kebman

Sure, if the "book" is a one-to-one representation of a physical book. It's not, though.

No wonder. The last tweets from SBF has been lies. In particular he's stated that Alameda Research would stop trading on FTX. This is glossing over the fact that Alameda Research is a major liquidity provider for FTX, meaning that if they stop trading there, there will be no party to take the other side of trades anymore. With a completely illiquid exchange, trading becomes all but impossible and you risk extreme slippage as a consequence of it.

It means that the contract you enter when you loan money has limitations to what you can use said funds for, and how or what it's secured with (including interest). It would seem that the creditors of Bankman-Fried gave him quite liberal limits, if it wasn't simply the byzantine structure of his many, many straw companies that made it extremely hard to understand what the money was ever used for, so much so that he may or may not have lost track himself.

Ah, the magic of loaned funds with little or no demands tied to it. And you wonder why real estate prices are so high? It's largely the same principle, except the regulation is way, wayyy tighter. But in sum, the effect it has on markets is unquestionable.

If only I had a FTX US account. I'd get one more day of GTFO...

Done? What do you mean "done"? Consulting hours are much better on projects that cannot ever be finished!1

Yes you can. Just offer a better product, and people will buy it instead of the old or bad product. Better yet, make the new product backwards compatible, and fewer people will have qualms about forking out for it. Better yet, do an aggressive takeover, like Microsoft did, and just force the entire industry to adopt your stuff...

Here I am, the copywriter slash programmer slash musician. Yes, I play the keyboard.

If I'm not mistaken Skype used to be called the most secure video calling app back in the day. Until this: https://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-May/...

Looks like some kind of ad that tries to discredit regular encryption by claiming that it's already compromised (it isn't), or that it will be very soon. But lo! Here is the knight in shining armour coming to the rescue (FHE)! Soon. Maybe.

I'm not Russian or Slavic. But I'm interested in typography and hence learned the Cyrillic alphabet. Helped me loads when I travelled through Slavic countries! But ever since, posters with "Russian" word plays have been ruined for me lol.

I read webYacade...

It's because of mutually assured destruction. It's the same reason why there's a tacit agreement between enemy heads of state to not just assassinate each other. Doing so would just start a new world order that wouldn't be in anyone's interest. Sort of like nuking an enemy isn't a good idea either because of the retaliatory consequences it would necessarily cause.

Almost no rules within crypto, if you want to experiment. It's one of the selling points of the scene. OTOH regulation is slowly but steadily making its way over there as well.

What if the article isn't the title?

I don't know. It's a little late and I had a few drinks. Cheers!

Territory? The map is not the land. Or the map is not the real world. Just as any model is just that; a model and not the real thing. And as the saying is, all models are wrong, but some are useful. And maps are certainly useful!

On that topic, I can highly recommend the documentary “Chuck Norris vs. Communism”^[1] about censorship in Romania under Ceaușescu.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442080/

Yeah, but because of McGuffin it will happen in like 15 minutes if the super-villain gets his will. And then billions of Martians will needlessly die of suffocation and sun-burns. But our HERO John McLane III is there to valiantly save the day by employing fast one-liners and walking bare-footed on broken glass!!1

In a world... Where the entire survival of the planet is dependent on one shield ship... One man... Must save it... From the mad scientist who wants to destroy it!

I would see this sci fi movie!

And your point is? So it's grains or shrooms, or whatever. Something else will grow and die and be broken down into methane its place. Things don't magically stop growing just because the area is no longer used for cattle grazing. Yet it's often magically missing from statistics and calculations when all is said and done...

> b. what case? Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?

> c. is it possible to avoid using the noun?

And now you know why the most extroverted Finns are the ones who look at your shoes instead of on the ground in front of you!

I have only one thing to add to this: Kippis!

It's grass. If you stop growing grass, something else will grow in its place.

What's up?

I'm playing with LEGO®.

I'm eating sushi. You?

I'm in spaaaaaaceeeee but I'm separated from my module!!! Halp!

Dude, you're making investment advice, which you so obviously don't know jack about. That's the point. You should read a book on investments and try it out for yourself, instead of acting sore for being schooled and trying to pin your own failure on others. Anyway, good luck in life. And I guess especially with your future investments. I'm sure you'll be great some day, but that day ain't today.

How about you? Oh, wait, you already said you weren't. You are entertaining tho! Please keep 'em coming! I love a good roast!

No, you're only damned if you demonstrate a lack of knowledge while not even having any skin in the game. That's not a good look, man. But sure, you're obviously not a scammer, I'll give you that. I'm sorry if that's what you thought I meant. Though it is misleading to call something that is actually speculation for diversification when it's clearly not. But look, I think I've made my point. Take it as a tradesman's advice. You don't need to follow it, but do it at your own risk. ;)

Oh, so you don't even hold any investments? Thanks for the advice, pal. You do you! :)

I'm aware that "the context was crypto." Except when that's the context, non-savvy people need to learn what "diversification" really means, and it's not buying other cryptos, which is just a horrible euphemism for speculation. But if that's what you're really claiming, then—no matter the "context"—you're just scamming them into buying something that is far less "safe" than Bitcoin.

Bitcoin of course being the "safest" crypto, since it's so ubiquitous, and because no one person really controls it. Not so even for Ethereum, even though it's the next best thing to "diversify" into (read: speculate on) in regards to crypto.

I think the casual reader needs to know that distinction, lest they get a nasty surprise such as—oh IDK—Bitcoin dumping 80%. Because if it does, then all the other cryptos will most likely dump 95% or more. Or worse, go to zero like the "safe bet" Luna. And so much for "diversification!"

It's like that due how all crypto coins are high risk assets that are all highly correlated to Bitcoin. And so the correct wording for buying other cryptos should never be "diversification" but speculation.