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somebodythere
4y ago
Not really. You only have to believe that there are some complex actions which, if taken on an individual level, benefit society. For example, starting a business, or skilling into a highly demanded field such as medicine. Doing these thing
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Taking the choice away is mostly about preventing a race to the bottom, especially in professions where the workers don't have the bargaining power to demand respectful working conditions. This is why we have minimum wage laws, working
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4y ago
Adobe posted earnings today.
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4y ago
I don't see how it is beneficial to anyone (other than ASIC developers and energy companies) to build a tax paid to ASIC developers and energy companies into the protocol.
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somebodythere
4y ago
Unfortunately if I underpay my taxes I don't get to pick whether it comes out of the "social programs and infrastructure" bucket or the "blow up children in the Middle East" bucket.
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4y ago
Virtual restaurants don't have the reputation to burn like a brick-and-mortar with a well-known brand does. Normally if a restaurant presents itself as primarily selling one menu item (common examples: pizza, wings, milkshakes) you exp
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4y ago
GPU market conditions are different compared to the 3000 series release
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4y ago
Imagining that we evolve cooling fins on our head for better heat dissipation. We already have the fluid circulation system after all.
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4y ago
I deleted Facebook several years ago, a year or so after me and my school friends went off to college, and I feel like it hurt my ability to remain close to people I was good friends with in school and overall weakened my social circle as a
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I would hope that Google can afford a few game licenses in order to keep their customers from feeling robbed.
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No, I think people in the past probably just had a weaker preference for designs that go together in color and style.
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4y ago
I would rather have severance + sign on bonus than only sign on bonus!
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4y ago
Yeah, I liked the idea of the game and played it for a bit when I realized that the idea of "don't trust anyone ever" was exhausting for me.
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somebodythere
4y ago
What would be an easy way to solve that?
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somebodythere
4y ago
Because social consensus can be achieved on which Ethereum fork to use but not on every transaction that fork processes.
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4y ago
A blockchain also allows software programs to interact with each other in an uncensorable way, and ensures that those programs operate the way their source code says it does. It may be a niche technology, but I think these properties are us
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4y ago
Zero-knowledge cryptography allows you to post opaque data to the blockchain and selectively reveal properties of it to chosen people and applications. For example, a zero-knowledge DID can generate a proof to an age-restricted application
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4y ago
It's not "putting up with". What are they going to do otherwise, not take insulin?
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4y ago
Make something up. Piece together the various details of different bugs you solved in your career or that you were vaguely involved in the solution to something reasonably impressive and coherent. If you are a skilled developer you will be
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4y ago
Surprise deadlines coming from your CEO's Twitter page wasn't enough to convince you?
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It's not in contrast. They are saying bonds will be wrecked (prices go down, yields go up), causing them to become a good deal in the future.
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4y ago
That's correct, but under US tax law, in certain cases you are able to realize the loss on the BTC to offset the gains you made earlier (tax-loss harvesting)
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4y ago
You are right. When you trade crypto->crypto, the IRS views it as if you traded crypto->USD then USD->crypto.
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4y ago
Doubtful, Dai is automatically destroyed as the value of its collateral falls via the mechanisms of liquidations and loan paybacks.
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4y ago
Specifically, for a note-taking app, a subscription model is discouraging. I don't want access to the history of my thoughts tied to a recurring payment. On the other hand, if I stopped paying for IntelliJ, I can open my code with any
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You should be able to finetune on a dataset that has captions of human faces.
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There is a fab space shortage. The cost to manufacture goes up and so only the highest volume, highest margin chips get made.
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4y ago
If hedge funds can't reliably predict a market crash, why do you think a team of accountants at an Amazon office can? And if they could, why don't they exit their core business and get into trading stocks?
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4y ago
You long an asset because you expect to sell it at a higher price (or because it hedges against some other asset in your portfolio). You short an asset because you expect to buy it back at a lower price. Not every strategy has a strong opin
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For the people who haven't looked it up yet, or for the people who move every three months.
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