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In the recent thread about this topic [1] people mentioned that USDC is also not fully backed by pure cash. Assuming USDC has no funny business like tether seems to, how is this an…

I'm really struggling to understand these numbers. In some other articles I'm seeing that it offers 100% protection against hospitalisation and death. "The J&J vaccine was 85 per c…

For some background on the history in English Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Ind...

I read it is only 5 years [1]. In which case voluntarily staying in the Ecuadorian embassy for 6 years seems to be a miscalculation. (At least, staying beyond the point that the Sw…

It was my understanding that Google / Apple do not charge a fee on in-app purchases which are not platform specific and which use third-party payment processing. Never having playe…

It was in Thailand. Haha, I think the metal music was edited. This seems to be the original clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f18bv76QVs

I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbR1SXIje1U

No. Perhaps in a couple of cases, but on average, I believe it has shown to be safer.

> If everybody converted their bitcoins to fiat currency now the exchange rate would collapse quickly. You can say the same about literally any asset or currency. If everyone sells…

I'm quite biased on the whole AR thing, as I worked at Meta for almost three years, but I think that the HoloLens is a fantastic piece of technology, and that Augmented Reality Hea…

Why? LLCs are pass-through entities. US residents will get taxed as income, and non-US residents will not have to pay any tax if their income is not effectively connected with a US…

Soon receiving my Razer Blade 2017, upgrading from a Macbook Pro Late 2013.

Um, Facebook has 1.86 billion monthly active users.

If you read up on research regarding bonuses they also seem to lead to worse performance when it comes to cognitive tasks, and I'm unwilling to work with a company that doesn't use…

Why? I do some work on upwork and I find working hourly much more convenient as I don't risk a bad estimate or changing requirements.

For someone wanting to learn modern javascript, it's so hard to know where to start. So many different frameworks to pick from. There doesn't seem to be much point asking for sugge…

I found an early access code on their twitter: "NETTED". They posted that 1st August, so I'm not sure if it still works, but give it a shot!

Reading their footer, it says: "The Privacy Visa Card is issued by Customers Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc." So, it seems they have some kind of partnership with …

For credit cards, check out privacy.com I recently started using it, works great.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The 10am-9pm is only on weekdays. Saturdays are off.

Bay area startup with 100+ employees. Expected hours are 10am to 9pm, plus a little less on Sundays.

More like "thanks for going to Iraq with us". Either way, us Australians are certainly lucky to have this visa.

+1 for Charles Schwab. Excellent account. Not only do you not pay any foreign currency fees or foreign ATM fees, but every month they refund you any fees than out of network ATMs i…

I'm interested in the subset of such projects that are not only good for learning but also useful to others released as open source. Anyone care to give ideas?

Nice list. I'll be happy to add a couple of companies that I know are missing.