danrocks

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by danrocks 4y ago
I enjoy Relentess Refactoring as much as the next guy, but one dimension here is that it is much easier to do in a headless app (or in the backend) than in an app with a major UI. At some point there must be a complete switch from the old U
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by danrocks 4y ago
Your "love" of decentralized finance is clouding your judgement. "We just need transparency" -> this is patently false. The decentralized exchanges you mentioned are supposedly open and transparent and yet 97% of coin
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by danrocks 4y ago
The book about LTCM’s failure, “When Genius Failed”, is a fascinating account of what happened, and a quick read.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Where's that from? Killing the rich man is the clear winner here. 10/10 would slay again.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Nowhere. Just like Sequoia's $240m investment - it's just marked down to $0.
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by danrocks 4y ago
This comment hits the nail on the head. Just this morning when I saw FTX and BlockFi's news I thought to myself "yeah all the electricity spent on this is bad, but the real problem is how many hours of human thought have been spen
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by danrocks 4y ago
> The company said in a tweet that the "lack of clarity" around FTX's current situation meant it would pause client withdrawals. It also told clients not to deposit to its wallet or interest accounts. Well, that does not s
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by danrocks 4y ago
Given his business moves I wouldn't be surprised is all his personal debt is also collateralized by FTT. As wise Walter Sobchak would say: "Mark it zero!"
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by danrocks 4y ago
This piece will forever be on their site, however: [0]. [0] - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlig...
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by danrocks 4y ago
It's fundamentally unsound.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Raising by 0.75 and warning there will be more seems to go against your point, but I would be glad to be wrong.
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by danrocks 4y ago
1) Big assumption there about the economy not getting stuck in a depression. We're still raising interest rates. It's just the beginning. 2) Crypto winters have become shorter? Sure. But have also become more extreme, with deeper
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by danrocks 4y ago
Let's make it 100 years.
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by danrocks 4y ago
--> Fi
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by danrocks 4y ago
They have a lot of positions open at their Singapore and Hong Kong... offices?
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by danrocks 4y ago
> FTX asked Binance to sell them the tokens for a fixed price, so as not to crash the FTT token price. Why would Binance decline this opportunity? If FTX, Binance, and the market knew FTT would just crash, it sounds like a given that Bin
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by danrocks 4y ago
Having lived in Hong Kong and watched some of these old shows, I concur.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Without data to back that up, you’re essentially making a faith bet, based on nothing.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Weak currency plus up to 78% importing tax on some types of products. When I worked at <big hardware company> in Brazil, our math was to multiply the user price in USD by 3.7x to establish the price in BRL. iPhone: $800 iPhone in Braz
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by danrocks 4y ago
Reminds of that Xzibit meme "yo dog, we put a crisis in your crisis so you can despair while you despair"
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by danrocks 4y ago
Pyongyang Times showed me that sending wreaths seem to be a very important part of Kim Jong-Un's days. On the technical side: impressive load times, plain JQuery + Bootstrap (respect), and lots of care with keeping IE8 compatibility. 9
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by danrocks 4y ago
it is indeed quiet annoying.
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by danrocks 4y ago
As of October 2023, 100% of CEOs are considering something.
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by danrocks 4y ago
Why is that a worrying sign?
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by danrocks 4y ago
When I worked at Microsoft, one team created a big solution for an e-commerce customer using Kubernetes, Helm charts, etc. Beautiful. Then I had to take it to run in mainland China. Nope.
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by danrocks 4y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by danrocks 4y ago
Why do protests in Iran always seem to lose steam before any change is made? Rust or Zig?
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by danrocks 4y ago
Welcome news, for sure. It seems that Iranians are fierce people who are not afraid of protesting their government. Why do protests usually stall, though? Is it the virulence of the repression machine?
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by danrocks 4y ago
> restrictions on mail ballots and ID requirements limit more legitimate voters than fraudulent votes Here's some evidence of the opposite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/votin
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by danrocks 4y ago
Do you know how American presidential elections work? It would require thousands (not millions) of votes in specific states. Popular vote (where Biden beat Trump handily) is not how elections are decided here.

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