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If useful, the US Department of the Treasury can issue a coin or bill with a value of any denomination, including .005 USD, and so is “infinitely divisible”. Bitcoin divisibility is limited, by design, to 0.00000001 BTC (1 Satoshi) Whether
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My understanding is that the inability to control inflation is a “feature” of BTC, not a “bug”. I strongly suspect that this will eventually make BTC too rare for owners to trade very often, and not practical as a day-to-day currency.
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I’m not sure what benefit I, the learner, get when the author makes editorial comments about how “unfortunate” certain features of a language are. It seems to me that that I’m better served by just quickly acknowledging that something diff
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> This doesn't happen when I use a VPN. That points at your network (ISP, LAN) more than DDG. You might try other less popular search engines (maybe Bing) to see if this behavior happens there as well.
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Ah I see! The assumption is that the candidate is already worth the top of the pay range for the position. In that case, should they be aiming for a higher position? Should there be room to grow in the position?
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I’m unable to parse the sentence you quoted and get the same meaning. The quote is saying that the employee will be at the top of the budgeted pay range for that position, so their salary won’t grow much at all year over year. I’m unclear o
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Unlike an actual lottery ticket, the theory was that there was incentive to help the company succeed in the stock options: From Steve Blank's article: > Startup employees calculated that a) their hard work could change the odds [o
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This article is very light on details. Here’s a better one: “Update on new SARS-CoV-2 variant and how COG-UK tracks emerging mutations” Dec 14, 2020 https://www.cogconsortium.uk/news_item/update-on-new-sars-co... Edit:
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PayPal and Cash, for example, can charge fees for various BTC services, like USD to BTC conversion. To do this they need to hold some BTC. They might not care about whether the value of the BTC increases or decreases, as long as the fees ge
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This article is really well-reasoned. I’ve been watching the BTC community recently, and there’s a widespread misunderstanding that all investors have the same goals, risk profile, and strategy. This looks something like “$BIGFINTECH is buy
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The creator of Apache Ant, James Duncan Davidson, wrote about choosing XML as the “language”: > Now, I never intended for the file format to become a scripting language—after all, my original view of Ant was that there was a declaration
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The original piece of reporting that this interview is discussing: “Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups” https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leak
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> [T]he utility of a formal system lies in the way it's elements and rules map to some world context. To some [specific] world context, yes, but not to any world context. Reasoning from analogy posits that the inverse is true: We
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> [I]nvestigators have pinpointed a fake Zoom invite opened by one of the fund's cofounders... By doing so, the hacker was able to install a malicious software program that gave them access to the fund's email system which they
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> ... if so many employers are looking for 10x engineers and some are willing to pay them 5x or even more... Now we’re no longer talking about productivity but about value . Why a company decides to pay well above the average for an i
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All large systems are, in a sense, obsolete as soon as construction begins. The longer construction takes, the more out-of-date the finished product. And then there are the decades of operation. Consider, for example, that one year into con
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> Apple / Google’s 30% take is the anti-competitive elephant in the room here, not a few crumbs thrown to small developers. This percentage is something that small businesses feel , but is not really what makes the marketplace for
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> ...weak founders with all the luck in the world won't achieve much, whereas great founders with only a little bit of luck can be hugely successful. To clarify a bit here, it’s very hard to know in advance that a founder will be
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I had “lost” that excellent talk. Thank you for posting this.
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To put some context on this, this is a “think piece”, not an official position of a large multi-national bank: > Deutsche Bank says its research is designed to spark debate around a series of important topics. > Report author Mr Templ
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Could a browser plugin do the image analysis, then score the image?
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> Java seems to have its own TZDB so in general your OS and application layer might disagree about zones. More precisely, the Java Virtual Machine ( not the programming language) will, like any operating system running inside a VM, need
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Indeed! Look around at any mature software and you start to notice that it can be worked with at multiple levels. Perhaps it’s a bunch of built-in features to most users, with a smaller group of users tailoring things with “add ons” and “
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The issue is not about the “accuracy” of a filmed historical subject but rather of overwriting a new set of authorial and editorial choices over the original. If you’re trying to understand how the author thought of the world in order to un
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> Worrying about whether or not you’re in violation of a feel-good policy and constantly monitoring yourself for slipups takes a mental toll. More than two decades of research suggests that thought suppression, or trying to stifle your i
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Some context: Amtrak was created as part of a federal bail-out that re-organized the railroads. (Other parts were: Allowing railroads to merge operations; abandon unneeded trackage; and an ongoing dose of de-regulation.) For Amtrak to get f
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Isn’t this factor dominated by the increased risk of failure that venture funded early-stage companies have? Does being funded by YC move the needle toward “success” by a noticeable amount? Or is there something else that you value that YC
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Why do you need an analogy at all? Are your students deeply familiar with the construction characteristics of wood and brick already and ready to draw parallels to software? How do those things relate at all to the subject at hand, strings
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You may enjoy this episode of Radio Lab: “Musical Language”, which explores how sound stimulates the brain. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91512...

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