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As per my understanding, they only took half of the problem where they took the numbers and compared against the gender of the surgeons
But if you think about it, if those likely to die or have complications after a surgery are complicated case of patients, it's not as if those people would magically be splitted evenly amongst male and female surgeons
As female surgeon are less frequent, complicated cases will likely be taken care of by a male surgeon, therefore this result.
The price on the "secondary market" dropped below 90 cents on the dollar.
Circle before and after the SVB crisis (which happened during a friday night and through the weekend) continued to issue/redeem their tokens at par with the dollar.
It is market sentiment which temporarily devalued USDC.
You would have obtained exactly the same thing if US dollars held in SVB bank accounts were denominated in a virtual currency named "USD-SVB" and a 24/7 blockchain operating the transactions.
Before/After the crisis each USD-SVB would be reedemable for $1 but DURING the crisis I bet you my house those USD-SVB would have fallen like a rock on the dollar.
I know it's good to be anti-crypto on HN but please, try to not completely close your mind to the subject
Interestingly you can use the author's prompt and ask it to behave like a Ethereum RPC node. You can then instruct it to retrieve your balance or any erc20 balance, broadcast transactions, burn and mint tokens.. everything looks perfect and the block number even increase between attempts. The only part where it gets weird is when you ask to retrieve the price of WETH/USDC on uniswap. The commands and contract addresses are correct but the price returned is far from correct
Funny because you sound like a guy that could claim crypto is an unregulated far west full or scammers, while trying to prove that seizing 100K at law enforcement request is the same as randomly keeping 3K of your customers funds.
Easiest bet to win. It's always the same arguments : fud or concepts from 2010s
The ecosystem has vastly improved since
Ether is not POS yet.
What ?
Those GPUs are being useful for securing a network hosting close to $100B of stablecoins. https://stablecoinindex.com/marketcap
Not talking about other more volatile crypto as you'd be tempted to assert their values should be 0 in a perfect world.
You can argue all day that's wasting energy, the crypto-ecosystem, chip manufacturers, miners, energy providers, users, developers, traders, bankers and companies driving billion of dollars of revenue (Aka value for human beings who will produce and consume goods in the real World with this revenue ) out of it are proving that you're missing the bigger picture.
I've never understood HN's concerns with crypto. Following the same logic, people are literally burning petrol in their cars while it could be used for <insert supposedly better use case>
Is it for ecological reasons ? You're still moving 2 tons of metal everywhere you go, and eating meat.
Cryptos are not less moral or valuable than plenty of things you do or cherish. Let people mine crypto, eat meat at Wendy's driving their F150, because the world is not black and white.