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by valzam 4y ago
Leverage. You can borrow 80% for an investment property but no bank will lend you (not an individual anyway) money to buy ETFs. You might get a margin loan, which is much riskier than a mortgage and requires you to have X upfront to borrow
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by valzam 4y ago
I just watched your talk at the CMU database talks. Just wanted to say I really appreciate reading/hearing about your approach! TB is a super interesting system, I hope I get to properly use it someday.
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by valzam 4y ago
I think Bitcoin is pretty great example of an egregores
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by valzam 4y ago
As someone who wrote scala and elixir for a few years and recently switched to a Go job I also dearly missed map and filter. However, people tend to loop unnecessarily often when it's so easy. Say you have a list of classes and want to
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by valzam 4y ago
Getting internet early is often a curse since companies priorities build outs where they have no coverage at all. That being said, 3 MB/s should get you very high on the 'to upgrade ' list...
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by valzam 4y ago
At least in Germany it's worse but generally fine, you can achieve <20ms ping for online gaming within or near Germany. Fiber is for sure better through but probably won't make a difference in day2day.
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by valzam 4y ago
What's the difference between a stablecoin and cash app or paypal? Stablecoin is just a fancy term for fiat as tokens but any non-bank entity that holds fiat and gives you access to it.
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by valzam 4y ago
It's hilarious, if you have an iphone, an apple watch and an ipad you need 3! different cables. You can't even get around 2 of them with wireless because the apple watch doesn't support qi charging, so you need 2 different pa
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by valzam 4y ago
All the USB data specs are irrelevant for this legislation. All it says is: Use a USB-C connector and support the USB PD charging standard. In fact many cheaper android phones use USB2 since the port is purely for charging.
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by valzam 4y ago
What I don't understand about this: What's the point of bringing on so many engineers with the expectation of firing many of them? It takes time to get productive and especially when you hire lots of engineers they will probably w
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by valzam 4y ago
I think the reality is though that is is extremely difficult to find a job that would pay a comparable total comp in all cash. You choice isn't 200k cash, 200k rsu vs 400k cash since the 400k cash offer doesn't really exist. What
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by valzam 4y ago
Of course they aren't really scaling to hundreds of thousands of nodes. At any given time only 120 nodes are involved in consensus.
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by valzam 4y ago
There are huge concerns over centralization. As it stands 2-3 entities (e.g. Lido, binance and Coinbase) over 50% of all validators. This is due to a mix of issues (no withdrawal making liquid staking very attractive, 32Eth limit leading to
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by valzam 4y ago
It's also completely untrue. Staking is unprofitable if you cannot guarantee uptime of your node. In fact Ethereum includes slashing for inactivity, so not only do you lose out on rewards if you shut of your MacBook, you run the risk o
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by valzam 4y ago
I think the IDE issue still exist in many projects due to the complexity of generic FP libraries + bad support for scala 3. The last scala project I worked on used scala3 + cats and it was very touch and go if we could continue using this s
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by valzam 4y ago
Is this really true? My impression was that the 'go' keyword means a green thread is spun up for the function to run in and this wrapper returns immediately (hence the need for channels or waitgroups etc to get the results back).
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Ask HN: Who to Follow the Go Community?
3 points by valzam 4y ago|2 comments
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by valzam 4y ago
Update in this context also means android security updates. I hope you don't also ignore those...
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by valzam 4y ago
The question is price. Air travel 'sucks' but has also become a lot more accessible, even long haul. If an airship takes 4 days and costs the same as business class on a regular plane I think many people will just business class.
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by valzam 4y ago
I am generally a fan of using as few moving parts as possible but if > 60-70% (2TB + a "few hundred GB") of your prod database are an append only audit log surely if would make sense to split that part into a separate DB server
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by valzam 5y ago
But the crux is that those trades didn't occur on Coinbase, the assets hadn't even been listed yet. So it might very well be a case of a non-us citizen trading on a non-us exchange (or defi exchange). What can the SEC do in this c
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by valzam 5y ago
If only Germany were smart enough to give people who study here a 2-3 year work visa after they finish their studies. As it is you still need to find an employer willing to sponsor you (which at least is easy if you earn a lot).
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by valzam 5y ago
What's the alternative? I think the USAs operations in the Afghanistan showed that you simply cannot just come in, fight a countries battles for them and leave. Ukraine has proven to want to stand up to Russia and now the West is putti
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by valzam 5y ago
This sounds reasonable in theory but IMHO is centered in a completely outdated worldview. What European state is an "enemy" of Russia? What European state would attack Russia with military force? It's paranoid thinking by a m
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by valzam 5y ago
Also this particular russians child lives anonymously somewhere in western europe...
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by valzam 5y ago
What did you end up changing to improve your sleep quality? Based on what you wrote only cutting down on alcohol seemed like something you can change?
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by valzam 5y ago
I do think the point is also partly that what most people consider 'a good amount of exercise' isn't really very strenuous. Doing a bit of cardio and weights at the gym 3x a week isn't enough to offset a bad diet. If you
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Ask HN: How do you read technical books?
7 points by valzam 5y ago|2 comments
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by valzam 5y ago
Wasn't GoPuff in the news lately for spending tens of thousands of dollars per week on Instacart? The magical cycle of VC money...
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by valzam 5y ago
If my API doesn't use cookies, is there any reason for me to not fully enable CORS on the server? I.e. using JWT in a typical SPA <-> API scenario.

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