mmsmatt

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by mmsmatt 5y ago
The last few years of BTC, ETH, and DeFi all collapse quickly if the USDT peg fails. How much crypto is borrowed on platforms like Compound against USDT? That collateral takes a 5% haircut, we’ll see painful liquidations. 10% or 20%? Fire s
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by mmsmatt 5y ago
Pick a few features and make them the free tier. Upsell some premium content, or have a “first three goals are free” model, unlimited goals in the subscription. Anything but paying up front for a year. If there was a free tier I’d download
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by mmsmatt 5y ago
Elinks could render to SVGAlib well enough to browse sites that weren’t loaded with JS, no X11 needed
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by mmsmatt 6y ago
Also, read the prospectus of any ETF you already own, and you’ll get the gist of APs, enough to understand why your fees are so low.
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by mmsmatt 6y ago
This has got to be Taibbi click-baiting pro-Trump subscribers. He buries his admission that Trump's Biden/Burisma narrative is a lie so deep in the piece, you really have to trudge through a lot of hand-wringing drivel to find it.
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by mmsmatt 6y ago
Firefox is down for the count with the recent layoffs. It’s Google’s web to lose in the near future. Some days it really feels like there is nothing new under the sun.
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by mmsmatt 7y ago
I rent a Shadow instance for $35 a month, and play my entire Steam library on a MacBook Air. New games, old games, whatever. It just works, given good broadband and an Ethernet cable. I think the future of "cloud gaming" looks a l
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
He who holds the keys holds the coins.
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
Counterparty risk is through the roof. I tried moving some prediction market contracts on US Election Day, couldn’t trade anything due to traffic volume. This feels familiar. Decades of technical and legal work went into our stock exchanges
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
Serious question, what was the complaint against xrange? I don’t recall it ever surprising me or behaving poorly.
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
> Now, if the story was that something was under congressional investigation, and Twitter had been told to preserve documents, but had refused to do so, this might be actually something. But none of that is here. You saved me a click and
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
GRPC is fantastic. You define a few data types to communicate about, and call procedures remotely with them. I mean it’s right there in the name! Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a Methodology you can cram your business or research proble
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
SOAP, WCF, CXF, et al, what’s old is new again. It’s strange to have been playing this game long enough to see a full cycle. Here be dragons.
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
Traditional media is chasing social media every day. This was the dream, it just took Trump to bring it into reality. A company that lives and dies by ad analytics couldn't have not known about election influencing purchases. The adult
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by mmsmatt 9y ago
From the same boat, I concur with everything in TFA. Funny detail to me, I've been at this exactly twice as long as the author. Ten years together for my partner and I, now two married on top of that. I'll add my experience in the
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
> "Or do you end up locked in for a few more years of handcuffs while waiting it out?" The golden cuffs _will_ click if you stick around any time at all and have even slightly bad luck: Maybe you burn out before vesting, or the
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
And the world was so open, you could play as little or as much of a map as you wanted, given you cleared objectives. Rope arrows took you up buildings if you didn't want to crawl through. Plenty of bystanders to scare off playing ghost
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
Great questions. I worked on similar problems in the weather/ag space for a few years, trying to minimize the time between data was acquired and data is ready to inform a decision. We threw every rule out the window in the name of perf
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
Clicked link from IE11. Got this: > "Internet Explorer is not supported by Jupyter: For best results use Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or another modern browser." This makes me so happy - MS products leaving old browsers beh
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
I've wondered about this too, your explanation works for me.
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
> Once you know window functions, you risk putting them all over the place Agreed. A few years of writing expressive, powerful, performant SQL in big blocks will really change your mental model of data across _all_ languages. I highly re
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
Sun tried the data center in a shipping container. I believe it was named Project Blackbox.
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
Interesting. But I'm a widget maker, not a specialist in any of those fanciful terms you threw around. I'd like to participate in the judges' world, but my widgets take all my time. Is there someone that can sort through the
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
My second most popular tab in Firefox. Levine is a fantastic way to start the day.
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
I don't think you need to do any of this shady stuff to be a small loan marketplace for unaccredited participants. But the shady stuff kills your chances to feed the CLO pipeline and selling (large batches of) small loans to accredited
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
US South here: A popular chain started putting to-go boxes on tables at lunch. If your whole table drops their phones in the box when you sit down, your table gets free dessert. I've noticed just the presence of the game - even if my t
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
ESET brings back good memories, I was a happy customer as long as I administered Windows boxes. I never remember a false positive with ESET/Nod32. Norton, OTOH, would happily delete nmap.exe and cain.exe then beg for praise after the f
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
I doubt any transaction processing systems got updated at any bank in the past 48hrs with the Brexit vote in the air.
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
As far as I can tell, Trigger is neither broker nor advisor. Why a company that is none of those wants to touch my securities, I can think of no charitable reason for that. There exist a million reasons you do not want not-quite-stop-limit
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by mmsmatt 10y ago
So I wasn't the only one? That scene jerked me out of happy animation land and made me think of The Wire.

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