boomerango

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by boomerango 3y ago
Whoever is running the simulation is getting bored. Wild fires, what is sure to be a historic hurricane season, floods, war, and a technological leap.
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by boomerango 3y ago
Puts on conspiracy hat What if killing net neutrality was a given, but the administration wanted the appearance of due process… God, I’ve grown jaded.
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by boomerango 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this - you made my morning.
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by boomerango 3y ago
“Hey this guy just updated his linked-in for the first time in two years!”
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by boomerango 3y ago
Exactly. The subtext to this clip is that she cannot do what the congressman is acting without an act of congress, and he should know that. It’s well executed grandstanding.
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by boomerango 3y ago
As I understand it, the piece you are missing is that she legally/procedurally cannot guarantee depositors prior to a bankruptcy - that would require an act of congress. The congressman know this as well, so it’s just grandstanding.
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by boomerango 4y ago
Home improvement catch 22 - damned if the drywall goes unpatched, damned if I spend an hour driving to the hardware store and fixing it, away from the kids.
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by boomerango 4y ago
You made me laugh pretty hard. Re-reading this I’m more disturbed that I framed it as a potentially gratifying task.
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by boomerango 4y ago
I try not to attack big problems head on. Instead I ask myself, what can I change in my daily habits that will eventually, erode the dragon away? If the dragon is in a cave and I can dump a bucket of water in there every day, eventually the
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by boomerango 4y ago
I think the mistake is viewing the task as a dragon that must be slayed rather than 10,000 hamsters which need be stomped on in 10,000 days. If we can reframe our large problems into a sequence of small (and potentially even gratifying!) ta
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by boomerango 4y ago
If you are interested in learning more about the space, look into Chainlink oracles.
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by boomerango 4y ago
A slight clarification: Binance owned a 15% stake in FTX and sold it back to FTX for FTT.
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by boomerango 4y ago
There is fond (which can also burn) and then there is charred debris. The former adds umami, the latter tastes like cigar ash.
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by boomerango 4y ago
All I could think as I read his statement: “ Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be co
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by boomerango 4y ago
And if you can’t blind them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit
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by boomerango 4y ago
The frustrating thing is that if the police even occasionally stung bike thieves, theft would likely decrease disproportionately. Something about not having total impunity…
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by boomerango 4y ago
Just look at Singapore. Or, closer to home, examine theft rates in cities which recently raised the grand larceny threshold (looking at you Oregon and Washington…) and the explosion of misdemeanor theft. My employer (a fortune 100 retailer)
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by boomerango 4y ago
It’s doubly strange when you realize there’s basically a single species of banana that we all eat.
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by boomerango 4y ago
One note - CZ has withdrawn its offer to purchase FTX
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by boomerango 4y ago
Moreover, you are assuming no one else decides to sell based… one could argue publicizing their plans was meant to encourage just that…
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by boomerango 4y ago
Alternatively FTX was confident they could make the purchase given time, but did not have the funds on hand.
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by boomerango 4y ago
I’m not saying whatever that is is a great invention but Alternating current… Computers… Smartphones… The internet…
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by boomerango 4y ago
As a transplant from the Midwest to the North East, anecdotally, this matches my experience. Even after many years and friends, I still feel an outsider here. My wife and I often lament it. There is no sense of community to speak of, just t