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pru567

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    Comment #32017851

    trolling is such fun, such wow.

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    Comment #32017309

    I think NFTs will become used culturally to fight the perennial "Eternal September" -- or the phenomenon whereby a place gets ruined because its too popular; They will be used to s…

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    Comment #32017265

    No one can be absolutely certain of a future event, but you are being unreasonably negative.

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    Comment #32015711

    The name is bad, the feedback popup should not popup unless you click it, it should also be in the lower right hand corner. Its not very obvious that I should scroll down to learn …

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    Comment #32015668

    NFTs are art-projects, status-symbols, patreons, access keys (conferences/private discords), and an experiment in IP law (as owning a Bored Ape confers merchandising rights.) The s…

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    Comment #31994687

    Aren't algo-stablecoins a refuted concept after IronFinance and Terra/Luna?

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    Comment #31994039

    I think its interesting that two of the most bankable stars of their respective times are/were enormous guys: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

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    Comment #31960968

    Even if this ridiculous poll was true, and somehow the attack materialized; I think the Federal Government would make quick work of them -- with sonic crowd control weapons, tanks,…

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    Comment #31918994

    There's some horror stories of ferrets around toddlers (eating face/eating fingers), they seem pretty wild.

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    Comment #31909298

    I've come to the conclusion that people can't be happy unless they are building something/building toward something. Doing nothing is not really an option, psychologically speaking…

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    Comment #31886381

    Part of the attraction of the suburbs is that most US cities aren't very compelling. Its not like the choice is a Cleveland suburb vs Barcelona; its a Cleveland suburb vs Cleveland…

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    Comment #31727296

    Why though? Do rising interest rates really explain such a large move?

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    Ask HN: What user data should I collect for online-only business?

    Its a US-based online-only business (no shipping); planning to use Stripe (and maybe ApplePay) for payments. Do I really need to grab users' phone numbers and addresses? Maybe I ne…

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    Comment #31656097

    Homeschooling is illegal in Germany and its harder to avoid covid vaccines (idk if these items matter to you)

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    Comment #31536529

    FTX allows you to short some coins, don't know specifically if they allowed you to short LUNA/TERRA.

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    Comment #31422306

    I was actually trying to figure out the risks of lending GUSD (a fully audited and collateralized stablecoin) to a Curve pool. I generally think its a bad idea, but I can't figure …

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    Comment #31422125

    There's big yield in stablecoins. But yeah, it seems likely that the risk is not worth the yield.

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    Comment #31422107

    For years the major allegation has been that BTC price is artificially propped up by fraudulent Tethers. We finally get to resolve this point.

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    Comment #31421724

    Anyone else think ft.com is pretty close to ideal? Black text on parchment/sepia paper?

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    Comment #31410687

    GUSD is fully backed and audited. https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/gusd-stablecoin-gemini-do...

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    Comment #31410129

    Is there a list of common attacks with names? This is the first time I've heard the term "reentrancy attack", there's probably a dozen other terms I've never heard of, but would li…

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    Comment #31402139

    The proposal is USDC, which would be sent to the various ETH wallet addresses. No verification would be needed.

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    Comment #31379530

    Dae Kwon lives in Singapore, I imagine he'll find a friendly jurisdiction outside of US regulators.