brunooo
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Comment · 2 years ago
For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPY
The mindblowing thing to internalize is that you don’t route energy as electrons through copper traces (they move incredibly slow) but merely use the copper to guide a bunch of waves traveling outside of them, where they are up to all kinds of shenanigans like coupling, reflecting etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is pretty interesting from a content marketing perspective - and think will work well for them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Izzy Kaminska, one of the smartest crypto critics out there, begrudgingly acknowledged the value of Perps at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-31/perpet...
Comment · 3 years ago
In addition to Eevblog and other great resources mentioned, the two things that helped me most with that are the Phil’s Lab YouTube channel and Arlektra educational kit:
Comment · 3 years ago
Ft Stafford Beer et al, from the guy behind https://www.the-syllabus.com/ etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
Plus, given that the auction was about getting rid of the increasingly weird 25% equity holder, it’s not a far stretch to assume that the minority guy just rigged the auction with „who do I know who I could talk into starting a fake bidding war“, and thus even less appetite among the majority to just pick up the tab for that stunt.
Comment · 3 years ago
Probably one of the savviest banking analysts out there and author of Lying For Money
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh, surprising re Signature, but 100% backstop should calm things down.
Any fiat <-> crypto rails left in the US, after the FDIC buries SEN on, I dunno, Tuesday?
Comment · 3 years ago
Curious if anyone knows if SVB would have been eligible on Thursday?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/12/201.108 is the list of supported collateral.
Comment · 3 years ago
There … is?
Right below that there’s another bracket of “trying to tweet through it”, a lot of the folks behind the We Support An SVB Successor thing, which then, as Paul Graham did, lectured people that they can’t really do anything because their LP agreements forbid it.
Didn’t know YC was a non-profit and Paul’s involvement was a $85k salary and no carry/returns…
Push came to shove, some people stepped or are stepping up, some didn’t.
Comment · 3 years ago
Being in an active leadership position makes his decision to spend time on live-streaming panicky half-baked takes … worse?
Formerly:
https://www.hiroapp.com https://www.work.io https://www.minervafabric.com