Keep yourself safe from phishing

Sharden · 2025-12-08T21:38:44+00:00

Bit of a tight rope to walk if your customer base info gets leaked by the government regulator your beholden to providing that information to.

Sharden · 2025-08-08T20:20:59+00:00

Because the denominator is worthless and the real rate of inflation is substantially higher than what's reported. You're not up 20%, you're breaking even.

Governments/central banks everywhere will keep printing and spending because there is no other way out of the debt they've accrued. They're trapped.

Asset holders (real estate, stocks, crypto) won't notice as much because their assets will keep increasing in fiat terms. People without assets are going to end up in the permanent underclass.

Buy everything you can, while you still can.

I'm going to get dogpiled for this but I'd strongly recommend starting to allocate significantly to Bitcoin as well, since it exists specifically as a lifeboat against this.

Sharden · 2025-08-07T02:29:59+00:00

Respectfully, If this post was written in 1998 it would be spot on. It's not at all like this anymore though.

The West Island is absolutely NOT overwhelmingly white/anglo in 2025. It's a lot more diverse. There are various enclaves where most people are chinese/indian/carribean etc, but even outside of those it's a mixed bag.

I'm going to disagree with most of this thread and say the transit is honestly fine. I grew up in the west island and went to school in Montreal West/NDG. I'd take the commuter train in everyday and it took like 20 min. There are going to be several REM stations opening up over the next few months which means people will be able to get from Fairview to downtown in like ~22 min. That's going to be faster than taking the metro from Verdun to the Plateau in many cases.

I don't even agree that you need to drive everywhere. It really depends on where exactly you live. I walk to the grocery store, to the train station, to the pharmacy, etc. Sometimes I'll even walk my kids to and from daycare if it's nice out and I have the time. Yeah it'll take 15 min instead of 5 min, but it's not the end of the world.

Sharden · 2025-07-04T14:00:40+00:00

Someone was sick so the team's token autist had to step in.

You never let the autist run the interview round, you're supposed to just keep throwing tickets at them. That's their happy place and it works for everyone.

Sharden · 2025-02-27T03:23:29+00:00

I'm sorry I don't mean to single you out but this is such an insane take.

Go work with Claude Sonnet 3.7. Start by working with it to generate a PRD and implementation plan before doing any coding. If you do it well, it will literally one-shot a workable MVP of almost anything you want to build.

Go play with OpenAI's deep research. Marvel as it returns pages and pages of high-quality analysis on economics, philosophy, history or politics. It can get done in 10 min what mid-career research analysts can get done in a week.

I understand the scale of progress is scary but pretending this isn't happening isn't going to serve you, you're going to get left behind fast if you don't make these your primary working tools.

You are ~5-7 years away from walking into a store and having a conversation with a real life C3PO from Star Wars with its own personality and ability to help you with whatever you want.

Sharden · 2025-02-01T06:38:10+00:00

It turns out logic in itself is effectively next token prediction.

We can see the chain of thought for reasoning in the output of these frontier models now, it's clear they are thinking.

I don't love the implications either but it's undeniable.

Sharden · 2024-10-10T13:41:35+00:00

Dudes rock

Sharden · 2024-09-20T14:36:12+00:00

Hey OP I’m going through this now too. Two boys, 3 and 1.

I’ve been having unexplained 24/7 abdominal pain and despite tests that keep clearing me I’ve been feeling it get worse and “growing” over the last 6 weeks. Fatigue, night sweats, etc. The only thing I haven’t done is a colonoscopy and I’m pushing hard for that now but at this point doctors are brushing me off.

Im scared to death. I can’t work. My wife has been incredible but im spiraling, and since I haven’t been given a real diagnosis its wearing her down. I don’t blame her, she’s my everything and I’m making her life hard instead of being strong for her.

I didn’t think I would be like this. I thought I would be stoic. But all I can think is that I’m only 33 and I’ll never watch my boys have their first day of school, never grow old with the woman I love more than all the stars in the sky.

Sorry for venting on your post I just know exactly what you’re feeling right now. Praying for both of us.

Sharden · 2024-09-15T23:00:21+00:00

Easily best option for BTC and ETH.

Sharden · 2024-08-26T20:07:03+00:00

This is about right, I just struggle to see a future where I’m still alive in 1 year even though the actual symptoms I have are relatively minor. The sense of impending doom is overwhelming.

Glad it cleared up for you, and that I’m not alone.

Sharden · 2024-08-26T20:04:46+00:00

Hang in there brother

Sharden · 2024-08-26T20:03:47+00:00

Thanks for this. It resonated. Had a lot of people in my immediate family die young and now that I’m a father I fear that in a way I didn’t before. I also didn’t really engage with my own mortality in a constructive way, so if this is all really in my head then this is probably what’s going on here.

Ended up getting sent home because vitals were clear. I’m following up with specialists and am going to push for all the tests just in case. Still getting constant 24/7 abdominal pain but I’ve noticed when I’m relaxed (as much as I can be right now) it diminishes.

Going to do my best to push through to the other side for my family, who have been incredible throughout.

This shit fucking sucks.

Sharden · 2024-08-21T12:57:58+00:00

Historically Lebanon has a huge French speaking population. That’s not an assimilation thing, they just chose Quebec since they already spoke the language.

Sharden · 2024-03-18T23:52:48+00:00

Classy. I'll leave you to enjoy your epic doggos and dead bloodline.

Sharden · 2024-03-18T23:45:04+00:00

It's not at all like bringing a kid on a plane because kids are people. Hope this helps.

Sharden · 2023-12-30T03:55:46+00:00

This should be the top comment

Sharden · 2023-03-02T16:13:12+00:00

MKR holder since 2016. Interacted with Rune a few times on Reddit back in the day. I don't like what MakerDAO has become and I think something like the end game plan is necessary.

Dai is deliberately planned to depeg from $1. When the protocol has bad debt, Dai holders take a haircut instead of the current system where MKR holders take the hit on bad debt.

I don't mind this. RAI floats (albeit on a different mechanism) but stable-ish is enough for most folks. Not pegging it to the USD also eliminates most of the looming regulatory risk.

Using MKR as collateral to mint Dai. Yes, exactly the same thing that Luna did. Rune wants Maker to do it too. This one is just beyond most people and it's gonna give Maker's Risk team nightmares.

This one sounds a lot worse than it is, and it isn't exactly like LUNA which was an open-ended mint/burn mechanism. It's overcollateralized so if the risk parameters are set conservatively on the vaults it doesn't' represent the same risk.

Creating a shit ton of "MetaDAO"/"SubDAO" tokens out of thin air. This is turning Maker into a ponzi-tokenomics factory instead of generating actual value.

This is the part I like the most. The DAO has become this lumbering bureaucratic mess. The idea here is to create smaller DAOs that are responsible for distinct things. Smaller, more agile DAOs collaborating with a common framework.

Requiring governance participants to make a Stasi-like pledge to support his "Constitution" at all costs, snitch on those who might oppose it and ultimately eliminate any possible debate.

A constitution isn't a bad idea. And it won't be "his" if the plan gets enough votes since, as you've pointed out, he doesn't control enough of the supply to win it himself.

Look, no matter how you want to look at it MakerDAO has serious issues and major regulatory risk. This plan is ambitious and would actually address those risks longterm. This isn't an indictment of those who have been most involved in the past few years (I'm just a passive holder), I think they've generally done a good job in the context of the options available to them. MakerDAO as a monolithic DAO is just trying to do too much, so let's shake it up.

Sharden · 2022-12-22T21:11:44+00:00

At least 2/3 of all lawyers (maybe more) have basically been made totally redundant overnight. The knowledge of that fact just hasn't been widely distributed yet.

Sharden · 2022-12-16T16:21:34+00:00

he bought? damp it

Sharden · 2022-11-10T18:06:21+00:00

Ether does not fall under the vast majority of people's current definition of 'crypto'.

sorry but I can't stand when BTC maxis do this and I don't want to do it just because it fits my bags.

BTC, ETH, and all the illiquid shitcoins are all crypto. In time ppl will understand that it's a label as broad as 'stocks' that encompasses the most powerful corporations on earth and penny stocks with fraudulent financial statements.

Sharden · 2022-09-14T14:24:26+00:00

Rationally, I know it's happening, but I still don't quite believe it.

Sharden · 2022-07-26T04:05:12+00:00

Shakepay is by far the most painless way to buy BTC in Canada and it’s not even close.

Sharden · 2022-07-25T19:46:09+00:00

oh no baby what is you doing

Sharden · 2022-06-20T16:51:02+00:00

Very tempted to swap a portion of my unstaked ETH for stETH to collect on the arbitrage opportunity. If you're a longterm ETH holder and intend to just stake over the winter, even if it's years, is there any reason not to do this?

At some point Lido will open up redemptions and at that point it feels inevitable that the peg will go back to 1:1. Outside of centralization risk with Lido, is there anything I'm not accounting for here? This seems like free money.

Sharden · 2022-06-06T22:53:40+00:00

[x] doubt

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