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Interesting idea but no, the lights never change based on usage like this.

These folks just put up a long post trying to weigh the risk v reward at various startup stages. Mostly summarized into: "Joining at Series C may give you an ideal combination of r…

Is this really what is passing as journalism these days? Anyone who spends even a modest amount of time looking at incidents of justified use of lethal force can quickly determine …

I figured it was unlikely google would make such a mistake, so I looked at the docs. They use public key cryptography to generate a private shared secret that is hashed alongside t…

For posterity, they updated the post on Mar 7 and will be emailing anyone affected. "Update March 7, 2022: We appreciate the feedback from the community and our customers, and will…

I could see this being really useful for the team I'm on, specifically for doing docker builds of rust binaries. The build always has to start from scratch, and being able to easil…

I'm aware of the impracticability of everyone divesting out of USTs right now. Your points are entirely valid and are the reason the system is still being held together. My point i…

Sometimes the only winning move is not to play :-) At some point it becomes irrational to keep holding USTs. I'm well aware it seems right now there aren't any other good options, …

Most gold proponents would say gold being money and not a "currency" is the whole point.

Really useful twitter as well: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact

Last time they dropped it from 5.25% to 0, and still had to print ~$3.7T. With only 1.5% to cut and GDP 50% larger than it was back then, how much QE will they attempt this round?

(To be clear, I personally don't think the fed will be able to get themselves out of this one. I'm just stating most market participants think they can.) I certainly agree w/ you t…

Hong kong already giving out $1,200 to each resident: https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/hong-kong-economy-stimulus-ca...

The % of corporate debt rated BBB has also exploded. It is likely these companies should really be junk, but are kept alive by reluctant/agreeable rating agencies and historically …

Agreed. I've also appreciated the quote of "Last time I checked the fed can't print a vaccine"

To me, I think the most critical thing to make note of is the extreme focus on what the fed and other central banks are going to do. The fact that most people (rightly) assume that…

A couple of fun behind the scenes stories which I think at this point are past the statute of limitations. Source: I was the Service Engineer on pipes for around a year or so. 1) W…

Understanding the root cause of how our healthcare system developed is both crucial and completely lacking from most of these discussions. It is a tale of federally mandated wage c…

Can someone ask the author to google 'myspace' and 'yahoo'? Maybe 'sun' as well? """ Customers naturally gravitate to the platform with the largest network of customers (think Face…

Anyone here will probably enjoy checking out commandlinefu: http://commandlinefu.com Especially looking down the list of all time greats: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/brow…

IBM currently at 380K according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

Also, specifically about minimum wage, raising it much more often than not has negative outcomes. There is clearly mixed research, but most studies including this meta-study make t…

So given their current losses, I think we can agree that at their current revenue - costs the business model isn't sustainable. We can also agree that these aren't exactly great jo…

Yes. Labor laws in general reduce options for those who need them most. It prevents people from making decisions for themselves and is condescending in assuming individuals are inc…

"Uber losses expected to hit $3 billion in 2016 despite revenue growth" https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/uber-losses-expected-to-hi... So Uber lost ~$3 billion in 2016, yet in 201…