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Writing that mathematics is a waste is such a hilariously ignorant comment to make on a programming forum.

You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.

Were we living in the same city? There were multiple heatwaves in the time I lived there, one so severe that Noe Valley got to 107.

And this isn’t to mention the wildfires or inevitable water issues.

These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.

Good thing all those roads aren’t planned, built, and maintained by the government!

right, which is why this is a liquidity problem and not a solvency one. The assets cover the liabilities--you just have to wait ten years or whatever.

The liabilities are the same currency and the same amount in 2023 and 2033. They’re solvent.

The asterisk is that the liabilities are generating interest, but this is fine because (one very safely assumes) that’s covered by the interest on the long-duration assets SVB bought.

Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.

I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm.

Speak for yourself.

You might wanna check out some of jason hickel’s writings in the topic. As someone from such a “place with a lot of poverty” I’ve always chafed at the idea that capitalism (and thus colonialism) led to an improvement in living conditions, when really it meant mostly murder and looting.

Competition in its recognizably modern form only recently became the foundational organizational system for civilization, and civilization “won” because (in part) a) it generally has no problem deploying incredible levels of violence and coercion, against people and the environment, and b) it promotes continuous population increase, even beyond what may be sustainable.

There’s about a million places to source this, but I might start with something like James C. Scott.

even if that were the case, the only place you're getting prolonged proximity to a (relatively) fixed group of people is your workplace? that sounds super not good.

This is really not a great time to rest an argument on the principle that exchanges function well with regards to dollar cashflows.

huh

right, except that nobody is buying stocks with tether.

…what

Look at a tether volume chart vs a btcusd chart

Where in Boston did you live? That’s definitely the case in the fancy parts of Boston and definitely not the case in the minority ghettoes like roxbury, JP, and dorchester

neither category should be inhabited, so yeah.

I would not, but I know some people who would consider a deal like that. At $12k/yr and your stage you’re basically hiring a cofounder, so four points is… not a lot. You sound like you probably still have most of the equity left, so I’d expect more.

And a cliff? Nobody does cliffs these days after big tech axed them.

Miners mine the longest chain for a given coin. This poster is proposing just making another coin, not forming the existing Bitcoin chain.

The sorts of men who are thrown into cages are different sorts of men than those who are handed enormous sums of capital.

You could retire tomorrow, but you weren't put on this Earth to just be idle.

nice

Your startup is "Ramen profitable" - that means you're making around 7k/month revenue to cover 2-5k expenses. If you start saving 100% of profits NOW you can afford 1 of those engineers in (checks notes) just under 8 years! What's your next move?

Offer the engineers meaningful equity rather than the one or two points they might ordinarily expect.

Never thought I’d see quillette on the front page

FTX had enormous crypto holdings and made investments in companies you’d definitely consider crypto companies, notwithstanding that there aren’t any “pure” exchanges in the crypto world anyway—they all get their noses in it.

It sounds good, except that there’s no results for “screechings” or “only cure” in the books, and Ron doesn’t encounter Voldemort in Goblet, only Harry and Cedric do.

Again, it has no semantic comprehension, it doesn’t know that certain strings of words are valid in certain contexts because they refer to actual events, objects, or concepts, it’s just putting letters together.

Probably some of its training material included Harry Potter fan fiction or other non-canon stuff, and that’s why it said what it said.

Most of the now-deep, now-interesting areas were once shallow and uninteresting.

You’re aware that an enormous proportion of people’s constitution dao refunds were eaten up by gas fees, presumably.

Manipulation by exchanges

We’re already in the middle of a mass extinction event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

And regarding your second point, we know it won’t do anything good, but we don’t know exactly what (nor could we ever!).

I’m curious: what’s the line taught against the commune?