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Surely driving the vehicle in a manner that was certain to break the transmission within 4 months caused no other excessive wear in the vehicle, right? Sounds like a terrible idea, really.
Just an anecdote, but I've had multiple dexa scans in the 8-12% range spanning across years of bulking and cutting and I've never had better than what I consider mediocre abs - probably much better than the average adult male in the U.S. but never magazine photo worthy or anything like that. Other people did comment on them at ~8%, though, so my own perspective may be negatively biased.
Multiple felon software dev here. I make $250k in Minneapolis.
Short-sellers are part of the free market
Not when they get to simply turn off the half of the market moving against them they aren't.
Anecdotally, as someone who's work kept on trucking (surprisingly - we sell content for display in public spaces where people pass or congregate) - 2020 was a banner year for my family. We saved more than we ever have before and the price of our various assets soared.
We even had a 20% bump in gross revenue while bringing our costs down, and that's after 2019 was flat for us (prior to that we were hitting 30%+ for a handful of years in a row).
Researchers at UC Berkeley disagree
https://voxeu.org/article/stable-coins-dont-inflate-crypto-m...
Generally speaking, if your testicles don’t shrink, your production stays the same right?
No, absolutely not.
The size of your testicles is in no way indicative of your testosterone production.
While a shorter period of use generally has a higher chance of your natural production restarting after ceasing exogenous testosterone, your natural production of testosterone shuts down immediately with the introduction of exogenous testosterone.
At 6'0", 215 lbs, and 10% body fat (via DEXA scans) I have a BMI of 29.2 - on the high end of "overweight" - almost "obese". I'm a fit, but not especially big, casual weightlifter with a desk job.
Challenge there is that it doesn't fit the narrative that Tether give about the demand being from "institutional investors"
Market makers and trading shops with 7-8 figure funds playing with riskier cryptos or trying to tap worldwide volume.
It's not MicroStrategy and Mass Mutual Insurance using Tethers
That alone should be a red flag.
That's not the primary use (by dollar volume, it is also helpful to streamline participation in the entire crypto ecosphere regardless of local regulations).
But Tether's for market making. Arbitrators need a way to transfer USD denominated amounts between exchanges to operate.
On top of market making, you'll have smallish (7-8 figure USD) trading shops running strategies across multiple cryptos that just don't have fiat ramps, or they want to tap into volume across exchanges that don't have fiat ramps. If you're one of these customers, you can get in touch with Tether and make redemptions, but you probably don't need to do that anyway because you're working through a prime broker.
This activity doesn't care if the market's bull or bear, so it continues to grow over time in either trend.
2.5% is way too much.
I pay 0.15% and the exchange has been around for a decade without ever losing funds. It's even now licensed as a bank in the U.S.
Depends somewhat where you live and what you plan to do with the Bitcoin (long term hold or actively trade).. but major exchanges in major countries are pretty trustworthy these days.
Kraken, Gemini, and Coinbase are all quite trustworthy, if any of those are available in your locale.
Buying and holding for 4+ years has produced amazing gains in Bitcoin since its inception. Trading often and fooling around with alt coins has caused many great losses and pain. Don't invest more than you can stomach losing or holding in the red for a few years.
It's smack in the middle of the voter demographic.
Not just voters, large portions of our representatives are also from that demographic.
ETHE is backed by ETH. If ETHE gets sold, ETH gets sold - ~0.01 ETH per ETHE.
Market cap doesn't mean much at all in crypto. XRP's is high because the circulating supply is 45 billion XRP - 2500 times more than BTC, 400 times more than ETH, etc.
I could create a blockchain and issue a quintillion coins and if I manage to get it listed and sell some for a fraction of a penny it'll have a bigger market cap than the rest of crypto combined.
I can't speak much to it, as I don't play - my girlfriend does, and finding a pad for her was difficult. There's just nothing out there. Couple of dead projects, the L-Tek, and some total junk pads.
I ended up with the L-Tek one you linked. The buttons seemed awfully futzy to me, and she says they're ok but not great - plus her toes hit against the edges of the raised non-button squares and hurt.
I think 2017 showed that it will be damned difficult politically to make any change that requires a hard fork to Bitcoin anymore.
Pure proof of stake is fantasy. That's not "Bitcoin" and it never will be.
My personal hope would be that mixed proof of work and stake with on-chain governance, like Decred (their devs have built much of the Lightning Network tooling, performed the first cross-chain atomic swap, etc.) - could be adopted; but, realistically, I think that's also a fantasy.
It's a bit easier to chill and wait now that we've seen the same boom and bust cycle repeat a handful of times.
Eventually I'll spend it, like my index funds and 401k.
Earlier than that, I might sell a little bit in the upcoming year to free up some cash for a home purchase.
They had a few forks which split and degraded their community significantly.
For those true to the _original_ Bitcoin Cash chain. lol
There's definitely not a whole lot of them for something serving as the root of a worldwide movement / new financial system
"A mile is so big that the entire planet is only 25,000 of them around. That's definitely not a whole lot of them for something as big as the entire planet."
I've been with the same company and mostly leading the same software system for the past 10 years.
Feature work is such a smaller part of my individual contributions at this point - I do some here and there so I don't get too out of touch with the front end and user experience - but much of my coding work these days is reworking existing core functionality.
Thankfully we understand the necessity of deep maintenance for our system that we fully expect to still be running in 10 more years, but even with that it's damned hard to keep up. I can't imagine having developers come and go every couple/few years and little or no leadership support for code and systems improvement.
old-hand developers have a "mental issue queue" that is enormous
a better solution isn't obvious. You can hand it to someone fresh, and after significant effort (on both of your parts) they agree with the inconsistency, but they won't propose a solution that's any better
Once you've contributed enough of the main functions of a code base, you just never lack for something to do.
Hello, friend, I see we know each other well.
I could spend a lot of time on a Boyer Moore string matching algorithm
Could you?
It's like an hour to copy/paste a reference implementation and set up unit tests. Maybe an hour or two fine tuning the implementation for your language and benchmarking some use cases.
I'd been using the same C# Boyer-Moore impl for like 15 years, and happened to have just recently updated it for Span support. I doubt I have 8 hours into it in total, and it's thoroughly benchmarked and tested.
As long as you waited 4 years between storing value in Bitcoin and removing it you _always_ got more value out, no matter what point in time in Bitcoin's entire history you stored it.
And not just a little bit more value..
Is an index fund a store of value? Would you recommend someone store their value there if they wanted it back out in less than 4 years? Gold? Property? Or would you suggest those stores of value are only suitable for longer time frames? How much more value does someone who stored it in Bitcoin 10 years ago have now?
I have yet to this day to find a music player I like more than old school winamp with a good skin and visualizations.
Curious to see if there are any recommendations in this thread.
That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago.
I would guess poster above doesn't yet have 30 years experience. Perhaps 10 or less.
My experience echoes both yours and the above poster's - following a sort of bell curve - after initial ramp up, there was a significant period where every question led to several more. At some point that peaked, and by the time I'd been writing code for 20 years the rate of questions was dropping quickly.
Also the character of problems changed a lot. There's a point where QA sites like StackOverflow become largely useless for your problems, as they're too broad, complex, and dependent on specifics to fit the QA format. Even relevant blogs and academic papers become thin after 20 years.
I'm in the first ring suburbs of Minneapolis and going back over 10 years (and for several years prior to that inside Mpls proper) my Comcast connection routinely outperforms my rated speed all hours of the day. My rated speed has also 5x'd (50 to 250) at the same price in that time.
Thankfully, however, fiber _finally_ became available on my block this year.
More like 3% here, 5% there and so on.
Ten years working on a code base that serves near-StackOverflow levels of traffic and 5% would be a _huge_ win. I don't come across those, or even 3%, very often.
Our app has dozens of routes all seeing hundreds to thousands of requests a minute. To get a performance boost that big it has to be in some foundational code that's used nearly everywhere, and that code's already been poured over every way from Sunday.
Occasionally we'll run into a bit of code that sneakily becomes a significant drag on the system as traffic through that code grows slowly over time. A fix might result in a large % load drop, but only because there's some pathological problem, which I hesitate to call an "optimization" rather than a "bug fix".
We did also uncover many significant optimizations after migrating from dedicated hosted bare metal boxes to the cloud, when our network latency assumptions got thrown out the window - but the bulk of those optimizations were simply "cache it".
Probably the increase in dpi. 90's era inkjets didn't have nearly the troubles with disuse as later ones do.