Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy
The San Francisco start-up has been at the center of the virtual currency boom. But like any young company, it is experiencing growing pains.
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Posted on 2017-12-07T16:55:27+0000
"Red Blob Games: Hexagonal Grids"
"Guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids in games"
"Cinemark announces $8.99-a-month subscription service to fill more seats \u2014 and take on MoviePass"
"Cinemark, the nation's third-largest theater chain, on Tuesday said customers who pay the monthly fee of $8.99 will get a credit for one movie ticket a month, plus additional tickets for $8.99 each. The deal also includes a 20\u0025 discount on food and drinks."
Hasnain says:
all I can say is: "lol".
not sure how this takes on movie pass since this is $8.99/mo for *one* ticket...
Posted on 2017-12-07T05:20:21+0000
Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans. Former farmer Debbie Weingarten gives an insider’s perspective on farm life – and how to help
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Posted on 2017-12-07T04:33:15+0000
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.
Hasnain says:
America continues to disappoint me. Sad that this had to ever happen.
"The two men started talking and texting a few times a week. “I think he has a mental illness that allows him to think he did nothing wrong,” Therrien told me. (Tucker didn’t respond to most of my emailed questions and kept putting off interview requests. “Lies are not stories,” he wrote in one email. He said that any debt he’d sold was legitimate.)"
Posted on 2017-12-07T04:27:37+0000
Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated. A contentious example of this is the claim that companies can’t be discriminating because the market ...
Hasnain says:
This a great read and analysis. So much good stuff.
"If we think about the general case, what’s happening is that decisions have probabilistic payoffs. There’s very high variance in actual outcomes (wins and losses), so it’s possible to make good decisions and not see the direct effect of them for a long time. Even if there are metrics that give us a better idea of what the “true” value of a decision is, if you’re operating in an environment where your management doesn’t believe in those metrics, you’re going to have a hard time keeping your job (or getting a job in the first place) if you want to do something radical whose value is only demonstrated by some obscure-sounding metric unless they take a chance on you for a year or two. There have been some major phase changes in what metrics are accepted, but they’ve taken decades."
Posted on 2017-12-07T02:59:31+0000
Senate Republicans Appear to Have Made a $289 Billion Mistake in Their Tax Bill
This is what happens when you pass handwritten legislation at 2 a.m.
Hasnain says:
This is what happens when you push a 2am hotfix to prod without peer review
Posted on 2017-12-07T01:53:49+0000
"Bitcoin\u2019s insane energy consumption, explained"
"One estimate suggests the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy as Denmark."
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
And then served customers Iceland ready meals on its opening night.
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""Generally, the only people who create fake restaurant listings are journalists in misguided attempts to test us," replies a representative via email. "As there is no incentive for anyone in the real world to create a fake restaurant it is not a problem we experience with our regular community – therefore this 'test' is not a real world example.""
Not sure they understand the mindset of a fraudster..
This is an amazing story though, especially when people actually show up
Posted on 2017-12-06T16:44:21+0000
Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
I’m a big fan of Prometheus and Grafana. As a former SRE at Google I’ve learned to appreciate good monitoring, and this combination has been a winner for me over the past year. I’m using them for monitoring my personal servers (both black-box and white-box monitoring), for the Euskal Encounter...
Hasnain says:
One of the most interesting debugging stories I've read in ages. This person deserves a medal
Posted on 2017-12-06T04:05:49+0000