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by nikanj 4y ago
If Circle is healthy they can make tons of money buying USDC at a discount. The fact they’re not doing it should tell you how solvent they are. Buying their own coin is a guaranteed 10% instant profit, why are they not moving?
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by nikanj 4y ago
No worries, the Bitfinex people will just conjure up more unbacked Tether to pump the value back up
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by nikanj 4y ago
Founding <whatever> only makes sense if you're giving them a founder-sized slice of equity.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Safe bets. Experienced teams starting something in a field they know well, promising to gradually improve something and make decent returns. Essentially the opposite of the frothy bubble startup, where Stanford dropouts with zero experience
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What's the Endgame for AI in Education?
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by nikanj 4y ago
Would I be correct in guessing homes in the former were much more expensive than the latter?
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by nikanj 4y ago
Old people in said countries implemented said surveillance anyway.
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by nikanj 4y ago
But building user-hostile crap _anything_ is way more profitable
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by nikanj 4y ago
I have never fixed network problems by turning IPv6 on, but I have fixed them numerous times by turning it off.
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by nikanj 4y ago
But for the previous generation or three it was both. A house could be bought for relatively little, and rose quickly in value. Like a lot of pyramid schemes, it’s actually quite good if you got in early
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by nikanj 4y ago
Instead, we decided to eliminate all visual cues for actionability and context. The modern UX designers hiss and scream if you suggest something as banal as 3D
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by nikanj 4y ago
It’s been [2] days since I had to fix our npm install. One package (not ours) suddenly fails to build about 40% of the time. Looks like a parallel access problem, node-gyp poops with ”Unable to access foobar.tlog” because some other step is
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by nikanj 4y ago
Is there no separation between the blue-collar working class and the homeless/hopeless class?
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by nikanj 4y ago
But somehow modern software (Outlook, I’m looking at you) has trouble keeping up at my typing speed, and there’s a visible delay before characters appear on the screen. It doesn’t matter what the software does 99.9% of the time, if it’s an
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by nikanj 4y ago
It rewards changes, not just inclusions. Removal of well-liked and widely used features also gets you a good performance review.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Doom on a Pentium 4? Seems like a massive overkill Also can’t believe P4 was just 7 years after the release of Pentium, with Pentium Pro between them.
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by nikanj 4y ago
We do all of those things in Scandinavia. Bike theft is everywhere, and the police just tell you to report the crime via online self-serve.
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by nikanj 4y ago
”Tell me a bedtime story with dragons and rollerskating” is a very reasonable use case. Factual errors don’t matter in numerous cases
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by nikanj 4y ago
Print, apply scissors to parts you want to redact, scan. Foolproof, easy to explain to anyone, and 100% reliable.
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by nikanj 4y ago
And in 5 years we’re back to where we started from: A KVM would be occassionally useful for my job, but it comes with a $400/seat/mo mandatory subscription, with a minimum of 12 months and 20 seats
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by nikanj 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/ftx-used-200-million-of-cust...
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by nikanj 4y ago
You can get your own mining gear for fiat and get freshly minted BTC? Does not scale well for the low end though
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by nikanj 4y ago
I have drugs. I want cash. You have cash. You want drugs. You go on localbitcoins and trade your cash for bitcoin (fully legal) and then buy drugs from me via darkweb (fully anonymous). I sell you the drugs on darkweb (fully anonymous) and
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by nikanj 4y ago
Selling assets pumps up the bottom line, but if that's your only source of income, you're better off just liquidating the company and cutting the losses
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by nikanj 4y ago
They held a ton of cryptos they got when BTC was $verylittle, and have been slowly selling to cover expenses?
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by nikanj 4y ago
I had the exact same thought.
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by nikanj 4y ago
PCs aren’t getting better, but software is getting worse so you do need more CPU/RAM just to run the latest Electron monstrosities
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by nikanj 4y ago
Start 11 ( https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/ ) can ungroup the taskbar, but at the cost of making the Start menu / taskbar / systray generally unstable. They are reasonably good at restarting Ex
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by nikanj 4y ago
I recommend people compare the commutes of people making the decisions, to the commutes of people suffering the consequences of those decisions. The key people have plenty of money and tend to live near the city center, their commute is 15
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by nikanj 4y ago
So many of the Windows 11 changes are just…odd. Like no longer being able to disable taskbar grouping, or the explorer right-click menu getting half the options hidden under ”show more” One would think there was some reasoning behind this,

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