manholio

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by manholio 4y ago
My grandmother had one of these combs, made from plastic or some kind of hard resin. It was used for the exact same purpose and had the same basic design, fine teeth on one side and coarser teeth on the reverse. Here is an example: https:&
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by manholio 4y ago
> keeping unreasonable sums of money on hand has been the primary downfall of the majority of crypto exchanges That is unconvincing. If they had the USDC in cold storage they could easily see the uptick in withdrawals and prepare the nec
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by manholio 4y ago
That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice. This is the appropriate
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by manholio 4y ago
But why would they need all these swaps if they held customer USDC 1:1 ? They clearly have done bad accounting and used customer funds for their own schemes. We'll soon find out if it's FTX-level-bad.
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Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B(markets.businessinsider.com)
441 points by manholio 4y ago|297 comments
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by manholio 4y ago
It's as if he can only program in sed and he can't save the sed scripts. Even if I could learn such complex and arcane syntax, I would surely forget it by the time I need to use it. True, writing a program for this task is bringin
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by manholio 4y ago
> This post seem to blame victims for the problem, and that is not fair. Guilt is not zero-sum. A killer gets 20 years, but a group of 10 people conspiring to a murder get 20 years each, not 2 years each. It's perfectly possible the
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by manholio 4y ago
Regarding tribes, one idea that changed my life was that many successful people are smarter than they seem and don't merely go with the tribe because of herd behavior - they are quite fully aware of the specific madness of their specif
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by manholio 4y ago
https://archive.ph/dr1m4
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The College Essay Is Dead. Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia(theatlantic.com)
4 points by manholio 4y ago|6 comments
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FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page(web3isgoinggreat.com)
4 points by manholio 4y ago|0 comments
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by manholio 4y ago
An AI comment bot trained on past HN comments that can be unleashed on the actual HN to whore karma sounds like a great meta-humorous project - it would prove that as far as upvotes go, we have achieved the singularity.
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by manholio 4y ago
If Ken and Pike could design it in an afternoon, I'm sure even a standards committee could have done it in less than 5 years or so, the ideas are straight forward. I would also argue that the fast sync with at most one character consum
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by manholio 4y ago
> The point is that the phrase “nobody wants to work” is a meaningless constant refrain that goes back decades And you are missing the point of my rebuttal: that by the same method anything can be made to appear like a constant meaningle
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm sure that with the right search engine one could find a century worth of mentions for absolutely any common phrase, for example "people are working harder and harder", "children don't like to work anymore",
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by manholio 4y ago
What's depressing about the saga of utf8 adoption is that it's such an obvious solution. The ISO2022 standards used the principle since the 70s, and programmers of the era were widely accustomed to extending 8 bit instruction sets
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by manholio 4y ago
Modern devices however are unusable without software and the warranty usually covers at least a minimum of software performance. I understand why manufacturers wouldn't want to deal with bricked devices, which are technically still per
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by manholio 4y ago
Proprietary app stores are a monopolistic abuse that must be legislated away. I acknowledge the argument for not allowing the platform to run any executable code the user can get their hands on, but this should not be used against the consu
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by manholio 4y ago
This reads like pure hype from an obscure battery startup pushing their own exotic Sodium-Potassium solution, that sounds no furter then TRL3.
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by manholio 4y ago
To beat inflation you need a real yield of zero - that's what real means, inflation adjusted; but I didn't type "real" so I don't understand this nitpick. > transactions don't even involve Ether at all aside
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by manholio 4y ago
> charges usage fees, that value accrues to holders of the native token, ETH The trouble with that is that if the fees are negligible compared to the economic activity that is mediated (as crypto bulls claim), then you need to lock a ma
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by manholio 4y ago
> the problem of fraudulent business practices isn't specific to crypto at all. The problem with crypto is that the bulk of the value is created through seigniorage of the tokens required to make it work, not actual utility derived
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by manholio 4y ago
It replaced the trading mechanism of existing stocks with its own. It didn't replace the traded stocks with it's own stock or stocks it controlled, which is what crypto is trying. Perhaps the example was not clear.
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by manholio 4y ago
Well, that's the whole meta-joke, that he wasn't a nerd (what he was trying to project to fit in the startup/venture culture), he was in fact a bro with bellow average intelligence. When people talk about crypto bros and tech
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by manholio 4y ago
The problem with crypto is that instead of speculating on the premise of the actual inovative technology, the speculation is centered around the close money substitute that the technology enabled. Investors bet on crypto-assets themselves,
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by manholio 4y ago
You may be confusing bros with jocks. SBF was the quintessential cryto bro, checking all the boxes of the startup / tech bro stereotype: young white man with a elite education, or a dropout of such, liberal values wants to change the w
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by manholio 4y ago
> Is that like just letting every Bernie Madoff's scam run its course -- eventually retail investors and retirement funds will learn to stop investing in scams? Madoff was a scammer operating in a well regulated traditional financia
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by manholio 4y ago
This is an excelent regulatory option. The creation of money substitutes in the crypto space is not something a state wants to encourage, and is very detrimental to financial stability. The basic tools of the central bank - regulating reser
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by manholio 4y ago
It's better for the fans since they get more content with less money, with the tradeoff of some personal information. Since the band and ticketing partner are not in the ad business and want to build long term, I expect that limited pe
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by manholio 4y ago
All kind of models are possible: associate your social ID and prove you've distributed band related content early in their career; associate multiple past purchases - for things like merchandising, fan specials, behind the scenes etc.

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