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by revel 5y ago
No you can't. The protocols for buying and selling or making payments haven't changed in decades. The problem is communication authority and scaling, not the data format. Blockchain enables so-called triple entry accounting. Every
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by revel 5y ago
I've worked in both finance and technology. I think the technical people aren't seeing how amazing this is from a finance point of view. Payments are going to be completely transformed by this. All of fixed income will change to b
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by revel 5y ago
I'm not going to shame you for this but I think you have some misconceptions about the vaccines vs naturally acquired immunity that might impact your decision. Naturally acquired immunity from the original strain of covid-19 is not eff
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by revel 5y ago
Wild that Apple/Google take a larger cut than Twitter. That's some mighty impressive rent seeking.
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by revel 6y ago
They already have a version of Net Neutrality for brokers: reg NMS. HSBC are well within their rights to refuse to accept bad orders. HSBC are exposed to specific regulatory risk not shared by US banks. Having a ton of customers go bust bec
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by revel 6y ago
Almost certainly the heavily privacy themed cryptos will the first to go. Monero, dash, I'm looking at you. Bitcoin and ethereum are almost certainly safe, but I there are a few on the periphery that are harder to gauge. Decentralized
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by revel 6y ago
The big problem with the way that "cryptocurrencies" are talked about is that cryptocurrency is, at least in the mainstream vernacular, synonymous with bitcoin. Bitcoin is an outlier in terms of how it works and what it does. Most
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by revel 6y ago
This is a great observation. At Amazon it's quite possible to become an L5 manager after being an SDE II for a while, but most of the people who do find it very challenging. They don't have the organizational clout to get things d
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by revel 6y ago
The boring answer is that most "sexy" features don't make that much of a difference. However, a lot of spreadsheet or manually processed data being automated is well over 10x improvement for a customer. Headline features like
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by revel 6y ago
isn't that all of them?
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by revel 6y ago
Aside from being a wonderful achievement and advancement, this is a really excellent article. It's very impressive to read such technical material presented in such a beautiful way.
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by revel 6y ago
True. The most intolerable thing about this situation is that it makes BoJo look good.
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by revel 6y ago
If only it were that simple. The hard part is getting legislation passed that mandates adherence to standards. Texas has prioritized minimal regulation and low taxation and "running on an infrastructure platform" means nothing if
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by revel 6y ago
I really like this idea. Seems almost crazy that it hasn't been done before
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by revel 6y ago
The dark patterns described here are part of a broader pattern for big tech. The firms mentioned, Amazon, Google, etc, have made the strategic decision to debase their products to further monetize them. This is similar to the way in which h
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by revel 6y ago
That bill is seriously hard to comply with. It's like GDPR but more stringent and there are data import / export mandates on top. Whenever that rule gets passed it's going to put a real squeeze on a lot of mid-large sized com
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by revel 6y ago
Also depends a bit on how they set it up. If it was all done as code or config then they’re in luck. If they just used the GUI console they’re in real trouble. That will take them until past inauguration which I suspect is the point. Good
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by revel 6y ago
Adding on: we are also hiring in India for these positions. If you're interested and based out of India please say so in your intro email and I'll pass along your email to my counterpart over there.
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by revel 6y ago
Delhivery | Senior & Principal Engineers and SREs | Seattle | ONSITE (eventually) | No visa sponsorship. Delhivery is an India-based, SoftBank-backed Unicorn. The Platform group is building a global platform to drive logistics for emerg
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by revel 6y ago
First of all this is investment advice rather than being anything tech related. Secondly it's not even remotely accurate on all 3 of its points. 1. Hedge funds were active investors in 2017. 2. Retail investors are not the primary driv
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by revel 6y ago
This provides clarity on what constitutes a security. The SEC have been telegraphing this move for several years, ever since the crackdowns on ICOs and STOs. Bitstamp said they would delist XRP several days ago so coinbase are hardly unique
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by revel 6y ago
Terrible news for XRP and Ripple but nobody can be surprised by this. Next up we may see the delisting of some stable coins given the SEC's advice about establishing a nexus in the US. I'm not sure how this will work for a decentr
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by revel 6y ago
Also, just adding onto my own post, I worked on a trading desk for a large bank. Shortly before I arrived there was an issue with order marking (the details of which aren't as significant and were caused by a genuine mistake). The SEC
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by revel 6y ago
I think this is just a practical consideration. Execution fees are typically less than a few cents per share and are often fractional. It's impractical to offer up dozens of single cent refunds for current and previous customers.
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by revel 6y ago
Amazon has dropped a ton of cash into maps. They won't use google for.. reasons, and there's a pretty limited selection of providers, including OSS offerings. A lot of this data has probably been enriched by the logistics arm.
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by revel 6y ago
Just wondering, why use this over Spring + JPA? Does this support reactive data patterns or something? I don't see much in the way of differences. Just not sure what makes this different to what's out there
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by revel 6y ago
It could cut IT costs down dramatically. Depending on what you're working on you might need a pretty beefy machine, but nobody really wants to deal with the actual hassle of managing a fleet of high powered machines. If you can use com
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by revel 6y ago
The difference is (just based on what AWS say about ACG) is that anthos comes into its own when managing multiple clusters. The drawback is that all the most common infrastructure requires you to be all-in on GKE and the google stack. If
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by revel 6y ago
wow, this is a major shakeup, and not just on the vc circuit. I expect to see a lot of large hedge funds and banks lose employees who can now afford to go solo. I also expect to see a lot of poorly constructed startup deals where uncle jimm
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by revel 6y ago
This is just so.. amateur. The message this sends to me as a developer is: don't waste your time with this unless you have no choice

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