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by tcgv 5y ago
I wonder why this Reaserch firm is offering such a substantial bounty for information on Tether. What's in it for them? Where will this money come from? From their site they provide an answer (and even a "track record") [1]:
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by tcgv 5y ago
Something I was thinking about is that this year alone Tether received almost 50 billions of new US dollars for printing the same amount of their coin, reaching the staggering Market cap of 68B. Even if they started as a scam and were a few
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by tcgv 5y ago
I wrote a piece on the topic earlier this year in my blog [1] since I was also interested in learning more on the topic of Ethereum and DeFi, and not interested at all in the speculative take that attracts most people. In my post I write ab
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by tcgv 5y ago
Good point, ethereum fees are a deal breaker. At least with regards to the fees problem we now have side chains that make really cheap to send/receive stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI, etc). You can currently transact stablecoins on Polygo
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by tcgv 5y ago
Most comments suggest using BTC in various ways, as usual. I'm curious as to why hasn't a stablecoin been adoptet/gained mainstream traction for this use case yet? They seem like a perfect fit for making digital payments whil
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by tcgv 5y ago
Quick question for more experienced folks in this thread: What will happen to USDC if/when Tether tanks?
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by tcgv 5y ago
That's exactly how I appreciate a beer after work every couple of days. A personal ritual to relax, taste a different - if possible craft - beer, and unplug from work. One small bottle (35 cl) is enough to make me happy ;)
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by tcgv 5y ago
> hiring enough people will replace 10x engineers The math is not that simple. The output of a Junior engineer is much different from that of a Senior engineer. You can hire any number of Junior engineers you want, and they won't ha
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by tcgv 5y ago
> Don't worry about the haters To be fair, the original comment just made a valid observation in a casual way, he didn't criticize the approach of the OP, nor was he impolite. But I know it's pretty common to see haters ni
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by tcgv 5y ago
Great project, congrats! Regarding this statement: > The undersaturated ocean then re-absorbs an amount of atmospheric CO2 equivalent to the amount we removed when reacting with our sorbent How can it be effectively measured/confirm
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Ask HN: How do you manage communication with your userbase?
1 points by tcgv 5y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 5y ago
For those who never heard of him the intro from wikipedia does a good job summarizing his style, which the article goes into more depth: "Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he created approximately seven
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by tcgv 5y ago
> What does this even mean? He's referring to the Single-responsibility principle [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl...
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by tcgv 5y ago
That's right, I'm from Brazil! The meaning is the same, both in Brazil and in Portugal. As a curiosity the two countries (along with others) are part of the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 [1] whose purpose was
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by tcgv 5y ago
That's interesting. I'm a portuguese language native, and I can relate, but not because we talk like this in portuguese: > "move the burgers to the periphery of the barbecue" That would be really formal over here too,
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by tcgv 5y ago
It's much easier to intercept and tamper with non encrypted network communication than to hack into a server.
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by tcgv 5y ago
Two things, first readers wouldn't receive that browser security warning (which is a bad experience) and second the transmitted content wouldn't be vulnerable to manipulation (such as ISPs injecting adds or attackers trying to dec
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by tcgv 5y ago
I actually sent him a cold e-mail in Nov/2020 on that matter to which he promptly replied (in less than 1h) that his site "just doesn't have https". So he's aware of that. IMHO it'd be a small effort for improv
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Protecting against semantic URL attacks(thomasvilhena.com)
1 points by tcgv 6y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 6y ago
Indeed, but the bar for "automating money" in traditional finance is extremely high due to not only legitimate regulatory reasons but also to large banks and institutions trying to preserve their power/dominance. In DeFi anyo
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by tcgv 6y ago
I enjoyed the music and thought "wait, was this song AI generated?" then I turned Shazam to confirm it and it showed: "k. (Klesh Remix)" "Cigarettes After Sex"
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by tcgv 6y ago
The issue with SOLID is not that it's wrong or outdated, it's that some people think it's something you learn in five minutes by reading its Wikipedia page, which it isn't. It takes a lot of effort to develop skills to a
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by tcgv 6y ago
Not if you consider that FB servers are somewhat geographically partitioned to optmize response times
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by tcgv 6y ago
> One such performance improvement involved moving the logic to check a user’s enabled features into a background thread that refreshed on an interval rather than checking their enablement while the request was being processed It's
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by tcgv 6y ago
Not yet. For now the project "alpha" version is only deployed on Kovan testnet, in which ETH is free. When I started coding this project ETH price was around US$ 500, and gas prices around ~40 Gwei, making it feasible to launch th
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by tcgv 6y ago
You're welcome ! I use draw.io [1] for technical diagrams (ex: flowchart, UML, etc) and Google Drawings [2] for more generic diagrams (ex: system designs). [1] http://draw.io/ [2] https://docs.google.com&#x2
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by tcgv 6y ago
Thanks!
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by tcgv 6y ago
Thanks man!
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by tcgv 6y ago
I have been keeping up with the developments in the crypto space from the outside for the past few years. Never really invested in any currency as it always felt too risky / speculative for my taste. It wasn't until last year with
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by tcgv 6y ago
> Everything involved with email is pain Agree. Even if you comply with most important technical standards/requirements you still need to spend a lot of time overseeing your system, and researching best practices and recommendations

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