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by hiq 4y ago
Correlation or causation? E.g. there's a big correlation between tech stocks and cryptocurrencies, but it could just be that investors consider them both in a single category (risky assets) and thus buy / sell at the same time.
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by hiq 4y ago
The idea might be to maximize your expected wealth, e.g. if you consider this kind of emergencies as relatively unlikely and that even then you'd just have to pay interests on a credit card while you're recovering for a few months
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by hiq 4y ago
> It's open source so if Microsoft decides to ditch it, it can be community maintained until people move to something else. Some would suggest that it's closer to open-core: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by hiq 4y ago
> I am arguing that LC/FAANG interview does not do a better job at filtering them out. You're talking of gigantic tech companies that actually have a business interest in getting that right and you just assume that haven't
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by hiq 4y ago
> so how come that I find a good chunk of swe at FAANG are not that smart You put the bar wherever you want. A company can decide to set it lower than what you would expect or like, but it could still make business sense, e.g. if 99%+ of
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by hiq 4y ago
> I've had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance. You could reasonably ask whether that should be legal at all.
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by hiq 4y ago
To quote the comment I linked to: > GUSD's site claims audits - under a heading titled "Review the Gemini dollar reserve-funds independent accountant audits" but links to attestations (example: https://assets.ct
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by hiq 4y ago
> the Gemini dollar is [audited] Is it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31423873
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by hiq 4y ago
> I'm usually about two to three years behind the curve This makes so much sense now for many workflows. I no longer complain about my computers being slow so I don't even think of upgrading, and if something's annoying it
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by hiq 4y ago
> Same, and I've never understood why Debian installs insist on pulling exim into my life. I don't have exim on my system, and I don't think I uninstalled it manually, how did you get exim on yours?
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by hiq 4y ago
To rephrase what has already been pointed out in other comments: this post focuses on 1) drawbacks of cryptocurrencies as solvable problems that could disappear thanks to X and Y, instead of what 2) essential benefits they supposedly (could
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by hiq 4y ago
> notwithstanding the recent collapse of LUNA/UST If anything, that's an invitation to wait the next financial crisis to see what really is left of the "trend".
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by hiq 4y ago
> But then why do people with that kind of reputation still (at certain companies) have to jump through these hoops? Your article points out that in this example: "I'm not allowed to check in code, no... I just haven't don
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by hiq 4y ago
> Someone who builds a truly novel technology solution involving hundreds of hours of effort This person should already have enough of a reputation to get a job at many companies, if their work is public enough. What do you suggest for t
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by hiq 4y ago
I think that's indeed the default behavior, but when I go to a certain app permissions, I have an option "remove permissions and free up space", if I untick this I expect the permissions to stay in place, is that not the case
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by hiq 4y ago
As the other commenters have pointed out already, it seems to be a permissioned blockchain if anything, exactly what Schneier describes as already having existed for decades, nothing new, just marketing. In particular it's not about ha
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by hiq 4y ago
To quote Bruce Schneier: > Private blockchains are completely uninteresting. (By this, I mean systems that use the blockchain data structure but don’t have the above three elements.) In general, they have some external limitation on who
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by hiq 4y ago
The answer to your objections is literally in the comment I linked, did you read it? One keyword is RE.
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by hiq 4y ago
> And yet that adoption process took around 300 years. People used ledgers right after they were created, by definition, and long enough to go through all these years without that practice disappearing and without speculation to prop the
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by hiq 4y ago
That's not how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432661
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by hiq 4y ago
No E2EE protects you from the receiver (the reporter in your example), it's the same if I forward the message I receive to the world.
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by hiq 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism#Cost-effect...
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by hiq 4y ago
> big fraction of this could be done cheaper and with a higher agree of assurance by distributed ledgers than notaries These theoretical benefits have been around for 10+ years with little to show for it. Ledger-based solutions tend to
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by hiq 4y ago
> The other benefit of an IPO (to a trader looking for earliest exposure) is the stabilizing bid from the syndicate, a brief period of more legal market manipulation where a consortium props up the price. Do you mean that you would have
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by hiq 4y ago
I don't know if people should but people definitely do. When I review code, if a constant is inlined in several places (e.g. "https" is used instead of `PROTOCOL = "https"`), I have to check at every place that the
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by hiq 4y ago
> I've had over 10,000 Uber rides, all black, some SUV since 2011 10000/11/365 = 2.5 per day, is this your main means of transportation?
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by hiq 4y ago
> There are both technological and non-technological reasons why you’re lucky to get an international wire done in less than 2-5 days What are the technological reasons? I can transfer EUR between different euro countries in a matter of
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by hiq 4y ago
How is that related? That can already happen if a company decide to have this approach. See also companies that have PIP targets. Presumably companies have a good idea of employees' skill sets when they hire them, or they terminate the
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by hiq 4y ago
But to your original comment, shouldn't BTC go to 500 USDT but stay at a constant USD price (assuming no contagion to the rest of the crypto market which I mentioned above)? Basically if you buy BTC using USD going through a random cur
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by hiq 4y ago
Sure, it's a matter of preference, I just prefer to have less stuff, everything else being equal.

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