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by SilasX 4y ago
Remember, this is Mozilla, the same folks who still think, after 20 years, it's the funniest thing in the world to give a cryptic "Zarro boogs found" message to users who are desperately searching the bug tracker to resolve
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by SilasX 4y ago
That’s not the argument either. Again, it’s just that they need to disclose the fact of having been paid to promote it, if and when they talk about it in another context. Why do people keep inventing these strawman?
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by SilasX 4y ago
From what I’ve read of the article above the paywall, that’s not the argument. The issue is whether they properly disclosed having received payments for endorsements. They’re not being asked to take liability for the endorsed enterprise.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Weird. I personally consider a modified timestamp more confusing/worrying than an old post being on the front page, as the former modifies something that should be immutable, while the latter doesn't. Edit: Semi-related issue for
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by SilasX 4y ago
Approximate line from the Waco miniseries on Netflix: "Why is it, that whenever God speaks to a prophet, it's always to tell him to have sex with a bunch of women?"
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by SilasX 4y ago
Haha. In Austin I hear radio ads from a chain dealer (Henna) where they promise to pay you $500 more than whatever Carmax appraised your car at.
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by SilasX 4y ago
It's also possible that both the comment and the code are right, and there's some non-obvious reason why +=2 has the effect of adding 1 here, and is the only way to do it. (Not literally, as in this example, but something analogou
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yeah when I saw it was Piper as the journalist, I was expecting to see a massive disclaimer/disclosure on the article. There still isn’t one. My own disclosure: I have many mutual friends with Piper and participate in the local EA grou
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by SilasX 4y ago
FTX US failed too though.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Same. Requested redemption from Gemini Friday morning (11/11), and notified it completed at 5am today (11/16), got the email about Genesis two and half hours later. (Gemini uses Genesis for their lending program, Earn.)
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yes, I understand how financial contracts work. But like I said in my original comment[1], at the top of this subthread, that provides vital context for the point I'm making, this was big enough to have the potential to cascade , i.e.
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by SilasX 4y ago
>>they didn't even both to say, "Ok, you may go." >Not sure about commodities and futures, but for securities you may never go. Weird, the IRS didn't seem to have a problem notifying me when they were satisfied
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by SilasX 4y ago
>FTX’s failings weren’t widely acknowledged. But critics weren’t dismissed as unbelievable, even absent strong evidence. Most of us just don’t give a shit. Did you forget the HN thread about the initial leak? https://news.ycom
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by SilasX 4y ago
Parent in context was saying the regulator should communicate to the party under investigation , not to the general public.
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by SilasX 4y ago
I was replying to this: > A bunch of PhD traders lost their wealth That is, the only reason the losses were limited to them was because of special intervention. Otherwise, it would have caused losses for many others.
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by SilasX 4y ago
It had the potential to cascade to the rest of the market because of how they used leverage, and the only reason it didn’t was because of emergency Fed intervention.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Okay but FTX US was also doing obviously shady stuff that should have shown up quickly in audits or other records the CFTC would have access to, so…?
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by SilasX 4y ago
Non-profit Irish charities using org.ie?
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yep, I did nand2tetris on Coursera and it really filled in my intuition for how computers work. It felt like a black box, going from "logic operations" to "the machinery that allows you to write a hello world function that do
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by SilasX 4y ago
Different voting weights have existed throughout history.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Having thought of shares with different voting power is all it takes to count as financial innovation?
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by SilasX 4y ago
No, I didn’t. Read the linked comment and its follow-up. Of course it’s a valid concept. But people hastily use it as a drop in replacement for any situation in which they would like more money for any reason, and to blur the difference bet
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by SilasX 4y ago
Thank you! That’s been a big pet peeve of mine in this discussion, where people casually throw around “illiquid” when the currency is really “liquid but collapsed in value”, which is what was going on with FTT and SOL. Earlier comment: htt
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by SilasX 4y ago
Not disagreeing, but what's the basis for thinking that's a plane owned by/affiliated with SBF?
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by SilasX 4y ago
A bank "run" where it successfully honors redemptions, and the vast majority don't need to redeem, isn't really what is meant by a run.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Bugs definitely grow super-linearly, at least exponentially. They scale with the number of interactions between lines, which grows exponentially. (That, in turn, scales with the number of unforeseen-behavior-we-don't-like, which is gen
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by SilasX 4y ago
Speaking of the Super Bowl, their ad aged really poorly. Someone posted a clip from it[1] that has Larry David being pitched on FTX as being a safe way to get into crypto, and he turns it down, saying he's never wrong about these thing
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by SilasX 4y ago
That's fair -- I thought that by highlighting the correct term, against the parent's description with its mislabeling, that would be enough to make the point, especially since a) the issue of "Ponzi" misuse comes up so m
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by SilasX 4y ago
That still doesn't mean they're using the term properly, at least in regards to kind of scam you were describing in your comment, or what that comment's parent was referring to. "SBF/Matt Levine said it" does n
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by SilasX 4y ago
I hate to be the That Guy this time, but pump-and-dump is a different kind of fraud from a Ponzi. Not that anyone cares to make the distinction anymore.

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