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Based off the balance sheet FTX may have peaked (September 2021) with more than $100 billion of paper gains in "less liquid" assets. Token Last wks Last wks Estimated Peak Peak Pea…

You might be referring to David Mackay's excellent 2008 book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air - https://www.withouthotair.com In the book he tries to determine if renewable…

@iamben at current GBPJPY exchange rate of 138, ¥15m total comp would be nearing £110k. I am out of touch of FAANG senior dev salaries are in London now. Does that sound on par?

I also have not seen many vacancies advertised at that level. But I suspect there are roles for people with the right experience. The roles are getting filled by recruiters approac…

I enjoy Rory Sutherland's take on HS2 https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/11/the-wiki-man-how-to-redu... https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/why-hs2-doesnt-stand-up-...

A nice demo of Sorbet in action - https://youtu.be/jielBIZ40mw?t=837

Someone in the comments of that post recommends this automatically updated blocklist https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

I think the only email services that are not going to mine your emails for valuable data are paid services that have made strong commitments to privacy. This was an interesting pod…

The founder was interviewed on this podcast - https://overcast.fm/+OBZna2NS8/5:16 To summarise points that are missed in the comments and maybe not well describe on the website: Th…

Thanks, I didn't know that. I've changed to the standard "Expanded Control Strip" and it is much better. I found the constantly updating touchbar visually distracting.

In the context of Rails applications hosted on EC2, then I've not found Ruby's memory usage to really be an issue. In my experience most Rails apps range between 150-500MB per inst…

I see a previous post with a related issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064899

PayPay is a joint venture of Softbank and Yahoo Japan created in June 2018. It is another cashless payment system. But what seems different is they've launched with a very aggressi…

Can see the game in action here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIfCG2dga8 their level 4 was nice.

A few more details from an article in the Guardian: --- The Guardian US is based at one of the many offices run by WeWork in New York City. Currently on the event schedule is a TGI…

The message Gmail presents is: This will allow APP_NAME to: Run as a Gmail add-on [More info] View your email messages when the add-on is running [More info] ------- The '[More inf…

How much is your rent? How much short are you from paying the due rent? If your rent is at low-end for your area, then I'd try to avoid getting evicted. Getting evicted could trigg…

I found hotel pricing vs airbnb varies greatly depending on the season. In low-season often hotels are cheaper. Hotel's have large fixed expenses and are often happy just to fill r…

Not sure how accurate but napkin maths and quick google suggest barrel of oil produces 118 kg of co2. So about 9 barrels to produce a ton. Barrel is $67. So cost of capture might a…