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CppCon 2019: Andrei Alexandrescu “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People“
Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto
SEC: Brokers enticed by PFOF are making trading into a game to lure investors
Tether Discussion featuring Bennett Tomlin and George Noble
We believe the impact of Bitcoin mining is a net positive for the environment
Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/
It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are worth zero, their max loss will be $757mm. GME loss would be $55mm.
Hedgefunds don't have to disclose everything? Just trying to understand how did they lose that much.
Why the US doesn't have “basic bank accounts”
Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might
USAA sues Wells Fargo over remote-deposit patents
When 26.2 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon
Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations
"It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems."
One of the authors of Raft is Prof. John Ousterhout(TCL creator, among other things)Danny Macaskill: The Ridge
To learn somthing, is to 1. Read, 2. Do and 3. Teach. So blogging can be "teach" part.
All of which are ad-supported and if they were fee-based they wouldn't be that massive, which agian brings back to ads.
>> Relying on ad revenue is a moral failing.
If relying on ad revenue is a moral failing, so is using such a product/service. Have never used a such product/service?
I think one of the main reason is programming the FPGA is not easy, the tools needed for FPGA development are all proprietary. Every FPGA has different way to program it.
Gtk to Qt – A Strange Journey
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-computer-issue-...
Quoting from the post:
"my past criticism of CAP not actually being about picking two of three out
of C (consistency), A (availability), and P (partition tolerance) due to the
fact that it does not make sense to reason about a system that is ‘CA’. (If
there is no partition, any system can be both consistent and available ---
the only question is what happens when there is a partition --- does
consistency or availability get sacrificed?)"