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That would be Cap'n Proto RPC

He hasn't and he's performing at a higher level than ever, but I don't think that's what you're asking. You are looking for permission to be normal and like the guy, as the majority of the general public does, but you will not receive it on this site. It's now just geezers upvoting Alzheimers research, articles from The Atlantic telegraphing the party line and the occasional "I rewrote this thing that already works in Rust". I'd suggest you get on X for tech news instead.

In case someone is interested in shorting Tether, thanks to DeFi this can now be done without explicit exposure to a crypto exchange or dangerous BTC shorts. For the uninitiated, I think this is also a good example for the kind of craziness that is possible now:

Deposit a "good" stable coin (for what counts as good in this space, which is USDC) on Aave or Compound and borrow Tether against it (75% and 80% loan-to-value respectively). You can now either send it to an exchange (e.g. Kraken) and swap USDT to real USD, or go to curve.fi and swap USDT for more USDC and deposit back to Aave or Compound. Repeat until either 4x/5x leverage (theoretical max) or your personal risk tolerance is reached. Remember to service the position by depositing more USDC occasionally (otherwise will be liquidated with penalty). As of this writing, variable interest rate is ~3.5%, fixed interest rate is 11%.

Scenarios:

- USDT goes to zero, buy as many as needed for scrap, pay back the loan, free the original stablecoins, sell for real USD and make between 1.75x to 4x/5x, depending on which route you chose above.

- Both USDT and USDC go to zero, you lose between 25 to 100%, depending on the route you chose above.

- There's a USDT shortage (real or somehow engineered) and it goes way above $1 causing your position to be force-liquidated, causing you lose between 25 to 100%, depending on the route you chose above.

- Only USDC falls below peg (temporarily or permanently) and you get force-liquidated (25 to 100% loss)

- You forget to service the debt or a spike in the variable interest rate causes you to get force-liquidated (5% penalty)

- Tether never goes to zero and you keep paying 3.5% interest (variable)

- Smart contract hack / Ethereum shuts down, you lose up to 100%

- Unkown scenarios

While there's no explicit exposure to a crypto exchange, there's still the implicit exposure to Coinbase/Circle via USDC. DAI offers no escape here, since its 50% collateralised by USDC (the other 50% crypto would likely be in serious turmoil in case USDT collapses potentially losing its peg as well).

In spite of this, I think this is a considerably better way to profit from a Tether collapse then the much more dangerous route of shorting BTC futures, or shorting via an unregulated crypto exchange where there's no guarantee that they'll pay or even be operational in such an event.

Yes, but the British Empire was a thing, which is why "white" can be mocked and ridiculed in ways unimaginable to any other ethnicity. Science tells us so...

as I understand it, the correct keyword would have been "mostly peaceful protest today"

Surly noone in the orient ever expressed such opinions, least of which the japanese --known throughout asia and the world for their love and admiration of other races -- which is why the west is in desperate need to turn the lookingglass around and cleanse itself from all forms of racism, which it is uniquely capable of doing. Other races needn't play in this game.

One could say that this is merely the continuation of chauvinistic anglocentrism by other means, but to do so would embarass self-professed "anti-racists", hence white supermacy gets a new lease on life deep within the liberal mindset that nominally opposes it.

yes, how dare these business keep the wheels on society during a crisis. They should be punished. What's a thousand kids going hungry, but a small price to pay for all of society's ills perfectly adjudicated.

The democratic party is the party of the affluent and sacrosant, so it's no surprise that they opt to make a million poor families suffer so one injustice wouldn't slide.

Their fragile world view remains intact, while none of their constituents pay the price.

Just the make sure where you stand.

Exactly my thoughts. I thought this place had become more negative, but I'm still shocked at the results. Perhaps it's time to move on and find more positive technology communities. You don't happen to know any?

My deepest apologies for opining, comrade throwawaygh

> They have been corrected

This sounds like something a soviet comission would declare after an accident. What went wrong and how was it corrected? You needn't know, it has been corrected.

I used to think Apple has the best approach to diversity, but this presentation really showed the folly inherent to the entire project. You realize that what you just saw was a cast of exclusively white men and women gushing over a cast of exclusively colored models? All the engineers and executives vs. nice-to-look at minorities. This is not a new social arrangement, and certainly not one Apple would stand for, and yet inadvertently this is is the image that they've created.

The pictures themselves are telling to. They are all weird, lower power poses. Could you imagine Tim Cook or another speaker striking a pose like that? This is how the executives like to be seen: https://www.apple.com/leadership/

Sadly it has come to the point where any criticism of diversity for any reason is sacrilegious, but people would be wise to think twice what the outcome of these policies is. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

They are failures in the eyes of people who used to vote for them but now don't. This is not a left/right thing. Neither is the wider liberal movement that includes most conservative parties, a destinction most likely lost on US-based uppercase Liberals who interpert my comment as a attack on them. It is an observation about the wider liberal project that is in decline everywhere.

Lower case liberal was meant as in Liberalism, the wider movement that came out of the Enlightenment and most certainly includes parties from "both sides". Traditional conservative parties are being rejected as well.

There are no democracies being "toppled" via instagram, there are only some liberal parties being voted out of office as their policies have been massive failures, which is democracy working as intended.

Edit: accidentially replied to wrong post

> Yes, it does.

Collecting evidence for bold claim is left as an exercise to the reader.

I remember Rich mentioning his in a talk. There's one problem he considers unresolved and he wouldn't finalize the API until he had a good solution. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was. Also, this must have been more than a year ago, whatever goes on in spec2 might have evolved since then.

I was once infatuated with the digital nomad "community". One day, I came across a twitter thread where he (the "ceo" of ghost) and other prominent members of that community were engaged in a harassment campaign against customer service representatives of a local airline for delaying one of their flights. What I found particularly revealing was that they used various families with kids that were also waiting as a front for their own complaints, as in "How dare you make these families wait?", when in fact they meant "How dare you make _us_ wait?". I found that pretty gutless, and my admiration for this "community" began to wane as a result. Long story short, I'm not at all surprised questionable business practices and mistreatment of customers sprung from there.