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vmception

13,016 karma · joined April 16, 2020

Macroeconomics, Fintech, Commodities, Digital Assets

Running VMs inside of VMs. VM Inception

vmception00 [at] gmail.com

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vmception··on How This Ends
baby boomers and the greatest generation dying an additional half million per year accelerate the biggest wealth transfer in history - rebalancing portfolios to be demand for undervalued stocks and different consumptive spending patterns
vmception··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
I skipped the tutorial and was right into a scene with no signup?
vmception··on California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession
> is a third rail, ask our last republican governor

what does that mean?

and propositions are citizen initiated amendments that citizens vote on

vmception··on California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession
are there enough of us that are not beneficiaries of Prop 13 to repeal Prop 13?

are there comprehensive stats of which properties are under that system and how many residents that applies to?

I don't care about the LLC part, its stupid for types of property (house, cars) to have separate transfer tariffs on them to begin with, so therefore it would be stupid for me to care that an LLC gets around them

I'm just wondering about the numbers of people, helps me determine if this is a useful area to spend energy at the moment

vmception··on California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession
it depends on who "the rich" are

but there is a decent sized subset of California that is insulated from the "problems" of California. they are insulated from the famous tax rates, do not rely on employment income, are not subject to the compliance burdens of being an employer, have inherited low property taxes or only rent, and can leave at a moment's notice.

this part of the population of California is large enough to vastly distort the rental or property market wherever they go to.

vmception··on California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession
> Currently the state has an ~80bil surplus. The state needs to keep some of that around for the inevitable recession.

yeah well the governor has an election to win, so free money for everyone

vmception··on This Image Does Not Exist
On my phone this was indiscernible

I can see DALL-E-2 stuff spreading around WhatsApp groups like wildfire, masquerading as something else

vmception··on .01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin
We can judge market depth in fairly real time though so we know what size of order can and does move
vmception··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
Usually there is an answer, I’m not familiar with the stablegains service but usually there is enough information for you to tell objectively why to use or avoid a service according to your risk profile.

There was enough in the terra ecosystem to come to a conclusion of avoiding completely

vmception··on .01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin
I think it already has, I could never get a flash loan elsewhere, or trade in some ways that I like. The closest I could get was access to some favorable margin systems.

I don't think that has anything to do with bitcoin or any cryptocurrency’s distribution. Its a boon, to me, that it functions like any other asset class, no reason to hold it up to fictional higher standards to discredit it.

vmception··on .01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin
People that already have money can buy a bunch of bitcoin

Along with early miners

How is that controversial?

There is zero mechanism to change that reality and not an issue bitcoin was claiming to solve. Whichever frothing at the mouth enthusiast told you otherwise can just be ignored.

This is only news because people never made their own analysis after hearing someone else be excited for the wrong reasons.

vmception··on On Aging Alone (2021)
yeah everyone imagines theyre going to be on some boring tropical island just because the water is shallow and turqoise around the edges instead of scrolling on the same 3 sites and maybe coding something on the side
vmception··on Show HN: WebApp to Create 3D Plants
can we download to a glb file?
vmception··on Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
yeah the fed profit sharing program is a real big one
vmception··on Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
Return the slab

To seal it off again

No human remains and intentionally sealed off, take the hint

vmception··on Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k
Both income and asset tests need to be in phases, not cutoffs

And those phases need to be market linked in some way

vmception··on Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
Turns out, everyone is able to see a connection between a protracted legal battle with a known litigious hound with deep pockets and success on this front. So they all settle or buy the license. The litigious entity gets their way.
vmception··on Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
> You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

But the thing is... you can

Most of us are not designing algorithms, most of the time, or any of the time

Many engineers are just filling seats in places that are just in the business of sucking up talent from the market instead of having a bunch of entreprenuers running around

Rest and vest

vmception··on Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
> Even if you are rich and innocent and lucky, then you will spend a day in jail, and spend thousands on bail and lawyers, and if found innocent you will still have all of it on your record, lost all of that money

Not quite.

If rich you get all your bail money back. If poor you do a bail bond and dont get the deposit for the bond back. Or cant even afford that and stay in jail. (The effects compound because its often not the first time)

If rich, an arrest record means nothing. If rich enough, an indictment or being found guilty means nothing because you don't need employment.

And thats before we talk about fighting the case. Or making the investigation harder.

Its a completely parallel society because the consequences are so different.

vmception··on Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
Since it has been ruled constitutional, that leaves two options:

1) change all state laws to nuke the practice

2) leverage the practice much more heavily such that more important and influential people want to nuke it

vmception··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
> As of this writing, on May 20th, it has yet to regain the peg.

Its trading at $0.99974 and has gone over $1 several times just today and over the last week. Which definition of peg matters here? Its not causing mass liquidations in Defi platforms because it trades so close to peg, it is still redeemable for $1.00 if you are non-US and have over 100,000 units.

This article has percentages for everything except when they don't reinforce the universally negative view of tether.

Is there another source that is less invested to corroborate everything more accurately?

Its kind of stupid to observe something different and be seen as “pro tether”, but lets just stick to accuracy.

vmception··on Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa
Yes, the reality in some countries on that continent is very different, there is no parallel to the west
vmception··on “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
> In short, it is to let the AI help you "look at the film", and the accuracy rate is almost comparable to professional doctors, and it is completely free.

In the US, the issue is getting the Xray

vmception··on Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa
Yeah and for men doing vaginal sex the risk is way lower of getting infection than being the receptacle.

HIV had to be rebranded away from being seen as a same-sex curse to a common ubiquitous threat in the 1990s to get society to care, but its really not something thats as big of a threat for most of us as it was suggested. A lot of it was just not accurate. Generations of heterosexual people running around scared. Probably did slow transmission down, since only “heterosexual” and bisexual men were/are spreading it to women via sex. But also viral load is suppressed and suppressible now.

vmception··on The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked
Past performance is indicative of future results except for the purposes of liability punting, which is a super convenient capability of apocryphal disclaimers
vmception··on Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa
I don't have an issue with 18 people chosen to be promiscuous under the guise of “noooo, we aren't testing whether it works, we’re testing that there aren't side effects before we test specifically whether it works”

Both phases are awesome studies

People in labcoats like “go out be sociaalll” and a studious kid in Africa like “oh ok, I guess”

vmception··on Y Combinator's Message to Founders
Think of it like a bad metric thats better than other metrics
vmception··on Y Combinator's Message to Founders
It wasnt to us, it was to the people in the club
vmception··on Ask HN: I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not sure what to do
4) Do nothing

5) Sell the credentials ( less liability than 6)

6) yoink

vmception··on Y Combinator's Message to Founders
> One thing it obviously does not address is the human element of who you cut and whether they will be “default alive” unemployed in a recession.

An individual's personal financial circumstance is not a factor though. There are many people that have fixed their personal finance issue adequately. And for those who really don't have easy choice of employers or personal runway, then they're fucked. Did that really need to be said? That's what is going to happen.

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