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by Traster 4y ago
One thing I think is important to highlight here is people often make the argument that this sort of legislation is just a grab for power using child exploitation as a cover. But if you actually take seriously the arguments made by people l
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I'm certain that with billions of dollars on the line a creative lawyer will find some avenue to attempt to get the money back. At the very least there's an arguable case that they've committed some level of fraud by mis-stat
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The thing that I think some people miss about Tether is that it's not about whether it is backed enough it's either fully backed or it isn't. If it's not, it's not a question of whether it's back enough to we
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Sorry, how can they lever their VC funds, surely with VCs you’re getting highly speculative valuations and terrible liquidity? That sounds like a terrible thing to lend against?
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Netflix is charging $10 a month at the moment. If it can't generate $10 of revenue per user by showing adverts then what do you expect them to do?
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Mr Traina had already invested in the start up and had set up a dinner for Breslow to network with Thiel and Hoffman. Both of those guys are massive VCs that any founder would be massively keen to get connections with. Thiel ended up Angel
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by Traster 4y ago
There seems to be a disconnect here: > 75% wanted to be in the office three days a week or more; only 34% of non-executives felt the same way. They go on then to talk generally about people might need to be in the office. This is missing
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So this relies on finding someone stupid enough to lever up 3x on the most volatile asset around? And not just someone, hundreds of millions of dollars of market cap worth of someones?
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Ok, so fundamentally it's heavily discounting the collateral. I guess that makes it safer, but doesn't that mean you need way more collateral to support it and therefore you're paying a really high cost of capital? I can supp
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by Traster 4y ago
I think this is seriously going to degrade as crypto exchanges come under AML and KYC regulations. Liquidity is overwhelmingly moving to centralized exchanges and those exchanges have to support transfers to/from fiat currency which ba
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I don't understand how you can use cryptocurrency as backing for a stable coin. Just as a matter of definition, if your stable coin is meant to be worth $1USD then your backing fluctuates with the price of the crypto that backs your st
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This is probably just a for loop where they've called for(it in suggestions) print(title) rather than for(it in suggestions) print(it.title).
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by Traster 4y ago
Honestly, I feel stupider every time I read anything about crypto. Things like >analysts warning it could form part of a longer-term bear market if it does not bottom out soon. Well yes, if the price keeps going down, that would by defin
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by Traster 4y ago
This seems like one of those "Good for the user, bad for the network" type features. It's great if you're an established user with a clear friend network that you want to communicate with, but it works to isolate differe
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by Traster 4y ago
Just from a management perspective, even if you're super-confident in your engineers (which you shouldn't be), doing anything other than a very limited slow roll out would be negligent. This is a tectonic shift in liability. It&#x
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by Traster 4y ago
The controversial assumption I'm referring to is that all charitable giving prior to EA was wrong-headed and that the way in which everyone else prioritizes their giving is wrong in prioritizing by both need and connection. EA isn&#x27
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What I'm saying is that people aren't efficient, and that's not a flaw. It's not wrong to prioritize your family, friends and community in how you want to spend your charitable giving. If you, and everyone elses, actions
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I think that speaks volumes - the biggest group is global health, which is basically back to the malaria topic, and ten the second is AI, as if there's solid data driven evidence of the impact of AI. It kind of lays out the absurdity o
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by Traster 4y ago
I have a stronger responsibility to my friends, family and community than to people I have much weaker links to. I also have pragmatic concerns about neglecting improving conditions in first world countries in terms of long term solutions t
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I completely disagree. The point that the article is making is that effective altruism has baked into it one very peculiar view of what effective means. Effective altruism is essentially utilitarian altruism. Don't spend £5 at your sch
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by Traster 4y ago
Reddit is a super weird situation. If you take their policies literally, it's basically a site set up where sub-reddits are pure dictatorships. So in some ways it's perfectly pro free-speech, you can always make your own sub-redd
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by Traster 4y ago
It's pretty clear the disconnect here, there's one side that says "Do this optimization it's trivial" and the other side going "We have to write an entire text renderer that's far from trivial" and th
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To be honest, this tweet comes across as incredible unproductive behavior in an open source project. If I were the MSFT guys, I just wouldn't be responding to community members who behave like this.
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I find the whole premise of this article kind of funny. I don't think Netflix is in anywhere near as much trouble as they're making out. I don't think the content strategy is anywhere near as important as they're pretend
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If you really want to waste your time chasing down obviously spurious safety claims, feel free. Here's the thing though - if you actually figure out the claim is true, the thing you would certainly not do is start a company selling n
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I sleep on my mattress and wake up feeling fine every day. My mattress is made of the same stuff everything else in my house is made of. If you buy into the idea that your mattress is poisoning you, you've bought into the idea that eve
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by Traster 4y ago
The thing is, if it were real, the company would be getting signed off by the EPA, not by some 3rd party "non-profit" that it pays for certification. What I'm saying is look at the list of materials in a mattress, and look at
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The problem is that it doesn't pass the sniff test. Do you really think that your mattress is poisoning you? Like, we can spend a load of time chasing down whether VOCs really are a thing and all that, but it's just not really h
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In my view you can't have it both ways - if you want efficiency it's not reasonable to expect to be able to hand edit the data in a text editor. Especially since at the scale that efficiency matters your text editor is going to st
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by Traster 4y ago
Honestly I see "steelmanning" as an emergent property of a completely broken discourse in the first place. The whole concept derives from the idea that we need specific terminology for when we're going to actually discuss thi

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