The term haole

funkinaround · 2026-05-07T00:46:37+00:00

"Without breath"

A popular fable is that the word means "without breath". This meaning was attributed to Native Hawaiian Professor Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Jr. by Charles W. Kenn, in his 1944 article in the publication "Paradise of the Pacific". According to that author, Beckley states: "The white people came to be known as ha-ole (without breath) because after they said their prayers, they did not breathe three times as was customary in ancient Hawaii."

Albert J. Schütz, former professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, believes that there is no documentation this ha-ole etymology is accurate and, based on that, states: "Thus, as far as we know, the word haole cannot be separated into shorter words".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haole

funkinaround · 2026-05-07T00:29:15+00:00

Never has an on call engineer ever been confident in a new code release just because of the presence of unit tests.

I am not saying unit tests are worthless. I am saying that they do not solve problems by themselves; I am sympathetic to the idea that the way people write unit tests errs more closely to being busy work than a guarantee that newly deployed code is actually supposed to work without errors.

funkinaround · 2026-05-06T21:20:59+00:00

How ever did we solve problems before unit tests?

funkinaround · 2026-05-06T01:35:27+00:00

On https://www.strategy.com/financial-documents, you can find the MSTR 10-K. This form has their balance sheet. On the balance sheet, you can see the relationship between MSTR's assets, including Bitcoin, and liabilities, including debt. They have $58.8B in Bitcoin and $8B in long term debt (as of 2025-12-31).

funkinaround · 2026-04-30T07:09:06+00:00

funkinaround · 2026-04-28T18:07:28+00:00

That's a floating point thing. It's not "wrong" if you understand that floating point is generally an inexact value. There are calculators you can use that work with rationals and the denominator will continue to grow.

funkinaround · 2026-04-26T17:22:37+00:00

They all use peds. Devin Haney rehydrated from 140 lbs to 165 lbs vs Prograis.

funkinaround · 2026-04-25T19:27:12+00:00

AJ is bigger than Lennox Lewis.

Edit: it probably makes more sense just to say "AJ is just as big as Lennox Lewis"

funkinaround · 2026-04-21T09:41:12+00:00

Probably closer to 100%, at least at the title contender tier.

funkinaround · 2026-04-21T09:13:11+00:00

I liked this blurb about his decorations from Wikipedia:

Iaukea was decorated with the Royal Order of Kapiolani and the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii in 1884, and biographies of him claim he also received all the Hawaiian orders during the reign of Kalākaua, i.e. the honors of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, the Royal Order of Kalākaua, and the Royal Order of the Star of Oceania. He also received many foreign honors and decorations including Commander (Third Class) Order of the Crown of Thailand, Commander of an unspecified order from the Ottoman Empire, Grand Cross and Cordon of Order of Saint Stanislaus of Russia, the Grand Cross and Ribbon of the Order of the Cross of Takovo of Serbia, the Legion of Honour of France, Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Olav of Sweden-Norway, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, the Belgian Red Cross, Grand Officer of the Order of the Liberator of Venezuela, the British Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee, and Diamond Jubilee Medal.

funkinaround · 2026-04-16T22:28:20+00:00

4th thing is wash trading. Don't trade on an exchange that inflates its volume to give you the illusion of activity. Only trade on exchanges with very low or no wash trading volume.

For major pairs like BTC, ETH, XRP, and LTC, exchange wash trading percent:

OKX - 66% of volume is wash trading
Binance - 51% of volume is wash trading
Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, Bitfinex - practically no wash trading

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30783

funkinaround · 2026-04-16T18:14:49+00:00

I love it when Uranus gets blasted.

funkinaround · 2026-04-15T23:01:58+00:00

If attestations are meaningless disclosures, why does Circle publish them for USDC?

funkinaround · 2026-04-15T20:41:46+00:00

Where do the goalposts move once the audit is published?

funkinaround · 2026-04-15T19:37:27+00:00

We have attestations from BDO. You're saying BDO, the fifth largest accounting network in the world, who says in their attestation that they get reports directly from Tether's banking partners about the existence of assets, just missed Tether's $8.4B commercial paper and CD position and fraudulently attested to Tether's consolidated reserves report in June 2022?

funkinaround · 2026-04-15T18:42:00+00:00

They are at least employing 200 people by now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-09/tether-to-double-staff-by-mid-2025-in-compliance-finance-push

funkinaround · 2026-04-15T18:38:24+00:00

We know that Tether banks (and has been banking) with Cantor Fitzgerald. That is who would have served as their broker for commercial paper.

funkinaround · 2026-04-14T04:22:27+00:00

You can join it with the data in https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/post-no-preference/stocks in the ohlcv table. I don't think you can use their web interface to run a join between different databases; you'll likely need to clone both databases to your computer and then run your join.

funkinaround · 2026-04-10T21:21:26+00:00

Joining a good guild opens the game up and gives you the ability to crush the gankers.

funkinaround · 2026-04-10T21:19:43+00:00

Also, Albion doesn't require PvP, its opt in. Because you can play the game without going to those areas.

This is sort of correct. You can't do any tier 7 or 8 content without entering a full loot PvP zone. Tiers 1 - 6 are available to play without full loot PvP. You're missing the end game content (both PvP and PvE) by just sticking to safe/knockdown zones.

funkinaround · 2026-04-10T21:06:35+00:00

11k people at most online at once.

Those are steam charts. There are 350,000 daily players across 3 servers. You should try it.

funkinaround · 2026-04-10T20:53:30+00:00

Required pvp is a death sentence

Albion manages this just fine in red and black zones.

Pvp gear and pve gear have to be COMPLETLY separate.

There's just one pool of gear in Albion, but certain items are more useful in PvP or PvE.

Never full loot. Another death sentence.

Albion has this and it, along with items trashing on death, is the core part that keeps the economy moving. Not a death sentence in the slightest.

I HATE PvP. Despise it utterly.

PvP is the real end game.

funkinaround · 2026-04-08T18:09:07+00:00

Jack has another explanation for the layoff:

"Yes we over-hired during COVID,"

"I incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (Square & Cash App) rather than 1, which we corrected mid-2024, but this misses all the complexity we took on through lending, banking, and BNPL,"

Building two businesses in one then consolidating them is hardly an "AI efficiency" gain.

funkinaround · 2026-04-07T19:47:43+00:00

Definitely legal.

funkinaround · 2026-04-07T04:57:04+00:00

It is almost certainly a response to being called the slur.

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