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by pezzana 5y ago
Increased demand for tether causes the exchange to rise as buyers compete against each other. Same as any other currency market. There's nothing special here. Tether needs to be issued to satisfy the demand and prevent the price of tet
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by pezzana 5y ago
And? So what? If that quantity of Tether (1/75 of the float) were dumped into the open market for USD, you'd expect to see the USD change rate fall. That clearly hasn't happened. The rate has been very close to 1:1 forever. T
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by pezzana 5y ago
> The federal government is California’s largest industry like most states, with about 2.5 million employees What's your source?
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Though the NICD has confirmed that almost all cases of SARS-C0V-2 in Tshwane are due to the new variant, we have not been able to establish that in every instance the variant is Omicron as the PCR machine in use at the SBAH laboratory
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by pezzana 5y ago
Long story short: Varoufakis dislikes the inflexibility of Bitcoin's supply. Varoufakis wants currencies with flexible supplies safely under the control of technocrats like him. This should come as no surprise. What is surprising is th
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by pezzana 5y ago
> So cashers [those who turn card numbers into cash] will do other things, both to achieve operational scale and to reduce their risk profile. One example is triangular e-commerce fraud, which (like much fraud) is so brilliant that if it
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by pezzana 5y ago
If you haven't done so already, think hard about how you feel about being a care giver. Think hard about how you'd feel if that arrangement extends 10-15 years. Talk with you wife about how she feels about those topics. If you fee
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by pezzana 5y ago
> “The threats are really growing and expanding every single day. And it’s really an evolution of activity that’s been happening for a long time,” Thompson, told Rogin. “We’re really at a point now where there’s a whole host of ways that
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Money has always been owned by and manipulated by the powerful. You're fighting a strawman. What I said was that money was being weaponized. Examples: - currency-driven economic sanctions (other countries) - civil asset forfeiture
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> Many hospitals are struggling to cope with the increasing number of intensive care patients. There could be around 6,000 Covid-19 patients in intensive care by Christmas -- regardless of any measures implemented by Germany's leade
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by pezzana 5y ago
Then you're listening to the wrong people. The world's currencies are being weaponized against other countries and against citizens. It's a project decades in the making. You may not feel part of that yet, but if you express
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Everyone seems to have an increasingly horrifically misguided idea of how distributed systems work. > There is of course the most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system, whose name shall not
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by pezzana 5y ago
> People familiar with internal happenings in the company, which is set to go public in the near future at a $6.9 billion valuation, told TechCrunch that a few factors drove the decision behind the staff reductions. > For one, the mor
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Trick questions and esoteric puzzles give the interviewer no useful information about the interviewee — her skills, her strengths, her weaknesses, her potential for growth. Those are the things a great interviewer should be seeking out
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Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block(squareup.com)
14 points by pezzana 5y ago|1 comments
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> The researchers used geochemical and ecological data from ocean sediments to reconstruct the change in water column properties over the past 800 years. They precisely dated sediments using a combination of methods and looked for diagno
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by pezzana 5y ago
An alternative to centralized video sharing is definitely needed and PeerTube looks interesting. Discoverability is one of the things that makes YouTube so compelling. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like PeerTube offers much on this fr
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by pezzana 5y ago
> So, it’s [Ethereum] a big operating system powered by crypto tokens, for the purpose of moving around… crypto tokens. This is the thing that few authors understand about Ethereum. The main use case is creating new tokens and trading th
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by pezzana 5y ago
> “Don’t buy stocks when the P/E ratio is over 20” was a good lesson to learn from the 1970s when interest rates were 7%, the Fed hadn’t yet learned what it’s capable of, and most businesses were cyclical manufacturing companies vs.
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by pezzana 5y ago
I'm not sure if you've seen Script before, but you might be surprised at what it can do. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script As for NFTs they are little more than OP_RETURN, which has been part of Bitcoin since
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by pezzana 5y ago
> It’s possible you have, in recent months, seen people writing with excitement (or curiosity, or consternation) about “Web3”. The term imagines the transition of many internet services to a model built around cryptographic tokens, such
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by pezzana 5y ago
> But in fact I had not intended to cancel Harris; I hadn’t intended anything at all. I would have attacked him, physically, had he been present, over a pure delusion, which I say with shame I can’t put into words. But I was not thinking
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Nvidia data center sales grew 55% on demand for artificial intelligence chips(cnbc.com)
4 points by pezzana 5y ago|0 comments
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by pezzana 5y ago
I really like that story at the beginning. Unfortunately, the author uses it to construct a false analogy to Bitcoin. The same article could have been written about the Internet of 1999. And it would have been wrong for a lot of the same re
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CalPERS Board Votes to Increase Portfolio Leverage(ai-cio.com)
2 points by pezzana 5y ago|0 comments
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by pezzana 5y ago
> ... Bitcoin (crypto in general) won’t be replacing gold because you cannot use bitcoin to build electronic circuits. ... This is as ridiculous as stating that bitcoin won't replace gold because dental fillings are made of gold. Wh
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by pezzana 5y ago
> My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! Not a single word about what the boss objected to. Reading between the lines, I suspe
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by pezzana 5y ago
> ... But crypto assets come with an attached narrative economics that tries to rationalize their existence by appeals to either libertarian politics or technology. If we venture down the technology arguments, at this point the discussio
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by pezzana 5y ago
> As a result I never even finished my bachelors degree, and I'm now in my early 30s and regretting it a lot. I'd really think carefully about why you want that degree. > But then I look around and see the cool jobs in 3D
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Alright, so the cacao has some natural oil in each of the beans, this stuff is what is known as cacao butter, depending on how well we were able to grind this down, the cacao butter will express itself in the powder we have here. Howev

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