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Writing that mathematics is a waste is such a hilariously ignorant comment to make on a programming forum.

You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.

Were we living in the same city? There were multiple heatwaves in the time I lived there, one so severe that Noe Valley got to 107. And this isn’t to mention the wildfires or inevi…

These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.

Good thing all those roads aren’t planned, built, and maintained by the government!

right, which is why this is a liquidity problem and not a solvency one. The assets cover the liabilities--you just have to wait ten years or whatever.

The liabilities are the same currency and the same amount in 2023 and 2033. They’re solvent. The asterisk is that the liabilities are generating interest, but this is fine because …

Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.

> I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm. Speak for yourself.

You might wanna check out some of jason hickel’s writings in the topic. As someone from such a “place with a lot of poverty” I’ve always chafed at the idea that capitalism (and thu…

Competition in its recognizably modern form only recently became the foundational organizational system for civilization, and civilization “won” because (in part) a) it generally h…

even if that were the case, the only place you're getting prolonged proximity to a (relatively) fixed group of people is your workplace? that sounds super not good.

This is really not a great time to rest an argument on the principle that exchanges function well with regards to dollar cashflows.

huh

right, except that nobody is buying stocks with tether.

…what Look at a tether volume chart vs a btcusd chart

Where in Boston did you live? That’s definitely the case in the fancy parts of Boston and definitely not the case in the minority ghettoes like roxbury, JP, and dorchester

neither category should be inhabited, so yeah.

I would not, but I know some people who would consider a deal like that. At $12k/yr and your stage you’re basically hiring a cofounder, so four points is… not a lot. You sound like…

Miners mine the longest chain for a given coin. This poster is proposing just making another coin, not forming the existing Bitcoin chain.

The sorts of men who are thrown into cages are different sorts of men than those who are handed enormous sums of capital.

> You could retire tomorrow, but you weren't put on this Earth to just be idle. nice > Your startup is "Ramen profitable" - that means you're making around 7k/month revenue to cove…

Never thought I’d see quillette on the front page

FTX had enormous crypto holdings and made investments in companies you’d definitely consider crypto companies, notwithstanding that there aren’t any “pure” exchanges in the crypto …

It sounds good, except that there’s no results for “screechings” or “only cure” in the books, and Ron doesn’t encounter Voldemort in Goblet, only Harry and Cedric do. Again, it has…