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Post by efreak »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #673
CircaSurvive wrote: post #559

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Would you trade me a dollar for 12 cents? If it implodes who’s going to trade you the other coins for something of questionable value? Additionally, say you hold 50% tether and the rest in a mix of coins. Your portfolio would be cut in half. How does that result in other coins being purchased if people are uncertain of tethers true value and unwilling to trade for it. Then there’s the whole using tether as margin for…

God I hate "crypto". It's all a big fucking "get rich quick scam", all of it, without exception. Hopefully I will cash out at the right time (probably not).

That depends on how you treat it. If you got it from a faucet 10 years ago, then it's just toy money that you might be able to sell to a collector.

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Post by hairui »

gustavpaul wrote: post #716
hairui wrote: post #283

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what levels have those "shelves" occurred at?

Hmm - well I still feel relatively n00b as a 3k. For me the most prominent ones were 15/16k: I think that's the moment I started evaluating different moves instead of just playing what looked best and hoping I pick better ones than my opponent. 12k: discover first bits of wholeboard thinking 9k: discover first vague ideas around direction of play 6k: discover tenuki / sacrificing locally for global benefit, leaning a…

ya pretty similar progression for me -- I remember leaning attacks being pretty eye-opening

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Post by xhrpost »

rjmunro wrote: post #744
xhrpost wrote: post #240

Haven't won the IPO lotto like some here but I'm comfortable financially and don't have a family. Thus my pay check mostly just ensures a nicer lifestyle, which doesn't seem to be enough to keep me motivated in the tech world. Hoping to try to do some side projects in order to give more external value to my day job: 1.) Imgur is just full of ads and annoying to use these days. Wondering if a high scale image sharing…

If you are serious about starting a hedge fund, I've always wanted a fund that I can invest in that works like a passive tracking fund, with minimal costs, except that I should be able to tell it to skip certain shares. E.g. if I want to not include Oil companies or companies that make animal products, or companies that overpay their CEOs.

You could probably do that with something like M1, it's just on you to decide which companies. Start with all companies of the S&P500 and start removing the ones you don't like.

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Post by [deleted] »

gitfan86 wrote: post #657
muzani wrote: post #394

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There's a Ask HN thread, maybe a few, of people who hit it rich and later lost it. The common theme is it's easier to make lots of money than it is to keep it, which is a little unintuitive.

The scenarios where that can happen: 1. Bad budgeting or lack of diversification. "95% of my money was in Enron" 2. Confirmation Bias. "I build a successful company once, I can do it again, but this time with my own money" 3. Hedonic Treadmill. "Flying commercial is so annoying, I'm going to fly private, and figure out how to pay for it later"

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Post by splintercell »

cyberlurker wrote: post #333
splintercell wrote: post #311

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I’m not sure if I agree with your experience, in New York City Obamacare plans are horrendously bad, The coverage comes nowhere near to the crappiest employer plan. I had to hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan, and about only 40% of the doctors really did (this was for a delivery). $1400 per month for a mother and a child. I currently pay $1400 per m…

The price is probably similar to what the employer pays. It just gets hidden because everyone only pays attention to what comes out of their paycheck. I know a past employer paid $2000 for me per pay period. Health insurance is bullshit obviously. the costs are hidden and definitely suppress what our wages could be. A government solution would be hard pressed to be worse.

I don't think anyone really thinks that health insurance plans cost $200 vs individual plans being $1400. Just the implication is ridiculous. Our problem wasn't the price, but the coverage. I know my BIL pays $2200 (total, including what his employer pays) and gets excellent plan for him and his wife, whereas us paying $1400 (and this was the same case with the more expensive plans too, coverage didn't change a bit, any doctor who accepted gold, accepted silver too).

My point is, (speaking strictly from a consumer POV) whatever is the reason, the NYC doctors just didn't take Obamacare plans, period.

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Post by awayto »

HanaShiratori wrote: post #317
awayto wrote: post #163

I am developing a framework to spin up web applications very fast. Right now it incorporates: - an RDS postgres instance with a curated set of DB scripts with auditing baked in - Lambda/API Gateway based API - fully implemented with users, roles, groups - application level authorization - Cognito for user authentication (sign up or admin created) - S3/CF for hosting/files - React frontend - all in Typescript with a r…

Just wondering, why did you decide to build this around proprietary, managed cloud infrastructure when the core utilities are open source? Doesn't this unnecessarily lock many use cases into AWS?

The framework was built out of my own developments as I needed to develop web applications over the last few years. I chose AWS for the original architecture because of my familiarity with the platform and relative ease of use.

Only recently have I started the process of formalizing the framework as it has existed, so there hasn't been any work done on supporting a cloudless implementation. It's on the radar (I have a notice on the top of the git readme about this very topic and needing contributors).

If you are interested in this, feel free to join the discord posted on the github. I'm very much open to discussion and dialog.

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

datavirtue wrote: post #667
windthrown wrote: post #425

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It sounds like you are incredibly privileged to not have "pre-existing" or chronic medical conditions. For many, the ACA saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones even if the premiums were as universally outrageous as you claim.

This. Little babies born with health issues used to be forced onto government healthcare, and parents had to reengineer thier life to qualify. Absolute savagery.

I know it's super shitty to say this, but the true reality to life is...no they don't. It's a savage truth but genetically your produced a child with a major issue. To see their survival it's gonna cost something.

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

windthrown wrote: post #425
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #351

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Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of t…

It sounds like you are incredibly privileged to not have "pre-existing" or chronic medical conditions. For many, the ACA saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones even if the premiums were as universally outrageous as you claim.

I wouldn't say privileged, just normal seeing as people born with pre-existing conditions are the abnormality.

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

gnrlst wrote: post #554
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #352

Just hoping an economic downturn doesn't happen for another 4 or 5 years. Getting settled into a new job and I definitely do not want to be on the bad end of another 2008.

I'm with you...although it definitely feels like it's months away.

Was just talking to a coworker and he was just like "The market can't be positive forever like this."

We're just one major panic selloff from things falling apart. I'm almost concerned whether I should pull my money out or put it in gld.

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Post by winternett »

beebeepka wrote: post #477
stickyricky wrote: post #148

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Originally they didn't even want an email. Just username and password. Not sure if its still that way. Good luck with your company!

I've been running a really small time service on Pi and requiring an email verification to fend off potential bot attacks. How does one skip the email requirement without ending up being overrun by the spammers or dealing with 3rd party services

Mod humans on each subreddit and automod bots that patrol posts. Also probably a data purge every few years for low vote content.
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