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The proliferation concerns probably got worse. I wouldn't invest in this in the US unless there was like a constitutional amendment saying we can reprocess.
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A Nobel Prize?
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> The only reason these companies are successful is that the top execs are friends with the other execs at fortune 500 companies so they mostly figure out a way to spin it as a success so everyone gets their bonuses even if no value was
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4y ago
With 1. I think it depends on intent. For example when Tesla purchased BTC before announcing they were taking payments to have some liquidity on it for financial reasons or whatever, then it's ok. If you can prove they are front-runnin
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4y ago
"A lot of people suspect"? Are we being overt? Am I the only one that not very subtly got offered insider trading of NFT tokens as a perk for joining a crypto company?
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4y ago
> inherent property of a $5k rental, The inherent property of a 5k rental he's referring to is that it costs 5k. Most people paying 5k for a studio just _don't want people around their houses_ specially if they are poorer than
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4y ago
I use Complete Ear Training for interval training, with the grand piano or the Rhodes sound pack. I switch pack every once in a while. I also use TonalEnergy Tuner to sing intervals or scales to it and see if I'm in tune. In something
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After I got mine I had like four months where the only thing I wanted to to was sit down and play it, it just feels great. I had like an impasse with it but the mere fact that it exists in my room inspires me to try new musical things every
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4y ago
I had a Moog One for a few weeks! I figured it was so backordered that I could buy it and try it an flip it, which I did after three weeks of utter frustration. Unless you just use it as something like a poly memorymoog, it's rough. I
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I use my iPad for ear training and I can absolutely tell the difference between my DragonFly red and the Apple USB-C DAC. I'm just better with the DragonFly. Don't get me started on the Bluetooth headsets. For music they are ok bu
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4y ago
Oh mine can sound as vintage ones alright if it's working and if one of the very weird MIDI implementation idiosyncrasies or deeply hidden global parameters is not getting in the way, and then my 30 minutes of practice include 15 of di
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4y ago
> The Sequential where you work for today is not the same business entity that made the famous synths of yesteryear. The first synth I ever played was a "vintage" Prophet 5 in the 90s, now I have a reissue Prophet 10 from this
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4y ago
> You are subject to a blackout when you have material nonpublic information. Kinda legally yes, but some mid-sized companies enforce a trading blackout by contract and with a broker-level feature on everyone just so that they don't
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The main reason why I don't usually talk seriously about what I'm an expert in on Reddit is that I sometimes can't deal with the cringe from the replies, usually it's ok but it's been really bad a couple times and t
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4y ago
I tell myself it's the difference between starting adulthood at 14 or whenever your family fails you, and starting it at 24 or 26 after college. The extra years of "streetwise" usually come at an expense of early onset of bur
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4y ago
Yeah degree inflation is really hard on you if for whatever reason you buy into that. The Meritocracy Trap is a good read if you want to witness the existential horror of someone that realizes it's a thing when they come out on the oth
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4y ago
They are constantly raising the bar on what "lack of active moderation" means. Also as the site gets bigger moderating even a small niche subreddit can become a part time job and Reddit does pay moderators of some subs, so it'
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That's generous? I've been through two RIFs and countless hiring freezes some with rescinding offers in big name companies, startups and "unicorns" and it was always at least that or more.
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4y ago
It's not trusting them as much as setting legal precedent so that they also don't end up in jail if there's a bank run on their tokens/chains.
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Yeah looking at the drummer or the bass guitar also helps keep time because of this. Also Zoom music is impossible because of this. AFAIK most bands that play on stage at fast tempos and are not improvising have a synced click going to ever
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I was working on a web hosting startup in 2001 in Latin America, I was 18. I liked the job and they gave me a lot of freedom regarding also going to college, but it's not that I was not looking for something better. Honestly until 2003
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If enough humans on the pool this webpage gets its images from start copying DALL-E-2 effectively that would also "defeat" you.
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Wouldn't regulating crypto need an influx of dollars from the exchanges or other liquidity providers back into the government? If that money doesn't exist or is hidden well enough regulation is only going to crash down liquidity p
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I mean you probably can, but art and engineering are more of a spectrum if anything. Even if the CCP seizes all of Apples assets in China can they create another iPhone? I don't think so. If part of that is getting people to pay 1000 b
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Trading. Quick arbitrage, day trading, pump and dumps, leverage. The same thing you can do by having dollars on your stock trading account you usually need coins on your crypto account and it would be crazy to have the volatile ones.
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Yeah tell me about it. I had a good one in the cafe in Point Reyes where it was on the tap but the last few were bottled and it was not that good.
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Holy shit I need a subscription for the cuts that are worth it? This is peak Bay Area.
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Considering how difficult it is to build just a house without the magical "pre approved plans" from the contracting agency or the realtors I don't even want to take a glimpse at nuclear regulatory code. If someone manages to
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It's also of note that no meditation tradition drinks sours.
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I would add that "a formula" doesn't mean it's bad. I regularly drank beer since like when I was 14 until when I was like 35 or something? I do it way less now but still sometimes drink beer. My favorite style changes. S
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