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by Barrera 4y ago
> But this time really is different. Driven by war and pandemic, a new macroeconomic paradigm is forming. High inflation is back after a 30-year absence, and with it, much tighter monetary policy. Interest rates are rising, and central b
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Substack, which takes a cut of its writers’ subscription fees, generated about $9 million in revenue last year, The New York Times reported. That means the funding discussions valued the company at a hefty premium relative to its finan
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Great America, a beloved Bay Area theme park, to shut down within next 11 years(sfgate.com)
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Tesla Lays Off About 200 Autopilot Workers in Latest Cuts(bloomberg.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
A lot of this can be simplified to three questions: 1. What problem is your company solving? If you don't get an answer, beware. If the answer sounds vague, beware. If the answer makes no sense, beware. If the answer is multifaceted, b
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by Barrera 4y ago
Author blames the decline on Covid vaccine. If this were the case, then comparable declines should be seen everywhere in the world wherever vaccines were widely deployed. The author offhandedly mentions Germany, without following this lin
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What does the size of the font translate to exactly?(graphicdesign.stackexchange.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million. Digital asset brokerage Voyager Digital issued a notice on Monday morning, stating that the fund failed to repay a loan of $350 mill
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... it seems one by one the promises of crypto of the last several years are evaporating ... Hardly. What's happening is that a financial institution is being regulated and pro-actively adopting steps to please regulators. And tho
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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves. Zeihan argues that this is impossible on demographic grounds. The after-effects of the One Child Policy and the mass migration from farms to cities en
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by Barrera 4y ago
The point Zeihan makes is that world trade as we know it a recent invention. It exists purely as a result of the US commitment to protect trade from piracy around the world. Prior to that, the system was one of isolated empires each protect
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by Barrera 4y ago
Haven't read the book, but for those who don't know who Zeihan is, his work follows two threads of post-WWII history: 1. Deglobalization; and 2. Depopulation The article focuses mostly on deglobalization, but depopulation is in th
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Clojure remains the highest-paid language to know. Any ideas around why that could be?
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Corpse Flower Bloom(huntington.org)
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Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production (2017)(blog.cloudflare.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... That will inevitably come to an end, if for no other reason than there isn't enough money in the world to sustain its historic rate of climb. ... The amount of "money" (fiat currency) in the world is potentially infi
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by Barrera 4y ago
Me too.
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by Barrera 4y ago
For the first several years of its existence, the bitcoin exchange rate was completely decoupled from the broader economy. It went up and down seemingly with no relationship to other markets. This attracted a lot of investors who were looki
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by Barrera 4y ago
> The firm is known to have had large positions in the Grayscale bitcoin Trust ... This (GBTC) is a closed-ended fund that institutional investors have been picking up because it's the only way to get 100% bitcoin exposure from some
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Here's what Powell had to say: "We saw [home] prices moving up very very strongly for the last couple of years. So that changes now. And rates have moved up. We are well aware that mortgage rates have moved up a lot. And you
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by Barrera 4y ago
This article gives some context, including this: > At the end of 2021, Babel Finance had an outstanding loan balance of over $3 billion, up from $2 billion the previous February. It averaged $800 million in monthly derivatives trading vo
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by Barrera 4y ago
> I felt good! The next step was in sight: a test of the drug in humans, to see if we actually saw the blood levels of cyclosporine that I expected we would. We had contracted with a CRO in the Netherlands and were raising the $1+ millio
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$22.5 M Florida Penthouse Sold in Largest US Cryptocurrency Real Estate Deal(businessinsider.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
I looked at it for 30 seconds and am deeply skeptical of the scheme.
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by Barrera 4y ago
Where do the private keys reside in this scenario?
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Victim connects their wallet to “mint”. It's not clear exactly what's going on here. The word "connect" by itself implies two modes: (1) present public keys; or (2) present private keys. But the loss of property sug
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Phillips Curve(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> The Fed’s hike Wednesday and its new projections are expected to ripple through the economy, sharply pushing up rates for credit cards, home equity lines of credit and mortgages, among other loans. Fixed, 30-year mortgages already have
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Bond Traders Challenge BOJ with Biggest Futures Rout Since 2013(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments

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