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tofurockson The Frustration Loop

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

tofurockson Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

Measuring inter-account variability in performance doesn't work for players who only play with cheats on that account

tofurockson On Leaving Facebook

I don't understand what you mean here - would a company not want a well rounded developer ?

tofurockson The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun

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.

tofurockson Why don't you accept donations?

My monero investment is down so bad that a micro payment is all I will be able to afford

tofurockson “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

Nobody cares if you download their NFT, it is a joke on crypto twitter

tofurockson Can decentralised finance lay the foundations for an open digital economy?

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.

tofurockson Money and Investing (1996)

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..

tofurockson How this Ends

Sealed Pokemon booster boxes

tofurockson Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin

This is so stingingly dumb it reads like satire

tofurockson I should have loved biology

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.

tofurockson Life Is Short (2016)

What brand of prescription methamphetamine are you taking? It seems from a quick google like it is only prescribed exceedingly rarely?

tofurockson Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "amphetamines permanently ruin your ability to self correct"? In what way?

tofurockson Cryptocurrency Startup School

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.

tofurockson No, you don't need a blockchain

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)

tofurockson The Big Blockchain Lie

Author incorrectly conflates Bitcoin with other coins/tokens. While 99% of coins are centralized scams as the author states, Bitcoin actually is decentralized.