xx789 | 4 years ago | on: Bitcoin’s reliance on stablecoins harks back to the Wild West of finance
"Apparently"
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xx789 | 4 years ago | on: After a decade of VC influence at Stanford, what’s next?
I think that does make sense.
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: Teardown of a PC Power Supply
Often PSUs will have different wattage sets but seem otherwise identical eg 550/650. Are they binned like CPUs? Or are there higher rated components
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
Yeah that 7% is likely an illusion. If we kept up 7% a year forever just about every professional could retire at 50. But its unlikely to continue, we've had a 50 year bull market that is long overdue to end.
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
As someone with a 12 year old Nissan, and buys the cheapest beer beer I'm sympathetic. But what's the point of being a millionaire if you aren't spending? You can just do that on a regular low stress job.
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency
So basically they're all bad except for SV? 1 Gallon of gas makes 2.4 kg emissions, so instead of swiping a card its burning a few gallons of gas, or 50 gallons for BTC.
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
Looks good but how does it compare to matrix/element?
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: How to write a resume that converts
> Employers are looking at your education, companies you worked at, years of experience, and maybe a vague idea of what your work area was before this.
Isn't this what a resume is? Just the list of those things that Employers want to look at.
xx789 | 4 years ago | on: Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2
Performance isnt that important for most people. A 6 year old laptop is plenty fast enough, just weight and battery life suck.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
Its quite amazing to leave North America, go to a restaurant, order a meal that's $10 on the menu and pay $10. Incredible.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
> If you're on a variable rate, the rate will be much higher than normal for the next few months
Wont it be normal in a few days when temperatures get back to warm?
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
Looks around 1k right now.
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html
There must be lots of generators making bank.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
I dont need menus or dialogs, just something simple like top. Would this be the right library to use?
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?
I find I have a limit to the number of hours I can code per week. Sometimes I'll spend a weekend on a side project or fixing some bug. When I go back to work the next week I just have trouble being productive. Same if I work late I can get stuff done, but tomorrow's productivity will suck.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: SaaS We Happily Pay For
15k could be cost to the company, which also looks at employment taxes, office space, health insurance, benefits, hr/support overhead, interviewing, training and managing. A new developer earning 8k/mo easily costs the company 15k/mo.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil
Trade on the close is not just for commodities, FX is the same - big clients would rather get the same official price than pay a bit extra commission for trader to get a good price for them. As for equities if you hold a pension fund you probably bought TSLA on Friday night at the closing price in your index fund.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil
source? yeah I know its fashionable to say that wall street keeps ripping people off, but banks are so crippled by regulations most hedge funds and small trading firms run circles around them. Big banks only make money from clipping tiny commissions on billions of transactions like a whale eating krill.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Become Shell Literate
yeah OK its probably the definition of repl.
xx789 | 5 years ago | on: Become Shell Literate
At work I regularly have to support 500+ line scripts written by random developers, I 'n hate them.
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