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by xwolfi 3y ago
Your own son ?
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Bankman specifically extracted 10M by creating a tax-friendly scheme: SBF would increase his own loan from 250 to 260M from Alameda, donate it to his dad, cancel the loan later while offsetting with a charity donation to his mother. Why did
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Bankman was employed by FTX and akin to a cofounder. Hardler an innocent granpa receiving a windfall by surprise from a diligent son committing crimes in secret...
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Plus HE paid HIS parents millions, not the contrary lol
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I work in a giant place, 100k+ employees, 150+ years of documents, layers upon layers of processes, presence in all countries, heavy regulation, successive mergers. There is simply no way to make it work perfectly. We can do migration upon
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Yup I think your definition of crypto bro is wrong: that's exactly who they are in their vast majority, people who read once the opinion that the "federal reserve is never federal nor a reserve" and believe it and start click
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Serverless is immediately suspicious just as a name: ofc there s a server, running a piece of code, it s just way less efficient when you need good latency but a lot more when you need giant throughput. You can do the same with a dump serve
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Why would a CEO take a pay cut, his job, approved by the owners, is literally to unload the burden and fire the fat. He would have to lose money if he didnt... a CEO responsibility is first to owners, second to client, third to employees wh
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Well in security, any open door is as much a problem as the guy opening the door. Nobody's blaming anyone, we're all programmers and we all made mistakes.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
This is not widely accepted, the average person is not expected to understand, and clicking a button cannot bind you to anything. But, the average person is scared, think it's official and meaningful and feels very impressed by all thi
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by xwolfi 3y ago
This is the same as in England, the leasehold vs freehold system is difficult to differentiate in practice, a bit like common law vs civil law. You buy a house, there are expectations it's yours. Each time it's been tested the gov
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Race condition is the reason we all use to explain to management why we wrote a stupid bug. Everything is a race condition: "the masker is asynchronous so the writer starts writing dumps before the masker is setup" sounds like a c
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Every CPU in the whole must regenerate websites from json descriptors. That's how it should always have been.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But I did use it as inspiration for an 3D engine project at school, they had geometrical formulas I had trouble to find online, at least efficiently implemented. It helped a bit in reverse engineering their map format too so I could just di
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I'm in China, and I think you're wrong. The situation is absolutely catastrophic and we're slowly falling down the cliff. Those GDP numbers are BS, in the US, France or China, since they count public spending. Anyone can buil
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Politics is a fancy name for "controlling the rules well enough to be able to prospect my little business". Politicians are not all ideologically positive and benevolent, or even patriotic or nationalist, some are really just tryi
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by xwolfi 3y ago
For me the goal of Agile, especially in giant 100+ yo organization, is to tell people that it's less important to fit the plan than to fit the need of the external stakeholder. Who cares if 6 months ago some important managing director
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Google "Andrew Left citron research evergrande". He explained it all in 2012, was banned from Hong Kong trading for 5 years as a result, just when Evergrande finally grew its ponzi scheme too big. Long story short: the head of Eve
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But why oh why does everything need to be in Paris ? We're not retards in Lyon, Rouen or Bordeau. Even Marseille can handle some stuff. See the point ? Why waste to hyper densify one crappy city/area when we could spread developme
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But let's assume the whole thing is a money blackbox, you must realize you cannot output that much good from the little change "build build build" without inputting something . This something, the tax rate increase, or any o
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by xwolfi 3y ago
What cannot the client forgive you for not ensuring: I faced this case, we had an ivory tower-designed micro service architecture, the travel insurance team decided to use it to not be fired or humiliated by the architect 2 floors above. Th
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Or get the project approved. Sometimes you dont work with reasonable people: they want micro services, they cannot forgive you for doing one and then not having transactional correctness. So you have to call your business service a micro se
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Yeah, I work in an investment bank in Hong Kong, and I agree with both statement: we are more successful than most countries, including China, because as a people we are extremely pragmatic: we have free education to provide banks with an a
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Well in France we provide methadone and subutex for free to anyone who needs it, but we also chase drug dealers, jail large consumers, do heavy prevention in schools etc. Our goal was never to stop drug use, we know it's impossible, bu
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Yeah but it must be fixed way more urgently than a problem with efficiency. Imagine if the people voted, and decided to stop the policy despite good result, just because they're fed up of seeing syringes in front of school ! Visibility
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by xwolfi 3y ago
It's the mark of a toxic person probably. But aren't we all to some extent ? I too am fed up of candidates so shit we need to grind them through linked list and sorting exercise to find the one that can actually code a simple func
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I'm in Hong Kong, I don't get what you mean. There's no porn or snuff movies on it here either, how tame is it in the US ? I bought it for my 5yo to get her Disney dose, do you guys buy it for even younger children ? What oth
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by xwolfi 3y ago
So we should hum, listen to people who say poor people who become "banked" by buying bitcoin ? Crypto is a clown car, so it's hard to make a balanced point on it: either you want to sell your snake oil or you point out it&#x2
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But they are securities, it's a completely absurd stance to pretend they're not...
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by xwolfi 3y ago
It is a criminal offense to represent that because the SEC acknowledged the IPO it also approved of the business: it is even written in the Coinbase's IPO prospectus, as Molly points out...

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