Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — pskiba

pskiba

HN member
Joined
Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 9:15 PM UTC
HN karma
29
Public activity
17 items

About pskiba

Hi I'm Patrick Skiba.

Check out my blog at https://patrickskiba.com

I also maintain an org-mode web app called Weborg:

https://github.com/patrickskiba/weborg

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    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.

  2. comment
    Comment #28642273

    Do you treat your 401k the same way?

  3. comment
    Comment #28642193

    The original comment was about protecting yourself against inflation. Not sure how your comment is related.

  4. comment
    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…

  5. comment
    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…

  6. comment
    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 …

  7. comment
    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…

  8. comment
    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…

  9. comment
    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

  10. comment
    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…

  11. comment
    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…

  12. story
  13. comment
    Comment #21052860

    I wonder how effective this soap is when used as a cleaning agent compared to commercial options.

  14. comment
    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…

  15. comment
    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…

  16. story
  17. story