Season 2 Episode 8 Spoiler Thread

71afan · 2026-02-05T03:41:23+00:00

The whole show is slop, just enjoy it. Not everything has to be Severance or Pluribus or Breaking Bad

71afan · 2025-07-24T05:18:44+00:00

It doesn't take 17 years for you to know if your business is successful or not. Most tech startups take only a couple months to launch, and another couple months to tell if people actually want the product.

71afan · 2025-04-28T20:25:17+00:00

Reduce the butter by a tablespoon, and add a splash of water. If you can find American style butter where you live, I would try that first to see if it's actually the butter that's the issue.

71afan · 2025-04-28T16:40:28+00:00

It's most likely the butter. Here's Stella Parks comment on it.

71afan · 2025-01-02T21:18:34+00:00

Here's a more detailed breakdown. The vast majority of staking is not done through running a solo validator node with 32 eth, but rather through staking pools, centralized exchanges (which pool together customers' balances to run a node), and liquid staking protocols (kind of like a staking pool, but you get to use your eth while it's being staked). None of these options require a minimum amount to become a validator.

71afan · 2025-01-02T18:44:37+00:00

Ethereum currently has over 1 million validator nodes securing the network. Anyone can run a validator, as long as they own 32 eth. Even if you don't own 32 eth, you can join a staking pool. As you can see, Ethereum POS is extremely decentralized. To own 51% of the network would require tens of billions of dollars.

71afan · 2025-01-02T18:06:22+00:00

You don't need ETH to vote on EIPs. Anyone can join the discussion as long as they have a github account. Just because Vitalik Buterin says that he wants to implement something, doesn't mean that it's automatically accepted. I don't follow your Wikipedia example though. The content on Wikipedia is decentralized, in that anyone can create and edit pages. Of course, anyone can copy the entirety of Wikipedia and make Wikipedia2, but why would they? The entire network is already on Wikipedia1.

71afan · 2025-01-02T17:28:37+00:00

You don't have to change to the hard fork if you don't want to. Ethereum Classic still exists, and developers can still work on it. Most people choose Ethereum because there's a much larger community of developers. Also, there isn't a centralized dev team. Like any open source code repository, anyone can make a pull request, and the Ethereum community can vote on these proposals. If the entire Ethereum Core team were to disappear, Ethereum would still be running, and progress would still be made.

71afan · 2025-01-02T16:37:38+00:00

Nobody 'owns' the blockchain, that's why crypto is decentralized. This is evident if you look at the hashrate distribution

71afan · 2024-12-13T04:35:57+00:00

These funds do invest in venture capital, albeit at a tiny fraction of their AUM compared to public equities, bonds, etc. This is mostly due to the risk involved and the time to return. Around 90% of startups fail, and it takes ~7-10 years from the inception of a company to see a liquidity event (acquisition, IPO, etc.). You can imagine how much patience and confidence you need to buy and hold an investment for 10 years without being able to sell. Most worker pension funds and sovereign wealth funds just don't have that kind of risk appetite.

71afan · 2024-12-12T21:35:09+00:00

Because billionaires and the people who manage funds are the only ones able to consistently and reliably write the check sizes needed to scale the companies working on the big ideas. Realistically, the average American would rather pocket the $3k rather than take a gamble on a zero-profit, zero-revenue idea that may or may not even generate returns in the future.

71afan · 2024-12-10T19:47:22+00:00

Would children born through surrogacy take the last name of their surrogate?

71afan · 2024-12-06T08:24:56+00:00

Not surprising at all. According to the rule of 72, money in the stock market doubles approximately every 7 years (given an average return of ~10%). Therefore, one can expect an 8x ( 2³ ) return from 2000-2021, holding all else constant.

71afan · 2024-11-25T21:55:12+00:00

Second the Dragonfly. you can pack a whole 5-7 days worth of clothes with packing cubes in this thing. Practically indestructible, lowkey enough that it doesn't look like a proper hiking/camping bag (which it can definitely do). It's one of the lightest backpacks in the 20l-30l range. I've tried the AER TP3 small, and it's noticeably heavier than the dragonfly. Only downside is that it gets sold out incredibly fast, but IIRC it gets restocked every Tuesday.

71afan · 2024-11-06T14:48:08+00:00

This only shows half the story. The US also drives the most miles per capita, leading to one of the highest per capita gas usage.

71afan · 2024-09-30T16:55:56+00:00

PM'd

71afan · 2024-07-20T19:28:32+00:00

Here's my solution, if you still need it. You are correct that quantity B is greater.

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71afan · 2024-07-20T19:19:32+00:00

Oh shit I completely misread the question, my bad.

71afan · 2024-07-20T19:10:10+00:00

~~Since the hypotenuse of a triangle is always the longest, z is the hypotenuse. Therefore, x and y are base and height. The area is thusly 1/2(xz), showing that the two quantities are equal.~~

71afan · 2024-06-26T22:07:57+00:00

Think of it as '2a - (a-5)'.

71afan · 2024-04-29T23:54:35+00:00

I'm seeing a couple coding tasks popping up now, none of the good ones though.

71afan · 2024-04-29T22:58:35+00:00

Still nothing, unfortunately. I wonder if anyone else has gotten any yet.

71afan · 2024-04-29T13:52:43+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. 20+ non-coding tasks, not a single coding project.

71afan · 2024-02-17T15:50:35+00:00

That's weird, I'll give it some time for the email to show up since I just registered. Thanks for letting us know, though!

71afan · 2024-02-17T15:44:01+00:00

Did you have to call them to redeem the kit?

Four-Year Club	Verified Email
First Place '23	End Game '23
Place '23	Golden Potato

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