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A lot of successful entrepreneurs had no safety net, and have been through significant adversity.
Those that have been coddled and never held accountable have worse coping mechanisms and drive than those who have dealt with it and overcome obstacles the majority of their lives.
Students there are all living off parent money so their disposable income is much higher than hard data would suggest.
In addition to this you have to do it on margin, and most exchanges have a history of dubious liquidation of margin positions.
Combined with some basic rules like no meetings on Fridays it can quickly become a simple and effective company culture.
I asked what he was doing and he gladly showed me that he was just manually cycling the lights, basically on a longer delay where required to clear jams and work with another cop directing traffic.
As another commenter said, it's like conditionals on steroids.
The whole ETH/ETC fork was because they messed up the DAO contract, which set a precedent for "code is law, except when it doesn't suit us".
I worked on a hackathon for NAB where we proposed banks could be an auth provider for payments that require ID, e.g. Buying a SIM card, signing a waiver etc at the point of sale
I haven't seen a collision demonstration with plain text that could be a practical attack.
No one cares about it having a database behind the scenes or the upgrade/downgrade process, tell me what it can do and how it compares to the real alternative, Adobe Lightroom.
This arbitrage exists because of the huge counterparty risk of exchanges
This won't and well.