Category Thoughts

Young Minds Post-Covid

In reality, Young people are not taking more risks. They are simply refusing to pay for the illusion of safety. Why would you sacrifice your best years for a corporate job if that job is not likely to be there…

Oversight

Below is an insightful comment I found on Reddit: Once a company acquires a lease, it then carries those subsurface reserves as assets on its balance sheet. By doing this, a company can immediately improve its overall financial health, boost…

I wonder how the economic setup of the news media industry drives the tone of the coverage.

The Difference Between Containers & Tupperware

One consists of an entire runtime environment: an application, plus all its dependencies, libraries and other binaries, and configuration files needed to run it, bundled into one package. By containerising the application platform and its dependencies, differences in OS distributions…

If I was the leader of a sovereign state hearing about China banning BTC mining and only considered the economic incentives – I would entice the 360k TH/s Dalian hydro-powered operation to set up shop on my turf. That’s 750…

Amoral or immoral?

I’ve been thinking about Facebook. Has it had a net positive effect on society? Have the negative aspects been disproportionately amplified, compared to how they helped connect the world? Perhaps it’s yes to both, but there’s no denying that its…

What Are Front-Running Bots Doing?

To understand front-running blockchain bots, it helps to understand traditional front-running in equity markets. It’s similar to insider trading. 1. You know a big order for Apple stock is about to occur2. This will drive the price higher (temporarily at…