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by tyrfing 4y ago
The strongest and most likely interpretation is that they simply don't own the IP, and it's based on a licensed reference design. It makes zero sense for a startup like this to have done all of it from scratch - just copy everythi
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NFT to represent ownership or something like that, since they aren't road legal they probably won't have titles. As for actual purpose, it is of course marketing. Side note: it looks like they tried to sell a DeLorean DMC-12 via N
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Tether is at 75B right now, up from 5B pre-pandemic. > if that’s true and it falls 50%, who is going to put in multiple billions to try to prop it up? Anyone who has information on the backing assets. If Tether embezzled or lost 30 billi
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Disagree. They want to maximize the number of portfolio companies that survive in an environment where a significant fraction will not. This is a message that the money faucet has turned off, and that there will be pain - a timely breakdown
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Yeah, even if it's possible in theory at home (I don't know, won't research it, and think it could very well be either - I think it's very likely the "100% correct" version isn't possible), it will resul
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It's sad to see how Chamath has escaped the same level of attention, he's easily the #1 pandemic grifter.
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Body fat distribution and tendinous inscriptions, both genetic, are huge factors. It's not just a matter of muscle, you also need the fat layer on your stomach to be thin enough that your abs are visible.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
This writeup on Reddit has a decent breakdown of the pitfalls: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/uvcijm/a_pediatri... Looks like osmolality is a major concern. Good luck explaining that in a 30
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by tyrfing 4y ago
It wouldn't be possible until around 2024, and regardless TSMC has a ridiculous ARM ecosystem. IFS is probably most competitive with RISC-V and licensed x86 cores rather than ARM. That said, IFS apparently does Graviton packaging, so m
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If you're paying for software on a per-core basis, you want fast cores, which means big cores. This also works well on desktop since a lot of stuff depends on single-core speeds, so it's basically where x86 has settled in. If you&
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by tyrfing 4y ago
What exactly do you think the Fed's lever is here?
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According to the article, the autonomous car didn't move, the garbage truck did.
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Do you have a source for 'most'? Pharma R&D spending is very high compared to any other industry. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57126
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by tyrfing 4y ago
If you assume that the attestation is fabricated, there's really no reason to talk about treasuries - might as well assume they embezzled 50-70B. Personally, I think it's mostly accurate, with discrepancies being around things lik
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by tyrfing 4y ago
The Fed is going to raise rates until something breaks, and a recession or "hard landing" is just the likely cost to be paid. It's a healthy part of the business cycle, and closer to an intentional policy outcome than somethi
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by tyrfing 4y ago
> So if Tether had say, $50-billion in 10-to-30Y treasuries at the start of the year, they only have $45-billion of that now. They don't. As stated at the link: > U.S. treasury bills comprises U.S. treasury bills with a maturity
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by tyrfing 4y ago
With a market cap of $700, you would find that it is very poor at both transferring and storing any value. First of all, you're limited to $700, second, a single computer could attack the network.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Oh OK. Recent server CPUs (Ice Lake) are roughly 8-12W (maybe up to 15W, there are a lot of SKUs) as a baseline. AMD's latest Milan generation brings it down to 3.5W/core, with some closer to 5W; Intel's Sapphire Rapids only
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by tyrfing 4y ago
128 cores at 30 watts isn't something I've seen anyone planning. What's more likely is 128 cores at 300-400+ watts, and scaling from there is most likely to increase power usage and core counts. Bergamo (AMD), Graviton (AWS),
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Belarus potash exports, 18% of global supply, were also cut off in January due to US sanctions. This will force their dependence on Russia, with a Belarusian port on Russian soil, and for now they are struggling to export any of it. https:
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Interestingly, they removed their prominent YC branding very recently after the collapse. Compare: https://twitter.com/stablegains/status/1523874916206059525 https://web.archive.org/web/202205
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by tyrfing 4y ago
That ship sailed when developers collectively decided that browsers should be complete reimplementations of the entire operating system, and anything less was hopelessly broken. With a barrier to entry so high that trillion dollar companies
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Chamath did it better. Even in the stock market it's not a crime to make billions peddling nonsense to retail.
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> Who are the people taking these inconvenient, unoptimal and expensive loans, when they can get better and cheaper loans through traditional means? USDC is at 2.3% APR, USDT 3.78%. I think you'll find that most people cannot obtain
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> If that were to be sustainable you would have charge higher interest on the loans then you give to savings. Which is exactly how protocols like Compound work, although 'governance tokens' are also issued simply for using the
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Can you explain where the 30% number comes from?
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Loans.
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Roughly half of air freight is carried on passenger planes. https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-10/air-freight-prices.ht...
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Most of these tech companies build business models around giving away money, with a plan of eventually making a profit. They are affected by interest rates because the higher interest rates you have today, the more attractive it is to hav
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That's a unicorn that doesn't exist because after you set up your Proper Incentives and take it to the Proper Government Agencies to get Proper Approval, they'll tell you "no". Then the project gets shut down and yo

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