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by joosters 4y ago
The downsides of "Be Your Own Bank"...
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by joosters 4y ago
As per Matt Levine: ... The way the traditional system works is that if you have a margin loan, and the value of your collateral declines, your broker calls you up and says “hey we need more collateral,” and you either post more collateral
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by joosters 4y ago
Obviously 92 steps is a lot, but if you want to improve the situation, it's no use just saying "this is terrible, make it simpler!", you need to consider: - Which steps are unnecessary? Unless you have the view that the burea
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by joosters 4y ago
To be really pedantic, there's a big difference between 'memory bandwidth' and 'memory transfer speed'. The former is just reading (or writing) to a block of memory, and the latter is copying data from one location
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by joosters 4y ago
On the original ZX Spectrum, you could measure the write bandwidth visually, because on startup it would write the value 2 into each byte in memory (which included the graphics RAM). It would then re-read and decrease the value of each byte
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by joosters 4y ago
I'm not sure a 'Cancel' button is the right UI, because settings pages are a confusing mess - sometimes a change takes place right away, other times you need to press the 'OK' button first. Perhaps an 'Undo&#x2
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by joosters 4y ago
Look, I said I was a tether skeptic, but I think it is undeniable that Tether are buying back tethers from some people. If they weren't doing that right now, we'd see a whole lot of stories like "I tried to redeem $100M of te
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by joosters 4y ago
It depends upon where you think the money is going. If you believe people are parking their assets in USDT, then yes, you'd expect there to be upward pressure on the price of tether. If instead, people are getting out of crypto altoget
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by joosters 4y ago
Tether skeptic here. This is not a depeg. Most likely this is just because of the current sell-off of crypto currencies - there are a lot more sellers than buyers out there right now. Right now, when you can buy a tether at $0.997 and (in t
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by joosters 4y ago
When the market euphoria was going close to its peak of peaks You only know it was a peak after it peaks. So your advice just boils down to 'sell before the price goes down'. What an insight!
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by joosters 4y ago
'Wrapping' a coin implies trusting some other person to not run away with them.
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by joosters 4y ago
> what code changes are there in the world that can legitimately maintain that peg None. But I guess it sounds good to pretend to be doing something useful!
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by joosters 4y ago
coinmarketcap.com says there are 7.46 billion DEI coins out there => a 'market cap' of about $4.4B, yet coingecko.com says there are only 89 million coins (implying $52M) - that's a huge difference. Which one is right? FWI
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by joosters 4y ago
"Sold" It's hard to show that they really sold these coins. Certainly, the LFG transferred the coins to some different exchanges. But did they truly sell them? If I was running a dodgy ponzi scheme and saw it collapsing catas
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by joosters 4y ago
I'm also struggling to get an idea of the size of the candle; the article gives no information and it's unclear if the photos of the demo are using the same product as described in the text. Surely something that can produce 2600L
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by joosters 4y ago
If you don't trust statements in the article, then you have absolutely nothing to base any of this discussion on. Following your reasoning, why do you trust anything in the story, rather than just select pieces of it - does the bust
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by joosters 4y ago
The attack surface was already there: people put up real-looking speed limit signs and it fools drivers. No extra technology is needed.
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by joosters 4y ago
The big problem seemed to be competition. You only get to write the insurance if you're the best price but the best price is not necessarily one that makes sense for the business. A friend of mine worked for an insurer, their job was
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by joosters 4y ago
Oddly enough, vodafone filtering is less restrictive in other ways. For instance, they never blocked The Pirate Bay, but I just switched ISP from vodafone and my new ISP (Sky) blocks the site via some TLS tricks. It's odd because while
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by joosters 4y ago
How does immortality affect the discount rate? Just because you or I will die, doesn't stop our heirs (or companies) from collecting income from assets. I'd suggest that discovering immortality might have the opposite effect, it w
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by joosters 4y ago
There's https://tosdr.org/ which is similar. It monitors T&Cs of popular sites, analysing them and spotting changes.
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by joosters 4y ago
Hacker News forces binding arbitration as part of its T&Cs, with no option of an opt-out at all - https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ ...of course, no-one is using HN to transfer money, so it's not really a fai
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by joosters 4y ago
40 years later, trying to get something running on a modern Mac is painful Right click on app, select ‘open’. If you get a prompt warning about an unknown developer, pick the option to run the app anyway. Getting angry about a prompt that
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by joosters 5y ago
I installed Gallium several years back, on a chromebook that didn't support any of that (at the time, at least). Gallium was also the only distro I found that worked out of the box with full hardware support (audio, webcam, etc). Other
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by joosters 5y ago
Of course they pay the VAT to HMRC. They collect the VAT, since it's paid to the company when you buy something off of them - customers don't make a separate payment to the government every time they make a purchase! But the essen
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by joosters 5y ago
And of course they did pay a significant amount of VAT (sales taxes) on these boards. End consumers pay VAT, the company doesn't.
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by joosters 5y ago
Same goes for phone numbers too. When I enter a phone number into a field, only to be told on pressing submit that 'phone number cannot contain spaces', I despair for technology. So your form accepts spaces, and you made your webs
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by joosters 5y ago
> I'm sorry but this is a bogus statement. I can't stand when people say this, it's an empty statement, it's like saying "anyone could have founded Amazon". It's true. The software was freely availabl
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by joosters 5y ago
I'm definitely not a supporter of cryptocurrency, but it's fair to defend Satoshi here. They did not pre-mine bitcoin. They released the software and started mining. Anyone else could have joined in at the beginning, Satoshi did
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by joosters 5y ago
Sony seem to get this right: My PS4 can turn on my TV and switch the input source when it wakes up, but is also clever enough not to do so if you wake the PS4 via remote play (where you are streaming the output to some other device) Howev

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