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by cwkoss 4y ago
I hadn't heard of FTX before it started imploding. I think a lot of people are overestimating the impact of this. Sketchy foreign crypto companies explode all the time. This one is more exciting and salacious because it seems like p
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> Musk is known to be a very hard 24x7 worker This is just PR. Seems naive to believe the emperor is wearing clothes.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think it could make even more sense in places like Arizona: fewer clouds, trees, and tall buildings. Kind of interesting to ponder that we might soon have car SKUs that are much more regionally localized: a car that works great in CA or A
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by cwkoss 4y ago
No. A bug that can be trivially found is higher likelihood of being exploited, and thus higher impact.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It has happened just like this 3 times.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
CME stands for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - they are one of the most well respected institutions in global finance - not some crypto startup. If you doubt bitcoin's future, there is a way to put your money where you mouth is witho
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by cwkoss 4y ago
These are such odd questions to ask consumers. I have never even considered purchasing oil with USD (assuming you mean crude petroleum - olive, sure).
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> People who constantly make this argument don't actually understand how economics and monetary value actually work. People who make your argument usually don't understand that monetary theory hasn't caught up to accommoda
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If buyer and seller are both willing to hold value in bitcoin, you can just do the math and send that amount with a thin client - super simple. If either party wants to hedge their exposure to bitcoin volatility, it gets more complicated.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Most renters have little control of whether they have access to an EV hookup. This opens up the market to street parkers in the right climates.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Lovely story, great to see someone who built skills for evil putting them to work for good.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Sounds like FTX wasn't willing to accept their lowball offer.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Binance does have significantly lower trading fees than coinbase - so while they do have about 8x the trade volume, it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison, because lower fees mean tighter spreads and more money bouncing around
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Does legality even matter? I doubt Putin will be willing to extradite his 'chef' because he harmed america's interests for russian benefit.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Interesting, yeah makes more sense when confined to software domain.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Is this something quippy, or do people actually believe this?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The reason russian influence entered the zeitgeist was a PR push from people who worked in the HRC campaign and DNC insiders who needed to blame Trumps win on external factors to distract from their "pied piper" strategy of delibe
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Is there any major power not trying to influence other countries' elections? The US CIA has done this, much more directly and brazenly, in South America for decades. Kind of funny when Americans act like buff shirtless Bernie memes are
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I find it surprising and a bit disappointing that so many HN readers find the manic meandering of yishans thread persuasive
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Yishan could really benefit from some self editing. There are like 5 tweets worth of interesting content in this hundred tweet meandering thread.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Spam is a behavior, not a fundamental trait of the actor. Would be interesting to make a service where spammers have to do recaptcha-like spam flagging to get their account unlocked.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think that's more a failure of our justice system than the privately-owned public-square app. Why can't the DoJ go after those have killed with their lies?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It is fashionable to dislike Elon, and many people who call themselves journalists have been coasting for the past 6 years by simply saying whatever is in fashion with little or no investigation. Twitter was the primary seat of that power,
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Elon has already started groveling to advertisers: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
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by cwkoss 4y ago
"Those self-immolators are so selfish" is a heck of a take.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
He already tweeted something groveling to the importance of advertisers asking them to not leave yet.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Bobs mods are also good, not quite as complex as spaceex, but adds some interesting depth to the base game.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
When did that happen?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
How can you quantify that? How many gigawatt hours is halving an ecosystem's biodiversity worth?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
How does the energy in underground hydrogen get utilized? Is the capacity the combustive energy, or only the energy from the gas pressure?

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