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Re:The Frustration Loop on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:03AM (#37621474)
You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is [email protected] you can receive to [email protected], matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.
Measuring inter-account variability in performance doesn't work for players who only play with cheats on that account
Re:On Leaving Facebook on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:30PM (#30033577)
I don't understand what you mean here - would a company not want a well rounded developer ?
Re:The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:10AM (#29612497)
I think he may mean that the exuberance going on right now in the crypto and nft markets may be seen as a "top signal" predicting a market crash soon (people moving into riskier and riskier assets usually precedes a crash). Timing the top of markets is hard though - and while the music is playing you have to dance.
Re:Why don't you accept donations? on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:10AM (#29470127)
My monero investment is down so bad that a micro payment is all I will be able to afford
Nobody cares if you download their NFT, it is a joke on crypto twitter
There are other aspects to defi other than lending, such as liquidity providing, governance token issuance, etc. For the loans part, you are right there is no use other than to speculate on crypto assets. An overcollaterallized loan is essentially just selling some coins for cash while simultaneously taking a leveraged long position to maintain your exposure.
Re:Money and Investing (1996) on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:47AM (#26644201)
Isn't the extremely high stablecoin interest only because we are in a bull run and there is a high demand for long leverage ? You can make 20%+ shorting bitcoin futures 1x on bitmex or ftt right now, but those returns don't last when the price is not exploding upwards..
Re:How this Ends on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:49AM (#26178325)
Sealed Pokemon booster boxes
Re:Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:39AM (#26054057)
This is so stingingly dumb it reads like satire
Re:I should have loved biology on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:48AM (#25147158)
People have wildly different reactions, some of my friends can take 14g+ and be fine, others are barely able to talk after 2g. Plus potency varies wildly between crops and strains.
Re:Life Is Short (2016) on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:14AM (#24314814)
What brand of prescription methamphetamine are you taking? It seems from a quick google like it is only prescribed exceedingly rarely?
Re:Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:06PM (#24286673)
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "amphetamines permanently ruin your ability to self correct"? In what way?
Re:Cryptocurrency Startup School on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:36PM (#21151135)
Selling a few million dollars worth of bitcoin would only slip the market a couple of dollars if at all. Go look at bitmex or bitfinex's order books - they have plenty of liquidity.
Re:No, you don't need a blockchain on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:33PM (#18365477)
What do you need to see to consider lightning network a "success"? It's already running on mainnet, me and my friends have a lightning node. Much different than sharding which is not yet implemented (like all of ethereums big promises)
Re:The Big Blockchain Lie on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:30AM (#18261909)
Author incorrectly conflates Bitcoin with other coins/tokens. While 99% of coins are centralized scams as the author states, Bitcoin actually is decentralized.