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by repomies69 4y ago
That must be incredibly tragic for him.
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by repomies69 4y ago
On the other hand they could've been growing much more modestly, and then there wouldn't be any layoffs. Not much different to other IPOing companies, many are doing layoffs now. Crypto has little to do with it.
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by repomies69 4y ago
In the end I care about the stock going up, and now it finally seems to be doing that. The point of a company is to generate wealth for the owners and nothing else. Employees need to negotiate with the contracts according to that.
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by repomies69 4y ago
It sucks from employee perspective, but the thing that matters in the end is what you see under the bottom line. I'm pretty sure this is financially the most sensible option for many companies in certain niches. Doesn't mean it is
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by repomies69 4y ago
Looking at the examples, as far as I know many smaller companies get away with similar things as well, without getting charged. The problem is more that they are not big enough crimes to someone care enough. The customers and investors are
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by repomies69 4y ago
Change job.
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by repomies69 4y ago
This article has really nothing to do with Bitcoin itself. It is just a story how stupid investors are pouring money to companies that have the Bitcoin in its name, without really going through the business at all. These companies have been
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by repomies69 4y ago
That sounds insance
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by repomies69 5y ago
Sometimes yes. But it is impossible to know for sure. New things still get adopted, some of those new things actually stick and provide value
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by repomies69 5y ago
> The thing with debt is, that you have to pay it back eventually - and you have to pay interest on top of that. Bullshit. Typical startup fails. So, typically all the investments to reduce future technical debt is waste. Engineering tea
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by repomies69 5y ago
Price is the most fair way to prioritize rides. $120 is a big amount of money for a ride, but not big enough to make you go bankcrupt. Valuable lesson learned, drink less next time and leave earlier before surge pricing.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Nobody is ruining anything for anybody. Those who want to work remote, go work somewhere where they can work remote. If you don't want to work remote, you find an employer that offers premises. Either way no one forces you to choose em
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by repomies69 5y ago
It is not "reversing the transaction", it is just seizure. If you have spent the Bitcoin on a lamborghini, government will confiscate the lambo. Criminals however typically spend the stolen money on hookers and drugs. Seizure or c
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by repomies69 5y ago
It depends on how well the fraud is executed, how long time has been passed since the fraud happened and also on the amounts and people/organisations involved. Technically kalzumeus might be right, however practically it almost always
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by repomies69 5y ago
Gambling and unregistered securities are fundamentally very different things. Gambling is activity where usually house is guaranteed to win, and player is guaranteed to lose. Unregistered securities are just securities, but not government a
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by repomies69 5y ago
> In reality, crypto's true purpose is a moving target, so it can never be criticized because that's not what crypto is really about. Bitcoin is a tool. Like hammer or a shotgun. You can use it whatever way you want. There is n
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by repomies69 5y ago
It is immutable, unless in some cases it is not. However of majority of us plebs it is practically immutable.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Agree. Find hobbies, social circles outside of work etc. Work is just so that you can afford to live. I don't think having a "boring" work is a problem, as long as the work I do is ethical I don't care that much what I d
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by repomies69 5y ago
> that almost every job out there is about squeezing more profit out of people, and absolutely nothing else dude, where do you imagine the salaries come from?
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by repomies69 5y ago
> This story is a pretty accurate fable for the pointlessness of the modern economy and its inability to provide real value to anyone. Yeah absolute true man. In past times economy provided real value. Modern economy can't produce s
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by repomies69 5y ago
Both cryptocurrencies and stocks are traded with leverage these days, and central banks control the price of leverage. So, if central banks decide to start raising interest rates, asset prices will go down because leveraging becomes more ex
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by repomies69 5y ago
Why not try your luck, some crypto ppl who have gotten recently rich might buy such shit.
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by repomies69 5y ago
The chatbot saves money. Simple as that. People get served by chatbots, get frustrated, and majority gives up and doesn't bother the company with the problem. It doesn't really matter how the chatbot saves the money, they can just
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by repomies69 5y ago
https://gnupg.org/service.html
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by repomies69 5y ago
> It is a huge pay cut. I also am happier than I have ever been in my adult life because I'm learning something challenging and helping people instead of While I congratulate your career move and I am very happy for you, I want to p
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by repomies69 5y ago
The point of povray is that you program the scenes. Maybe something like "25 days of blender python scenes" would be equivalent.
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by repomies69 5y ago
There are some other stablecoins, like USDC (about half the size of Tether. Why would Tether need to be closed down while USC not? Or do you think all of them should be shut down? Tether is just an IOU note. I don't have problems with
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by repomies69 5y ago
I think hacking about any service will provide valuable data, which can be sold at darknet marketplaces. I read somewhere that there is a marketplace just for hacked server credentials as well.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Yeah, the same, like I have been living in alternate universe throughout my career. For every business I have been, engineers have been treated very well. Typically the problem has been always recruiting developers, for all other roles peop
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by repomies69 5y ago
Business-driven hackathon doesn't bring joy. Better remove it from my life.

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