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by DylanBohlender 7y ago
It all boils down to fractional reserves in an illiquid market. If you're keeping the USD in a bank and issuing a coin representing it, no problems arise, because you'd effectively be acting like a bank. In Tether/iFinex&#x27
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by DylanBohlender 7y ago
An important aside here is that the US shale oil revolution now means that the US can produce oil domestically at similarly cheap prices. KSA is actively losing its leverage. MbS might not have those ten more years for his project.
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by DylanBohlender 7y ago
After an unplanned Wikipedia binge about Armenian history, I stumbled upon this interesting fact: in antiquity (~300 BC to ~600 AD), there was a kingdom established near the location of present-day Armenia called the Kingdom of Iberia. htt
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by DylanBohlender 7y ago
I worked for a roughly ~80 person B2B SaaS startup whose primary product was a Salesforce managed package tailored to a specific industry. We had around 8000 customers at the time I left the company. Salesforce as an internal sales-team-man
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
One of the things I'm most grateful for as a programmer was the ability to learn a lot of performance-minded backend design principles within the Salesforce ecosystem. Salesforce was always brutally unforgiving in terms of the amount o
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
It comes down to who is doing the coin creation and redemption. In the case of USDC, Coinbase is handling it. In the case of JPMC, JPMorgan would handle it. The general public's trust in JPMorgan is probably higher than their trust in
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
I think the crux of the others’ point is that Google’s increasingly complex secret sauce for returning search results, combined with its general ubiquity, has perhaps created a monoculture whereby we view the Web almost entirely through Goo
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
There is a lot of bubble logic in these replies - things like "salaries are destined to go up forever because they've gone up since the dot-com days", "smart people in other fields are baffled by things we find trivial&q
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
Grin gives strong anonymity guarantees but maintains most of the other public verification properties of a traditional blockchain like Bitcoin. It also includes some cool scalability optimizations to the Bitcoin-style of blockchain. Anonymi
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
Developer-related service outages seem to have become the new "compiling" excuse: https://xkcd.com/303/
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
Exactly. If the adversary has a camera pointed at your keyboard, they can even possibly attempt the more radical (and indefensible) “I literally recorded what you typed” attack. Scary stuff.
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
As I understand it, expensive processes required for compliance with financial system/anti-money laundering laws make a moat for most money transmitting businesses. That moat prevents upstarts from challenging incumbents effectively. P
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by DylanBohlender 8y ago
That reminds me of this great "Too Clever By Half" essay. Seems that most revolutionary financial innovations tend to misplay the metagame. http://epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
I think your experience is largely true for professional web developers, but with the advent of things like Node that brought JS into back-end land, there are a lot of traditionally front-end people spilling over into back-end and "ful
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
Agreed. The whole idea that forking can be hostile is kind of silly. Open source is riddled with examples of successful and unsuccessful forks. If a fork is better than the original version, it usually wins. If not, it dies. Take CU Sudo, f
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
Hear hear. It blows my mind that an open source community has argued for two years about one single line of code, and shows no sign of stopping.
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
Good! Part of the beauty of our chosen career is that we can work from pretty much anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. If you're happy where you're at, you're doing it right. Personally, as a software engineer
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
It's almost as if putting huge expansionary pressure on (mostly) locally-minded organizations causes them to fail. Who knew? A couple of cherry-picked examples don't mean the coding bootcamp industry is going anywhere. IMO, there&
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
This talk was one of the highlights of Develop Denver 2017 for me. Glad to see it getting some more traction.
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
I've had a few CI jobs fail when attempting to pull, but I've also had some succeed. Seems that it isn't an all-or-nothing outage.
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by DylanBohlender 9y ago
Definitely. It looked like there were a few instances where they left the teeth in as a small white line between the lips when the mouth should have otherwise been closed.