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by pgwhalen 4y ago
SBF also stated that he just needed to raise $8B and everything would be okay. I'm not sure if he's delusional or lying, or some combination of the two, but I think we're past the point where we should believe much of what h
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The law is not a smart contract with exploitable loopholes; obvious malice like you describe would be found illegal.
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You've misread my comment. Of course it was news, but it didn't reveal anything spectacular about the structure of the financial markets, at least certainly not something WSB predicted ahead of time (as other commenters note, Sup
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What exactly were they “onto” with GME? It isn’t exactly news that an investor with a short position will blow out if the stock increases in value by 10x or 100x.
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> what UBI actually means is giving exclusive in-groups more money than the median global income for free. We see exactly what happens in the gulf oil nations like Qatar. This is interesting to me and I wanted to dig in more. You seem t
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> It wasn't clear as of Nov. 14th that there had been out and out theft. The leaked balance sheet on Nov. 12th was as much clarity as I needed. Plainly, it demonstrated that customer assets were not segregated as promised, but were
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I completely understand the view that crypto should no longer be given the benefit of the doubt and subscribe to it myself, but I think that even without the benefit of hindsight from the FTX implosion, Coinbase is clearly the adult in the
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Ultimately Redis just stores bytes, there's no reason you couldn't put arrow formatted data in it (or in Olric, as I understand it). I do wish plasma wasn't dead/dying though. There is a huge gap in the (extremely crowd
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Thank god the Java language designers don’t share your point of view.
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> Even if FTX has stopped withdrawals, it does not necessarily mean they are insolvent. Update, FTX is insolvent: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520
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> But (in the US), you can’t usually have a policy on the language of business discussions in general I’m not super informed on the subject, but this runs directly contrary to my understanding. Highly regulated industries require English
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I’ve seen this sort of comment on hacker news a few times recently. I’m curious where it comes from. I live in Chicago, am largely not in the “tech scene” and don’t know anyone like this.
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Rune is a type alias in go, which more or less maps to the more common words “character” or “code point”. https://go.dev/blog/strings
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Time and time again, commenters suggest that the reason to use Kubernetes is to enable easy scaling, but this is not the case in my organization. Kubernetes is valuable because it is a standardized and flexible deployment model. Easy scala
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> The "only if you have time" part is what I disagree with. If we're doing TDD then I don't see how you can avoid writing unit tests, or even deprioritize them. Perhaps the author doesn't recommend TDD? They don
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Didn’t they already take over the Craigslist market? I don’t buy used things online ever, but all my peers who do refer exclusively to Marketplace and not Craigslist.
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The fed is not _trying_ to soften the labor market, it is trying to reduce inflation. It expects that the labor market may soften as a byproduct. It's right there in your link.
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Probably true (given that it’s true of me and I work in finance), but again irrelevant to my point. I’m not sure how the principle is not actionable in practice. Surely recognizing that everyone has iPhones and that trend isn’t stopping is
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
I’m not surprised, because all of those things you mention are different and much more specific than I’m referring to. The vague idea that “if Tesla the company does well, TSLA the stock goes up, in a loose sense” is much simpler and it’s h
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Surely a retail investor understands that the AAPL represents claims on the future earnings of Apple, and TSLA represents claims on the future earnings of Tesla. People know what those companies do in the real world.
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The fed does not have a “targeted plan to leave an additional 1 million people unemployed by the end of the year.” Please stop spreading such FUD.
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> Congress and the Fed caused the M1 money supply to 5X in just a period of two years. Oft-repeated, but incorrect. The way M1 is calculated was changed in 2020, and the apples to apples comparison is actually a little bit less than 2X.
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Crucially, Alireza was banned because of his skyrocketing rating (which is of course indirectly an indication of potential cheating), not because of suspicious play.
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This is my first time learning about him and haven't been exposed to much more than the wikipedia article - what about his past is dubious?
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This is definitely my suspicion, I mentioned it in another comment. The e biking experience I have seems extremely assisted, but I bet that's at one end of the spectrum.
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This reply doesn't assume best intent. I've ridden many ebikes and the effort is so clearly lower, to the point that it feels about the same as walking 1-2 mph. Maybe I ride it differently than everybody else somehow.
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I'm surprised about the down votes, I'm similarly curious. I bike a lot, and occasionally take a bikeshare e bike, and the difference is night and day. Yes, I'm moving my legs in the bike pedaling motion, but it in a way th
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It hasn't always, but something of the sort _has_ existed for a long long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
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What is the definition of politician that Fauci fits?
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> Great feature, but cloud providers are incentivised to make it difficult for people to save money. Every business is incentivized this way. Competition is what pushes prices down, of which there is plenty in the cloud industry (though

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