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Wrong. NODEs (individual network participants) enforce the rules, not miners.

All In: "Haha OS-driven regex engine go brrrrr"

By the time it's severe, it's often too late: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20

Relevant: WTFHappenedIn1971.com

Answer: Our governments printed a shit-ton of money.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/02/colorado-drones-myster...

No. There is no way for Bitcoin mining to "break SHA-256 and render it insecure". There isn't enough energy in the whole SUN to do that.

"Slow Database"-Flavored WASI

Any time you see the word "blockchain" replace it with "Slow Database" in your head and see if it still makes sense.

Incerto series by Taleb

Asset inflation.

It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase. Tether tries to prevent this by printing more USDT (increasing supply). They are not "magicking" Dollars, they are magicking a commodity (USDT) pegged to Dollar.

I'm not saying that I'm a big Tether fan or anything. However to say that it "doesn't make sense" when they print more Tether during market crashes is false.

This is inaccurate. Tether demand INCREASES when the cryptomarkets crash because traders want to escape to non-volatile assets. If everyone converts their crypto to USDT at the same time (which is what happens during big crashes) they MUST print more Tether or the price will increase.

What does "capacity" mean in this context?

Lightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projects are open source and have outside contributors.

This is how compound interest works. Why does this surprise anyone?

Public companies can issue more stock to public markets at any time. That stock would be priced at the market rate. If a company’s stock price tanks due to lack of demand, that is bad for the company. Similarly, companies with failing stock prices have problems attracting (and bleeding) talent.

The GDP of Ecuador in 2014 (all time high) was $102.29B.

Most people don't spend time on

thousands of websites.

The author of this has absolutely no idea how modern advertising works.

Does this mean VirtualBox is dead soon as well?

None. You can be a productive ML engineer without understanding the math. Many elitist engineers here will downvote me, but its true. ML libraries that allow you to quickly get productive have come a long way. BUT, you have to have a solid understanding of WHICH algorithms/tools to use WHEN. There is also a lot of "voodoo" knowledge to gain that isn't well documented or explained (unrelated to maths).

I purchased a couple of the machines from these guys for my team and had a great experience. Highly recommended if you have better ways to spend your time than building them yourself.

I agree and that's why I used the words "some measure of confidence". However, it IS better than many other unicorn examples, such as Uber losing $800M in Q3 2016 for example.

It clearly says that in the article: "The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2007, has been meeting with bankers to discuss plans to sell shares in an initial public offering"

I had no idea that Dropbox had topped $1B in annualized revenue. Their new profitability gives me some measure of confidence that not all of the Unicorns are facing inevitable doom.

The files are anything separated by line. Log files, CSV exports, anything. No specific format required.

The US is most definitely a net food exporter and it has been that way for a long time. "U.S. agricultural exports have been larger than U.S. agricultural imports since 1960, generating a surplus in U.S. agricultural trade." https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-trade/...

"taking real wealth" from whom? It is not a zero sum game.

Nice! I've used hook.io for this in the past but yours looks much simpler.

One thing I've wanted on tools like this is an API to query what requests have hit your particular endpoint which would be useful for unit testing applications which use webhooks.

There are many charities with great, documented, track records. There is only one US government and it's track record of efficiently and effectively allocating resources is horrible.