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by repomies691 7y ago
> IMHO, this is criminal. Is criminality opinion nowadays? To my understanding if a bank acts like this, there is very little to do. Maybe a class action lawsuit would work in US?
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by repomies691 7y ago
The thing with Uber is the reputation system. It makes it much more profitable for the driver behave well. Traditional taxi system doesn't have that. In a big city, you can scam customers all day long and be pretty sure that you won&#x
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by repomies691 7y ago
Well, very situational question. My question here is mostly, what are the bad incentives caused when people time track their days for example in with 1 hour or 0,5 hour granularity with software development tasks? I have been doing that kin
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by repomies691 7y ago
Personally the software development tasks I have been doing are quite often separable in tasks that take several hours. Sometimes there are tasks that take days without clear separation. I think asking whether it is discuss "whether yo
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Time however is a really really bad measure of productivity. Situationally. With programming there are loads of different tasks. For some tasks I think time can be quite a good metric. Still, metrics matter and I think having lousy met
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by repomies691 7y ago
I don't follow how that is related to time tracking. I have used time tracking for personal projects and also professionally and I genuinely think that it can add value to my workflow, in a way that I can analyze how much I spend on ce
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by repomies691 7y ago
> For the first couple of years, you fight against this, passionately arguing for genuinely good engineering practices. I would like to understand why on earth time tracking is against "genuinely good engineering practices".
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by repomies691 7y ago
> It is easier to track people being at their desks than diving into the git repository and looking at what got done. Why not both? Time tracking with tomsething like toggl doesn't take much effort, and you can combine that with rev
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by repomies691 7y ago
> I'd imagine the smart developers quickly get replaced by the obedient clock-punchers. I have never understood why the clock-punching is so a big problem. It doesn't take much time to track your time spent with typical softare
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by repomies691 7y ago
Personally I don't really see why following some quite common work schedule like 8:30 - 16:30 and having daily stand-up meetings destroy morale. Of course depends on the details, but my life has always been quite nice following standar
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by repomies691 7y ago
SpankChain, wtf is that? Anyway, I don't think crypto winter should be a problem for most exchanges. Unless you predicted future way off and hired too much on 2017 rally. Before 2017 volumes were minisculous compared to 2018 still - bu
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by repomies691 7y ago
If you look for example at this story, it is not about being unethical. More like leadership problems with coinbase. What would you consider vastly unethical that coinbase has done? And vastly different scale than traditional finance compan
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by repomies691 7y ago
Oh, please tell me how that kind of activity is nonexistant in non-crypto companies. Come on, this same stuff happens everywhere where money is involved.
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by repomies691 7y ago
> That's in direct conflict with the cryptocurrency world both in the long term (because it aims to be a revolution) and in the short (because it is ever mutating). How is the cryptocurrency world mutating? Bitcoin works pretty much
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Company's start to scramble when they cease to grow. Stakeholders double down. Employees start looking elsewhere. Executives make brash decisions based on emotions. etc etc. However also similar stuff is happening in growing compa
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by repomies691 7y ago
Coinbase doesn't look anywhere like destroyed to me. It is still the number one place to trade cryptos in many places and has something like 30 million users AFAIK. If you look at the numbers the company is doing amazingly well. You ca
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by repomies691 7y ago
> The employer-employee relationship is weird and toxic as hell. Doesn't need to be in my experience, both the employee and employer can respect each other even when they don't get along well on personal level. However it is ac
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by repomies691 7y ago
> people mostly want money and the potential to make more money in the future. Adding to that, without too much risk or responsibilities.
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by repomies691 7y ago
I'm just saying that tether has worked for years, and the peg seems to be still there. All those years also people have been saying that tether will lose its liquidity any moment. Might be but tha market data says what it says. As I sa
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by repomies691 7y ago
The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve. They care about whether the USD peg will last within their timespan they plan to use tether. One of the most co
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by repomies691 7y ago
If you look at market data, it looks like tether has managed to keep the peg of the asset quite well along the years. So if you have parked some of your assets to tether, you have had very good possibility to change it back to other crypto-
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by repomies691 7y ago
I wasn't suggesting that there aren't ethical dilemmas, just explaining the processes how I think usually things like this work in bigger companies. Some low-skilled worker can do the ethically questionable thing. The skilled engi
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Somebody with technical skills performed the purchasing of these 1,000s of domains and setting up these fronts. Not really hard core technical skills.... > When that person continues on in their career, will they proudly exclaim to
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by repomies691 7y ago
Well, the story doesn't tell what the dad was thinking when he was buying the shares. Maybe his idea was to support his son and sell the shares back to Sivers when he has made enough money, for modest profit. And maybe he considered an
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by repomies691 9y ago
> BTC sellers can't put a face to the wallets buying their coins. I have often bought and sold BTC to/from a friend I know. > People invested with Madoff hoping they'd make money. People invest in BTC hoping they'd
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by repomies691 9y ago
Or maybe bitcoin becomes more stable after this crash?
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by repomies691 9y ago
Bitcoin is not an instrument offered by a company but more like a commodity, like oil or gold. Similarly people can falsely advertise gold or oil as very good investments, and they can crash. In mainstream media there have been lots of warn
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by repomies691 9y ago
I have always classified Monaco as one of those ICO projects where they don't even plan to actually implement the business model. Because why would you when you can just party 10 years in Ibiza with the raised ICO funds?
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by repomies691 9y ago
For online payments instant payments are actually not that important requirements. The process needs to happen just fluently from customers perspective. If the merchant is dispatching physical items, he can just wait for the transaction to
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by repomies691 9y ago
I didn't see it that way, more like advocating the development of some kind of open, permissionless payment network. Bitcoin could be it but it has ridiculous network fees, which opens the possibilities for challengers. If everything w

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