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by lend000 4y ago
In fairness, I have yet to see a first party status page that reliably detects all outages.
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by lend000 4y ago
Nice demonstration of how insiders don't know shit about longer term price movements of their own stock, especially when driven by the macro environment. The only way insiders could theoretically make money using an unfair edge is trad
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by lend000 4y ago
This is a common trope, and while true, it should be mentioned that we need the food produced by this water, too. Perpetually drought stricken California produces more food (by value) than any other state in the country [0]. Sure, some of t
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by lend000 4y ago
My understanding is that most of that SOL was not liquidated (it was locked in digital contracts preventing its sale and has been "vesting" since shit hit the fan), and nothing is going to be sold anytime soon while the bankruptcy
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by lend000 4y ago
I'm not arguing against you. I'm arguing against the reality that most people struggle to differentiate between shades of gray and down-voted the parent simply because he wasn't unequivocally bashing SBF, and dared to comment
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by lend000 4y ago
Just fishing in general is probably the most horrible form of hunting (imagine fighting for your life against a sharp hook caught in your mouth until you give in to pain and exhaustion and then die of asphyxiation and/or being beat and
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by lend000 4y ago
Just because SBF is the villain, doesn't mean all of his enemies are suddenly our friends (contrary to the popular saying). The world works on incentives, and bankruptcy lawyers are incentivized to maximize billable hours. While I have
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by lend000 4y ago
If any skeptic here likes nature documentaries, I'd recommend "Our Great National Parks" on Netflix. I found it unique in that it documented exceptionally intelligent and complex behavior by a number of animals we don't
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by lend000 4y ago
Love coming to HN and learning from the in-depth research of others on topics like these. How important do you think the external fan is? (versus just placing it next to the modest airflow of a HEPA filter, as a sibling commenter suggested)
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by lend000 4y ago
Most people can't name any specific recession prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, but everyone has heard of the Great Depression. A sibling commenter posted some good analyses, but the gist of it is that they tried tightening
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by lend000 4y ago
I never understood why Woodrow Wilson is lauded in the history books, and comes out in historians' presidential rankings quite well. His administration (and he personally) had a pattern of suppressing free speech with prison time. That
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by lend000 4y ago
Thanks for sharing.
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by lend000 4y ago
MAOI's on their own can be dangerous depending on your diet -- I wouldn't be surprised by a 2.3% number representing people who consumed a lot of tyramine beforehand, despite the fact that you are supposed to fast.
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by lend000 4y ago
Could you elaborate on what exactly you experienced (and your takeaways) from your bad trip? Do you feel like set and setting or your previous mental state going into the trip caused the bad trip?
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by lend000 4y ago
Being an Uyghur? Freedom of speech? Encryption? The coronavirus (still)?
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by lend000 4y ago
Are you a US citizen? I went on several trips to Europe and the UK (including post Brexit) before I learned you are apparently supposed to get some kind of visas. Nobody ever asked for anything.
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by lend000 4y ago
This doesn't make much sense to me. I think the problem is that arbitrage just dried up (as it does in a maturing market), and SBF got high on his own farts and started making directional bets. This is clear from the amount of FTT toke
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by lend000 4y ago
> Binance is the issuer of USDT Surely you mean Bitfinex.
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by lend000 4y ago
Nobody is saying KYC is a guarantee, but whether it's a coincidence or not, the exchanges I consider to be safest are all KYC and based in jurisdictions where fraud == prison.
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by lend000 4y ago
Not arguing with you there, LOL. If he's out of his prime and keeps it up, I imagine it'll negatively affect his wealth significantly (as it should).
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by lend000 4y ago
I think the problem is that every recession on that chart has been "bailed out" in some form by Fed monetary policy, mostly to the benefit of asset holders, and usually far too early or excessively. The increasing overall trend ca
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by lend000 4y ago
This is incorrect -- wealth inequality only improves during recessions. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134
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by lend000 4y ago
Binance was publishing fake volume numbers (basically a sine wave chart) up until ~2018. They faked it until they made it. The only reputable exchanges are KYC/western based Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, and perhaps some of the smaller US
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by lend000 4y ago
Healthcare or disability welfare could be separate, perhaps, but for financial welfare we should never be giving cash handouts dependent on inevitably perverse incentives (staying impoverished).
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by lend000 4y ago
That would be better, but I prefer the simpler solution. It also ensures there is no incentive to stop working.
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by lend000 4y ago
Yep, another reason any welfare should be replaced with a UBI which isn't dependent on any circumstances.
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by lend000 4y ago
UST wasn't a true stablecoin (it isn't like any dollars disappeared from the ecosystem), so I'd put it in the same category as the hundreds of billions in "vanished" market value that was a simple consequence of the
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by lend000 4y ago
I think broadcasting the intent to sell the FTT was the big mistake. It isn't in their interest to announce to the market their trading plans so, and to my knowledge they are not beholden to any regulation to do so, so why do it? Just
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by lend000 4y ago
People on here get worked up about it because they all know someone who made a lot of money in it that they see as unearned -- it comes down to jealousy or schadenfreude, I suppose. The guise of caring about the externalities or the grandma
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by lend000 4y ago
Colleges make more money anyway, and the additional bloat does support larger programs, just not very efficiently. With all the free money floating around, I suppose they aren't very economically pressured to be efficient. They surely

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