berberous

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by berberous 4y ago
It was an option, not a requirement. There are pros/cons to doing it, but it was ultimately the employee’s decision. I’m sure the risks were well disclosed. The issue is >50% of employees don’t understand any of it, no matter how we
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by berberous 4y ago
People shit on the algorithmic feed, but I love it. I’m too busy to wade through bad/boring tweets, and don’t want to spend all day scrolling. I can check it once or day or less and the algorithmic sorting surfaces the best content rig
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by berberous 4y ago
Who said I trust them? Do you really not believe they will provide an accounting? Want to bet? These idiots lost people billions of dollars. I think they have a target on their back from pissed off investors, regulators, etc. There is no wa
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by berberous 4y ago
It's been 2-3 days since the entire thing blew up. Nobody said "it can't be accounted for", they said it's not yet accounted for. They will for sure account for every single BTC, but they have been, you know, busy w
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by berberous 4y ago
Grant Thornton is an accounting firm, not a law firm. And signing that way is customary for a legal or accounting opinion.
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by berberous 4y ago
Do you think 50 years is all that long in the historical context? America showed that you could have hundreds of years of stable democracy until a simple combination of cable news, Twitter and a narcissistic president almost led to a coup.
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by berberous 4y ago
Your privilege is showing. Many economies have collapsed or people have been severely harmed from runaway inflation. Even now in the US, the wealthy aren’t terribly affected by inflation, especially with home and stock prices rising more th
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by berberous 4y ago
I generally agree, but think there is a pretty easy middle ground here that is better. For example, to default that the app is unavailable but have a toggle in the App Store that shows such dead apps. That reduces clutter and allows newer a
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by berberous 4y ago
If the VCs put in more cash for this, it’s just going to dilute the existing stockholders (including the employees). The cash is not immaterial. And as another response said, the cash to cover the exercise is taxable income so this idea is
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by berberous 4y ago
This is almost always a repurchase at original cost (not fair market value). The company does not owe taxes on that.
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by berberous 4y ago
Taylor could have published an article about the alleged harm the account is doing. Taylor perhaps could have even doxxed the account if the writer was in fact a public figure: that would be newsworthy. Taylor doxxing the identity of what t
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by berberous 4y ago
This is ignoring that 3 and 4 are still improvements. This argument is similar to me saying there is no point to encrypted communications because the government can hack it, plant back doors, throw you in jail, etc. That is all true, but ma
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by berberous 4y ago
This is transparent BS even to those who take cryptocurrency seriously like me. Judging the entire space by the worst of it is stupid IMO. It’s like saying nobody should take any startups seriously because of Theranos or Juicero.
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by berberous 4y ago
Sure, but that would be illegal and won’t happen. The SEC has filing requirements and the poison pill, if triggered, probably requires certain representations to be made (e.g. the buyer of the newly minted shares does not hold more than X%
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by berberous 4y ago
Do you really think these poison pills are not thought through? Yes, they are newly minted shares. The poison pill applies to any person, entity or group. If Elon has other shell companies, or even just people acting in concert with him, th
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by berberous 4y ago
To be fair, Jack finally stepped down in November and Parag replaced him as CEO. So there is new management that hasn’t really had time to shine or fail yet.
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by berberous 4y ago
I’m too lazy to Google if this is true, but I recall studies linking drinking hot beverages (tea, coffee) to esophageal cancer, presumably from heat damage.
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by berberous 4y ago
What "government financial controls" are you referring to? Not everything is black and white. While the government can enact laws, and enforce those with courts and guns, on a practical level it is easier, for example, to flee a h
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by berberous 4y ago
This is such a nonsensical argument. Crypto is a huge space with myriad benefits, which are not negated by having some elements regulated. For example, perhaps you are in favor of crypto because it is (i) harder for a state to seize or (ii)
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by berberous 4y ago
This is a strawman. It also paints “crypto fans”, as some monolithic group that all think the same way. I am a crypto fan and do not “want deregulated finance”. It is not “exactly what crypto is all about”. I think most in the space would a
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by berberous 4y ago
Regarding her hourly rate, here is the public document, which clearly states she is charging $5k per hour: https://twitter.com/cheesemonkeysf/status/150892349118089626... Now perhaps that is a misleadingly drafted
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by berberous 5y ago
The point of attorney client privilege is to encourage the client to get the advice of counsel, who can hopefully guide the client to staying within the law. That policy goal applies equally well for both individuals and corporations. It is
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by berberous 5y ago
Did you read the linked government brief? I don’t trust the brief to not be misleading, but reading it at face value is pretty damning.
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by berberous 5y ago
Swallowing a battery can cause devastating internal injuries including death. I would try to find a way to strongly discourage the behavior and not encourage it for that reason.
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by berberous 5y ago
I have no experience with them but people biting their nails is a common enough problem that I know there are bitter tasting products out there designed to be applied to your nails to stop the behavior, so consider googling for those.
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by berberous 5y ago
I generally agree with you for most stories and facts about the war, but this one is just obvious. The ruble has declined and the Russian stock market has been closed all week. Russia has been sanctioned. Russia is sending people to fight i
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by berberous 5y ago
Wouldn’t the targets mostly be military (sites housing nukes or otherwise militarily important) and perhaps a few cities to largely neutralize them from doing anything other than kick their wounds (NY, DC, LA)? I don’t see why they should w
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by berberous 5y ago
When is that?
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by berberous 5y ago
I’ve never heard of them and everyone in this thread now has. I think they succeeded with the marketing stunt. If they led with the facts it wouldn’t have been as viral as it leverages people’s extreme interest in this political issue.
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by berberous 5y ago
They are not ignoring the law: “And most importantly, we can’t even if we wanted to.” Sounds like they are a non-custodial wallet or similar. While they may truly believe the law is amoral and are in part happy to make that statement, this

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