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by flatline 6y ago
If you think that’s all retail driven I have a bridge to sell you...
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by flatline 6y ago
> how can you deduce facts about Bitcoin from them? The first thing is a speculative asset. The second is a store of value. The third is a currency. I did not mention that bitcoin is taxed as a commodity in the US. Bitcoin is easy to t
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by flatline 6y ago
You don’t pay for things from your brokerage fund by cashing out your QQQ shares. You don’t pay for things with the gold in your home safe. You don’t keep funds in a foreign currency in your home country for everyday purchases. There is no
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by flatline 6y ago
Fidelity - and probably other brokerages - let you buy with unsettled cash, you just can’t sell and buy something else until the cash settles or it’s a good faith violation. You can also enable margin and do it that way. That’s an interesti
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by flatline 6y ago
This was at least part of the catalyst: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alntJzg0Um4 I don’t fully buy it either but it’s not irrational. GameStop still sells a lot of games. Online is gradually taking over but it has been f
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by flatline 6y ago
All the way back to 1843 - fascinating! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
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by flatline 6y ago
One of the points that I think is underlying your post is that this is not normal remote working conditions. People are stuck at home, with kids, spouses, etc., and all other social outlets shut off. Or they are completely alone and isola
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by flatline 6y ago
My ex...liked to spend money. We made 300k combined in 2019 in a MCOL area, and I still have no idea where it all went. Mortgage, nice cars, eating out, a couple vacations - all gone! I’ve heard of people making 7 figures and can barely aff
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by flatline 6y ago
20% is 1 of 5, hardly easy to miss. A lot of that money goes toward expenses in HCOL areas, where more people live, and the salaries are higher. A lot goes into consumer goods. People buy stuff, a lot of it. A lot of the rest is in the stoc
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by flatline 6y ago
I do not know whether it accounts for a negative savings rate, but the graph does show that people with disposable income were saving more this past year during the pandemic, which means they were spending less on consumer goods. There were
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by flatline 6y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/246268/personal-savings-...
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by flatline 6y ago
I used it for years up until about two years ago. The UI is from ca. 2000, it is okay for one on one chat and that’s about it. I honestly like IRC clients much better. The world has been taken over by slack and its clones for a reason.
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by flatline 6y ago
Engineering capability and financial savvy are somewhat orthogonal. You will keep some top performers and lose others by paying median wages. Some people also simply value stability or find other aspects of the job worthwhile over seeking h
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by flatline 6y ago
Interesting. Most ML models presumably operate over IEEE double precision floating point values. These have a couple interesting properties like INF and NAN, but not infinitesimals.
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by flatline 6y ago
You get some numbers, they look good - fine, but at best it’s grounds for a proper study, at worst wildly misleading. You can easily fool yourself with statistics, and other people too. For a good read about studies with solid statistics an
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by flatline 6y ago
The origins of tulpamancy, as I understand them, were kind of with the “forever alone” crowd - people who had a hard time getting along in society for whatever reason, and fashioned an alternative reality. Nothing wrong with that, up to the
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by flatline 6y ago
If a service provider detects illegal activity taking place on their services, I assume the correct action is to contact the relevant authorities and suspend the activity until it gets straightened out. Which seems to be what has happened h
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by flatline 6y ago
All fair points, and yet even in the midst of this we saw white privilege at work this past week when the protestors were, for all intents and purposes, allowed into the Capitol. These people have been told that their trouble is caused by b
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by flatline 6y ago
> Also, unlike Gold which could possibly be mined from Mars in the future, Bitcoin has a limited supply only. With only 21 million Bitcoins available... I mean, c’mon. There’s already BCH and a thousand altcoins out there, this argument
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by flatline 6y ago
I did this for the Railroad Museum in Baltimore, years ago, where Google Maps deposited you in a very poor part of the city on the wrong side of the property. It took about two years before I got a follow-up email and the listing updated.
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by flatline 6y ago
From 2019. The mention of mask bans feels either ominous or quaint in hindsight, I can't quite decide which.
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by flatline 6y ago
I agree, though chattel slavery typically implies the slavery of offspring. You can still have institutionalized slavery without that, like the Romans and a lot of other cultures throughout history. Slaves could be set free, could have semi
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by flatline 6y ago
I can say this is not true for the general case. C++ has - against the odds, in my opinion - been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. It is not exactly design by committee, because there are a lot of (semi)independent devel
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by flatline 6y ago
When thinking about this, you have to ask, who will profit, and how? It doesn’t seem like a clone of your brain running in a simulation is going to be of much advantage to you from the current industry incentives. Maybe if you’re rich?
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by flatline 6y ago
I always thought it was more than a little incestuous for RH to acquire and maintain the RH clone, but it did fill a niche.
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by flatline 6y ago
> it can't hurt If taken in large enough doses to have a therapeutic effect it absolutely can have side effects, some not dissimilar from over the counter analgesics.
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by flatline 6y ago
So much of globalization up through the 2000s was exploitation of emerging markets for cheap labor and lax environmental and safety standards. This was not wholly without benefit to the people in these countries though: it has dragged a lot
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by flatline 6y ago
The incentives seem to align: if I were a front-line at-risk worker I'd be much more accepting of possible risk than in my present situation of staying at home all day.
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by flatline 6y ago
I'm curious what it will do to tech salaries as well. Will developers working remotely for SV companies from LCOL areas be compensated the same as those in SV? Will smaller firms elsewhere have to raise salaries to compete with locals
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by flatline 6y ago
The software industry as a whole has been moving away from major releases for commoditized products like web browsers for a long time. The OS has become one such product. Windows has been planning this for some time now: where is Windows 11

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