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wyxuan··on Levine Links: Money Stuff but enhanced with O paywalls
Simple project - receive email via CF email, process using workers, and then serve the email list via Resend

Found myself having to use archive.is links or go around paywalls a bunch - which is annoying considering the number of links there are, so decided to make this

Link to github is here: https://github.com/mergd/levinelinks

wyxuan··on The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt
Isn't the whole point of Bolt/stackblitz that you can run node js clientside via wasm, so it's more lightweight?

Did they migrate away to a more server heavy model?

wyxuan··on FTC Chair Lina Khan looks for allies and leads in Silicon Valley charm offensive
lmao I was surprised by the passage as well. For the uninitiated, Within makes Supernatural, the VR fitness app and doesn't seem to have much to do with AI
wyxuan··on Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
Just deleted my account - everything was fine. One thing to note, there's nowhere in the UI or account settings tab to delete my account. I had to go directly to the link.
wyxuan··on Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges
If I had to make a guess on what is going on, Binance US is using Binance cloud, which allows for other platforms to tap into Binance’s orderbook liquidity and infra. Mandala(an exchange) uses it, and their token mdxt doesn’t trade on Binance but still uses their infra and wallets for instance.

There could be a similar arrangement where US pairs don’t appear on the intentional exchange and vice versa, even if they use the same infra

wyxuan··on Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent
There are FTT denominated loan(s), to MIM for instance, but I’m not sure there are that many others willing to accept FTT given the thin liquidity
wyxuan··on Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
No I think this is runway.ml who run a video editing startup based on AI and helped with the development. This is the link https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
wyxuan··on The doctor who convinced Mark Cuban to sell drugs
Funny how shkreli fits into the story – he's led the criticized cost plus drugs for being a more expensive version of goodRx with inflated discounts [0]/

[0]https://martinshkreli.substack.com/p/mark-cubans-pharmacy-no...

wyxuan··on Our five failed YC applications and one successful one
Surprised at the rigor they had for your process. Just looking at a lot of crypto companies that have joined their batch, I was questioning whether they even looked at the ideas or not.

Maybe they are just better with b2b SaaS and other verticals, with crypto being exceptionally bad.

wyxuan··on GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account
Tornado Cash repo+website taken down as well[0], and so have many of the GH accounts that were contributors to the repo[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/w_y_x/status/1556716055296294914?s=21&t=...

[1] https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1556721709931175937?s=21&t=...

wyxuan··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
Patrick is overindexing on the investments portion of the report – which is a little under 5% of backing. There are investment deals and crypto, but it's unknown if this represents the entirety of the amount fwiw.

If we take a step back and look at the key takeaway from the audit report is that amount of commercial paper was reduced and amount of T-bills (essentially cash) was increased by 5 bil. Good news if you think solvency is an issue, but of course they're all scoundrels eh?/s

Tether might have done shady things in the past as the article, but the scale to which Tether operates now (10s of bllns), in addition to scrutiny from SDNY, external audit, etc mean that Tether from before is much different from the Tether now, and it has pulled off the made it portion of "fake it till you make it".

wyxuan··on High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits
r/poor is only a subreddit with 7.2k members (tiny!) so I wouldn't read too much into things, in addition to what others have to say about overgeneralization.
wyxuan··on Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
They’re going for a minority stake, along with a few other intermediate milestones
wyxuan··on Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
*excluding the Pelicans
wyxuan··on Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
The timeline referred in the title is a little off. Krause house was started a couple months ago and has been active for a bit, while ConstitutionDAO was spun up and closed down in less than two weeks
wyxuan··on Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose
Real World Asset Financing as being explored by Centrifuge and MakerDAO is pretty interesting. Tapping into the yields and capital availability of DeFi to provide rates for trade financing (Harbor Trade), Revenue Based Financing (Fortunafi), etc.

SocGen, the 3rd oldest French bank recently put up a loan request on the Maker forums for 20 mil backed by bonds iirc.

exciting times!

wyxuan··on Is my Facebook activity fucking my finances?
Also, Facebook and other big tech companies are way less likely to get hacked thanks to more established data handling practices.

Breaches still occasionally happen, but you're more likely to see data breaches from these data broker companies because they didn't secure their elasticsearch DBs or something dumb like that.

wyxuan··on The financial literacy industrial complex
As other people point out, a lot of the efforts seem a little half assed - rebranded marketing materials or simply boring.

I'm working on a simulator platform that leverages dapps built on Ethereum on a testnet to teach various financial concepts, and then abstracting away the complicated defi/blockchain gibberish to better reflect the real world.

Yield farming -> high yield bank account

NFTs -> buying illiquid assets like art or a house

altcoins -> buying stocks

p2p transactions -> cashapp/venmo

eventually there can be a way to surfacing more blockchain related concepts, but you can go quite far even with this simplified model. Ultimately, it'll be a lot more interesting than reading a book or watching a video.

Email is in bio if you think this is interesting and want to talk more.

wyxuan··on Sushi and the Founding Murder
I think this is an incredibly cynical and awful take. The sushi community is really vibrant, to the point where they backed off from the whole phantom troupe proposal because of pushback.

Also, not sure where money laundering and the cartels come in- I’ve never heard this claim before and there’s no evidence at all.

As for why SBF got control(along with a few others), SBF was the biggest critic of Nomi’s leadership and arguably after the rugpull, you needed a name as weighty and trustworthy as SBF’s to really turn it around- and I think he did a good job.

Also SBF let the community have reins on if after navigating the roughest patches, so again- don’t see the issue there either.

wyxuan··on Sushi and the Founding Murder
The speculation is that nomi returned funds after being doxxed as the CTO of the band protocol.
wyxuan··on Life Without Google: Australia Is Now Facing the Unthinkable
If Duckduckgo wants to stay principled, it should stand next to Google and defend the open internet.

They shouldn't claim to be principled and then take a cheap shot at Google by bowing down to Murdoch.

Yes, I get that they're a business and good on them for taking more market share but I'm not calling out Microsoft because they're not claiming to be the good guys.

wyxuan··on Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
I've done duolingo for 300+ days and can tell you that Japanese and Arabic are uniquely bad/hard to teach
wyxuan··on Facebook creates new unit to build a “metaverse”
My reaction - so what?

Facebook has been heavily investing resources into the metaverse for a while - building up various experiences, snapping up game studios, even Occulus itself!

They just haven't bothered calling it a metaverse until now, but make no mistake - they are the leaders by a mile.

wyxuan··on Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement
Difficulty bomb ensures that forking is incredibly difficult.

The code change to defeat the code change is easy to make (just delete a section of code) but you have to distribute clients that ship with the difficulty bomb removed on top of EIP 1559 not being implemented, on top of people actually downloading the changed version.

Good luck trying to convince the Geth or other client teams to ship that version.

wyxuan··on Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain
My take is that Facebook is being a lot more realistic about this than Neurallink is.

Nothing wrong with being lofty, but with the money and manpower that FB has put behind BCI, versus the talent flight from Neurallink – FB will likely be the winner.

A shame, because I don't think anyone else can even come close to really stacking up.

wyxuan··on The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies
If vaults are holding wads of paper are gathering dust while everyone is using some others currency else's currency (like the eCNY) over the internet as the global reserve currency, that's a pretty convincing case about the potential for a loss of relevance.
wyxuan··on FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval
Nitpick, I have a great deal for respect for Derek but he isn't a journalist (and nor does he claim to be).

It's just a column.

But that's not to say the reactions from journalists weren't critical. Adam from Stat had some choice words about the decision.

wyxuan··on M1 Mac SSD Wear Issue Tested and Explored [video]
It's a reporting issue according to this article and has been fixed in MacOS 11.4 https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1...
wyxuan··on Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange
Any interest in allowing shares on the LTSE to trade directly on crypto exchanges?
wyxuan··on Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
Novo Nordisk's recently approved Wegovy works pretty well for your latter use case, and they're undergoing clinical trials for oral medication (it's currently administered via IV).

iirc, the side effect profile was pretty mild nausea, so definitely a viable option if you're in the market for FDA approved weight loss/control drugs

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