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   by evdubs 4y ago

   This is just the Fed setting interest rates to be in line with the Taylor Rule [1]. As some of your replies have noted, they're aggressive both because of a delayed response to recent inflation as well as a sharp rise in inflation sinc
2. 152.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   A (partial) bank run on Tether already happened. From May 2022 - July 2022, Tether capitalization went from $83B to $66B ($17B withdrawn). The recent bank run has so far been a lot smaller. From Nov 9th to today, the move has been from $69.
3. 153.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   Would you believe Binance if they came out and said that the Tether redemption process works as stated? From the trustnodes article, there's a link to: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1E65141A6ea081F382B737141137f..
4. 154.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   Here's another individual speaking on behalf of a corporation and at the very center of the FTX collapse > It's sort of funny hearing people claim that you can't create/redeem USDT for $. > Like, I don't know
5. 155.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   Sure, > “I’ve been minting/redeeming USDT on an institutional scale for over 3 years with multiple desks!” – said Ryan Salame, Head of OTC at Alameda Research, before adding https://www.trustnodes.com/2021/01&#x
6. 156.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   Sure, it's FTX, but Tether traded up to $1.20 yesterday. https://ftx.com/intl/trade/USDT/USD
7. 157.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   To add to this, USDT:USD reached $1.20 on FTX yesterday, and has spent most of today and yesterday above $1.01 with around ~$10M trading every hour. Even though FTX has halted withdrawals and is presumed dead, this type of trading activity
8. 158.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   Part of it is not wasting so many bit patterns on valid NaN values. That is sort of free, I think. > Whereas floating point numbers are polluted with NaN values, posits are cleansed of such unclean special values. https://www.
9. 159.▲
   by evdubs 4y ago

   From [1] - U.S. Treasury Bills: $28,856,434,491 - Commercial Paper and Certificates of Deposit: $8,402,426,505 - Money Market Funds: $6,810,253,431 - Cash & Bank Deposits: $5,418,232,067 - Reverse Repurchase Agreements: $2,992,015,954 -
10. 160.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    The attestation reports tell you the actual numbers (not percentages) of holdings grouped by asset type. [1] > The Group’s consolidated total assets amount to at least US$ 66,409,619,424. > The Group’s consolidated total liabilities
11. 161.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    From [1], the value of that commercial paper was $24,165,815,363. $23,615,946,340 of it was rated A-2 (Tier-2) or better (A-1/Tier-1 and A-1+/Tier-1+). This is equivalent to BBB or better (A to AAA) rated bonds. The report does no
12. 162.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    Sell short USDTUSD on Kraken https://www.kraken.com/prices/tether?quote=usd
13. 163.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    I've heard it as, "Normalize until it hurts. Denormalize until it works." Still, in my experience, database normalization has seemed like less of a performance impediment than queries written without considering an execution
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    by evdubs 4y ago

    A fair value for Bitcoin at the moment is ~$42,000. https://www.coinfairvalue.com/coins/bitcoin/ > What do you mean by "fair value"? https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@pablomp/cryp
15. 165.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidiacea#Uses > When served raw, they have a chewy texture and peculiar flavor likened to "rubber dipped in ammonia"
16. 166.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    Not to disagree with your point, but commercial paper rates have been more in the range of 0-2% over the past couple years. https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/cp/rates.htm
17. 167.▲
    by evdubs 4y ago

    Sell short USDTUSD on an exchange that supports margin trading.
18. 168.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    Well I hope your friend tried to work with the IRS. At the very least they can put tax debtors on a payment plan, but I would think that they could grant an exception to your friend to have the gain and loss cancel each other out even if th
19. 169.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    Your friend couldn't sell the shares and take a capital loss to offset the options gain?
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    Heather Morgan admitted to the hack on TikTok https://twitter.com/BillSPACman/status/1491131214014869505 Edit: whoops. That video is fake. It's from https://www.tiktok.com/@realrazzlekhan&#x2F
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    After this hack, Bitfinex account holders took a haircut (30% or so) and were given tokens representing the remainder of their dollar-denominated account balances. Those tokens were paid in full in 2017ish. Later, the UK, Portugal, and Pola
22. 172.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    Java/JVM languages, C#/CLR languages, Python and Ruby (minus real threads, but compare to Racket with not-the-best real threading story), NodeJS (minus the "large" standard library, but compare to Scheme with a small sta
23. 173.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    It's really not that much more efficient when you compare Lisps to modern languages that share features like interactive (REPL) development, garbage collection, large standard libraries, concurrency primitives and abstractions, object&
24. 174.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    I want to share data structures built for handling concurrency between threads. I'm less interested in having to "share memory" by message passing between places. Plus, places are more clunky to use compared to Racket's
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    > Threads run concurrently, in the sense that one thread can preempt another without its cooperation, but threads currently all run on the same processor (i.e., the same underlying operating system process and thread). By real threads,
26. 176.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    Does this doc help? https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way/blob/master/SETUP.md
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    Sorted data structures :) [Balancing] Binary Search Trees as a standard that is available in many languages; B-Trees if memory locality is important; Skip Lists if there is data structure sharing between real threads and something like a Co
28. 178.▲
    by evdubs 5y ago

    I've been able to use Racket to build an option trading application ( https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way ). The included GUI and Plot libraries have been really nice to use. With Racket, I miss having real threa
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    Maybe not "very likely", but Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the 13 member team at the WHO investigating the origin of COVID-19, recently said [1], "An employee of the lab gets infected while working in a bat cave collecting s
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    by evdubs 5y ago

    Algorithms and data structures.