they've worked long hours on something, and still felt great. Think about what was special in those situations. Ideas:

1) Play a sport.

2) Party hard, roughly 1 night per week, maybe Friday. This works well for many extremely hard working professionals in NYC. Not sure how well it would work in SV...

3) When coding, try to break up tasks into self-contained chunks that you can start and finish within one day. Accomplishing a new tangible goal each day can have a great mental effect. Catching up on big half-finished tasks from the previous day can be stressful and mentally draining.

4) Be around people you love being around. You'll feel less stressed about escaping the office if the people you're looking forward to being around are inside instead of outside the office.

5) Notice how it's so hard to focus late into the evening at the office, but once you're home you feel awake again and can work? For the earliest stage startup, consider making your work environment more like a home, or literally work out of your home with your cofounder. Your girlfriend/boyfriend may look down at you for doing this, get used to it. Partners hate startups.

6) Go for walks twice per day, preferably outdoors, in a place where you're surrounded by lots of people - or alone in nature, whatever you feel like you're missing.

7) Kick out whining people, immediately.

Fun is definitely not the reason that I do startups.

It's similar to when I did cross-country running for a few years. That wasn't fun at all, not even once. It was painful. I'd say that I did it just because of competitive instincts.

Where's - doesn't drink at all on the weekdays, and then drinks extremely heavily on the weekend? Best burnout mitigator.

The countries I'm talking about have produced many startup founders. They move to the US and never move back. The successful role models don't exist in that country, because as soon as people start becoming successful they move out and never return.

Unfortunately, there's a huge difference in the psychological impact of seeing role models in-person, versus only on a screen.

I've experienced this many times while living outside of the US, in recent years. All of the people you'll read about in blogs, or see in videos -- they're perceived like movie stars or legends that must have been greatly distorted on their journey to the opposite end of the world. Keep in mind that many small countries have never seen a single big tech-startup success happen within their borders. Even suggesting a remote possibility of successes, will be met with the argument that every successful person they've ever known hasn't followed what they call the "American" startup way.

In-person role models -- can't underestimate the psychological impact.