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> For publicly held companies a larger company, or a billionaire, can buy out all shareholders at the current share price. That's not accurate, most shareholders aren't selling at the current price (or this price would be lower
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> 1. Its only use case is bypassing laws; > 3. Despite crypto having no use cases You're contradicting yourself here.
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As usual, all of these "use cases" suffer from the problem at the boundaries (see also Oracle problem), namely that you can automate everything on the blockchain you're using, but once you're back in the real world you n
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The post you answered to was too narrow; they should have written "regulatory arbitrage" that this would have encompassed your examples.
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https://archive.ph/ec2Pp
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematical-gazette... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Estermann
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What's nice with this is that it automatically fixes itself: once you've jumped enough that no new employer wants you, you (have to) stay at the same one long again to be a good candidate again, assuming you don't get fired.
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> There are some 40k layoffs in last few months and certainly a large number of those are US citizens. That doesn't matter if they all find a new job very quickly, what's more relevant is the unemployment rate. Is it increasing
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> I would see this as a relatively painless opportunity to cut out low performers. As many other comments have pointed out already, that's not how mass layoffs work in practice.
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How widely are Python arrays used in practice?
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> My own theory of what's actually going on here is that Tether is intentionally obtuse, because it allows them to make seignorage profits against their own users. From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x
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1. doesn't this describe FTX just as well? 2. if they're not doing anything shady, how come they can't be more transparent than they are?
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> Out of interest what are the different skillset requirements between 'software engineering' and 'programming'? Because I really can't think of any. You can look up "software engineer vs programmer".
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol#Properties , the Signal protocol provides message repudiation, so what you described doesn't apply to Signal, and probably not to WhatsApp either.
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Kindle devices support epub now, don't they? Aren't they deprecating .mobi? If you use an Amazon account you can email them to a specific email address to get them on your device.
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I still can't reconcile how verbose he is about pretty much anything that goes through his mind with the fact that both his parents are lawyers.
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> A generation of engineers obsessed with crypto I think most of these engineers are interested in the high compensation that the blockchain space has been able to offer so far. If high compensations disappear, I suspect engineers will s
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Raid 45(marc.merlins.org)
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> quietly selling Binances FTT I don't think this was possible. This would have crashed FTT anyway, so people would have looked at it and found out that Binance was behind this. If Binance hadn't communicated about this beforeh
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> an industry worth $800B According to https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ the market cap you're referring to was $2.4T at some point in the last year, now down to the number you're quoting. With such variab
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https://www.coinbase.com/about claims 108M verified users so 200M overall is not that absurd. That doesn't mean that all these users own significant amounts in crypto though.
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> At gate.io you can have the same access to the matching engine and market data as anyone else for free. At NYSE this costs literally millions of dollars per year. It's not an apple-to-apple comparison because you can't trade
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> You use hardware keys and don’t care about forward secrecy. Private key never leaks. I guess you mean "leak" as in "being copied", which relies on how good the hardware actually is at preventing this, but what if I
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Aren't you talking about copyright assignments rather than AGPL? You can definitely compete using AGPL, you just have to publish your changes (without necessarily assigning the copyrights), just like the company you're competing w
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> a situation where we would benefit from a public blockchain solution in terms of more efficient administration That's what I'm doubting. Ecological concerns etc. are a problem, but in my experience public blockchain solutions
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> Flash loans are great for arbitrageurs My point is that traditional finance doesn't need this because there's enough cash available to arbitrageurs already, so if you somehow made flash loans, they wouldn't be used anywa
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> we had a use case that would have saved a lot of internal work to move onto a public blockchain If anything, large financial institutions have by now realized that they're not interested in public blockchains[0], one notable examp
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> By the way, the majority of crypto horror stories at the moment are straightforward fraud and corruption, of exactly the kind of thing that goes on in tradfi the whole time. There are very few that are genuinely about bugs in smart con
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> (2) executing legal contracts in an atomic way is harder than updating databases in an atomic way. Believe me on this. I believe you, but Ethereum doesn't help you for the legal part, it can only help you with the database part, s
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> To me this is like saying 'why do we need a network and a browser? you could just get them to send you a disk with the file you want to look at and install it on your local machine.' I think we disagree of the relative comple

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