barnbuilder
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm worried about this and feel like "vim" as actively maintained software probably also died today.
Comment · 3 years ago
How many things are there on earth that you can suddenly sell $1 billion worth of, and not lower its price? I never hear this criticism of any other assets even though it applies to virtually all of them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Social media communities really ought to observe a "leave no trace" rule with respect to GitHub and other such spaces. This commit from February 2022 is now as of today littered with a bunch of joke comments from being linked from here and previously somewhere else earlier (based on timestamps).
Comment · 3 years ago
> He lost
Sadly this is not true. Wright was ruled to have won the case but had the damage award reduced to only 1 pound.[1] (Wright is being bankrolled by billionaire Calvin Ayre. They are not worried about the money here.)
How someone can win a case while found to have "advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial" just goes to show how utterly deranged the British legal system is. As long as it is such, scammers like Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre will continue to torment innocent people.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/01/craig-wri...
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is this an app? It sounds like a nice service but I don't know why I need to install software on my phone and interact with a small touch screen in order to use it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would be careful working on this sort of thing during the next 2 months while you are still technically under the employment of the company.
Comment · 3 years ago
> No, you aren't making it more costly for the bank.
I sure am; almost all of my spending earns a rewards percentage that exceeds the rate charged to the merchant. (This is not even counting the significant sign-up bonuses.)
Anyone (with good credit) can do the same with a modest amount of research.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't feel bad about extensively using these rewards cards. If you are a net recipient in this distribution, your participation doesn't directly correlate with any higher participation by any of the victim groups. We simply make it more costly for the bank -- if anything, discouraging them from issuing such cards.
However I do withhold recommending these cards to others because they only make sense for people who don't carry debt or spend recklessly, and I usually cannot be certain that others meet those criteria.
Comment · 3 years ago
Coinbase has not been a bitcoin company since 2017, when they were on the losing side of a debate on whether the protocol should be modified to support commerce at the expense of decentralization.[0]
Since then they have gone all in on Ethereum and the 10,000 other tokens, encouraging users to try their luck on which one of them will blow up in price like bitcoin did. (Meanwhile they collect trading fees on the way up and/or down.) For them, bitcoin is a legacy product and a thing to say they have to get normies' feet in the door, so they can steer them into daytrading the other tokens.
As a result I am sadly not surprised that they were wholly useless for a person actually trying to buy and use bitcoin. For that I would highly suggest a bitcoin-focused company like Swan, River, Strike, or even CashApp.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-proto...
Comment · 4 years ago
> Before Kalshi, markets that allowed you to trade on economically relevant events were illegal or unregulated.
Totally untrue. PredictIt was legal and regulated and well-loved for many years, operating with the permission of the CFTC under a no-action letter. Then Kalshi hired former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz and soon, PredictIt was suddenly deemed by the CFTC to have committed still-unenumerated violations of the no-action letter.
This is a rotten way to do business and shame on YC for being involved in it.
https://karlstack.substack.com/p/a-textbook-case-of-regulato...
Comment · 4 years ago
Some people think it's good to trade some of bitcoin's security for extra features, or at least, think that enough people will feel that way in the future to make these tokens good investments today.
Those people look particularly silly on days like this.
Comment · 4 years ago
Mea culpa, searching for the actual original name “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications” pulls up a number of interesting stories about the origins of the company running telegraph lines along the rail tracks.
Example: https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963607/sprint-born-from-ra...
However I do not see anything resembling cell phone service happening until the 1970s.
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess this is the person who posted recently about their very sad hobby of intentionally spreading misinformation on here and Wikipedia.
If you're going to do this, you could at least cite the source of the values. I'm not seeing that on there.
That said, I find the values from TPG to be absolute junk, applicable only to those who would buy nothing in life but international first class airplane tickets and luxury hotel suites, and it's a disservice to pass them along as fact.