mmsmatt

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 sale everywhere.

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 and try it.

Elinks could render to SVGAlib well enough to browse sites that weren’t loaded with JS, no X11 needed

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.

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. You can read 90% of this piece thinking that Taibbi is clearly sympathetic to the Republican narrative, and he gives no indication otherwise!

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.

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 lot more like Shadow than Stadia.

He who holds the keys holds the coins.

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, the bitcoin bucket shops are a few generations behind. It doesn’t matter until suddenly it does.

Serious question, what was the complaint against xrange?

I don’t recall it ever surprising me or behaving poorly.

> 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 a lot of disappointment!

The Great Trump Moral Panic (good phrase) is exhausting too much energy from the public attention. It’s clearly in his interest to maintain the Panic over non-stories, these will always drown out any real stories in tomorrow’s paper.

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 problem into. It just wants to talk about your problem. Way too on-the-nose for many tastes.

It needs a religion attached, then masses will follow.

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.

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 adults in the room want more Facebook in your life at any cost, totally rational goal for the organization to live on.

I would bet a day or two of bad press from Mark's VR stunt is probably worth the bump in engagement and publicity.

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 hope it helps others. We should form a meet up, or at least a mailing list. I bet there are a lot of us here.

The Absolute Best Thing You Can Do in this situation: Learn to recognize and manipulate your own emotional states. Take control over what you bring into the room.

On the worst days, your partner will have little no of this ability themselves. Pick up that slack and things get better faster.

Read Covey, Carneige, and Cialdini for starters. They will together persuade you that you're much more susceptible to the emotion of a moment than you thought you were. And, you'll learn to see how others have controlled the emotions you've felt in the past, to drive your behaviors. It feels like magic, like cheat codes, when it clicks. And that click is the beginning of a real empathy for what you're seeing in them.

You'll also learn how to get someone talking effectively about emotions in a way that loosens the hold, and gets the logical part of the brain re-engaged.

Reading and talking are great, but there's so much more. Find a hobby or group that forces your hand to work nonverbal communication skills. You need somewhere to practice reading others' cues and responding with your own.

Work that long enough, and you'll start to see impending anxiety before your partner experiences the brunt of it. You'll also see the anxiety states they weren't telling you about, some of which they didn't recognize as anxiety either.

At that point, you've leveled up your own emotional awareness you can start leading your partner (mostly nonverbally, sometimes in detailed conversation) to raise their own. That inspires confidence. Confidence is what you want, it's the long con (ha), and a few victories in a row will let the both of you reach for new goals: things that seemed impossible months or years ago just aren't anymore. IMHO, that's the best life.