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by bhawks 4y ago
I'd caution that the author of the article isn't too keyed into crypto either. > A friend who is deeply involved in this industry told me of the clashing egos. “CZ helped SBF create FTX, let him grow it, and then when it got to
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by bhawks 4y ago
I agree that it is an obvious extension for AI to use this data at scale to help users. It also is obviously a huge temptation to abuse it for other purposes. Wasting a few minutes in the morning to find my glasses is a small price to pay t
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> Excluding this stipulation, which they will be prosecuted for - what exactly the CFTC/SEC/NYSE/NASDAQ/Secret Service/DEA/Texas Rangers were meant to do about a company in the Bahamas is beyond me. The poin
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Google's internal source repository client CitC (client in the cloud) behaves this way for your entire workspace, forever. It was so freeing - every single file save, delete, move and so on was saved without user intervention. Realize
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Cointracker and Koinly both support tax reporting on swaps and liquidity providing on uniswap and many other dexes.
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It will get it's acronym back shortly.
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Amazon actually has an 'unregretted attrition rate' metric that it holds managers to. Essentially they are expected to shed a percentage of employees annually. This metric gets gamed as "hire to fire" to keep your core t
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They suspended the NY Post account for over 2 weeks. (only lifting the suspension as their policy evolved). Prior to that Twitter had never taken such action against a news outlet. https://www.theguardian.com/technology&#x2F
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996 culture in China already highlights this as a valid strategy. Perhaps a little too obscure for the typical pointy haired boss. Elon will be a great poster boy.
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A big loss for Twitter, Manu will definitely be fine. Manu is exactly the kind of engineer Musk should want to retain. He's very product focused and a hard worker. Not surprised to hear that he was volunteering for the long hours and s
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I thought the main selling point was scrapping the catalytic converter for the platinum and palladium inside. In that model a ID system for the catalytic converter itself isn't going to put to much friction on illicit activity.
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Twitter is basically an internet scale public bathroom wall with everyone scrawling short hot takes onto the walls. The best case scenario has always been that it shut down and I hope we are one day closer to that eventuality. It is ironic
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Until the next reorg. If this is your path I'd strongly recommend tenure in a core revenue generating project. Avoid projects in cost centers, especially those that serve small / non-critical business needs or have potential off-t
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The iron law of bureaucracy: Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are
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That's sounds a lot like protocol negotiation, just implicit vs explicit and limited to 2 algos.
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Check the graphic in TFA. The trend is downwards across party lines. There was a bump (from 50s to 70s) for dems when trump was elected but it continued a downtrend from that peak - even while he was in office. The media industry ironically
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Tesla sold nearly a billion dollars of Bitcoin in Q2 2022 and took home over 60 million of profit. https://blockworks.co/tesla-sells-bitcoin-for-profit-still-p... I think most people would consider a billion dollars as a se
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Well that's pretty much what is paid as 'income security' in 2021: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... So maybe it's not as unreasonable as it sounds. The next question
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Asset bubbles are a predictable consequence of monetary inflation. Speculative assets differ from most forms of gambling in very important ways: 1: they lack expiration dates (last year's lottery ticket is not gonna become a winner tom
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I wasn't aware that Tesla or the other self driving car companies opened their platforms and let anyone deploy code to their entire fleet (or even personally owned vehicles). The existing bar for requiring occupational licensing is way
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I don't think you can exonerate the democratic establishment who ran campaigns and funding drives on the back of protecting Roe while also doing literally nothing legislatively for nearly half a century (including periods where they co
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> As we set up machines do the hard work for us, why not just have the machine scoop up the cockroach in a little box and store it to be freed later far away from the house? Far away where? Assuming we could airlift roaches anywhere - th
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Set the iron law of bureaucracy. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
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Making the business case for solid disaster recovery and continuity of business (along with resources for regularly testing it) can be quite a challenge. In an immature or unhealthy culture this is something that can always be pushed to nex
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In your experience how much of this is attributable to a party of the contract trying to sneak favorable terms into the agreement? Generally I am a fan of Hanlon's razor, assume ignorance/stupidity over maliciousness, but given th
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Golang uses : to assign in struct initialization and := for new variable assignments so there is some prior art. Practically speaking I find : to be challenging to quickly scan out of source visually. In golang this objection is muted sligh
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Interesting article but from a data viz perspective things would be a ton easier to read with a chart per load type comparing nginx, optimized nginx and caddy. A single megachart with a dozen different colored bars is not easily parsable.
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Transition to proof of stake consensus doesn't make a byzantine fault tolerant system anymore or less accessible to the everyman, it simply replaces depending on electricity to depending on investing directly into the protocol. One may
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The NSA been caught with their hands in the cookie jar so many times that they deserve extreme suspicion if not outright distrust. Some may argue that DJB has personal or social failings but he has never been caught compromising a crypto sy
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Those hash functions are (or were) cryptographically secure. They aim to prevent many different kinds of attacks that may be launched on hashed data. There are many other noncryptographic ways to use hashes (like writing your own dictionary

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