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by Barrera 4y ago
> In a statement, Fitch explained: “The downgrade reflects heightened financing risks stemming from increased reliance on short-term debt, a $800 million Eurobond repayment due in January 2023, a still-high fiscal deficit, limited scope
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by Barrera 4y ago
Also read the fine print about the "insurance" Coinbase carries against loss of bitcoin through an attack. It's limited to the hot wallet only. Cold storage is not insured. In other words, the insurance is probably worthless.
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by Barrera 4y ago
The video interview at the bottom of the article discusses the source of capital for this enterprise to "keep" the peg. The interviewee claims that the source of the capital was basically a crowdfund. The team issued a lot of the
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by Barrera 4y ago
AFAICT the article presents no evidence that it's the Day Trader Army taking the hit right now. It could be the Army sold to more serious and/or institutional investors near the top who were chasing returns of their own. What&#x27
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WAGI: The Easiest Way to Build WebAssembly Microservices [2020](deislabs.io)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> If this is correct, then post-industrial society isn’t our name for the next stage of civilizational progress. Instead, the term is true in its most literal and pessimistic interpretation: a society after and without industrial civiliz
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by Barrera 4y ago
From the first paragraph: > ... Architectures that work well in other languages generally don’t adapt well to Rust, mostly because they rely on shared mutable state and that is not idiomatic Rust, to put it mildly. ... The author doesn&#
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by Barrera 4y ago
> After I had written my first 30 articles, I thought I had said everything I wanted to say. That was three years ago, and yet, somehow I have continued putting out fairly regular content. This amazes me, because I do not know how I am d
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by Barrera 4y ago
This seems to be the crux of the case, which the document clarifies has been settled: > In two of its Forms 10-Q for its fiscal year 2018, NVIDIA reported material growth in revenue within its gaming business. NVIDIA had information, how
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Lake Powell officials take unprecedented conservation steps as water level falls(cnn.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
From CNBC: > Growth rates are at their slowest since the dot-com bust in 2001. > The company recorded a $7.6 billion loss on its investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian. > Earnings: $7.38 per share, adjusted, vs. $8.36 expected
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Dollar hits 20-year peak on yen as Bank of Japan stays super-easy(cnbc.com)
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Fort Worth, Texas Becomes First City Government in the US to Mine Bitcoin(bitcoinmagazine.com)
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China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu(reuters.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
On one hand this move makes no sense. Poor countries have every motivation to print fiat currencies to fund operations. Heck, even "stable" currencies like the US dollar and euro are currently inflating to prop up spending in the
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Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss(cnbc.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
I opened the article hoping to see some examples of actual shitposting and explanations of what makes them shitposts, and not just trolling. Nope. Scroll to the bottom and hopes surge because there's an image. People staring at their p
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Northern Arizona may see drinking water cutoff as Lake Powell dries up(12news.com)
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by Barrera 4y ago
Wait, I thought he made his final offer. It was rejected. Therefore, no deal. How is this still relevant?
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Some 43.4 million borrowers are carrying about $1.6 trillion in outstanding student loans from the Federal Loan Portfolio, an average of more than $37,000 each, according to the Education Data Initiative. And yet the content of a colle
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California grocery workers get double-digit pay raises in new contract(latimes.com)
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Machine-Generated College Essays(amacad.org)
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by Barrera 5y ago
> But then, what else does one do besides regularly posting content? That's the most effective approach. But there's a frame of mind that goes with it. And that mental frame isn't in it for the upvotes or likes, but qualit
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by Barrera 5y ago
That's odd because even Google shows the homepage for YouTube-DL.
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by Barrera 5y ago
> And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the
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Data-Oriented Design(dataorienteddesign.com)
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by Barrera 5y ago
From the article: 1. Legal hurdles. "The previous law was changed to close the nuclear power plants after Fukushima." 2. Safety. "To keep the reactors open in 2023, Germany would need to accept accelerating the risk assessmen
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by Barrera 5y ago
The elimination of large chunks of the Ukrainian army in a single detonation could lead to the stated goal of the invasion, which was regime change in Kyiv. It would be a calculated risk that the response from the West would be much like it
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by Barrera 5y ago
No, it's a mistake by me and should be changed [1]. The link I got was, strangely, the first for the search I ran. I was in a hurry and didn't double-check. BSV is a scam. It appears I can no longer edit the post. Oh well. [1] ht
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by Barrera 5y ago
By any measure, the war is going very badly for Russia. None of its claimed aims have been met, and the sinking adds to a long line of apparent military defeats. This raises the question of what comes next if this kind of thing keeps happen

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