It's less common, but if you're willing to contract for the company then working remotely isn't too difficult to find.
If you want a salary, then it's easier to start off working on-site then ask to transition to remote down the line - or ask for more flexibility like 1 day off the week, etc.
I've always found it odd why people say this. It's a horrible analogy, either you don't understand what a Ponzi scheme is or your don't understand what bitcoin is.
Technically Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme, but it has structural incentives for speculators to rope in more and more other speculators to drive up the price.
A bitcoin itself has no value except that you can sell it to a sucker for more than you paid for it. Anyone who can do math knows that this cannot go on forever; eventually the world will run out of suckers. The moral problem with a Ponzi/bitcoin scheme is that each participant is shamelessly trying to sell the bogus investment to someone else, with the full knowledge and intent that the sucker (or another downstream sucker) will be the one to lose their shirt so that the participant himself can get a payoff.
You're describing a pyramid scheme, not a ponzi scheme. They are not the same thing. A ponzi scheme has someone claiming an investment has abnormally high returns and strings people along by paying them those returns out of pocket (or rather, from the investment of people convinced by prior returns) and then at some point runs away with the growing amount of money being reinvested by the marks.
A pyramid scheme is where each person who buys in sells parts of their own share to the next mark, usually kicking up a fee to the person who sold their share to them. The returns at the top come from the exponential growth of fees from the bottom.
Bitcoin is only really superficially like either of them, mostly because there is no direct kickback aspect of it. If it's any kind of scam it's an asset price bubble.
I stand corrected, you're right about Ponzi/pyramid. The key dynamic is that you need more buyers today than you had yesterday. Once you run out of new buyers, the whole thing goes belly up.
> The key dynamic is that you need more buyers today than you had yesterday.
Surely that's only true if you're trying to use BTC as an investment to make capital gains in USD with? If your BTC stays within the BTC community and is traded directly for goods/services without conversion to USD then there's no such requirement.
Now, as it stands the vast majority of transactions are actually basing BTC's value on USD. I think this is a misstep, but perhaps a necessary one.
What I'm saying is: you're right as long as people see BTC as a vehicle for USD gains. But the grand idea is to replace USD entirely. When we start seeing people routinely selling things for fixed BTC amounts, regardless of the 'exchange rate', then bitcoin will have succeeded.
At present it's largely just a proxy for USD, as Warren Buffet has noted. But this is just the first stage.
'A bitcoin itself has no value except that you can sell it to a sucker for more than you paid for it.'
What value does money have? If you say that money has value because some one accepts it as payment then Bitcoin has value because there are companies that accept it as payment. If the world goes to shit, what can I do with Bitcoin?, Nothing. What can I do with Money?, Nothing.
Does this mean that a 'Tin of Beans' or a 'Tracker Bar' is valuable because we will always be able to use it? No matter what happens to the economy?
> Fiat money has value because you need it to pay taxes.
One needs to pay taxes only because the government enforces tax law. Fiat (in latin) means "by decree", as in "this money has value by government decree." Its value is backed by the government's ability to enforce legal code. (or on a meta-level, by people's belief/faith that law enforcement officers & public employees will succeed in working as agents & beneficiaries of their government). Money by government decree should be called government-fiat.
But the fiat definition of money actually works well for bitcoin too. Except instead of being decreed by government's legal code, bitcoin is decreed by cryptographers' computer code (Lawrence Lessig's slogan that "code is law" was prescient indeed). Its value is backed by the ability of computer code to enforce the information-theoretic laws of cryptography. (or on a meta-level, by people's belief/faith that financiers & tech users will succeed in working to further their interest & investment in a p2p crypto network). Bitcoin is crypto-fiat.
IMNSHO there are two types of fiat money: gov-fiat and crypto-fiat (bitcoin an instance of the latter).
> Bitcoins are only valuable as long as you can convince someone else that they are valuable.
Well it turns out that this is surprisingly easy: you just put your money where your mouth is. Its a simple strategy which has worked exceedingly well for bitcoin, in quite a short time.
> More than 15 percent of SSNs are associated with two or more people. More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with five or more people. Significantly, more than 27,000 SSNs are associated with 10 or more people.
I've always wondered how the SS administration deals with this. SSN _should_ be unique, but in practice they're not, so how do these people deal with taxes and _gasp_, social security?
That article is referring to corporate records, though, and leads with the fact that many people have multiple SSNs if you track all their commercial accounts as gospel truth. Does social security actually hand out duplicate SSNs, or is this all caused by people not remembering theirs/bad typing?
Police brutality will never go away unless the the police themselves hold officers accountable for such actions. Sadly, they just don't, or give them a slap on the wrist when they cross the line.
Negligence that leads to bodily harm, ya; but negligence that leads to monetary losses is probably a civil rather than criminal matter. It depends on the jurisdiction for sure, some developing world countries might see it as criminal.
I think hq4x is the best. Microsoft's curves too much - and while it can look good/stylized for some pieces, it's ultimately inaccurate and warps many of the pieces from their original form.
If you want a salary, then it's easier to start off working on-site then ask to transition to remote down the line - or ask for more flexibility like 1 day off the week, etc.