XRDP server for Linux can be configured to send sound, so I’ve been using that setup for a cloud dev box. In a pinch, it works reasonably well from an Asus c101pa chromebook plugged into a 4K monitor.
Edit: forgot to mention that the latest versions of the official RDP client for macOS, iOS, and Android are pretty good and “just work”.
FWIW, I started with LaTeX a few years ago, and Overleaf.com really helped. Even though I prefer local development and generally work that way, Overleaf has Git integration, sharing features, and works when I've messed up my development environment.
Today, Litecoin has locked in support for Segwit, and in about a week it will be possible to create Lightning Network transactions using Litecoin.
This is largely due to the efforts of the creator, Charlie Lee, who was able to build consensus among the community to activate Segwit.
Contrast this with the inability of the Bitcoin Community over the last few years to get any improvements added.
You may think this is a bad thing because Litecoin has a more centralized authority governing it, or you may think it's a good thing because Litecoin has a way to improve itself, but either way I'd argue Litecoin has very recently become more than what you described.
This. As the price indicated, it was 1/10 the value of itself from the Chinese bubble while Bitcoin has reached all time high now until it realized its use as a good real world test of the Bitcoin's newer features when Bitcoin struggled to apply those due to political and financial conflict within the community but Litecoin went ahead being a much smaller community and is the first to have it activated.
Being almost identical to Bitcoin actually increased its value as its results can be a good indication for Bitcoin as well.
As a cryptocurrency, it's pretty much of no use but as a real world play ground for newer features for Bitcoin, it's pretty optimal and it just proved it has a room to stay than being irrelevant.
Well, if it's useful for all those reasons, and it can be traded for a useful cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ether and now USD and to do everything a cryptocurrency can do then its useful . . . right?
You basically just said it's Bitcoin's more progressive, more nimble cousin.
> there's no economic reason for them to stay in some balanced relation.
Actually, there might be. The fee needed to get a bitcoin transaction into the blockchain is determined by a market, and it is a flat number, not a percentage of the transaction. If bitcoin succeeds, it may not be practical to use it for smaller transactions.
It's neither a flat number, nor a percentage. Fee is not hard-coded in the protocol, everyone can decide on the fee himself. Users decide how much they want to pay and miners decide how to prioritise transactions. The fee is freely floating in both LTC and BTC, no difference here. The only practical difference is liquidity and it is produced only by network effect which tends to create "one of a kind" winner in a competition between very similar networks.
Block size limit will be raised as soon as there's a pressure of transactions. Miners are not interested in devaluing their savings because Bitcoin is too expensive to use for newcomers.
I'm throwing in my vote for Philadelphia. We've got a great tech scene, cheap rent and easy access to New York, DC, and Baltimore (just in case). We have the most bicycle commuters per-capita in the USA and great restaurants, bars, and live music. The city is increasingly interested in fostering the tech / startup community, and there are major universities in town that provide talent and venues (I'm at a hackathon at Penn today, Drexel hosts the Tech Breakfast meet up every month).
This is the closest thing to what you're looking for that I've come across. Last I heard, there will be a kickstarter when it's ready. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3265
Edit: forgot to mention that the latest versions of the official RDP client for macOS, iOS, and Android are pretty good and “just work”.