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dereg··on Crypto.com preliminary audit shows 20% of its assets are in shiba inu coin
Do you understand what is going on here? It means that 20% of their deposit base has purchased SHIB coin.

It is not about crypto.com going kaput.

dereg··on Ask HN: I will become a father tomorrow, what advice could you share with me?
Indeed. They need to be cleaned often - I purchased several dispensing funnels so that I can swap them in and out interchangeably and not have to clean them on the spot. Haven't seen any issues with it and so the benefits have far outweighed the downsides, which ppl must be mindful of.
dereg··on Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)
Federighi and Schiller nailed it. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear that Google would have bungled a WhatsApp acquisition.

I think it’s refreshing to see that Fed & Phil had in mind a clear path to value with their existing hardware+software strategy, rather than rushing to the growth and market share at-all-costs strategy popular at the time.

It’s so easy to point to Federighi’s email and scream “monopolist”! But Apple was in no way close to commanding a monopoly in the mobile market back then.

dereg··on Ask HN: I will become a father tomorrow, what advice could you share with me?
Yes. Definitely do heed all of the warnings regarding SIDS/suffocation. Beyond that, excessive paranoia is unnecessary!
dereg··on Ask HN: I will become a father tomorrow, what advice could you share with me?
Some practical things I’ve learned after a year:

1. Pace yourself. You’re going to want to try to do as much as you can with your newborn/infant but sometimes they’re just not ready for it. If you try to be very extra with your child on day one, you’re going to burn yourself out. A corollary is to appreciate the free time you get.

2. Children all develop in their own way so don’t freak out if your experience something different than what you read online.

3. Fear about SIDS is so incredibly overblown. I think the latest that we know about SIDS is that it’s a genetic thing. You should keep your baby’s area relatively clutter free to minimize suffocation risk but you don’t have to spend every waking hour of your life worrying about if they are breathing.

4. If you plan to formula feed, get a baby brezza. It saves so much time. Don’t believe the negative reviews, my baby is thriving.

5. You can’t spoil a child when they’re an infant. Don’t be afraid to give them all the love they need, especially when they’re crying. You’re not doing anybody favors by letting them cry things out.

6. Be empathetic to your partner as you are now sharing a foxhole with them.

dereg··on Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC
Is it possible to have this discussion without calling him a grifter and con man? Why have people decided that it’s okay to bring the Twitter-style tone of discussion to HN?
dereg··on Backlash after 500 drones light up New York City sky to celebrate Candy Crush
You didn’t read the end of the article which said:

> The company obtained a special permit to stage the display.

dereg··on Hollow City: Edward Hopper’s portraits of urban alienation
Id love to see a good painter recreate his work using good painting techniques. As an outsider to art, I have no intuition as to why his technique is bad because to me, it looks exquisite!
dereg··on Elon Musk: “thermonuclear name & shame” against advertisers pulling out
There are few things in the world I’m more terrified of than Yelp’s salespeople. They give me Jack Lemon from Glengarry vibes.
dereg··on Ask HN: How much does the environment you're in contribute to performance?
For what it’s worth, I recall one factoid from some planet money episode a long, long time ago, that the quality of a supervisor determines roughly 75% of your overall performance. Unfortunately, I cannot cite the episode nor can I cite the source within that episode. If I had to take a guess, it was someone from Harvard business school. The reason why I remember that number rather is because it fits right in line with my experience.

I was much younger in my career then, after after learning that, I immediately had zero tolerance for bad management. It was clear that the only way out was to either jump ship or get your existing manager out of your hair. That’s when it’s crucial to manage upwards. With even bad managers, if you can figure out their motivations, then you can figure out a way for them to leave you alone.

dereg··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
Good point. Mike D'Antoni credits his experience in Italy for the offenses he implemented in the NBA. To your point, while video games may not have originated these ideas, they provide both a creative space to try wild ideas as well as help change the culture to become receptive to these sorts of experiments.
dereg··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
Sorry - I was talking about the clip of the video game move:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yNc5EasW8

dereg··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
I love this clip so much - I pulled it off so many times in Need For Speed but games like Gran Turismo always nerfed to move.

There are so many moves that were obvious in video games but (bafflingly, to a kid like me) were never adopted until much, much later like:

• NFL - Going for it on 4th down

• NFL - QB spamming scramble moves (w/ Michael Vick)

• NBA - Spamming 3 pointers (w/ Steph Curry)

dereg··on “There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitter” – Elon
Working at a FAANG may be the new MBA.
dereg··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
I think you're underestimating how much actual users of Twitter use Twitter.
dereg··on “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
526 people is not what I’d consider a “council”. That’s the size of a large high school graduating class.
dereg··on “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
He was unbanned prior to musk’s arrival, according to musk.
dereg··on Decompilation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I love this game so much. The game design was magnificent. The art was opinionated and wel executed. Id love and open world version as well but I didn’t feel like the game was overly railed.
dereg··on Don't overreact to weak signals
This is generally good advice. Poor management tends to overreact to these sorts of signals which helps them create an illusion of busy-ness but creates havoc within their team.

I’ve seen teams spend days consumed by their overreaction, make unnecessary changes to product, and then shrug a week or month later when everyone collectively agrees when that change should be undone. Bizarre.

dereg··on macOS Ventura is now available
John is in the pantheon for my favorite people that I do not know. I hope he never tires of sharing things with us via podcast or writing.
dereg··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
> An indie developer hosting a free website is neither causing permanent and irreversible damage to the environment nor is he making any money as a result of his websites not being accessibility compliant.

Odd complaint seeing as how Apple no longer includes chargers with iPhones, on environmental grounds. There are many people who complained about that, as well.

dereg··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Do you see how many qualifiers you added to this? What if it significantly touches on their resources as a firm? What if the company is “global” but revenue is primarily domestic?

It’s always easy to carve these lines in the sand ex post facto. Good legislation lays out a set on consistent principles and enforcements, ex ante.

dereg··on As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing
If you have the knowledge that Congress does, the S&P 500 is the only instrument you need to do very well for yourself
dereg··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
IM PRAYING THIS FIXES IT. I really cannot express how annoyed I’ve been at the search bar keyboard in Safari. This has been such a huge sticking point.
dereg··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
I’m praying this works. I have the same experience as everyone else here.
dereg··on Stablecoin Mechanics 2: Tether-Celsius
“Because there hasn't been a run.”

There were over $10b in redemptions over a couple days in may.

“They’re definitely insolvent”.

Source on the “definitely”?

“but that only causes immediate failure when enough people try to withdraw at once”

You mean illiquid, not insolvent.

dereg··on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
It shocks me how much that supposed technically minded people regurgitate half truths in order to wage an ideological war against Apple.

Whether it’s throttling, repairability, or the App Store, many of Apple’s decisions make a lot more sense when you observe them as products of tradeoffs. One may not like which side of the tradeoff spectrum that Apple chose, that’s fine, but it’s preposterous to pretend like we live in a world in which they do not exist.

dereg··on Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?
Basically every comment trying to make a political statement and those that are implying that investment managers made decisions out of greed and avarice.
dereg··on Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?
I agree with parent. There are so many.

Here's a recent example where almost every comment in the thread is so off the mark as to be unrecognizable for the comments section of your local TV news station. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33028673

dereg··on Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig
It has really gotten out of hand. I'm no fan of Ben Bernanke there's a way to have a constructive discussion about his work and waving a wand of preconceived notions is not one of them.
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