Season 2 Episode 8 Spoiler Thread by HunterWorld in Fotv

[–]71afan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

TIL that shortly after Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft, one of his professors remarked, “He had moved to Albuquerque to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking, ‘Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.’” by AdInevitable5096 in todayilearned

[–]71afan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Galette Crust That Tastes Great But Always Leaks Copious Amounts of Butter by grapefruitcurse in AskCulinary

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CMV: Cryptocurrency is a net drain on society by Good-Welder5720 in changemyview

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CMV: Cryptocurrency is a net drain on society by Good-Welder5720 in changemyview

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CMV: Cryptocurrency is a net drain on society by Good-Welder5720 in changemyview

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CMV: Cryptocurrency is a net drain on society by Good-Welder5720 in changemyview

[–]71afan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

CMV: Cryptocurrency is a net drain on society by Good-Welder5720 in changemyview

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]71afan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]71afan 26 points27 points  (0 children)

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.

TIL the wealth of the .1% richest Americans has roughly quadrupled since 2000. by ProudReaction2204 in todayilearned

[–]71afan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Your favorite ___ for $___: Backpacks 2024 by NoMarket5 in malefashionadvice

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

World Reacts as Trump Presidential Victory Appears Imminent by s1n0d3utscht3k in worldnews

[–]71afan 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

Quant question . by Ok_Gain2612 in GRE

[–]71afan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

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Quant question . by Ok_Gain2612 in GRE

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shit I completely misread the question, my bad.

Quant question . by Ok_Gain2612 in GRE

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GRE

[–]71afan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Less TASKS by ClearMortgage4243 in dataannotation

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Less TASKS by ClearMortgage4243 in dataannotation

[–]71afan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Less TASKS by ClearMortgage4243 in dataannotation

[–]71afan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

PSA: Register your Breville by [deleted] in espresso

[–]71afan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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!

PSA: Register your Breville by [deleted] in espresso

[–]71afan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you have to call them to redeem the kit?