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> If the key innovation of crypto is that it's supposed to reduce the risk of lending by bringing realtime transparency to the assets and liabilities of borrowers, then why was FTX paying vastly higher interest rates than traditional banks?

What I hear from people who invest in crypto is hoping they will make money on it. Maybe that technology is part of it but I've only known people that want to invest in it for a greater return. It's thought of as a stock, but unlike a regular stock there is no company behind it that produces something of value. It's a made up digital collectible spawned from the mind of boy geniuses that is literally nothing.

My recommendation for investing in collectibles is comic books, trading cards, etc. They are finite, they exist, and they are not propped up by VC money.
I had no idea who this person was so I searched her name. Apparently she grew up in Massachusetts, went to elite private schools, and became a Hollywood actress and writer. Somehow I have a hard time believing she had to pirate Photoshop just to barely scrape by at any point in her life.
> interest rates should be vaguely proportional to risk.

Not really. If we take nominal interest rate = real rates + inflation expectation + credit spread, then only the (counter party dependent) credit spread reflects riskiness. Real rates reflect an equilibrium of time preferences.
Also, if the fight is fair. It was never 1 v 1, in my childhood, it was 1 v n.

Even if you do catch the bully in a 1 v 1 fight, will the next fight be 1 v 1?
Yup. You pretty much have to do this. I love signing into my bank's bill payment system. "You appear to know your password and possess your second factor. But what's your favorite book? <all lowercase favorite book> WRONG YOUR FAVORITE BOOK IS ACTUALLY <starts with an uppercase book> NOW YOUR ACCOUNT IS LOCKED."

Even if you're using real answers, you will be locked out of your account if you don't treat them like passwords. Eventually.
This, very much so. I use KeepassXC (Strongbox on iOS) with Seafile to sync the database files. It's only gotten better over the years, and I'd rather see my donation money go directly to the developers than get slurped up into some SaaS that doesn't care about me or security anyway.
> This guy was being g tracked down because he was a quarantine dodger during a time when everyone was trying hard to contain the virus so it didn't break out and kill people.

Are you capable of understanding nuance. Do you sincerely think my complaint is that a man was punished for breaking quarantine laws? My critique was of the sum total of the restrictions and the hysterical reaction of the public.

> The only banned Japanese porn is the kiddy stuff, but even then the law is around any kiddy porn stuff, filmed, animated, drawn, or otherwise.

Just simply false, all it requires is a google search [1]. The border force has blocked the import of any 18+ material from Japan. This ban probably affects less than a thousand Australians, but I included it to give people a taste of the Australian style of governance. Grant sweeping powers to enforcers and hope they don't abuse them.

> The backdooring of security was discussed at large in the media,

One particular bill in 2018 received attention, mostly from international media and orgs. This bill [1] passed last year and gave the AFP further ability to backdoor encryption as well as the power to modify your data and impersonate you. There were minor mentions prior to it being tabled. The day it was passed in parliament there wasn't an article about it on any major news provider. Most people are unaware this even happened.

> and to the best of anyone's knowledge hasn't even attempted to be implemented

Do you get much insight into what the AFP, ASIO and ASIS are working on usually? Yes, I'm sure that they make it public knowledge that they've implemented this. That wouldn't defeat the intended purpose at all. Can I clarify, they sought these powers just to have them they don't actually want to use them? And it's my viewpoint that's skewed?

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgz8md/japanese-hentai-is-no...

[2] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
Is it possible to do notifications without a native app?
Why would that be nice? Having over-hired and still doing just fine means that for the period that companies were over-provisioned they were disbursing profits to labour (workers) rather than capital (shareholders).
Never using online password manager is a good start. Only use encrypted local password manager preferably on encrypted file system and never use same passwords and emails. Best have seperate emails at least for the most important data. Also generating random 50+ alpha-numeric-symbols.
I used to do something like this. I avoid it now, and use a pass phrase of a few words as answers to these questions, stored as a password.

It was clear to me after I had to read such a security question answer over the phone to unlock an account the CSR was perfectly happy with "gibberish over the phone == gibberish in front of me", meaning my attempt to secure things made it less secure in the end.
Had a friend who was brilliant with a ink printer and cutter who made multiple armies of printed, cut, folded miniatures. He was ridiculously good with precision. And patience...
First of all, a bit insulting. Secondly, that same freedom also allows you to install a patched Facebook client that doesn't track you at all.
On Android you have such freedoms... Recently i wanted to capture app traffic with a man in the middle proxy but for it to work i had to patch the certificate pinning in the apk. In your world however you also might just give all your data to Apple, falsely thinking that Apple is actually protecting you in some way.
A process running as my user or admin on my PC can also just inject input events to transfer money out of my bank account. You cannot have a useful threat model that models yourself as a threat.
Not really? Maybe Patreon or OnlyFans represent the best examples.

But there weren't any real EV companies or private space companies before Elon Musk threw his hat in the ring. Whatever you think of him, he's clearly capable of doing things people previously believed to be impractical.

Taking a first principles approach, there's no reason to believe that a social network used by the most influential companies, people, and governments in the world cannot charge its users directly for the value it provides.

It does seem likely to be less profitable in the short-term but possibly more profitable (and stable) in the long-term.

Some back-of-the-envelope math:

1 million business paying an average of $100/mo is $1.2 billion/yr. That should more than pay the bills.

In addition, 10 million consumers paying an average of $10/mo = $1.2 billion/yr. That's a decent profit.

That is probably achievable in the next couple years, with potential for much more over time if they can expand the product and tools.
Hmm, I have over 100+ non-trivial projects under my belt which have ranged anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 years each, working as only a single developer (and my business partner)... everything from an arbitrage platform with more than 8 billion outgoing requests per day, multiple payment processing platforms (actually building them, not just interfacing with them), machine learning-based high volume routing systems. I built the 50th largest site in the world at one point with only 1 other person... so I would say I'm not "one of those guys." sorry to burst your bubble. I know it's probably much less painful on your ego though to think any person that criticizes you must not know what they're talking about.
It hurts because all the companies attacking Apple are just the best examples of "The worst guy you know just made a great point". Epic Games, Spotify, Elon/Twitter 2.0 have their own exploitative practices that I can't help but revel in some schadenfreude.
"next" is relative; that store is not physically next to his house; it's perhaps a mile away.
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Ah, yes. In that case the response is yes.
Spotify corporate seems to be actively hostile toward their community. I see post after post with user questions that just get left unanswered.
Is this the same incident as the August incident (https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-...)? From this blog post, it’s not clear to me that they are.

EDIT to correct: Thanks to the link posted by u/voganmother42, this is indeed related!
Senior Twitter engineer Siru Murugesan claimed that he only worked four hours per week and acted as though this were not at all uncommon.

He also bluntly stated that Twitter was not concerned with being a profitable business venture, as they were not capitalists but socialists (his words).

This was backed up by "Lead Client Partner" Alex Martinez, who stated that Twitter's focus on being ideologically driven led to them becoming unprofitable.

Unless Twitter's culture of unprofitability and dead weight employment programs is unique in SV, perhaps other companies in midst of layoffs have similar reasons as did the new Twitter owner.
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if i build a store and allow companies to sell to my customers...i get to dictate the price. if you don't like it then innovate and build your own store or develop a direct relationship with the customer. spotify should team up with elon to build a competitor to apple just like epic decided to compete against steam. this is how free market capitalism works...if they decide apple is doing something monopolistic then the federal courts give spotify an avenue to pursue that. build your case and sue apple
Just today we received an email with a password reset request from a person who:

could not login into the customer portal because he lost/forgot the password

could not perform the password recovery procedure because his answer for the security question is some nonsense like 'blade-purge-satin-dash'

*shrug_emoji*
Neither are temporary workers on expiring VISAs. They may want that but that's not part of the agreement.
Whether you like it or not, the cascading part of cascading style sheets is an integral part of the web platform, and one is better off in the long run swimming with the current of the platform rather than against it.
If state governments and agencies offer essential software for only two platforms and the most "open" one is restricted of most useful stuff because Google doesn't like it, no, there isn't enough competition.

It's a really basic point and I have no idea what's so hard to understand.
Regular people with a diversified portfolio of $180 billion who lost 0.1% of their fund.

That’s a small price to pay when interest rates are 3% to find out your fund managers need to be fired.
Given that Amazon is also laying off and the CEO recently stated that they expected additional staff reductions into next year it seems unlikely.
What kind of literature? What are moats?
Like an erlang process?
Cryptography can solve this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker
The ideal situation is with as many bystanders watching as possible. That sucks if you have a gang after you, but perhaps it can be avoided in the first place by not being an easy target.

I do agree that this won’t work in all situations.
Nothing to do with t-shirts and suits.

Enterprise deals can go anywhere between $50k and $10m+ per year.

No one parts with that amount of money to “self serve” themselves by entering a credit card.
So having more than one app store degrades the experience of people who choose to use Apple's app store like having more than one newspaper degrades the experience of people who read the New York Post.
IMHO the Coinbase story was a distraction. FTX went down because Binance dumped their entire position all at once and exposed how cooked FTXs books were. They said it was because of the Coinbase story, but really it was a personal beef with SBF and how he was writing crypto market regulation for legislators that was going to hurt Binance.
The password managers that I'm aware of store your vault locally on-device, even if they also sync to a cloud service.

That said I agree with you I would never use a cloud-only store for passwords!
That's how the voodoo doll myth was created.

And to the OP, any shared secret that you cannot change in case of compromise is kind of a bad idea.
If you can't quantify it, it doesn't exist, and when you start to quantify it, the numbers turn into targets that must continually improve.
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> autovectorizing is broken by bounds checks

This is the big one. You pay a 50% penalty for actual CPU bound, iteration heavy code with bounds checking enabled.

https://github.com/matklad/bounds-check-cost
GIMP is amazing, but it really needs to take some learnings from Krita/Blender to get a better market share.
I left off "exerting social pressure" because I felt it was redundant to "expressing disapproval". What do you think those terms mean and how are they different? Let's go back to the example I mentioned in my first comment about protesting a theater for hosting a controversial personality. That protest would be me "expressing disapproval", "exerting social pressure", and exercising my free speech. I don't know how or why you are separating that one action into distinct categories of speech.
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We called it 'Life under the Batwing'
this is an interesting point.

in my home growing up we were bullies. I unfortunately carried this into school and didn't learn manners until later
Easier said than done, sadly.
> I've only really seen constructivism talked about by people who actually have a strong math background.

Which I don't mind. If you know your maths, your logic and ideally even your philosophy it's perfectly fine to work in constructivism or even prefer it.

But I've definitely seen some dumb, uninformed hot takes about how maths is just this big conspiracy that doesn't allow dissenting opinions because they've seen some NJ Wildberger video where he shittalks the real numbers.

So it's not even just constructivism per se, more this mix of unprincipled finitism + constructivism + no axiom of choice (or any mixture thereof), as opposed to anything grounded in some rigorous methodology. Basically the "I don't understand set theory or logic but I've heard that Banach Tarski is weird, so mainstream mathematics must be full of shit".

You'd think people wouldn't have hot takes about mathematics, but somehow they do.
At Yahoo in 2016, layoffs were announced as "planned" in an earnings call and they happened department by department, always on Wednesdays. This was right around when Blind got popular (but before each post was just whining about TC) and so every Wednesday morning we'd all check Blind to see which teams got hit this week.
> The argument is whether a bank takes in say $10 of deposits to then loan out $10 OR if a bank "generates" $10 at-will to make a loan of $10.

In some sense, the loans are real and backed by real money, but it's your balance that is generated from thin air when the loan is issued.
Yes, and if you're trying to save every penny, that's reasonable. Brother doesn't prevent you from doing this, you just have to look up the toner counter reset process, which is trivially found online.

It's exceedingly unreasonable for something like a small office printer to have people constantly reprinting things because the toner is almost, but not entirely out, so please remove the cartridge, shake it gently, etc. Remember, the paper you're spending on partial prints and the toner you're applying isn't free either, and people's time isn't, either. Neither is the carpet cleaning of the toner spot in front of the printer from people trying to stretch it.

I'll reset the counter on mine, give it a shake, and run it until I see any impact on printing, but as soon as I notice any streaking, I just replace the cartridge. It's not worth the hassle to fight for 100 pages of toner to me at this point in my life.
4 days from reporting to public posting is not a responsible disclosure policy. Even if they are slow in responding, the usual grace period is about 4 weeks if I recall.
Its less about a bunch of people checking for crypto, as it is about designing the protocol to make it such that doing the right thing is inherently in the economic interest of the miners/stakers.

Basically, unless you are able to get over 50% of the hashrate (or over 50% of the amount staked) you will be expected to make the most money by properly packing as many transactions into the block as you can (or more accurately packing in the set transactions that will net you the largest transaction fee). If you try to cheat your expected mining income will be less. For example if violate certain protocol rules no other node in the network will consider you block valid, so you get zero for your mining effort.

Deliberately trying to mine based on an old block is technically legal. But the odds of your deliberate forked block becoming part of the longest chain is far less than the odds if you mine on top of the latest block, so again, it is in your economic interest to mine on the latest.

Deliberately refusing to include valid transactions from specific users in the blocks you mine is possible, but (assuming those transactions have a large enough transaction fee to be sensible to include in the block) you are economically better off to include it, since otherwise one of your competitors will include it in a later block and get that money you lost out on.

That is really the whole idea, to make it so that the economically rational thing to do is the correct thing. Now the system isn't perfect. if you can get over half the miners/stakers to collude with you, breaking some of the rules can become the more profitable approach. (and for some systems the relevant attack ratios could be larger or smaller than 50%, but the basic idea stands).

The other part of the puzzle is that that collusion is a sort of prisoner's dilemma. Other people are not likely to want to join with you to collude unless they are pretty sure you will be able to get a large enough fraction of the hashrate to join with you, as otherwise they are risking making less money by joining with you. which is to say that the non-colluding case is a Nash Equilibrium.

I don't see an obviously way to employ such an economic self interest approach against a single centralized server.
Yeah I’d want to see some receipts before believing anything SBF says, especially if he thinks it is something that by saying may remove some heat from him or his friends.
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I'll admit I had vague memory of Musk's tweet and thought he was merely questioning the overall narrative (which was quite messy honestly) with a text reply, but apparently he linked to an article with baseless claims like you mentioned.

I was willing to give Musk the benefit of the doubt about this initially, but that was clearly misjudged on his end.

I stand corrected.
>Telling people to self correct is different from telling a platform to correct people

How are they different?

You telling me not do to something would cause me to self censor.

Me telling a theater to not host an event with a controversial figure would cause the theater to self censor.

Either way there is some external force that is pressuring for a change in expression. That is true regardless of whether they are motivated by mob mentality, identity politics, or anything else. I don't know why the motivation for the speech should even matter unless you are arguing that some speech shouldn't be protected based on the motivation behind the speech.
The alternative to fully cloud-based solutions would be a local, open source kdbx client (Keepass, KepassXC, etc) with the password database situated on a cloud storage (Dropbox/Google Drive/etc). This way, one gets the best of both worlds.
I am by no means skilled as a programmer when compared to skilled programmers/scripters, but I did cobble this together a few days ago. Python version of a password keeper using sqlite. My motivation was precisely because I do not trust other password keepers. MIT license: https://github.com/rubysash/PythonPassKeep
> I can swear to you that innocence act fools no one except people outside the field.

Full agree. But when I see this, I assume his target market is the single juror at his criminal trial who needs to buy it in order to prevent a conviction.

Edit: Unless it's a Bahamas jury trial (for a crime not punishable by death), in which case, he will need to convince four out of nine jurors to prevent a conviction.
Although the decline in Google's search results is less subjective. Either you can find what you're looking for or you can't. Plenty of people (certainly not all) can't.
It's hard to take Spotify's call for openness seriously when they're just as controlling as Apple is when it comes to how it allows its users to use its product.

Most egregiously, they never delivered the promised playback-capable replacement for libspotify, probably because they want to keep their users in their little walled garden where Spotify can subject them to incessant A/B test tweaks to the UI designed to herd them towards the most profitable content. Third party clients that just act like normal music players and don't change constantly would be an affront to that.

As you've pointed out, when Apple has made affordances to allow better support for third party services, Spotify has been slow to take advantage of them. HomePods have had APIs that third party music streaming services can hook as well as the capability to set your default streaming service to things that aren't Apple Music for a year and a half now, and as of this writing Spotify has not used them, despite smaller streaming services like Deezer and Pandora having implemented support months ago. Why? I can only guess because HomePods aren't Spotify Connect devices and thus aren't under the control of Spotify the way that Spotify Connect devices are.

Spotify isn't upset by the lack of openness, they're upset that Apple won't give them the same VIP treatment that they've gotten from other platform/device vendors (including Microsoft, with Spotify being bundled with Windows 11).
Not to nitpick, but 5% improvement profit does not apply to the additional dollar. It applies to all the revenue.... So the improvement could be massive.
> even the most financially illiterate people know that interest rates should be vaguely proportional to risk.

I estimate that approximately 80% of people would not even understand the claim you're making, let alone be able to evaluate how true it is.
Sometimes these questions are just asinine.

I ran into one once that a 6 character minimum length for the answer.
It's not hard, but when the idiomatically used containers aren't bounds-checked, most code out in the wild won't be, either. Worse yet if you are writing a library and have to interop with other code which will also use those idiomatic types.

These days, C++ really should be compiled with bounds-checked indexing and iterators by default. Unfortunately, this is still not a scenario that is well-supported by tooling.
I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood

However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks
I cannot agree with this comment any more. Every time I read any one of these Tailwind threads, I am yelling in my head "SVELTE!!!!" the whole time. Going against the current of the platform is a recipe for disaster every time, and Svelte is one of the few frameworks that is actually trying to go _with_ the current.