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by axlee 4y ago
A benevolent dictatorship isn’t a form of government: it is only a dictatorship, but with a leader that is somehow deemed less bad for his people than most dictatorships out there.
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by axlee 4y ago
Singapore is a city, let's not pretend we can compare it with countries proper. If you compare it with affluent cities, it's great but not as great as the stats would say. And when it comes to governance, let's not forget tha
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by axlee 4y ago
Sales tax is a lot higher in EU, so that accounts for 15-20% (at least) of the end consumer price difference.
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by axlee 4y ago
Not with Tether around.
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by axlee 4y ago
Tragedy of the commons only work for things you don't directly pay for.
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by axlee 4y ago
You haven't read the article.
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by axlee 4y ago
I feel this is a bit of negative comment with an unwarranted tongue-in-cheek remark, but I can't deny that a course fully hidden behing a paywall (albeit a very pretty one) doesn't qualify as HN submission worthy.
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by axlee 4y ago
What is a lora or llama? Google gives me nothing.
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by axlee 4y ago
Whoever is doing this due diligence is truly helping millions and millions of people. Good luck. There are very few among us here that could pretend the same, and I'm not one of them.
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by axlee 4y ago
please send your inputs. cute stories are whatever.
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by axlee 4y ago
please send your input, stories are whatever
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by axlee 4y ago
Well, as with all homebrewn solutions, you don't know if you are reinventing the wheel until you're done. At first, it always starts with "the current solutions that are available do not fit me, but I still could use them to
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by axlee 4y ago
To be fair that served them well in the past: the reason why anyone knows about 37signals is because they reinvented the wheel back in 2004 with Rails, but what a great reinvention it was. Who knows what can come next.
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by axlee 4y ago
Or $299 a year for the Apple Developer Program just for the great honor to be able to develop for that platform...
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by axlee 4y ago
Sweet. Any plans for the SDK to support Vue?
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by axlee 4y ago
Yep, they're f**d. Flew too close to the sun, and got caught. Should have kept the white hat game, gathering bounties there and there.
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by axlee 4y ago
I don't even understand why he would even make that comment in good faith in the first place. They are not asking for risks to be socialized, but they are asking for their "deposits" to be safe and the depositors to be "
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by axlee 4y ago
This is damning.
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by axlee 4y ago
Bingo. Anyone who has dealt with SVB knows that. And that's just the public part.
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by axlee 4y ago
You are misled regarding the kind of offers SVB was running. They were offering above market returns specifically aimed at startups. I believe the documentation has been offered in another comment, and anybody who has been in touch with SVB
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by axlee 4y ago
There was nothing arbitrary about that choice. This bank promised better deals BECAUSE they were not careful enough about the risk it entailed. That was their competitive advantage, and they made bank for it. Well, tough luck, now it's
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by axlee 4y ago
110% agree. At some point, risk HAS to be treated as what it is, risk, rather than just "another way to do things". We have so many banks treating risk as what it is, and pricing for it, well these people decided to go to another
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by axlee 4y ago
> A bank that can't pay back 100% of deposits has failed. Well, not at the same time. No bank can do that.
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by axlee 4y ago
FTX's actions have nothing to do with what is happening with SVB, it's not even close. Why make a bad parallel?
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by axlee 4y ago
> dev, test, and e2e tests should be done against full-size db clones that's cute, what is your "full-size"? I don't have 2 days to run a test, and I'm pretty sure every single compliance requirements we are foll
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by axlee 4y ago
Why would they be in a good negotiating position with AWS, given that they have to be on AWS to even exist in the first place? I don't get why amazon would ever negotiate down with these guys, they're the ones who absolutely need
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by axlee 4y ago
> Autopilot charges only 5% of the savings found to maximize customer savings: 75% less than other providers in market. Sounds accurate.
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by axlee 4y ago
I see it as a fun way to see how english would work when it is delatinized / degallicized. Most other influences are a detail.
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by axlee 4y ago
rot13 for the curious
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by axlee 4y ago
If 99% of BTC mixers' volume is helping laundering international drug trade money, arms or human trafficking, it's not exactly hard to demonize mixing itself. I have no data to base this on, but I assume that privacy absolutists

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