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by sakopov 5y ago
Crypto loans are generally cheaper than traditional personal loans and credit cards and obviously require no credit checks. That to me is where it all stops. The volatility makes borrowing crazy scary to me. Getting margin-called when the m
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by sakopov 5y ago
Another interesting thing of note is that Tether made loans worth billions to Celsius with bitcoin as collateral. [1] Now, whether that's good or bad depends on whether you think Tether itself is a ponzi but it definitely has an colorf
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by sakopov 5y ago
> Nobody prominent is involved. I don't know how you operate, but when I hear that the royal family is implicated, I immediately start to wonder who else is involved and not dismiss the case all together.
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by sakopov 5y ago
Those five 9s don't come easy. Sometimes you have to prop them up :)
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by sakopov 5y ago
AWS Management console is dead/dying. Numerous errors across major services like S3 and EC2 in us-east-1. This looks pretty bad.
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by sakopov 5y ago
Same here. S3 and EC2 appear to be down. AWS Console is barely responding.
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We Built an Unrideable Bike to Show How Bikes Work(youtube.com)
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It's all relative to average housing prices in the state. An average 3 bedroom house in LA will cost you north of $1 mil and have a property tax anywhere between 10-15K, which is comparable to monthly rent in some states even though CA
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by sakopov 5y ago
My 10th year on HN after several years lurking. There is no better place on internet. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Stay healthy, be kind and count your blessings.
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> Going out on a limb here, but I am betting that you and your friend weren't hanging out on the balcony at 3AM in winter in Chicago. That's a strange assumption. Average temps in November aren't low at all either at night
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by sakopov 5y ago
Is that $3 on top of 4 streaming subscriptions you're already paying for?
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by sakopov 5y ago
There is YouTube channel called Corridor Crew which tried to use new technology available to film makers to reproduce the scene in Terminator where T-1000 (played by Robert Patrick) walks through metal bars of a jail cell. To their surprise
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One interesting thing about Sweden that seems to fly over everyone's head is that they spend a significant amount of effort promoting health in public schools. So you have generations of people who are taught to focus on their well-bei
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by sakopov 5y ago
Oh man, I remember listening to Ghost to Ghost when Art Bell used to take calls from audience for Halloween. Those were some of the best shows! Also, does anybody remember the show where some dude called him while supposedly flying over Are
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by sakopov 5y ago
The only justification for this valuation is the EV bubble. People are desperately looking for Tesla-like gains and they'll sink money into anything that'll get them there, so companies are using the opportunity to IPO at insane v
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by sakopov 5y ago
According to IRS 1031(a)(1) a property that isn't held for investment does not qualify for 1031 exchange. A pure flip on real estate is held for sale and therefore does not qualify for 1031 exchange.
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US Economy slows to 2% growth in Q3(wsj.com)
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What does an easter egg in a Tesla has to do with safety or longevity of the vehicle?
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by sakopov 5y ago
Does Amazon actually pay $250k. I heard from someone who works there that the salary ceiling for all engineers is $150k and the rest is compensation. Is this true?
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As someone who grew up under communism and has one remaining grandparent who fought fascism all the way to Berlin, I am puzzled how any seemingly complacent westerner can call the topic of "founding fathers" an obsession. I guess
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Are you suggesting that HN being under a greater load has something to do with people hopping on HN instead of Facebook as they'd normally do? That seems like a reach.
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This reminds me of a man who ate the exhibit at a Miami museum consisting of a banana taped to a wall and then proclaimed that it was an art performance [1]. The exhibit was supposedly going for $120K-150K. [1] https://www.nbcnew
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Show HN: Create Bootable USB Drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files(ventoy.net)
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I suppose you're right, but at the cost of barely making ends meet... I don't know.
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I don't understand LA. I've been out here for a couple of months now and I'm seeing 2 trends - the salaries are generally very average (I'm not just talking about IT) and completely disproportionate to cost of living and
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The B-17 that Landed with No One On Board [video](youtube.com)
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Tell HN: New tax legislation proposes limitations for directed IRAs
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It's humorous to me that you're dismissing this particular criticism of the Western media's "global think" COVID response in the same exact way that the media and the experts have been dismissing criticism for their
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We're in a pandemic of cowardness.
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The Museum of Alien Life [video](youtube.com)
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