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This is common practice across the US and the rule-of-thumb 40x generally tries to take most cases into account. i.e., 40x after taxes and other typical debt levels is "risk approp…

Underground, perhaps (although German's U-Bahn is the equivalent). Metro, accent aside, is in common use worldwide, isn't it? (Tokyo, Washington DC, to name two Metro systems)

Posted this after receiving an email from the Wiretrustee team this afternoon. Unfortunately it seems their RPi CM4 SATA board has been cancelled (supply chain!). Full text of the …

I think it's largely too early to say (in the sense that it has yet to be thoroughly researched in vaxx'd areas). It's clearly taken over the population of infections in South Afri…

Deep fried at 350F for just over an hour. Bird was ~17lbs. Pulled with the thickest part of the breast at 155F (other parts were hotter). Did pseudo "dry brine" by salting it light…

> "for his involvement in the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the Internet." (from the announcement) in case y…

Thought this was a compelling illustration of how market dynamics intersect w. potential shenanigans... Carol is careful to not level any direct accusations, which I appreciate--bu…

Wholeheartedly agree about process vs. color-by-number recipes... For those who do like to read offline, I do recommend Ruhlman's "Twenty" [0]. It is well written and illustrated a…

Cracking DES as set 9 of cryptopals [0] :) ? Awesome challenges in general, of course, but iirc no actually breaking a symmetric key cipher ("actually" doing a lot of work here, I …

And, as usual, Coinbase is also down at the moment [0]. Don't have a super-strong opinion on the crash itself (or whether we should call it a crash given crypto's volatility)--but …

I use Unbound in a similar way, although I return 0.0.0.0 rather than NXDOMAIN. Don't really know why I decided to go that route, but when I was setting my Unbound server up I'd re…

Seems to be using a university proxy to get around FT's usual paywall. I had not seen this method before, am somewhat surprised the university proxy doesn't require some kind of SS…

While I have no idea given the... oddity... of this subthread, I might posit `tinc` is being referred to here: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/faq/ ETA: this is based on the open source c…

Might be an indicator of the old FOMO maneuvers. Whether the underlying realities are solid (fast, cheap transactions) or not is less relevant if people were, say, profit taking on…

Sniper in Mahwah [1] details a lot of the structure of HFT trading infrastructure, especially how microwave towers are used. It's a rabbit hole though, he's got tons of stuff on th…

I've heard a number of conflicting arguments about the reliability of Ethereum switching to proof of stake... From "they will" to "this is difficult, why bother". There's also the …

I recall seeing this comment as well. Measuring BTC in GWP is an odd concept - maybe I misread - but I take it that means 2 trillion worth of global world product is made in BTC? O…

One thing I have been remarking recent conversations with other long-interested crypto-friends hasn't been about the price action, or about the drama, or about the lack of transpar…

We've already lost when an arrest is equivalent to a conviction. Although, in some ways, we've been here for a while. Maybe less-so for individuals but for corporations, whom the l…

Interesting bit on the authorities viewing him as a counterfeiter. I'd guess that if parties are willing, and none are misrepresenting the note as currency, it's alright and a tran…

Granted, short-term losses are undeniable. But long-term, ordinary Canadians living in these properties stand to make out alright (indeed - assuming this is not a long-term depress…

Interesting to consider the reasons for the past valuation -- before everyone realized Alibaba was blowing up (I believe it was So, in 2016 dollars we're talking $5bn for their cor…

I answered 6-8 hours, although its rare they are adjacent hours of productivity. I am a student though, which may make me a little off-topic for this question, but it is time spent…