SilasX

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by SilasX 4y ago
Okay. So your argument requires no one to ever pull the trigger for mutually assured destruction in his case, over a broad universe of non-cooperating actors, and even if they had another way to benefit from the collapse of crypto that they
812.
by SilasX 4y ago
If someone didn’t get their money when they tried to redeem, they would definitely scream bloody murder about that. So far, no such party has.
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by SilasX 4y ago
That goes to the full discussion of an unrelated story. Direct link to the subthread where you made the FB comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573232 (Edit: I would have referred to the company as Meta, like you
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right -- together, they put 3.5% at risk, not 0.28%. [1] A huge distinction to make! Well ... not really. It still seems like a farce. Either lower the bail amount, or require meaningful proof that the guarantors have access to anywhere n
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by SilasX 4y ago
Sorry, where are you getting that the anonymous parties have (or claim to have) $250M in assets? I don't see that attested to in the documents[2] or reported in reliable explanations of the bail arrangement[1]. I don't even see wh
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by SilasX 4y ago
Funny how HN is willing to accept that submarines[1] are a thing, but, when it comes to a story with a framing they like, they will robotically defend the notion that these articles were 100% organic content, that some honest, well-meaning
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by SilasX 4y ago
Clickbaity way to say it, but yes, I like to "lose debates" in the way Sivers describes here. For the same reason, I'm very tolerant of rudeness and disrespect if and when it comes with an insight that makes my understanding
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by SilasX 4y ago
That ... still seems like the wrong way. Every shower I've known has let you angle the head down. So start it that way, feel for the water to get warm, then turn it towards you. With the method you described, it takes longer, with mor
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by SilasX 4y ago
>Hm? If you need work and are laid off you don't get mad: you get another job. Some people do both -- from the context, it sounds like Moore also hopes to replace it with a similar job, while also venting to anyone in the media who
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by SilasX 4y ago
Not in those words, no. But if you're that resentful about being laid off, and talking to the media about what a cosmic injustice it is rather than, "oh, well, I guess I can start spending some of the interest on the fortune I bui
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by SilasX 4y ago
You'd think, but then you read stories like this, about people who have worked 16 years at Google but still need the job badly: https://www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-engineer-says-googl...
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by SilasX 4y ago
Hold on there. If you're getting coverage like this, where someone comes and takes flattering photos of you, that's the kind of thing you get when you or your supports can fund a PR team to wrangle major journalists into covering
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right -- I joke that HN's design weeds out people who both a) need a site to look glamorous, and b) are incapable of modifying it on their end to look that way. That probably has significant overlap with UX designers who determine othe
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by SilasX 4y ago
Edit: redacted, I (bizarrely) missed what the parent was replying to.
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by SilasX 4y ago
I'm glad they have that process outlined, but dang if it couldn't use a little streamlining. Individually sign out of iTunes(step 4), and iCloud(5), and iMessage(6)? They couldn't add something to the OS that does all three f
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by SilasX 4y ago
I propose a middle way: Outlaw tipping unless the establishment posts an upfront notice of what their tipping expectation is (what percent, for what services, for what satisfaction level). Under that system: - You can still have tipping wit
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by SilasX 4y ago
Correct, but a nitpick: it's not quite an issue (as the parent said) of the score being low per se. From my own experience, in the time when I had no credit history, when I went on annualcreditreport.com or the alternatives, it would h
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by SilasX 4y ago
Did you miss the six other comments that made a more substantive version of that objection?
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by SilasX 4y ago
Your site has a fixed floating header. See that bar at the top that follows you as you scroll down? Sorry if I didn't use the technical term or establish enough context that you could infer what I was referring to. (Not sorry if it&#x2
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by SilasX 4y ago
You were doing fixed floating headers 20 years ago? Now I know who to blame ;-)
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by SilasX 4y ago
lol what just happened here? Parent: This specific regulation causes unwarranted problems. You: Wrong, because there exist regulations that are good and wrongfully impugned. <top reply> Me: ???
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right. It’s an issue when you buy a ticket from A to C with an A-B and B-C leg, and you get off in B. The ticket might be cheaper (than A-B) because the airline is competing with a direct A-C flight. But if it’s just A-B and B-A and you don
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yep. I’ve noticed that the term “10xer” gets used in both the sarcastic and the serious sense, and it’s important to keep the archetypes and characteristics separate. I tried to clarify in this old comment: https://news.ycombinat
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by SilasX 4y ago
1. Genesis was not a yield-farming company, but a centralized lender. "Yield farming" refers the use of smartcontracts that generate yield [A]. Furthermore, yield farming is not inherently Ponzi. For example, there are overcollate
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by SilasX 4y ago
“See? I’m vindicated! With this collapse, Bitcoin is all the way down to 100x what it was when I first heard about it and correctly predicted its imminent demise.”
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by SilasX 4y ago
> 1940’s was when 1984 was written, not the year being compared for Agatha Christie. But it was being brought up right after mention of the 1940s, implying some explanatory power for that decade.
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by SilasX 4y ago
The time when cars were more expensive than servants was 1890s-1910s, not the 1940s though.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yes, marines like using a term that separates them from another group, because of a classification that the US military makes. Good for them! But, as a matter of actual common usage, which long pre-dated them, the term "soldier" h
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by SilasX 4y ago
That’s a source that FTX Japan is returning assets, not that it’s the only regional one doing so. (LedgerX, an FTX holding, continued operations but I guess doesn’t count as a regional exchange?)
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by SilasX 4y ago
Surprised to see no discussion of this in the context of browser extension signing, and Firefox's little fiasco. Apparently, Mozilla's best judgment is that, after expiry, the extensions should just stop working with no way to res

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