• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    CTO @ ZAR

    Never heard of it, what is it?

    Accelerating stablecoin adoption for a billion people living in countries with unstable money.

    Uh oh. Already red flags popping up. Why and how is it that people in countries with unstable currency are somehow providing profit to you?

    Company size: 11-50 employees

    And of course it’s people with a small amount of power that get drunk off it.

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      Oh no, people with lots of power also get drunk off it. Remember hoe proudly Elon did his Nazi salute?

      (typo’d ‘hoe’, but leaving it, because Elon is a hoe)

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      Don’t forget “AI Pioneer.” That’s how you know he’s an idiot.

      Also using the sweaty, coked-up villain from Leon (The Professional) to represent yourself as a positive image is unhinged.

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      Why and how is it that people in countries with unstable currency are somehow providing profit to you?

      Afaik most of the revenue for stablecoin issuers comes from investing the dollars backing the stablecoins mostly in things like treasuries (“cash-equivalent assets”) and pocketing the interest. They don’t provide all of those dollars to begin with, rather people give it to them in exchange for stablecoins, and they accumulate a lot. Actual users of stablecoins don’t pay fees to the issuers. Not sure if issuing stablecoins is the actual business this person is involved in though, that statement is vague and it could be something else.

      An interesting fact is that even if stablecoin issuers wanted to give some of that interest back to users instead of keeping it all themselves, the US government has been recently taking steps to make that illegal.

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    You know what, fine, let’s see how it goes.

    Honestly, I’d love more people to disrupt and try shit (that obviously won’t work, but still…). What I hate is that people try this kind of shit but get billions in a16z money which legitimizes the stupidity from the start. Then when they fail, they use the stupid money to convince others that they couldn’t have been the problem, otherwise they wouldn’t have ever “succeeded”.

    Then they get another several billion…

    This goddamned grifter economy sucks.

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      you want to escape, learn how the markets work and grab financial independence/freedom for yourself. that’s where all these rich cunts gamble with their ratfucked public funds…you want it, it’s there for the taking.

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    I’m building a fully automated organization

    At least he’s honest about what his goal is. Maybe his employees will clue in and abandon that sinking ship.

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    AI pioneer

    Gotta love these types that didn’t actually develop anything AI themselves, they dicked around a little bit with AI prompt, and now in LinkedIn I’m an AI pioneer

    LinkedIn descriptiona.are always fun. I’m a protein rotation specialist at a carbohydrate management company, i.e. I’m a hamburger flipper at mcdonalds

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      i love coming across someone online that knows Hrvatska (HR) is the actual name of Croatia. many nonas (or bakas, language is hard) would be proud

      oprosti, yako malo govorim Hrvatski

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    I wonder how Obie automates shitting and eating on github because it’s repetitive process.

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    Fuck Claude Code and this guy in general, but getting all workers, not just programmers, to use version control (just version control, not AI) has some merit to it.

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    For people that don’t know this dude is actually an accomplished author in the rails space

    https://leanpub.com/therails7way

    The Rails Way books are really good resources for digging into the internals of rails and some of my favorite recommendations.

    Which makes his batshit LI post all the more baffling. What in the ever living fuck is he talking about?