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alright2565 commented on Perpetual futures, explained   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/sirodoht
throw101010 · 13 days ago
> It was supposed to be limited in supply unlike fiat, and yet Tether underpins the whole thing and they print that out of thin air all the time.

This is a joke right? Tether (USDT) is pegged to the dollar... and there is not really a limit to the USD printing machine, nobody ever claimed a stablecoin would have a limited supply. It's literally the main critique of the fiat system levied by crypto proponents.

The only asset which has made and still hold promises of not increasing its supply over its limit set through its consensus code is Bitcoin. And it is nowhere close to ever change... as a matter of fact if it changed, most people wouldn't call that fork Bitcoin.

alright2565 · 13 days ago
The problem with Tether is that they are tight-lipped about their backing assets. No one knows if the peg is real, it's just "trust me bro"
alright2565 commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia   cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
jxramos · a month ago
I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.
alright2565 · a month ago
In Japan it is known as The Lost Decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

There is no "sane state" that is eventually reached, it is always painful. For Japan, it took the financial innovation of negative interest rates to finally address it.

alright2565 commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia   cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
jxramos · a month ago
What would it take to shift the balance of inflation to restore the purchasing power of the penny? Just out of curiosity how does a government and a people and their economy go the other direction?
alright2565 · a month ago
Deflation is an economic disaster. The Great Depression, for example, was related to deflation.
alright2565 commented on My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi   ellis.codes/blog/my-fan-w... · Posted by u/woolywonder
IvyMike · a month ago
I've been toying with a variant of this project for my Honeywell home air filters. I have one in all my "big" rooms, and I like to keep them running at a low speed most of the day.

But I also have time-of-day energy pricing, and it would be nice to automatically turn off (or at least slow) my air filters during the 5pm-8pm window. This project inspires me to at least look into the feasibility of adding that functionality myself.

alright2565 commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport   avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2
tharkun__ · a month ago
I just looked that up (Atlanta) on https://noise-map.com/ and man, that's way not enough zoning tricking in my book. Not that it's much different in other cities (or countries).
alright2565 · a month ago
There's no need to zone for airport noise in Atlanta because the highway passing through the city center and hotrodded cars already are much louder and more disruptive in practice. I wish I was joking.

Also, the map you're looking at there is relatively low resolution. I would suggest looking at it in https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/; make sure to switch the "Modes:" to "All Modes"

alright2565 commented on Guideline has been acquired by Gusto   help.guideline.com/en/art... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
paxys · a month ago
If you work for a large company it is possible that they have negotiated better pricing for their 401k plan than what Vanguard or some other brokerage offers off the shelf. For example Vanguard charges 0.08% for its target date retirement funds, but the one I get on my old employer's plan (BlackRock LifePath) is just 0.037%. And the retail price for that LifePath fund is a whopping 0.17%.
alright2565 · a month ago
With how low fees have gotten, I think the more likely and more damaging situation is that where people's employers have negotiated much worse pricing for their captive audience. I wouldn't give 0.08% vs 0.037% a second thought any day. That's only difference of $400/yr on $1M!
alright2565 commented on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices   community.kde.org/KDEConn... · Posted by u/snthd
mbeex · 2 months ago
The one thing I dislike, is the trouble to finish the application in a sane way:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423497

alright2565 · 2 months ago
This doesn't seem needed to me, I've never seen an android app have a way to close it. Or any kind of battery life impact from KDE Connect for that matter.
alright2565 commented on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/fallinditch
skylurk · 2 months ago
Waiting for the LLM is the best time to do the deeper review of the last output.

I like to fire the model off to do exploratory implementations as I refine the existing work.

alright2565 · 2 months ago
This sounds nice, but what I've run into is that the model fails to write changes if the code has changed under it. A better tool, where it takes a snapshot at the start of each non-interactive segment, and then resolves merge conflicts with my manual changes automatically, would make this much easier.
alright2565 commented on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix   about.doordash.com/en-us/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
rkomorn · 2 months ago
Virtually nobody's mad at commercial landlords for being the only people actually making money in the (non-chain) restaurant industry though.
alright2565 · 2 months ago
And chain restaurants are often a large part real-estate plays: https://qz.com/965779/mcdonalds-isnt-really-a-fast-food-chai...
alright2565 commented on Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike   rcyl.bike/en/the-bike/... · Posted by u/smartmic
dmurray · 2 months ago
Building the wheels and frame out of plastic is a fun gimmick, but they're selling this as a low maintenance option that "doesn't rust or require lubrication".

If they really have an all-plastic drivetrain that competes with carbon steel, that seems like a wonderful advance in materials science or mechanical engineering and we'll soon be seeing plenty more applications of this miracle material.

alright2565 · 2 months ago
It has a Gates belt drive, which has been getting pretty popular with electric bikes due to the very low maintenance requirements.

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