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by kirse 4y ago
Most of Tether's MC increase has come since the pandemic started. Since then roughly $70B+ USD has been handed to Tether, who have used that $70B+ to purchase backing assets at heavily inflated pandemic valuations, corporate paper of
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by kirse 4y ago
Unless iFinex literally says "lol we took all your money and won't be doing any more Tether redemptions" You mean like this insane set of requirements that makes it basically impossible for the average retail investor to re
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by kirse 4y ago
they already had inventory. Lots of wiggle room in that "had inventory" definition as well.
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by kirse 5y ago
One of the AOL-Files OGs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734502
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by kirse 5y ago
None of what you quoted from Solomon about the impermanence of our material acquisitions sounds profound -- it seems obvious. Of course, the answer is always obvious when you've been provided it beforehand. You state that as-if you s
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by kirse 5y ago
But the sun does affect how well and how long they sleep Yes, the sun coming up an hour later means less light peeking into the room and more sleep cycle time. Big collective win for night owls. As it's a struggle already, getting
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by kirse 5y ago
IMO the ultimate standard for self-crashing car technology should be that an SCC can win every event of WRC (World Rally Championship) across all the countries. Rally is the pinnacle of motorsports - tarmac, gravel, snow, forests, thin road
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by kirse 5y ago
Never understood this convo about Firefox dying or all the complaints. I love Firefox, been using it since 2005 or so. Firebug was awesome back in the day and FF Developer Edition w/ all its developer tools is still great. Only anno
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by kirse 5y ago
I enjoy life in the most boring way. Just doing enough to pass a day You sure you're not depressed, etc? Done any bloodwork or checked test/hormone levels? Eating and sleeping well? Everyone, particularly men, have that thing
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by kirse 5y ago
No luck with Feliz either? https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/
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by kirse 5y ago
I always start with a monolith while keeping microservices in mind. Have clear communication boundaries, avoid shared state as much as possible, consider asynchronous and parallel processing needs, etc. Actor systems are a natural fit for
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by kirse 5y ago
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address has to be in that conversation...
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by kirse 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads into generic religious arguments. They lead to religious flamewars Or they don't, as demonstrated by the results of this thread. Further, where was your commentary on this large thread then? Is the
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by kirse 5y ago
But was there ever an objective basis? People certainly behave in ways that reflects there is an objective basis to be reached - they argue about correctness of perspectives, attempt to reduce complex formulas to the simple, have entire r
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by kirse 5y ago
I did not mis-read your comment, it was a continuation of the commentary on how mandated WFH and government-enforced isolation has essentially just moved deaths from column A to column B over the long run. people are actually closer than e
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by kirse 5y ago
spending nearly all of your time with others makes you accountable and removes opportunities for self-harm. Never would have seen it coming that encouraging people to stay isolated for years at a time and actively fearing their own proxim
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by kirse 5y ago
Growing a religion (or a movement) through bribery is an ancient practice. Of course, and there's always an element of corruption in modern churches that needs to be guarded against. That said, wrt Christianity the early disciples w
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by kirse 5y ago
as it represents a way for people to justify reprehensible acts And in that view, it also represents a way for people to "justify" incredible acts of grace, mercy, and kindness to fellow man. At least in the US, the broad major
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by kirse 5y ago
Christianity started out for me as a fear-based "obey the rules or die" approach to life but over the last few years it has been moving towards a "I love God & love what is good" theme. These days everyone labels em
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by kirse 5y ago
There's a happy medium with debt. Dave Ramsey takes a conservative approach in that he prefers saving your entire stack before buying something, I personally like to keep (total debt < net worth), with some consideration for liquid
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by kirse 5y ago
I would certainly start by trying to generate all possible 2-byte prefixes, 3-byte prefixes, etc. OK great, I did try that to get some insight as to whether various 2/3/4-byte series at different index positions would show up...
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by kirse 5y ago
This is a timely paper. A question for those who are crypto/math experts - I wrote a libsodium-based keygen for ed25519 pairs trying to generate a vanity public key. Is there a chance that a given byte series will never show up in an
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by kirse 5y ago
Mark Seemann has a good talk on this called the "functional pits of success" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8QG9I1XW0 Of all the languages I've used nothing is quite as fun as refactoring an F# app d
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by kirse 5y ago
I use https://everynoise.com/ and randomly spam clicks until I hear a category worth exploring.
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by kirse 5y ago
In the motorcycling world oncoming left vehicles are basically the "Jesus take the wheel" scenario. Go left to avoid them and you're potentially in oncoming traffic, go right and you're trying to negotiate a developing m
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by kirse 5y ago
It's a completely new species I think this is where we differ. That obnoxious spiky little ball we all now know as coronavirus(es) existed in both humans and bats long before making the "jump". Ignoring the possibility th
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by kirse 5y ago
OTOH as engineers who spend a large percentage of life pouring blood and sweat into creating things, it's not a giant leap of inference to ponder that there may be a Creator for the engineering marvel we live in. I struggle with the sp
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by kirse 5y ago
Certainly. My hope is things like WASM eventually make Javascript obsolete if we're into pushing giant blobs of client UI over the wire. Blazor / Bolero in C#/F# are promising starts in that direction.
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by kirse 5y ago
Lots of reasons: 1) No need for 3.7GB of node_modules to crank out a simple site 2) Single solution, easier to bring on junior developers and reason about application logic 3) Caching much easier, too many people think they need real-time p
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by kirse 5y ago
Interesting, I always translate recipes into a mental GANTT chart and use multiple timers because I like everything to be finished at the same time.

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