LargeWu

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by LargeWu 4y ago
The reason you're positive, probably, is that the marketplace is P2P and you're getting fair value when you sell, rather than the typical "Sell to a gaming store at a discount". YMMV.
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by LargeWu 4y ago
In addition to that I would add it needs to be a real store of value. Over any moderate timescale (a few years, say), it should reasonably maintain its value over that period. Swings of 40% purchasing power are unacceptable for a useful cur
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Yeah, speed is one of the key meta aspects, and having a boost in that area is a major advantage if the player is good at other aspects as well. At some point your players just can't keep up. A new version of the game is released end o
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by LargeWu 5y ago
FIFA is one of the worst offenders, because it's not just cosmetic. There's a constant flood of player cards of escalating ability, and you have to either keep grinding for objectives, or drop tons of cash, just to stay competitiv
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by LargeWu 5y ago
During the winter in the northern latitudes it's not so early.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Back in the early 90's, when we used to have the national news on TV during dinner, there was a little blurb to the effect of "Scientists recommend selenium in your diet." My dad, wanting something sweet after dinner, was qui
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Glengarry Glen Ross: Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Let's not pretend javascript Promises and async/await are not magic in the same way some of Rails is. Lots of gotchas and unintuitive behavior, let alone cryptic error messages and stack traces. At least Ruby generally gives prett
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by LargeWu 5y ago
ActiveRecord was, even then, a much better ORM than exists in the Node world today. It was full featured and well hardened, and required basically no setup other than a class declaration. Plus, you could always drop down to the SQL if you n
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by LargeWu 5y ago
This to me is a principle or architect role.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Parent was explicitly stating they didn't want to climb the career ladder. i.e. They wanted to remain at a Sr Engineer level perpetually, but also not have their salary stagnate. I don't disagree that principle engineers can and s
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by LargeWu 5y ago
It doesn't make you a bad engineer, but it does, generally, put a ceiling on the value you are able to provide to the company. Individual contributors can only get so much done in a given amount of time, and over a long enough time sca
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Kelvin doesn't have negative values. 0K is absolute zero.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
It doesn't have a hard requirement on fossil fuels, no. But if Bitcoin is using clean energy, that means it's using clean energy that could otherwise be used for things that provide actual utility - lighting homes, running busines
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by LargeWu 5y ago
This seems like it's somehow both a pyramid scheme and a Ponzi scheme. AFAIK, there's nothing inherently illegal about pyramid schemes, but they are often marketed in a fraudulent way.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
For some definition of "own" which is unclear to me why it's desirable.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Ironically, money is fungible. One dollar bill is perfectly interchangeable for another dollar bill.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
I did it switching companies, but only because I had a prior relationship with senior leadership who could vouch for me. All other attempts I had to make that transition at random other companies were met with silence or "We want someb
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by LargeWu 5y ago
I don't really even mind if Facebook is targeting ads to me based on the stuff that I do on Facebook . It's when Facebook, and Google, Amazon, whoever, start reaching their tentacles into other spaces where I can't get away
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by LargeWu 5y ago
One of the reasons I stopped listening to Ferris’s podcast is that he’s a totally uncritical interviewer. His guests are allowed to blatantly self promote
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by LargeWu 5y ago
With single payer healthcare, that money goes to the government, which is bad. In the current US system, that money goes to private companies, which is good. Don't bother questioning this because it's axiomatic. It has ceased to b
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by LargeWu 5y ago
"if I’m going to have to live in a shithole, I’d rather be in Michigan or Minnesota" Minnesota is a shithole? As a Minneapolis resident for 20 years now, that's news to me.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
I think you're correct in how you're characterizing the general consensus around wealth tax - that people should be taxed based on all accumulated wealth, including unrealized gains. I don't know how practical that is. I thin
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by LargeWu 5y ago
When Jeff Bezos buys a yacht, he doesn't buy it with Amazon stock. He cashes out that stock and then buys the yacht. I think a fair approach would be to use their total net worth as the threshhold for which wealth taxes apply, but taxe
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by LargeWu 5y ago
When you own stocks, you don't pay taxes every time the value of your portfolio changes. You only pay capital gains when you sell those stocks. Your example isn't really that much different. You would only really need to pay taxes
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Most of the wealth tax proposals I've seen don't even kick in until you have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't think anybody needs to be worried about those people having to work until they die.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Because they are among the most rabid supporters of the previous president. I don't think it's outlandish to say there was a positive feedback loop between the two, and it directly affected both policy and messaging, including pub
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Nice. I've always wanted to go to Crater of Diamonds, not so much to actually find a diamond as much as I just like the process of finding things like that. Kind of like looking for agates on Lake Superior's North Shore. Finding c
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by LargeWu 5y ago
"Perfect competition" is a specific economic concept. The dictionary definition of "competition" doesn't really apply to this discussion.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Might be counterproductive. If I, as an applicant, see a wide range and think there's a good chance that it's in bad faith, I might just skip them altogether in my search.

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