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by t_mann 4y ago
The charring, yes. Some of the salts used in curing salami undergo some unfavourable reactions what I remember. So it is much more specific than red meat in general.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I don't remember the exact chemical reaction names, but pepperoni shouldn't really be heated like this anymore. I think the reason is that some of the resulting chemicals are cancerogene.
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by t_mann 4y ago
While I realize that this sounds a bit like suggesting eating cake, you might consider getting some therapy/counselling if that is somehow available to you.
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by t_mann 4y ago
If a recession comes, it won't be because of NFTs. 'Traditional' finance has become hooked after a decade of loose monetary policy, that was always going to end in pain.
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by t_mann 4y ago
This. Let's not pretend that 'traditional' investors haven't become hooked on expansionary monetary policy too. Pretty much every relevant market segment, from stocks to bonds to real estate, has been overvalued by every
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by t_mann 4y ago
Working on the side was a big factor why people put less time into their studies. As waiters, in jobs actually relevant to their degrees (especially engineers), or administrative jobs in companies. I couldn't really name any way how th
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting. So do I get this right that if you use such a model, you essentially don't have much control over the output other than that it's similar to your training data, because your input is just white noise? Or is there a wa
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting article! But two corrections are in order: " it is not like very many rich people have three apartments " - oh yes, they absolutely do - " or take nine years to finish undergrad " - let me tell you about a ti
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, there are clauses saying after condition X is met you get Y. Clauses that would say you can't be fired up to Z days before you reach X are neither common, nor would they fundamentally fix the problem if you think about it. If you
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, those transactions would be off chain. If Tether accepted other assets then those would be what should show up on their balance sheets or attestations. I think they actually did collateralized lending against crypto assets. But still,
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by t_mann 4y ago
If the CEXes act in good faith, they'll hold corresponding amounts of USDT in a wallet. So those would have been the parties who paid $ to Tether.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The way I understand their business model is: you pay $1 into our bank account, and we'll give you 1 USDT on one of a few chains. We'll invest it in low-risk securities, keep the gains, and give you back $1 for the USDT if you com
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by t_mann 4y ago
The one thing that I can't wrap my head around with Tether is: where did it all go? Tether must have been paid tens of billions in fiat dollars, and not even their bankers can say where those are. There's only so many hundred mill
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sounds like a '22 version of George Soros if true, but the the thread seems quite speculative. All the screenshots just document the Luna foundation's actions, no evidence of the 100k BTC short position or the other actions of the
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by t_mann 4y ago
A bank issues money (deposits), and stablecoins try to produce something 'money-like'. CDO tranches promise different rates of return with different riskieness, they never really acted or were meant as money substitutes.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Algorithmic stablecoins aren't anything like CDO's at all. They're more like a pawn shop acting as a bank.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Pretty crazy if you think about it. Windows users are relegated to third-party apps, and even they don't come close to that in functionality. Merging and rearranging is such a pain, I've even resorted to using web apps on question
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by t_mann 4y ago
GDPR-blocked for European IPs. Quite ironic given the title.
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by t_mann 4y ago
It should give crypto folks something to think about. The %-age of people who know Merkle trees is probably higher on HN than among crypto users. Personally, I went from curious to skeptical twice already - once for plain blockchains, then
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by t_mann 4y ago
Don't blame Lufthansa, blame the EU institutions and the French government for creating this bizarre nomadism of EU parliamentarians.
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by t_mann 4y ago
But no human is going to guess that a picture of dog feces is a human male or female. Being a bit cheeky now, but I'm not even sure that you'd get zero such answers (or similarly absurd) from humans.
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by t_mann 4y ago
An evaluation over reliability does not just come from test results: it also results from structural assessments. Yes, but it's actually remarkable how bad humans are at seemingly simple tasks like recalling a short scene that they w
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by t_mann 4y ago
It's not a given at all that being focused on one task alone should be a disadvantage at performing that specific task. A human might be reminded by a picture about what they need to organize for their kid's birthday party, start
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by t_mann 4y ago
Time for the obligatory xkcd again: https://xkcd.com/1958/ Let's not forget that humans also make a lot of mistakes. The progress in (still mostly specific) AI over the last decade is nothing short of phenomenal.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Account created: 6 mins ago Posted: 4 mins ago Didn't want to use your main account for this?
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by t_mann 4y ago
wth? That guy isn't even a skier, he needs the parachute to control his speed on the descent because he can't use his edges effectively. Skiing doesn't have to be a game of luck, look at how pro skiers handle extremely steep
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by t_mann 4y ago
Even though that guy probably isn't in that category, I can't resist saying it, Everest has essentially become a tourist attraction. Since the collapse of the Hilary step due to an earthquake in 2015 it's effectively possible
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by t_mann 4y ago
I know a guy who backed out of a real estate deal that he'd really wanted for that reason (AML). He's a banker himself, maybe that's why he was a bit more on the edge wrt AML, but his attorney also recommended it. That was a
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by t_mann 4y ago
The way M&A usually works is that all sides have bankers/advisers who run Excel spreadsheet calculations that come out with different precise numbers depending on a couple of scenario parameters. Those are put on PowerPoint slides

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