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by cinquemb 5y ago
Stablecoins (over collateralized, 1:1 collateralized, etc) on chain do float. They rely on arb or other incentives to keep them near a peg. They are only immune to the degree that the market mechanics in place surrounding each of them in pa
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> If this happens, we need to let it fail. I'd be furious to see the fed bail out USDT to make sure the crypto market stays "stable". We already know its going to happen: some "blessed" TBTF tradfi bank is going
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The State Growth Problem Facing Blockchains(thecontrol.co)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
if you are a (lending) business in an emerging market (and make near $500k in loans now), you can reach out to https://goldfinch.finance/ if you are run crypto trading company you can reach out to https://truefi.
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> We're still on something like HTTP 1.0 and HTML 2.0 when it comes to crypto. I agree, and even though avalanche (one of a16z investments in ava-labs works on this) seems to have solved the consensus problem, I have yet to see an l
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CCP Disclosures – Skin in the Game and Other Metrics(clarusft.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
They could to some degree if they also publicly disclosed investments in decentralized incubators/funds (if they made them).
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Report UFOs as Physical Likelihood Ratios(overcomingbias.com)
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No Reflation Here: PBOC Balance Sheet Update May (Same as April)(alhambrapartners.com)
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DAO Treasury/Balance Sheet Management(medium.com)
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“Solar Power Around the Clock” report by German Association for CSP (DCSP)(solarpaces.org)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> The alternative is worse for everyone in crypto, because if the long-term future is multi-chain (ie. pushed out usecases don't go back to ethereum once it's scalable enough, and activity spreads everywhere looking for low fee
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Give Tyler His Due(overcomingbias.com)
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Functional Institutions Are the Exception(medium.com)
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Adjoint as Jacobian of Group Action(jamessjackson.com)
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The topology of cayley graphs [pdf](math.uchicago.edu)
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> So I think the "local" here is more about spreading it out across more data center providers than doing it at home. As well as geographically, more nodes spread throughout more existing national governmental distributions is
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by cinquemb 5y ago
I don't necessarily think cloud run nodes are worse per se, I just think the crowding that happens when people run on a few big (aws, google, ovh, hostgator, etc) cloud providers is bad for decentralization and makes it easier for well
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, I think people want a better l1 from a variety of perspectives (some may be in conflict with other perspectives people think should exist), not necessarily a l2, which really only even exist because of eth limitations, which has a who
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> This is interesting to imagine, but how? I ask the same question too, because when people speculate on computing: > security of the present value of future property rents often > replacement cost of tangible industrial capital, s
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Coordination and consensus can have non linear costs, and will vary with the amount complexity of the decisions that need to be made.
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Apparently the only qualification should be whether the candidate can do contrived coding tests and programming jeopardy, but whether you actually want to work with them is beside the point! Yeah, different companies want different thi
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Would be interesting if you could do something like: -You vet engineers with however you/or individuals engineers see fit (test/ past work/ opensource / interviews/ etc), they highlight what they want + maybe what y
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by cinquemb 5y ago
in the comments: dev) > I forgot how to implement the zig operation in a splay tree. employee at Triplebyte) > To put some hard numbers to this: further down this thread, there's a post about how "any engineer" could an
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> And, I get it, Google doesn't care. Amazon doesn't care. (There's an argument that they should.) And yet they will still email you, year after year… as a dev that's worked in finance/academic research labs and
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Bill Gates-Backed CSP “Sunlight Refinery” Heliogen Raises $108M(solarpaces.org)
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Would UFO Aliens Be Our Gods?(overcomingbias.com)
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Lumbering Economy and the Curves Behind Transitory Inflation(alhambrapartners.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, its a joke: "… What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested." - Michael Rogers, Founder, Practical Futurist; Futurist-in-Residence, New
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School Goes Wrong(overcomingbias.com)
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