mmsmatt

The last few years of BTC, ETH, and DeFi all collapse quickly if the USDT peg fails.

How much crypto is borrowed on platforms like Compound against USDT? That collateral takes a 5% haircut, we’ll see painful liquidations. 10% or 20%? Fire sale everywhere.

Pick a few features and make them the free tier. Upsell some premium content, or have a “first three goals are free” model, unlimited goals in the subscription.

Anything but paying up front for a year.

If there was a free tier I’d download and try it.

Elinks could render to SVGAlib well enough to browse sites that weren’t loaded with JS, no X11 needed

Also, read the prospectus of any ETF you already own, and you’ll get the gist of APs, enough to understand why your fees are so low.

This has got to be Taibbi click-baiting pro-Trump subscribers. He buries his admission that Trump's Biden/Burisma narrative is a lie so deep in the piece, you really have to trudge through a lot of hand-wringing drivel to find it. You can read 90% of this piece thinking that Taibbi is clearly sympathetic to the Republican narrative, and he gives no indication otherwise!

Firefox is down for the count with the recent layoffs. It’s Google’s web to lose in the near future.

Some days it really feels like there is nothing new under the sun.

I rent a Shadow instance for $35 a month, and play my entire Steam library on a MacBook Air. New games, old games, whatever. It just works, given good broadband and an Ethernet cable.

I think the future of "cloud gaming" looks a lot more like Shadow than Stadia.

He who holds the keys holds the coins.

Counterparty risk is through the roof.

I tried moving some prediction market contracts on US Election Day, couldn’t trade anything due to traffic volume. This feels familiar.

Decades of technical and legal work went into our stock exchanges, the bitcoin bucket shops are a few generations behind. It doesn’t matter until suddenly it does.

Serious question, what was the complaint against xrange?

I don’t recall it ever surprising me or behaving poorly.

> Now, if the story was that something was under congressional investigation, and Twitter had been told to preserve documents, but had refused to do so, this might be actually something. But none of that is here.

You saved me a click and a lot of disappointment!

The Great Trump Moral Panic (good phrase) is exhausting too much energy from the public attention. It’s clearly in his interest to maintain the Panic over non-stories, these will always drown out any real stories in tomorrow’s paper.

GRPC is fantastic.

You define a few data types to communicate about, and call procedures remotely with them. I mean it’s right there in the name!

Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a Methodology you can cram your business or research problem into. It just wants to talk about your problem. Way too on-the-nose for many tastes.

It needs a religion attached, then masses will follow.

SOAP, WCF, CXF, et al, what’s old is new again.

It’s strange to have been playing this game long enough to see a full cycle.

Here be dragons.

Traditional media is chasing social media every day. This was the dream, it just took Trump to bring it into reality. A company that lives and dies by ad analytics couldn't have not known about election influencing purchases.

The adults in the room want more Facebook in your life at any cost, totally rational goal for the organization to live on.

I would bet a day or two of bad press from Mark's VR stunt is probably worth the bump in engagement and publicity.

From the same boat, I concur with everything in TFA. Funny detail to me, I've been at this exactly twice as long as the author. Ten years together for my partner and I, now two married on top of that.

I'll add my experience in the hope it helps others. We should form a meet up, or at least a mailing list. I bet there are a lot of us here.

The Absolute Best Thing You Can Do in this situation: Learn to recognize and manipulate your own emotional states. Take control over what you bring into the room.

On the worst days, your partner will have little no of this ability themselves. Pick up that slack and things get better faster.

Read Covey, Carneige, and Cialdini for starters. They will together persuade you that you're much more susceptible to the emotion of a moment than you thought you were. And, you'll learn to see how others have controlled the emotions you've felt in the past, to drive your behaviors. It feels like magic, like cheat codes, when it clicks. And that click is the beginning of a real empathy for what you're seeing in them.

You'll also learn how to get someone talking effectively about emotions in a way that loosens the hold, and gets the logical part of the brain re-engaged.

Reading and talking are great, but there's so much more. Find a hobby or group that forces your hand to work nonverbal communication skills. You need somewhere to practice reading others' cues and responding with your own.

Work that long enough, and you'll start to see impending anxiety before your partner experiences the brunt of it. You'll also see the anxiety states they weren't telling you about, some of which they didn't recognize as anxiety either.

At that point, you've leveled up your own emotional awareness you can start leading your partner (mostly nonverbally, sometimes in detailed conversation) to raise their own. That inspires confidence. Confidence is what you want, it's the long con (ha), and a few victories in a row will let the both of you reach for new goals: things that seemed impossible months or years ago just aren't anymore. IMHO, that's the best life.

> "Or do you end up locked in for a few more years of handcuffs while waiting it out?"

The golden cuffs _will_ click if you stick around any time at all and have even slightly bad luck: Maybe you burn out before vesting, or the company blows an acquisition that would've fit your schedule and your payout/life goals.

Waiting around after you hear the click becomes a losing game. Find another one to play, it's a big world.

And the world was so open, you could play as little or as much of a map as you wanted, given you cleared objectives. Rope arrows took you up buildings if you didn't want to crawl through. Plenty of bystanders to scare off playing ghost if you wanted to crawl every inch of their quarters for silver.

Great questions. I worked on similar problems in the weather/ag space for a few years, trying to minimize the time between data was acquired and data is ready to inform a decision.

We threw every rule out the window in the name of performance _when fetching raw data from external sources_. So we had weather station networks, NOAA forecast runs and NASA satellite data in a workable schema in our shop way faster than average. Mix of C, PowerShell, Perl, and the nonstandard parts of T-SQL, highly parallelized, tricky but fast.

After the "workable schema" was established, the rules came back and we acted more responsibly. Smart instead of clever.

Ran this stuff all day long, getting every piece of data asap. Things that can only be calculated with a full day of data we poked and prodded the meteorologists to express in "partial aggregates", which to me were just like the map steps before an EOD reduce.

Took a lot of mutual understanding and iterating but worth it in the end. When the ultimate data source (satellite or radar site for us) posted its last hour of data, we were 95% done with the day's computation work. We do our last step, publish our numbers, and bam, Our ag clients have this stuff a day earlier than they are used to.

Clicked link from IE11. Got this:

> "Internet Explorer is not supported by Jupyter: For best results use Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or another modern browser."

This makes me so happy - MS products leaving old browsers behind gives all web developers a ball and bat in the same fight.

I've wondered about this too, your explanation works for me.

> Once you know window functions, you risk putting them all over the place

Agreed.

A few years of writing expressive, powerful, performant SQL in big blocks will really change your mental model of data across _all_ languages.

I highly recommend a deep dive into the relational world, and I feel super grateful for the SQL-focused job I held previously. Brought those lessons back with me to both FP and OO.

Sun tried the data center in a shipping container. I believe it was named Project Blackbox.

Interesting. But I'm a widget maker, not a specialist in any of those fanciful terms you threw around. I'd like to participate in the judges' world, but my widgets take all my time. Is there someone that can sort through the precedents and rules on my behalf if I tell them what I need in widget-speak?

My second most popular tab in Firefox. Levine is a fantastic way to start the day.

I don't think you need to do any of this shady stuff to be a small loan marketplace for unaccredited participants. But the shady stuff kills your chances to feed the CLO pipeline and selling (large batches of) small loans to accredited buyers.

So just... why take _these_ risks? It doesn't have a realistic chance of helping any viable strategy that I can think of.

US South here: A popular chain started putting to-go boxes on tables at lunch. If your whole table drops their phones in the box when you sit down, your table gets free dessert.

I've noticed just the presence of the game - even if my table doesn't play - greatly reduces screen time and habitual notification checks.

ESET brings back good memories, I was a happy customer as long as I administered Windows boxes. I never remember a false positive with ESET/Nod32.

Norton, OTOH, would happily delete nmap.exe and cain.exe then beg for praise after the fact, a kitten with her first kill.

I doubt any transaction processing systems got updated at any bank in the past 48hrs with the Brexit vote in the air.

As far as I can tell, Trigger is neither broker nor advisor. Why a company that is none of those wants to touch my securities, I can think of no charitable reason for that.

There exist a million reasons you do not want not-quite-stop-limit orders on SPY or GOOG in your personal account, you are up against trade execution systems that smoke your retail broker not to mention this outfit (who you now put between you & your broker).

Please do not bring a butter knife to a gun fight and lose your shirt.

So I wasn't the only one? That scene jerked me out of happy animation land and made me think of The Wire.