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by Jasper_ 4y ago
They're dead. Pausing during a market when people want to withdraw before they lose everything means a bank run as soon as the withdrawals reopen. They know this, and they know that we know this, and conspiracies like this are from peo
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This is a severe misunderstanding of what the firmware is doing, or capable of doing. The kernel driver for NVIDIA handles memory transfers and DMA, command buffer submission & scheduling, watching and triggering fences, and register se
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
Indeed. Remember the first rule of finance: in order for someone to sell an asset at a price, someone else must want to buy that asset at that same price. If you're selling 15,000 BTC, maybe only 200 people want to buy them for $22,000
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
Miners have started to sell. One just sold 1,500 BTC, which was part of what broke the $20k buy wall. [0] [0] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/17/bitfarms-looks-...
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
They haven't been making money for a year or two now -- they can't sell their coins without crashing the market, so they're getting loans with their coins and mining equipment as collateral [0] [1] [2]. Those loans are failin
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> Furthermore, Unicode assigns properties to individual code points - not grapheme clusters. You can't query these properties if all you see are graphemes. Languages like Swift give you the ability to iterate over encoded bytes, gra
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However bad you think you feel, at least you still have a paycheck and don't have to scramble for employment in a market of hiring freezes across the board. Those you're directly telling this message to don't have that comfor
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These rules typically get applied in ways that advantage the already privileged. e.g. privileged people can say mean stuff online to those under them, but those without such power will go to jail for trying to expose the crimes or bad behav
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As someone who worked for his son, that's exactly it. Bridgewater is failing and he wants to build his legacy as a "smart thinker" and a philanthropist before it's all wiped out.
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That argument was not used in the early Internet stages. Even back when it was proprietary bulletin boards solely for use in universities, people were already communicating, and sharing news articles on it. The Web started as an internal CE
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
Agreed. At some point, there was a plan for a profile of SVG that dropped CSS, scripting, filters, and other such ideas but I don't think it ever got published. SVG2 has been in development for over 10 years, and there are still TODOs
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I'd like to verify knowledge about your private password, without it being shared. Sounds good? OK, my first question: does it start with an "a"? No? What about a "b"? How can you verify something about someone&#x27
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You can't simultaneously be stable while also gaining in value. Remember the golden rule of trading: in order for someone to sell an asset for a price, someone else must want to buy that asset for that same price. Luna continually goin
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What does it mean to "program money" in ways that aren't just moving money around with APIs, which is what we can do already with the existing system?
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Shovel Knight actually has a high-resolution render buffer and "subpixel" movement, but nobody seems to notice because the rules are mostly held in-place.
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Exactly. Underdog companies always try and differentiate themselves with standards and openness and talk about how friendly they are compared to the big giants, and then close themselves off once they become #1. I have personally seen this
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There are luxury condos right where I live that are sold by a property management company. They are unoccupied, and have been unoccupied for months. The prices have not gone down. There's no super strong market force to push the price
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The supply was fine before multi-home owners and property management companies took up most of it and jacked up the prices. Increasing the supply would only increase the wealth of the homeowners, it won't lower prices. Increasing the s
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
pg defended YC funding a company making installer adware [0], you shouldn't really be surprised [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
From https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687632... > Our main stablecoin is USDC (USD Coin). For every 1 USDC in supply, $1 USD is kept in reserve. > The other stablecoins we may use a
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The thing is that a Stablecoin is either stable, and provides no returns, or it's volatile, and provides 15% returns. You can't have a stablegain that continually goes up in price, that's not stable then! Stablegains, by thei
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
If you're so sure of your low-risk, high-reward strategy, get a bank loan. And then once you make more money, get an even bigger bank loan. There are ways of getting capital that don't involve the public's money.
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Anybody promising low-risk, high-return investment is a fraud. After all, why would they have to convince you to invest money if they could just do it themselves?
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It was started in 2012 by David Zeuthen, Colin Walters and Marius Vollmer. Martin Pitt wouldn't be hired until way later.
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Oh hey, Cockpit; I remember when this was started. It was the Red Hat desktop team's skunkworks project to make an actual good server UI after the last few attempts failed; I can't find any evidence of it, but I swear there was th
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
At the time, hardware bumpmapping was an inconsistent mess, and despite lofty promises, they didn't end up delivering what was promised. It wasn't until the "bump map" was torn down and replaced with the "normal map
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> The creatively named “Windows.Gaming.Input” (WGI) is the newest input API for Windows. For now! The Windows.Gaming.Input API is the Xbox One API, and has been around since Windows 8 for UWP and the Xbox One SDK. The new one is GameInpu
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https://noclip.website/ (doesn't tend to work well on mobile)
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Yeah, `call` got supplanted by `bind`, and `bind` got supplanted by arrow functions. `apply` got supplanted by spread parameter syntax. I've used them before for doing stupid reflection hacks (literally just used them today to build a
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
But again, like we learned with Luna, if everyone is getting MKR at a discount, why would anybody else buy? Prospective buyers want to sell their MKR that they got at a discount, too.

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