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by Barrera 4y ago
Interesting project. I'm intrigued about the possibility of using animations or state changes as part of game play. It looks like the idea is static display for this project. Maybe there's a new game tucked into this project. Mayb
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by Barrera 4y ago
6 and 8 can't be adjacent. Everything else is ok. https://www.reddit.com/r/Catan/comments/7bituv/can_numbers_t... "High" refers to probably of roll, which is highest for 6 and 8 (after 7,
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by Barrera 4y ago
This is a very thorough and well-researched article that explains currency pegs in general and the UST collapse in particular. It's one thing to try an experiment and fail. It's quite another to mislead investors and not fulfill c
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by Barrera 4y ago
In a nutshell: > The price of the home has risen by 20 percent, so you could just say the cost of housing has gone up 20 percent. But that would be misleading. Assuming a 20 percent down payment, your original mortgage would have cost $
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by Barrera 4y ago
Here's a different thought experiment. A sponsor organization maintains a stable coin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. The token is bought and sold on the open market to keep the peg. Because it works so well, demand for the stable coin ri
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by Barrera 4y ago
> What is the best way to cover my lack of employment without discussing the disability that caused it when going for an interview? If the interviewers have been trained in the law and this is for US work, they will defer questions aroun
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Russian and Chinese Jets Deliver Pointed Send-Off on Last Day of Biden Asia Trip(usnews.com)
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California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back(theguardian.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, has seen its circulating supply plunge from a record $84.2 billion on May 11 to around $73.3 billion as of Monday, according to data from CoinGecko. About $1 billion was withdrawn late Friday eve
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by Barrera 4y ago
There's so much wrong with this essay, it's hard to know were to start. And I'm not just talking about the Bitcoin part. Let's take this chestnut: > As the Fed printed more money, more crypto assets were created. The
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by Barrera 4y ago
The article has been replaced with this disclaimer: > Because this article received somewhat more attention than I expected/feel comfortable with, I’ll take it down for a moment. Sorry. I’ll leave the disclaimer: > Disclaimer: Th
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Amazon Aims to Sublet, End Warehouse Leases as Online Sales Cool(bloomberg.com)
8 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> There are not many daily lifestyle choices that double your risk of dying. In a 2016 study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, Lindqvist’s team put it in perspective: “Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor of a similar
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by Barrera 4y ago
> In the early 80s, the G7 economies tightened the money supply, raising interest rates dramatically, in an effort to bring inflation under control. You can see the effect in this image: It's fascinating how much attention the Feder
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Belgium introduces quarantine for monkeypox cases(politico.eu)
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by Barrera 4y ago
That statement is not the focus of the video, which is an overview of the history of Bitcoin. Also, these estimates of wealth distribution all suffer from the same flaw: addresses do not correspond to users. A single address might lock the
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by Barrera 4y ago
Things rarely depend on any single form of evidence. The article deals at length with those other forms of evidence. In particular, the site does not fit (architecturally, the author's specialty) with what was happening around it at th
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by Barrera 4y ago
> This essay makes some confident claims about the future and I wish to have cryptographic proof that I did not edit those claims between now and when they inevitably come to pass. The only unconditional claim I saw was that Tether will
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by Barrera 4y ago
The review I linked has a remarkably readable discussion of this. In a nutshell, the filling of the site rendered everything that has been tested liable to contamination by the fill. Apparently, the plaster on the walls (which contain lime,
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by Barrera 4y ago
A lot hinges on the dating of this site. How was it done? According to this article[1] (which has a nice wide-angle view of t-pillars in context), it was radiocarbon dating[1]. You find bits of stuff at the site and the isotopic composition
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House Passes Bill to Crack Down on Gasoline 'Price Gouging'(usnews.com)
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Target shares sink 25% after company says high costs, inventory woes hit profits(cnbc.com)
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Congress to hold UFO hearing next week(politico.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> We hope that all this innovation is for the user, but often it isn’t. Modern websites seem to be as large, slow, and buggy as they’ve ever been. Our computers are barely getting faster and our internet connection speeds are stagnating
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Soylent Green predicted a grim 2022. What did the dystopian movie get right?(cnet.com)
5 points by Barrera 4y ago|3 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The actual article has the completely different title "What backs a currency? Terra Luna drops nearly 100%" It's from a forum shilling yet another token experiment ("Intercoin"). Zero source material presented. Zero
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Turmoil in crypto market as ‘stablecoin’ tether breaks dollar peg(theguardian.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Arcane Research assigned a numeric score between 1 and -1 to capture the pricing correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq. A score of 1 indicated an exact correlation, meaning the prices moved in tandem, and a score of -1 represented
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by Barrera 4y ago
Exchanges are auxiliary to Bitcoin. The protocol works quite well without any need for an exchange. The exchange in question is a small-time player. Back when the biggest of the big time players, Mt Gox, went under in 2014, Bitcoin came bac
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Stablecoin Terra falls as low as 30 cents on the dollar(marketwatch.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments

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