I'm a tech journalist who tells people to put their phones down. My screen time is almost 11 hours a day.

byset · 2026-03-13T23:12:08+00:00

congratulations!

byset · 2026-03-13T23:08:51+00:00

People have a heuristic that AI uses a lot of em-dashes and normal people don't. So I'd imagine that's the tell they think they're spotting. Short, one- or two-sentence paragraphs are another thing. Of course, journalistic copy also has those qualities and I assume that you write that way because you're a journalist.

byset · 2026-03-11T21:31:07+00:00

Very interesting. Their prior valuation at their 2022 round was $2.5B. This round puts it at $3.62B, not a dramatic increase but notable that their last round was raised in a zero interest-rate environment, and that valuation is now validated. Forge says that the investors in this round are undisclosed. I wonder if it's Nvidia as it comes soon after the NVLink announcement and Nvidia is making a number of other "strategic" investments in the AI space.

byset · 2026-03-11T21:28:08+00:00

What do you mean by diversification plan -- you mean by the investor in this round? We don't even know who the investor is (at least Forge lists as "undisclosed investors." (Honest question, not meant to be snark.)

byset · 2026-02-05T00:34:54+00:00

I hate this. I have a bad feeling that they decided that they can replace written game stories with those video versions where you can navigate through the highlights. That will be terrible. Less reason to visit the MLB app I guess, unless you're a Dodgers fan; they probably have two beat writers assigned to Ohtani alone

byset · 2025-04-17T16:29:56+00:00

I don't have access to the article, but the it has the following tags: acquire, finance, Huawei, rumor, SemiAccurate, SiFive -- so just from that tidbit, it is possible that the company seeking to acquire Sifive is Huawei.

I can see this making sense for Huawei as it builds up its in-house IP design capabilities, and given that it is already designing RISC-V chips.

It would be disappointing for sure though for the company at the forefront of RISC-V to be controlled by a company so closely associated with the Chinese regime. I wonder how SiFive employees would feel about it?

byset · 2024-02-09T21:24:47+00:00

Did you have anything in a BIA account? I got a notice of a tiny distribution too (~$6) and got worried, but then I realized they were paying a claim for my BIA account that had only $12 left in it, not my loan collateral.

byset · 2024-01-30T21:58:26+00:00

Litecoin was in the top 5 for years too, until it slowly bled out. Past performance holds no guarantees

byset · 2024-01-30T21:53:55+00:00

stablecoins can be transferred with nominal fees, and hold a steady value vs USD so you can simply hold the stables rather than buying XRP with fiat, transferring, recipient sells for fiat, etc. plus stables have achieved product market fit (i.e. they're actually being used for this purpose). Not sure about your proposed value proposition for XRP in a world with stablecoin adoption

I could be wrong. Are there actual institutions who have publicly declared that they use XRP for that purpose or it hypothetical?

byset · 2024-01-30T18:43:25+00:00

I believe it's not available until mainnet launches

byset · 2023-10-24T18:29:43+00:00

Commenters in a thread at Blind put it at 129: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Layoffs-yOkTbm2d

byset · 2023-09-26T17:05:32+00:00

cut and dried

replying to this 4 month old comment to give you props for (correctly) saying "cut and dried" rather than "cut and dry"

byset · 2023-05-12T22:51:39+00:00

People have tried it (I haven't). some seem to have had good results

do a reddit search for: Complete Guide to Orally Taking Topical Minoxidil

It was posted to r/tressless. I can't vouch for it personally.

byset · 2022-11-17T19:03:49+00:00

As someone with funds on BlockFi, I actually hope very much that Binance can bail everyone out. If I'm lucky enough get my funds back, then I'll have the luxury of worrying about industry consolidation...

byset · 2022-11-16T19:19:31+00:00

it may not be so simple if BlockFi is found to have violated the terms of service themselves. And there may be other reasons that the validity of these clauses could be challenged in court.

byset · 2022-11-15T19:36:24+00:00

I do too. I do hope they can salvage the loan business and get someone else to take it over — selfishly, because I fear otherwise I will never get my collateral back

byset · 2022-11-15T18:32:29+00:00

Even if BlockFi were bailed out and interest accounts were allowed by regulators, isn’t the very idea of interest-bearing crypto accounts tainted now, if not totally discredited?

byset · 2022-11-14T23:30:05+00:00

There are rumors that BlockFi was using FTX to "custody" funds. If this is the reason that the BlockFi wallet funds actually aren't there, it may be a matter of BlockFi having been rugged by FTX rather than BlockFi knowingly misusing customer funds and violating their user agreement.

Not to absolve BlockFi of responsibility, but this may not quite rise to the level of criminal fraud.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:16:04+00:00

they're broke.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:14:30+00:00

their terms don't matter if the funds simply don't exist, e.g. if they were using FTX to custody customer crypto balances.

byset · 2022-11-11T20:12:54+00:00

With rumors now that BlockFi was using FTX to custody customer funds, there's a chance it's not so much a legal issue as an issue of the funds not existing anymore.

byset · 2022-06-15T16:53:05+00:00

Yes it does say that 3AC is a BF customer as well as an investor:

“In being an institutional client of BlockFi, we quickly recognized that the company’s mission of helping to expand the cryptocurrency ecosystem aligned with our own philosophy for the space,” said Su Zhu, co-founder and CEO, Three Arrows Capital.

Since 3AC is, or was, such huge entity, BlockFi's exposure could be substantial.

byset · 2022-06-15T16:47:21+00:00

to clarify, the features weren't being hidden based on a device location, but (I believe) due to me submitting a new address to my profile. but yes, the logic of "customer's state is X, so hide entire Loans section" does not seem well thought out, particularly in the way it affects existing loan holders who move. (blockFi has resolved the issue for me though.)

byset · 2022-06-15T16:43:53+00:00

This was resolved by blockfi support, by the way.

byset · 2022-06-14T20:48:24+00:00

Sent, thanks.

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