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by LargeWu 9y ago
It's quasi-governmental, in that it is chartered and overseen by the federal government, but largely executes policy without the influence of the executive or legislative branches.
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by LargeWu 9y ago
There's a major difference between fractional reserve banking and printing money. The former is a well-understood and well-regulated practice that actually drives economic activity. The latter is likely what Bitfinex is doing with Teth
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by LargeWu 9y ago
One of the claims here is that Bitfinex was somehow creating new Tether without a USD deposit. In other words, out of thin air. This Tether would then be exchanged for Bitcoin or other crypto, causing an artificial increase in demand for t
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by LargeWu 9y ago
If they say Tether is backed 1:1 by USD, and it's not (allegedly by a wide margin), then it's clearly fraud.
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by LargeWu 9y ago
The difference is that civilization is a comparatively new development, and nobody really knows how that's going to fare in the face of all this. The human cost is likely to be staggering.
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by LargeWu 9y ago
It was a major consideration from the standpoint of local and state government here. With both Target and Best Buy headquartered here, it would have ruffled a lot of feathers if Amazon would have received a bunch of handouts that homegrown
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by LargeWu 9y ago
Yes
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by LargeWu 9y ago
A large part of that is because traveling abroad is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people (which the article touches on). Especially if you don't live on one of the coasts. California to London is over 10 hours of flight time. I
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by LargeWu 9y ago
That describes me exactly. Coincidentally, I turned 40 a few months ago. I took my current job with the goal of transitioning into a leadership role, either product or management. I was walking into a situation where I knew people already h
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by LargeWu 9y ago
Screenprinting. I have an online t-shirt store where I fulfill via on-demand DTG printing, but I want better final product and quality control. Planning on getting a press next spring and setting up in my garage. I also just like the feelin
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by LargeWu 9y ago
Tell me about it. I'm currently working in a javascript shop where we recently finished a 4 month react project with 5-6 full time developers. The website had about 10 pages, with about half a dozen forms, all but one of which were ver
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Yes, in fact, there is precedent for this: http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-accused-urging-b...
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Sounds like you've never used Target Process
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Well, that's called a blanket pardon, and the fact that it was granted to Nixon establishes it as precedent.
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by LargeWu 10y ago
The entire second chapter is devoted to learning emacs. I find this to be a baffling editing decision. "Thanks for reading this book, but before we cover what you came for, let's do this other completely orthogonal thing first.&qu
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by LargeWu 10y ago
I'm assuming the vision you're trying to sell is to make the philosopher king wealthy. (Your stated vision is probably irrelevant.) You need to make your employees' incentives align with that proposition.
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by LargeWu 10y ago
If the mission is feeding starving children, or curing cancer, or public service, then yes, I want people who are motivated by the mission. But usually the mission, the real mission, is to make the founders exceptionally wealthy, and for
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by LargeWu 10y ago
What indication was given that there was reasonable suspicion that the laptop was stolen?
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Curious why you think there was no harm done.
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by LargeWu 10y ago
They re-ran their analysis after post positions came out, but they didn't really have a big impact this year, since none of the top contenders had particularly unfavorable gates.
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by LargeWu 10y ago
See my above comment. Their picks are just a reflection of the odds set by the betting public. They got extremely lucky, since the Kentucky Derby almost never shakes out with the top 4 favorites finishing in order.
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by LargeWu 10y ago
This was a derby where the top horses finished in the exact order they were favored. Nyquist went off at 2-1, which by Derby standards is a huge favorite. Exaggerator finished second, and was 5-1. Gun Runner finished third at 10-1. Mohaym
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Right. And what about the people you hurt on the way to the top?
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by LargeWu 10y ago
Complaining about coffeescript...There is absolutely no reason anybody needs to use coffeescript in a Rails project. Rails works perfectly well without it. Now, some people prefer the syntax and find the extra layer of transpiling to be wor
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by LargeWu 11y ago
That's fair, but for groups who are in fact all in the same office, there's plenty of face to face time every day. In every environment I've worked, I've never met a developer who's been gung-ho for standups. They a
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by LargeWu 11y ago
There's no reason you need to get everybody in the same physical place at the same time for this. If you are just giving status updates, team chat is a perfectly viable option. I know I personally can't get started on things righ
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Well, here's a statement from the female leader that organized this panel: https://www.facebook.com/nolwenn.godard/posts/10154708242404...
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Kind of the same for us, in a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. Tried selling it two years back, had it on the market 5 months, not a single offer despite dropping the price $20k from our initial asking price. This year, put it on the mark
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by LargeWu 11y ago
One thing you can do is ask to see the space where developers are working. Do developers there look generally happy? This is highly subjective and prone to false-positives, but in general if everybody kind of looks like they'd rather
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Fitbit for Dogs. Silicon Valley truly is solving Important Problems.

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