xwolfi

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by xwolfi 4y ago
In a short play you're paid immediately in USD. You sold the minute you acquired tether and now all you have is a Tether-denominated liability to pay back, which you assume will cost you 0 since you ll be able to get all those tether b
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Because shorting cost as much money as the duration for which the market stays irrational. I think Tether will collapse, I m not gonna pay you a premium for 5 years barely sleeping before finally the entire crypto space become insolvent. I
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by xwolfi 4y ago
W...why do you want something more digital than the existing system ? I dont want each dollar to be tracked from its infancy to where I spent it, I m quite fine with withdrawing my digital money back to cash at the ATM and spending it anony
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Not 19, not 21, 20. That's how you remove rigidity? Most places who apply handbooks end up applying handbooks to the detriments of everything else. I feel we need to embrace the fact software is a fluid monster and we must work at it d
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by xwolfi 4y ago
There's no stealing if all parties consent. If you don't consent, convince others and vote better. Why blame finance when house representatives dont even understand they shouldnt insider trade, something even I, a "stealing a
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I m in Asia, we need the ability to validate 13 different exchange regulations and Java helps more than C++ as far as I can observe in team work, modularity, forcing some sort of okay common practice etc. The guys in the US have it easy wit
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by xwolfi 5y ago
It was less cpu intensive to buy RAM, so we did that first. We need all 20 cores for all the other stuff the desktop user uses sadly, and we can only give them 3 computers with 20 cores each. I tried lobbying for threadrippers but... not ea
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Well we do Java for the slow path and fpga for the fast path. C++ for the algo decisions, but even when we do java we jni everything that would be slower than C++. Nobody's laughing, everyone is just profiling and fitting constraints,
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I d simply take a noop GC in the most recent jvm (I cant yet in my conservative bank), and make people suffer through it in prod until everything is constrained correctly, but you're right, String are banned where I work, and what a pa
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Well it depends a bit, in my low latency application where we cant afford GC pauses, we tolerate them from 5am to 5:30 am. We do everything preallocated and if we must tolerate new heap allocation we simply never release (so we have a lot o
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I guess we all want what we don't have. I'd trade the cuisine for German engineering because it feels somehow, in the grand scheme, what will matter eventually is to resist and compete with a Chinese democracy, centuries down the
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Because it's a fallacy to think "change" is the purpose. If we cant fix the french mindset bar a terrible crisis, then the best to do is to soft manage the country like all presidents did since the americans showered us with
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by xwolfi 5y ago
As a French abroad, so maybe more detached, I agree with you ! Maybe the president could have an impact if he did anything a bit revolutionary, but since they never do and simply soft manage the country to prevent any huge swing, it seems l
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I moved to Hong Kong, which has its own issues. Out of love for a human being, for sure, but let s say I didnt convince that sweet other to move to France hehe. She would have if I asked, but as an unemployed english speaking Pakhistani in
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I would say it's getting better, maybe not to the point I d come back, probably because like I smelled, Macron helped unwind some of our social rigidity, but from the look of it (my families and friends back on the motherland), he made
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by xwolfi 5y ago
It's hard to say there's a direct causation. I left France myself because I felt the problems shown in these indicators were so deeply rooted in the French psyche that there was simply nothing to do. For instance, dropping the une
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I think you're wrong. I'm French so my "social conservative christian" parents still taught me to roll cigarets, that abortions saved young girls' future and that you shouldn't beat your wife if she wants a div
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by xwolfi 5y ago
It's probably a side gig, which is amazing. It means taxi didn't need to be a job all along.
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yeah, I'm a tech worker in China, I quit a 6AM - 11 PM, 6 days a week job (that I loved, a global startup, blah blah) to work as ... exactly doing the same thing in an investment bank and be paid double for 9am-7pm You know what we bem
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by xwolfi 5y ago
You would learn way too fast that it lacks any purpose ! Better spend time and money learning all the way to shuffled tokens online before learning the final lesson: most people dont recognize the value you spent on them.
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by xwolfi 5y ago
techbro just means a guy who's an asshole :D
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Every code base is legacy, in one dimension or another.
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by xwolfi 5y ago
yeah so weird, indeed I was referencing the infamous crocodile of Wall St, I had no idea about the other one... Indeed, strange trend :D
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by xwolfi 5y ago
No this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jlSHGAem6g !!
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by xwolfi 5y ago
It's because British people have such bad taste they still have mauve stuff. In French, the language it comes from, this color is synonymous with ugliness and the 60s hehe
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by xwolfi 5y ago
And don't ask me how I found it, but that's her: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rogueeconomist
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by xwolfi 5y ago
No they nabbed them for using stolen funds to create startups in the first place. They had no products ( https://web.archive.org/web/20220113181658/https://endpass.c... ) She presents herself here: https:
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I agree TPS doesn't matter, what I'm saying is that honesty does ! Who cares, they could have claimed a record of 5 TPS and that would be it, why lie about millions, speak of a world record, and then launch an army of over-investe
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Narcotic may be whatever you want, but the debate has to be honest and transparent, not shady and criminal: if you want to legalize heroin, make a case to the people, get it approved with safeguards, say like Portugal or France to some exte
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by xwolfi 5y ago
At the same time this crime shows the weakness of crypto: with an ever appreciating linked asset with no ability to truly "gap" transfers, you can always trace where the money goes, even with a mixer (you just then need to track m

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