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python-guy-vt··on Not Applicable: What Your Job Post Is Really Saying
I hate job post jargon.

"Fast paced environment" == we give you more work than can be handled in an 8 hour day.

OK thanks, now I know not to apply.

python-guy-vt··on Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
How does this negate mutually assured destruction? If anything it enforces the idea that this is why we have only had close calls. No one wants to be responsible for starting the demise of (at the very least) two countries.
python-guy-vt··on Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
Very simple: Mutually assured destruction
python-guy-vt··on Weird Futures You Can Trade
If you can trade futures on the weather, then why not sports games? Why should Las Vegas be the ones getting all the money on sports bets?
python-guy-vt··on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
>They might be 30% slower in virtualization and should be about 5-7% slower in real world usage.

Virtualization IS real-world-usage. This is going to damage Intel where it will hurt the most, the datacenter (which is largely virtualized using VMware, or Hyper-V). The Xeon CPU's have some of the best profit margins for Intel. If they erode away to Epyc (which is finally becoming available) this could be pretty good for AMD's, espically since AMD has said the the past few years there strategy is to go after the datacenter market.

python-guy-vt··on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
>I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful...

If you can train yourself to do the opposite you could make a lot off this stock. Buy fear, sell greed. Never panic.

Losses are never realized if you don't sell, and just wait it out until it is back near 15 again.

python-guy-vt··on Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s
>This is a product of SF being extremely welcoming and supportive of the homeless and the poor.

>NYC has less of these things because it has undergone extreme gentrification and has politics and police which treat the homeless much worse.

This is part of the puzzle. However, I think there are other contributing factors too, like the weather. If I was homeless I sure wouldn't want to be in NY in winter.

python-guy-vt··on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
Joke is on them, only grandparents and mothers of young children use facebook anymore.
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
don't know, but I would think leaving it on an exchange is a terrible idea (Mt. Gox)
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
you can't talk about value without talking about supply
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
Your example is a reflection on counterfeiter and the person being deceived. That has nothing to do with the value of bitcoin.
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
that is exactly how markets work.

> bitcoin has no intrinsic value, just a exchange rate with other things

1. It has proof-of-work, which gives it value 2. Supply of the coin and demand for the coins determine the price.

The only thing that can vary widely is the demand, the supply cannot be fucked with (unlike fiat currency). It is impossible for whole bunch of new coins to suddenly appear out of thin air. There is no way to artificially inflate the supply.

python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
Good point. I am taking for granted that people will have their coins in their wallets, and lot just leave them up on an exchange.
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
> fully determined by supply and demand

With bitcoin you cannot manipulate the supply, therefore you can't magically create $800M out of thin air.

python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
Because you can't lend out a Bitcoin you don't have, unlike fiat currency.
python-guy-vt··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
> For example, 800M has been artificially pumped into the Bitcoin.

This is impossible with Bitcoin. Bitcoins can only be created via mining, Bitcoin mining is a proof-of-work crypto currency. Crypto's typically use proof-of-work or proof-of-stake in order to have value.

Tether, on the other hand, seems to have no proof-of-work or proof-of-stake at all and just claims to have a 1:1 ratio of their currency to dollars. Seems there is some skepticism around this claim of a 1:1 ratio.

If Tether, was found out to be a fraud I think it would have minimal impact on real Crypto currencies that use proof-of-work or proof-of-stake. The only negative impact would be the people that exchanged a real Crytpo for Tether might be burned and decided not to use/accept Crypto at all, which could impact the larger Crypto market a bit, but IMO I don't think it would shake it too badly, unless of course the main stream media took the story and click baited it with crappy headlines and poorly written articles that would falsely come to the conclusion that such a artificial pump is possible with real Crypto.

python-guy-vt··on The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake
I think even more are holding out for Epyc.
python-guy-vt··on The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM
This tone of this article is pretentious and just plain douchey. The author is largely assuming that their small niche (and petty) use case is what everyone who uses a KVM would want (i.e. using a 4k monitor). The single largest use for KVM is for servers, who the hell is wasting money on a 4k monitor for their servers? There are plenty of reliable and affordable KVM's that the author deems as old relics that work just fine for the large majority of consumers.