The chips use blockchain technology and trace the wheel of cheese back to where the milk that was used came from.

Cryptobros, Unite! We finally found a way for blockchain tech to be relevant for more than just ransomware! We authenticate cheese!

Someone’s gonna make a ton of money on CheeseCoin

No, I have no problem with not maintaining an office for remote workers. But they are telling remote workers they can’t be on site for more than 4 days in a span. That’s the dumb part. It should have been 5 days, so that remote worker can get a whole working week at the company’s office if they need it.

Being fully remote means Meta will not maintain desk space for such workers, who should not come to an office “more than 4 days every 2 months,” Goler’s memo said,

That’s actually just as dumb, it means that if that remote worker comes to the Home Office they can’t stay a full week. Even saying “more than 5 days every 3 months” makes more sense.

The driver certainly doesn’t take in the majority. There are a bunch of articles online regarding Uber pay, and it’s of course variable based on how much and where you drive. It seems that in most places it pays at least $20/hr, but that probably includes tips and is before car maintenance expenses (and insurance: most states now require a different car insurance policy if you drive for ride-sharing now).

My general understanding is that these services tend to be cheaper than a traditional taxi but less regulated so I get there’s contention there.

They can be cheaper than a traditional taxi because they handle all the dispatch back-end that traditional taxi companies have, and of course they push maintenance expenses onto their drivers. But their special sauce is in their congestion pricing algorithm, which hikes up rates during periods of “high demand”. I’ve gotten off of planes in the middle of the night before, only to find Uber doubled my fare to the hotel due to “congestion”. (In reality, I bet they didn’t have enough drivers at 3 am). So I searched for the number of a cab company and saved some money.

Taxi companies who want to compete with Uber should just band together and release a nationwide directory app that let’s users phone or text a local cab company that is open 24/7.

This ineffectiveness is directly due to NRA lobbying, and their zero-tolerance attitude towards any new gun legislation. Any gun-friendly lawmaker who even gets close to writing gun control legislation will end up getting harassed (and likely primaried in the next election). So when gun control legislation passes, it’s inevitably written by people who don’t understand guns at all. No wonder it’s all shit!

Maybe now that the NRA is having financial difficulties legislators will have make leeway to enact things that might have a chance of working.

I saw it, it’s marked as a “featured snippet”, whatever that means…

I can’t make up my mind. What if we do all those things, plus a dozen more different things, in the same city?

That sounds too complicated, why don’t we just run cables under all the roads and have the cars grab the cables through the road?

It doesn’t surprise me, the vendor probably thinks they’re Agile, their team delivered a Minimum Viable Product and then their Management sold it. Security was always meant to be in a future Sprint.

If that model works for web services, it ought to work for anything, right?

I wonder if prompt engineers show up to meetings on time.

Stablecoins can be Ponzis easily, because people hand over USD for tokens, and expect to be able to convert back at a later date. If the company keeps those USD in trust, that’s fine. If the company invests it all in the shitcoin of the week, and it all goes “poof”, and it can’t make up the difference, it will end up satisfying redemptions from other people’s deposits until there is no money anymore, and then it’s all worth zero. That’s a Ponzi.

This is what lots of people think Tether is doing, except that Tether can keep meeting redemptions.

You would think PayPal would have better controls than that, but who knows…

How is a stabletoken pegged to the US dollar a “ponzi scheme?”

I think Do Kwon has a thing or two to say about that…

There’s still an expectation there, the expectation is that the return is zero. In fact, it’s the efforts of others that are ensuring the profit is zero. Isn’t zero a number?

Stablecoins are kind of unique because their goal is to be… Well… Stable. they are working as designed if their value is exactly pegged to $1.

Which means that if you manage a stablecoin, you accept other people’s dollars, and give them these tokens in exchange. When those people come back to redeem them, whether it’s next month or 50 years from now, they are expecting to get the same number of dollars back.

Tether is the top stablecoin in the Crypto Universe. It is traded on several Crypto exchanges, and can somehow maintain it’s peg to USD no matter how many trades there are. Tether’s Market Cap is currently over $80B dollars, and the Hong Kong company that maintains it promises it’s all backed by cash or cash equivalents. Many people are skeptical, because that’s a Metric Fuckload of cash, and while Tether has released some things it says are proof of reserves, they have never been able to release a full audit. But even an idiot money manager can make a ton of money if they have a kitty of $80B to manage, with no expectation of any return.

So it’s possible that Paypal isn’t satisfied to just hold it’s own customers money, and wants a piece of that Tether float…

Seems premature, while the SEC is still trying to treat every crypto like a security. This thing seems, on the surface, to be even more like a security than Ripple, since it’s a stablecoin and there’s an inherent promise that it will always be tied to the dollar…