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Does that $65K represent a trade against USD or a trade against Tether?

Being somewhat generous, I don't think it's because they didn't understand the probabilities, it's because they didn't think about the impact of what they were doing at all, beyond…

Does R2 have fewer expensive footguns than AWS?

I wish they'd offer to remove the touchbar from the laptop I have.

> Your machine has excellent resale value, because it's a Mac. If the laptop is from Apple's garbage era of 2016-2019 who would pay good money for it? Macs don't unconditionally ha…

Sure, but anyone holding that much wealth could expect some kind of "advanced persistent threat" working against them to either destroy all of the backups, or transfer the coins to…

> Who does it now? France sent a warship to escort its gold from the US to France. Wasn't free, probably wasn't cheap.

> Which is widely available and effectively free What? Who is going to fight off people trying to obtain or destroy that USB drive to increase the value of their own holdings (i.e.…

Who actually wants this? I don't want to stare at digital copies of people I'm trying to communicate with, whilst trapped in a digital maze designed by someone trying to keep me en…

There's a difference between "software developers" and "FAANG software developer" though, which is a source of great cognitive dissonance when people see that industry averages are…

The idea that the FAANG gravy train can last 30 years is not realistic. If at least half the letters in FAANG aren't blown away in that time period, it would suggest a tech environ…

This is a rant I can appreciate. Two subjective takes on the same subject: 1) As JavaScript became ascendant, it seems like developers lost their fear of dependencies, for some rea…

I wish articles like this provided some data as to what "affluent" is. How much money does the 48 year old have, and how much "house", that retirement looks to make sense to them? …

These people are stupid, and solutions like "a combination that only they know" or "disciplinary collars" are also stupid. You wouldn't want to rely on entirely novel, oppressive, …

Patton: Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome.

> These people are frankly stupid. Agreed. I'll give Huffman a bit of credit (in some areas) for getting down to basics like being able to see without glasses, or ride a motorcycle…

> How does bigness harm consumers in this case? It's up to the book to make that case. My point is that the issues you describe (misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, o…

> What are the problems then? As stated in the review, and presumably in the book: that "the very bigness of present-day companies — especially those in the tech sector — does not …

It's not like the need for military protection goes away with Bitcoin. People will attack each other to get what other people have, justly or unjustly, the same as they always have…