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by zeven7 4y ago
Dai is backed by other cryptos, so 100% transparent, and it was around in the last crash in 2018 and held up well. At the time it was backed 100% by ETH (it is now multi-collateral) and maintained the peg as ETH crashed from $1400 down to $
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Direct backed stable coins require trust in the custodian. Algorithmic stable coins don't require the same trust, so there are benefits. And there are some that have been working well for a long time, and continue to work well in curre
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This coin is rank #2858 on Coin Market Cap. This is non-news.
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> It lets people with savings invest those savings in companies that produce real world goods and services. You can invest in cryptos that you think will perform some sort of electronic service, like Ether, in expectation that the value
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That's true, but then the price does go up on cue anyway. I see it as a way to express frustration that you know it will go up anyway
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Related discussion: - https://twitter.com/PersianCapital/status/152522615330419916... - https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/152556162497470054...
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Proposal to refund UST holders up to a cap per wallet(agora.terra.money)
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> useless mouse over popups all over a UI I go back and forth on whether I want to disable intellisense and tips in VS Code because half the time I feel like it's helpful, but the other half of the time it's covering up other c
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> What's a phrase for when everyone is getting scammed, and not by any one person, but by an idea? Where there are no winners, only lucky and unlucky. The phrase is "financial market"
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It seems the common expectation is that GR is more likely to be the theory that needs to be modified the most - or more or less tossed out and replaced with a quantum theory of gravity. Is it possible that GR is just "right" and Q
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Relatedly, before general relativity, people already knew something was wrong with Newton's theory of gravity from observing the orbit of Mercury, which didn't follow the theory accurately. At that time Mercury, being so close to
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For quasars, don't the beams shoot out of the poles? Let's hope our nearby buddy doesn't become that active.
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tbf, there is already a mystery to solve. This just means we have no new information to help us solve it.
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There's also a Nova documentary version if parent would prefer to watch something: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/the-elegant-universe/ I'll add an additional recommendation: Stephen Hawk
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Yes, I have. I'd ask some clarification and respond to what I think your point is, but I see you're too clever to get to the point, so I'll move on.
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And? > X times open parenthesis ten minus X close parenthesis equals twenty one I'm not sure if your point is supposed to be that it's easier to understand if read another way or something, but no matter what the symbol version
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by zeven7 4y ago
It's inferior because there's a bunch of useless clutter that gets in the way in the JSON patch version. For the same reason > If a person puts such a question to you as: ‘I have divided ten into two parts, and multiplying one
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by zeven7 4y ago
To add to this, it's not all on every engineer's machine. It's not like they can just walk out of the office with a computer with all the source code. It's on a virtual file system that requests files as needed, and you
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You can still often check to see if someone has an account for a service by just .. trying to sign in or retrieve lost password. You often don't need to have the password or access to the email to tell from the response if there's
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Yeah, never. PEMDAS for sure. What part of the country were you in where you got BEDMAS?
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Chiming in as someone who has lived decades in both South East US and North East US. I've also never heard () called "brackets" only "parentheses". This includes in and out of programming circles. I assumed the comm
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This is my real gripe. Let's not pretend "TODO" is the end of the comment.
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Except most were also started by Americans or people who had already moved to America for other reasons.
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I also scored 60+ (actual age is in my 30s). I had similar thoughts and also did things like not use up all the numbers and repeat numbers more than twice exactly because I've looked at a lot of random number sequences in my life and I
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I would be turned off by that filter, but then maybe your wife's not for me.
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by zeven7 5y ago
"anybody" doesn't always mean "anybody". There's often context.
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This thread just keeps getting weirder. Am I on HN?
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I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was p
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> Is there anyone who is not controversial? Vitalik Buterin does not fit the bill you describe. His ideas may be controversial, but he's far from a scammer.
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> I wouldn't think Russian politicians called for hospitals and Ukrainian schools to be hit Russia is admitting to intentionally attacking the hospital. Their claim is that the hospital was long abandoned by patients and has been us

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