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pskiba
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About pskiba
Check out my blog at https://patrickskiba.com
I also maintain an org-mode web app called Weborg:
https://github.com/patrickskiba/weborg
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Comment #28931380
Yes and no, unless you have a magic ball its best to DCA. Maybe at best, you could do a modified DCA so that you're not buying Bitcoin when its at all time highs.
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Comment #28642273
Do you treat your 401k the same way?
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Comment #28642193
The original comment was about protecting yourself against inflation. Not sure how your comment is related.
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Comment #28642017
> The reason why we have inflation and debt is to keep the value of our currencies stable A stable currency would have an inflation rate of 0%. Inflation does not cause currency st…
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Comment #28641836
If your time horizon is long enough, volatility shouldn't matter. Historically speaking Bitcoin is getting less volatile with every market cycle. I would not be surprised if in the…
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Comment #28641680
Maybe if he meant less than 5% of miners make money. I could potentially believe this, given the competitive nature of mining. However, as an investment, as of right now, there is …
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Comment #28641616
This is not true, saturation points on staking pools exist to encourage people moving to other pools, this causes more decentralization not less. Additionally, from a hardware pers…
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Comment #28523598
I'm not sure I get your argument, staking takes significantly less powerful hardware so its very accessible. Staking pools also have a "saturation point" to encourage decentralizat…
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Comment #22171995
I read all my pdf's using the Emac's library pdf-tools and epub's with the library Nov.el Works pretty great
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Comment #21985502
Somehow I ended up getting a perfect score in every category, which in my company is not typical and I was given pretty much no feedback. I'm confident my manager was scolded for t…
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Comment #21090251
Neomutt is good but it can be a pain to configure without a script. I recommend people who want to use Neomutt for the first time use this wizard https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mu…
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Comment #21052860
I wonder how effective this soap is when used as a cleaning agent compared to commercial options.
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Comment #21052720
I very rarely look to friends and family for career advice. I typically seek developers who have something interesting to say about the topic and are passionate about sharing their…
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Comment #21009278
Many self taught developers will focus on less theoretical skills related to programming and focus on what's practical. They may read a textbook to teach themselves but it'll be di…
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