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by romeros 4y ago
>> It's a damn shame the media producers didn't just put all their shit on Netflix for one low price Steve Jobs was able to pull this off for music (iTunes). Netflix folks should have tried harder to become the default stre
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by romeros 4y ago
maybe the US govt. got smarter and something like 2008 == never again.
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Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession
41 points by romeros 4y ago|54 comments
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by romeros 4y ago
not 100% sure.. my guess is that they depended upon tourism and it was severely impacted by the pandemic. For Sri Lanka, the right thing to have been done (in hindsight) is to keep the country open for tourism and disregard covid impact. Ki
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by romeros 4y ago
After all this knowledge you still won't be able to solve "Next Permutation" or "Integer to Words" or "LFU Cache" within a 45 min Interview if you haven't seen the problem before or never practiced en
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by romeros 4y ago
Polycat finance only had 3 Million Tokens. That's the max supply. There will never be more than 3 Million Tokens. And yet the price tanked and will never ever recover. It traded at $60 a piece. Now it is trading in cents. Quant has on
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by romeros 5y ago
Google, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter are all private entities. Let's say they don't like the Democratic party. They can single handedly cause a media block out and be able to unfairly influence the elections, view of the
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by romeros 5y ago
>> and nobody bats an eye. Because most people in crypto are utterly convinced that their "investment" of $1000 in crypto will become $100k or even $1M in no time.. so the 0.5% seems negligible.
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by romeros 5y ago
there is a lot of mistrust regarding Tether. People kind of prefer to switch over to BUSD, USDC, GUSD which are backed 1:1 with real USD. Tether is just a temp variable for trading. But, if Tether goes down it will be bad news but not enoug
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by romeros 5y ago
>> I recommend you read a bit from Seneca the Young to understand where I'm coming from. A better recommendation is to actually close down the computer and put away the mobile phone and actually go out from the bedroom and intera
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by romeros 5y ago
HN Users typically read the heading and jump to the comment section..
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by romeros 5y ago
The problem with this approach is that the founders can inadvertently start a pump and dump scheme that crypto comes with. You want to organize the worlds information and build a search engine. Okay, you create a google coin. You issue 21
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by romeros 5y ago
In practice, everything is indirectly tied to making more money 100x your "investment" in a blink of an eye. If the entire crypto/defi/nft/gamefi/play2earn etc marketcap was 0 then nobody would even bother with
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by romeros 5y ago
>> I don't like NFTs, but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating. Oh! The anti-NFT crowd does get it. Unfortunately, only too well. And the thing is that there is nothing there to actually
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by romeros 5y ago
the reason people put money into crypto is to get rich quick. Imagine you put $1000 and got 1000 BTC as an early adopter. Now, you are a multimillionaire many times over. Most refuse to acknowledge the truth and it is almost a meme now abou
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by romeros 5y ago
this. OP.. did you get to sue the person?
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by romeros 5y ago
You can take a job and leave if they pay you more. That is fine. Microsoft isn't really only trying to gain talent. They want to drain the life blood out of their competition so they can get ahead. That intention is evil
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by romeros 5y ago
Ruthless. Just pure evil to target one specific company like that!
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by romeros 5y ago
This is really a popular opinion on HN. It is kind of self evident too. Defi, NFT, Crypto all have Ponzi features. The people who win are early investors and the ones who lose are those who are late to the game. So, we invent "new&quot
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by romeros 5y ago
why it did not catch on then? why is round 2 successful?
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by romeros 5y ago
I need to clarify. I am not implying that WHO / CDC is lying outright. It's just that they have to be very careful and choose the right message to convey to the general public. It does mean you might have to downplay some things w
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by romeros 5y ago
WHO has no other option than being inaccurate. Society needs a simple answer. Do this. Do that etc. Put on a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing. Use approved vaccines. Take booster shots etc are pretty simple to follow. Likew