DevKoala

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by DevKoala 4y ago
You do not buy actual rubbles or sell rubbles for dollars. Instead you buy/sell some financial artifact that represents the trade pair. Those end up trading at the official market maker rate.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
My point is that the Rubble/USD trade pair was used by the media as an indicator of Russia’s economic weakness, and it rebounded just like nothing. Also, if you look at some of the top American financial institutions, they continued tr
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by DevKoala 4y ago
There are money markets that guarantee the trades at the market maker specified rates.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
Amazing recovery on the rubble vs the dollar. It is trading at the best of it’s 2020 performance and it had been on decline since then. Now it is actually going back to pre-pandemic levels. I wish I had bought some back when the news were c
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by DevKoala 4y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
Nah I would probably force myself to sleep earlier. Stimulants are a cope for bad discipline imho.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
From my experience, it is usually the non millionaires that are moving out of the expensive areas.
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Isn’t that good? High concentration of capital in specific geo’s isn’t that great either.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
> But here’s a question — if Boeing is taking heavy losses on the project, and writes them off on its taxes, is the general public really any better for the supposed savings? Yes, it is much better than having the American people paying
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by DevKoala 4y ago
I just checked the LinkedIn of the individual whom I consider excellent, and his title is actually Database Architect. I feel that is fair considering his skills and the projects I know he handled. Everybody in that engineering org worked w
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by DevKoala 4y ago
If the database is a shared resource across multiple teams, it makes sense that there is specific ownership of it. It could be devops, but someone needs to be looking at the larger picture. Development teams/individuals tend to be myop
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by DevKoala 4y ago
Serious question. Why is Netflix software engineering comp so high? Is it a small team working on all technical problems? It seems that every other content provider built a decent enough streaming service and from anecdotal experience they
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by DevKoala 4y ago
I understand that for the USA and allies, the fed is the best place to park your money, but some allies such as Israel in this case are trying to remain neutral when it comes to financial systems. My understanding is that soon an economy i
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by DevKoala 4y ago
It does matter. A lot of people live in a bubble in which Twitter’s loudest voices are a reflection of the “common sense”. That is why so many governments monitor it.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
Regardless of the moral angle, it means that the USA financial system does not remain impartial over political disputes. This has nothing to do with what I think about the war. Clearly, plenty of other international asset managers agree th
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by DevKoala 4y ago
This isn’t about longevity but the history of the dollar in the past 3 years. Too many dollars printed and dollar deposits being confiscated due to political differences weakened the dollar as a store of value.
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by DevKoala 4y ago
A lot of poor families in the Bay Area have their house as their only asset. Take a drive through the Mission district for example and see how a lot of these people live; you’ll see a luxury house next to a house that was last maintained in
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by DevKoala 4y ago
> They provide value. The value is in allowing the existing owner exit. So gentrification?
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by DevKoala 4y ago
> The LVT also has an appealing underlying moral framework: The luck to own a piece of land that happens to appreciate — say, you bought a house in San Francisco before the tech boom — should not come with it the ability to extract rents
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by DevKoala 5y ago
This great. There is a lot of hidden inflation research that is defamed and associated with “conspiracy theories” because it doesn’t suit the government message. Meanwhile, tons of top hedge fund managers cite the research in their pieces.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
From my experience, the choice isn't clear favoring BigTech engineers either. For example, a pattern I noticed among the pool of BigTech engineers recruiters would pitch to me was the following. The engineer would join a startup with a
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Your comparison was similarly unfair at the other end while presenting it as a common scenario, which is why I presented a different one. This is from my experience as a hiring manager who has worked at multiple startups and now works for a
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by DevKoala 5y ago
This is not true at all. A lot of people In BigTech companies boast of passing a tough interview as their biggest accomplishment and beyond that haven’t really done much. Meanwhile, good startup engineers are used to learning new technologi
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Hear hear.
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> We only merge code that is ready to go live That’s a cool April fool’s squeaky.ai
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by DevKoala 5y ago
According to TheDailyMail.com the claim has been partially verified. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Bid... > The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Met
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I was working for a programmatic advertising demand side platform. We had customers that submitted all sorts of ads to us and the lambda was in charge of rendering the ad and performing some validations on it. We accomplished it in the end
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I remember when I was breaking my head against the wall to fit puppeteer inside a lambda. Good times.
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> Also, why does the tech community have an obsession with Rome? American centric negativity combined with self aggrandizing projection. The comparisons to Rome are the new JavaScript frameworks of HN.
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Very interesting. I had read other articles which are trying to allude he didn’t deny the possibility of handing out data to the Russian government, but his post is very clear in that isn’t his intention, or even possible. For example, the

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