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by mamon 6y ago
The lawsuit I cited suggests that two exchanges were actually complicit in the scam - and Poloniex is one of them. Also, since Tether has its bank accounts in Deltec bank in Bahamas, the inflow of $15B to such a small country would be visib
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by mamon 6y ago
>> But banks in the United States normally operate with a reserve requirement of only 10% The banks are legally allowed to do that, Tether wasn't. According to the lawsuit at some point they started declining buying back USDT, d
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by mamon 6y ago
Yes, and that's exactly what's happening right now, that's why Bitcoin price rose from 10k to 32k USD since September. Music is going to stop soon, and people are desperately looking for chairs to sit on.
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by mamon 6y ago
If you plan to buy Bitcoin please wait a few months until lawsuit against Tether [1] gets a ruling - if they are found guilty of a price manipulation scheme it should temporarily bring Bitcoin price down to more reasonable level, say below
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by mamon 6y ago
Not necessarily. You can always generate self-singed certificate, yes, but trusted issuers such as Let's Encrypt often use challenges that require you to temporarily modify the DNS record - that wouldn't be possible in this case.
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by mamon 6y ago
It's not only about cost, it's also about practicality: there is some baseline demand on electricity even at night. Solar obviously cannot fulfill that demand. Wind also can't because it is too unreliable. So we do need some
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by mamon 6y ago
>> It's solvable with excess generation capacity, storage, and transmission capacity So now you're arguing FOR energy storage? Your previous post was basically: "let's overprovision and let excessive energy go to w
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Renewable energy is getting so cheap that throwing kWh away can be cheaper than the cost of idling other capital infrastructure. That's missing the point.The problem isn't "what to do with excess of energy at peak t
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by mamon 6y ago
But is gaming at fault here? Or maybe "gaming personalities" are simply people for which real life sucks, so they try to alleviate their pain by gaming a lot? Maybe gaming was the thing that delayed their suicide by months/ye
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by mamon 6y ago
I can sit quietly in a room just fine. My problems start when I start talking with other people - I then realize how many of them are idiots and assholes.
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by mamon 6y ago
No, that means that this one investor THINKS they are worth 10x dollars. Other investors might value the company differently, based on number of customers, cash in bank, their own subjective opinion on the product, etc.
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by mamon 6y ago
where do I buy such device?
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by mamon 6y ago
>> You're being ridiculous here. Nobody is asking for that, they're asking for sensible road design and sensible rules. Oh, you'd be surprised what "city activists" can devise in their stupid heads in my count
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by mamon 6y ago
I would guess that GP doesn't feel qualified... Earning a shitload of money once you've joined FAANG is the easy part, hard part is getting hired by FAANG in the first place.
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by mamon 6y ago
Benefits of being the only global superpower. Believe me, other countries would gladly do the same, they just lack the aircraft carrier fleet to support such policy.
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by mamon 6y ago
> how do we effectively convince people this new type of vaccine is safe long-term? Same as always: do a long-term clinical trial and look for any side effects.
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by mamon 6y ago
Yes, there are exceptions to the rule: 1. Sometimes talent is hard to recognize, as in the people that you listed. 2. Sometimes the whole company is such a bad situation that they have to fire whole teams/branches indiscriminately. But
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by mamon 6y ago
Companies don't fire talented people. They fire those, who, during the good times were just barely adequate for the job they did, and in the bad times they became liability.
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by mamon 6y ago
This seems like a prank by some angry, overworked developer....
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by mamon 6y ago
You must be thinking about AESAN countries alone, which have about $3 trillion GDP, but this free trade agreement also includes China ($13.6T), Japan ($5T) and Australia ($1.4T), placing it ahead of both USA ($20T) and EU ($15.6T) That was
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by mamon 6y ago
>> corporations will throw money at developers who work on it, but by and large, FOSS is done by unpaid people Money thrown by corporations is what separates successful projects, like Linux, or Apache Spark, or Postgres from niche thi
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by mamon 6y ago
No, it is not illegal - I've been practicing this for the last 10 years, never had any trouble with tax office. It all depends on how your contract is written - if you have clauses that put some of the business risk on you (e.g. you gi
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by mamon 6y ago
>> I don't see how flat or even marginal income taxes disincentivize people from making more money When you hit higher tax brackets it gets more difficult to negotiate a raise with your employer, because to get X more money for y
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by mamon 6y ago
Problem is: most governments think of "pro-labor" laws as paid sick or maternity leave, labor unions privileges, or protections from being fired, e.g. mandating longer notice periods. This mostly benefit low wage workers, who lack
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by mamon 6y ago
> The EU is the biggest trading bloc in the world. That recently changed: https://www.dw.com/en/asia-pacific-nations-sign-worlds-bigge... > China is highly dependent on the EU and the US for trade This is double-
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by mamon 6y ago
> Added to which, China can be dealt with via restructuring a trade agreement provided there is the political will. Which it looks like there is. Except EU is already too weak to force China to do anything, and by moving carbon-intensive
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by mamon 6y ago
The worst consequence of COVID will be thousands of people dying from other disease, because healthcare system focused on COVID neglected them, and the economic depression caused by lockdowns. The worst consequence of global warming will be
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by mamon 6y ago
It's been kind of hard for me, because my visa process was impeded by USCIS. My compay has moved people to US before, under Obama presidency, and the process was much easier back then. And you're right, US is no longer a desirable
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by mamon 6y ago
Because Trump was all about "business", America's prosperity. Biden is all about things I personally don't care about, like anti-COVID measures, or fighting global warming, which will very likely destroy US economically.
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by mamon 6y ago
30k sounds like entry/mid-level salary in Central Europe. With over 10 years of experience I currently make over $90k Also, if you take median salary in software industry, which is probably closer to $65k, in my country it buys you muc

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