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by x3sphere 4y ago
Is Google Sheets designed for this sort of usage? I would have been worried about hitting some undisclosed limits with the service. A single dedicated server is not that big of an expense either. The site probably could even run on a single
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by x3sphere 4y ago
Coinbase doesn't have any lending products. Aside from one that will give you USD as a loan for holding your BTC as collateral which isn't the same thing. They do offer staking but that's the not the same either. Return is ge
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by x3sphere 4y ago
Probably wouldn’t be as useful to run compute tasks on a PS5. It mostly uses off the shelf hardware so I can’t imagine it’s better than just buying say the latest AMD Ryzen or Nvidia GPU. With the PS3, particularly the CPU, it was quite ahe
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by x3sphere 4y ago
I've encountered some APIs that use this. My question is, why? It doesn't really improve security - someone determined enough can match the fingerprint or send requests using the same library that the originating app uses. It feel
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by x3sphere 4y ago
Yep, it'll take a long time to bottom. That said, I'm surprised how much things have already fallen in AZ. Some of the properties with 10% price cuts, have been sitting on the market for over 2 months. Demand has fallen off a clif
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by x3sphere 4y ago
Housing prices are correcting now, at least in some areas. It's definitely happening in AZ. I've seen drops of almost 15%. OpenDoor has been taking a loss on a lot of properties it bought over the past few months too. Considering
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by x3sphere 4y ago
Inflation is just as high in the EU is it not? It's probably the flight to safety effect. Monetary policy is shifting, Fed has said they will keep tightening until inflation is back to 2%. For whatever reason a lot of people keep betti
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by x3sphere 4y ago
I agree it is a cheap price for FB but the macro environment matters too… if we are entering a recession tech stocks will see more downside still.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
It hasn’t started cooling yet here in AZ, still seeing properties going for over list and prices are still climbing. That said I see interest rates are now approaching 5% so have to imagine it might pull back some soon, really depends on th
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by x3sphere 5y ago
A lot of stocks have gone back to 2019-2020 levels. FB being a big one. If you hold an index fund like VTI though, that's done well. These last few months really highlight the dangers of stock picking, even with big companies.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Interesting that you mention FB, considering it's just had a 40%+ drop over a matter of weeks. Compared to other FAANG, the drop is massive. FB is now only up around 30% compared to early 2017. If you'd bought GOOG or AMZN during
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by x3sphere 5y ago
> If inflation were allowed to run a bit higher, it could deliver a long-overdue win for young people who have had to face a combination of stagnant wages and rising housing costs. “ Yeah this doesn't make any sense. Housing price i
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Probably but it looks like this is lacking Gmail access among other things. It’s in no way comparable to the G Suite product.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
yeah where I live in AZ, Zillow overpaid massively for every home it purchased that I've seen. Like 15-20% over usual price. And they've priced the homes they are selling quite a bit below what they bought them for already. Many a
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by x3sphere 5y ago
I haven’t had any issues. I sometimes run two VMs at a time on my 13” MBP with 16GB RAM and although the memory usage is almost maxed most of the time it’s been running fine.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Hard to believe they don’t have MLS access. The listings on Zillow go up essentially at the same time my realtor has gotten them through the MLS, so they must have an automated way of pulling the info…
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by x3sphere 5y ago
I mean that’s what happened in 2017-2018 yet again we are repeating the same bubble. I guess these crazy run ups will end at some point but I see no indication this will be the last.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
This seems more of a product to keep their investors happy than it does actually improving the crypto ecosystem. Feels like you lose the decentralization benefits of crypto when you are doing everything over a centralized service. I don&#x2
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Yeah it's unlikely to happen though. The conditions of this housing boom are nothing like the last one. Mortgage requirements much more stringent. Additionally, monetary policy in the US is responsible for inflating assets and they are
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Going by this... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html Intel still has 90%+ of the server market. It only just started moving over to AMD. They did gain a lot of ground over Intel in the desktop market though.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
I guess it depends on how fussy you are about these things - I definitely noticed my 16" MBP lag at times. When the system was under a lot of load in particular the Chrome dev tools started to get quite laggy. However I got an M1 and c
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by x3sphere 5y ago
People don't care about inflation specifically, but they do care about how it is affecting them. For example, lots of people seem worried about getting priced out of buying a home these days, which inflation has certainly contributed t
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Apart from some initial issues it’s mostly been set it and forget it for me? I’ve been running a VFIO setup since 2017. GPU driver updates haven’t broken anything in years. Nvidia actually made their drivers more passthrough friendly not to
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by x3sphere 5y ago
The article doesn't mention it but he also used to own BTC. He sold all of it during the previous bull run.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Yeah the 5950x will run circles around any Haswell based CPU. I suppose for single threaded tasks, it’s still not a massive jump ( although still pretty substantial). I get that CPUs were moving at a snails pace before but AMD really shook
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Sure, but none of it makes any sense. I have to imagine the decision to buy Bitcoin and accept it as payment was vetted by a lot of people internally, not just Musk himself. And the environmental impacts from mining are well known. Musk isn
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Less liquidity, maybe? XMR only a $7B market cap coin, while BTC is $1T.
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by x3sphere 5y ago
It's been a K shaped recovery. Certainly a lot of people have benefitted and did even better than past years despite the pandemic, but for a lot of others they haven't. Been great for me as well but outside of people in tech, I do
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Right now I'd say probably the middle class it hurts the most. They would have more cash savings. High net worth individuals it would hurt less as they usually have way more in assets such as stocks. But in the middle class, their stoc
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by x3sphere 5y ago
Lot of people bring up the Nikkei but averaging in money in was still better than holding cash over a long enough time period. I highly doubt anyone bought at the peak and then never bought again afterwards.

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