rspeele

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by rspeele 4y ago
> My yield on my investment (mostly infrastructure costs) is closer to 5,000%...per month. As in, $100 in January becomes $500 in February, $2,500 in March, ... $976,562,500 in December? Edit: actually I read that wrong, that would only
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by rspeele 4y ago
Terra: you can always exchange 1 UST for $1 worth of Luna via this smart contract if you'd like to cash out. Users: OK, don't mind if I do. Terra: help we're under attack.
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by rspeele 4y ago
If I can use methods like 2 or 3 to make huge orders without moving the market, why bother shorting? Couldn't I use this to make easy profits on longs? Say "X" is the method to place orders that don't affect the price. 1
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by rspeele 4y ago
Can you explain this part to me? How does selling a ton of shares into the market move the price down, but buying an equal number of shares back to complete your short doesn't move it back up? Is this not a double-edged sword? If you d
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by rspeele 4y ago
> It's the most efficient way to use energy for security that there is. After a halving, when BTC pays half as much to miners, does it get twice as efficient? Or half as secure?
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by rspeele 4y ago
Stunningly, there are some people still trying to swing trade Luna. To a dyed-in-the-wool crypto investor the price is just a number that could go up or down. And people get dollar signs in their eyes thinking "If it's $0.00001
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by rspeele 5y ago
I actually kind of like when I go into the office and nobody is there. It's the least distracting possible work environment.
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by rspeele 5y ago
Ridiculous. The default branch being named "master" had nothing to do with the institution of slavery. It was about state's rights.
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by rspeele 5y ago
I thought it was going to be about a lifetime of going from programming on 40-column text displays, to 80-column, to trying to hold teams to a standard of 120 columns.
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by rspeele 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of people just don't care at all. What does it matter to me if you want to dress as a woman and be called "she"? It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Life is very short and if somebody finds
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by rspeele 5y ago
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Sure, words can be used in less literal context, like "an ocean of thoughts swirled violently in his head". But simply declaring "deadnaming is violence" because
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by rspeele 5y ago
> Do you think that is the way that a professional should act towards others in their profession? No, that is rude. Calling it violence remains ridiculous hyperbole.
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by rspeele 5y ago
The "gone too far" wokeism stuff seems to be openly mocked , almost everywhere, all the time. Just because I can find people expressing goofy ideas like "saying 'my concerns fell on deaf ears' is ableist language&q
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by rspeele 5y ago
When I read The Road I found the lack of punctuation distracting rather than mesmerizing. I was using an e-reader and my initial thought was, "Is this right? Maybe they OCRed this and only glanced at the output." I had heard t
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by rspeele 5y ago
> no nation state on the planet can easily get enough sha256 ASIC miners to attack bitcoin What if you set up several sock puppet mining pools, all supposedly independent and in competition with each other, and beat the existing pools on
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by rspeele 5y ago
The author does point out your Christmas light comparison but identifies a key distinction: for Christmas lights, the point is the colorful lighting for human enjoyment. That's the upside and the energy cost is the downside. Coming up
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by rspeele 5y ago
What about a scenario where a hack of widely used mining software enables an attacker to do a 51% attack? Miners would unknowingly aid the attacker by using the compromised software, and the attacker could execute a double spend. It would b
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by rspeele 5y ago
I agree that I don't know how much is enough, and that nobody really can know how much is enough. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to overspend on security. Bitcoin's model for how much to spend is basically just &q
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by rspeele 5y ago
The key difference between Christmas lights and Bitcoin mining is that each additional watt-hour spent on Christmas lighting provides more light (and presumably, enjoyment to somebody). Beyond a certain point*, each additional watt-hour spe
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by rspeele 5y ago
What does control of the network mean? An entity controlling the majority of mining power can produce the longest chain. But nodes respect the longest valid chain (by their definition of validity), so they can reject a change supported by
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by rspeele 5y ago
I get what you're saying and I absolutely think the invention of phones, the internet, etc. made everybody's lives better. But it's also true that these things become necessities when everybody is expected to have them. The
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by rspeele 5y ago
The biggest gun manufacturer you can buy stock in is Ruger (RGR) with a market cap of 1.17B. Add Smith & Wesson and you're at 2B. Throw in Vista Outdoors which owns many of the top US ammo brands (plus some minor firearm and access
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by rspeele 5y ago
> So there is a chance “that’s beautiful” means that the person showing him the painting is beautiful? No, but I think the choice of adjective is important. Suppose instead of saying "That's a beautiful painting" I said &q
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by rspeele 5y ago
There is also no universally accepted definition of "being an asshole", but nevertheless you know it when you see it, right? Maybe some fragile snowflakes should just get over their hysterical emotional need to feel comfortable, a
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by rspeele 5y ago
It's not much of a leap. "Stupid" is a judgement of intelligence. Ideas don't have intelligence, people do. To say something is "stupid" is to say that's it's the product of unintelligent thinking. So
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by rspeele 5y ago
In the example being discussed, it's faster to simply change "That's a stupid idea, it won't work because X" to "That won't work because X". If Things Have To Get Done, why waste time making an insult
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by rspeele 5y ago
The readability isn't so bad if you let yourself allocate as much time and mental effort to understanding the one-line regex as you would use to understand the 100 line string-processing function that it replaces. And the brevity makes
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by rspeele 5y ago
I assume GP was talking about serious crew served weapons like artillery, MANPADS, and the like. You are correct that the US is already set in terms of small arms, with its civilian population owning more guns than all the militaries of the
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by rspeele 5y ago
The GPU accelerated text rendering in SSMS 18 is incredibly bad. The other thing it likes to do sometimes is continue showing the text from tab A when you switch to tab B, until you scroll (not possible in short snippets) or edit it (and
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by rspeele 5y ago
Oh yeah, it could happen. Happened to a, um, friend of mine. This friend never uses that feature anymore, no matter how convenient it looks.

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