William DeRaad

Husband | Father | Engineer | Investor

[William DeRaad @willderaad]

@River @Leishman can we get a bitcoin stacked view?

Bonus points if you can tie in the BTC price without making it too messy.

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@lifeofjer The framing is a bit questionable, might want to try a blameless postmortem to get to the root cause before deflecting to 3rd party providers…
5 whys might help, here’s the first to get you started- Why is it possible to drop our production DB from an engineers local env?

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@ElliottEHolland The desktop app? No way their cloud product is running 5 9s

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@BillDA Is that a bad outcome over the long term?

I don’t necessarily agree with the policy, but the alternative implies that it’s better we keep encouraging the bottom 50% (typically less financially savvy) to keep subsidizing reward benefits for the top 50%.

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@BitcoinNewsCom Green = Treasuries. Dry powder to hold the STRC peg, good politics for an eventual U.S. stake.

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@hardingwealth Based on the profile it’s likely not a basket weaving master so keep the debt, put the majority of the cash in hard assets/S&P to outgrow the debt. HELOC is the emergency fund which also is a forcing function to earn more if you actually need to tap it. Don’t hold melting ice.

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@ts_hodl Folks are getting margin called

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@Polymarket Max disconnected/terminally online take… rounding error on how many ppl in reality know what polymarket is, even less build their reality based on it. Maybe in the future but we ain’t there yet.

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@JDVance 💀😂

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@carlinpenner 😭 I chose the worst time to get orange pilled, I can’t unsee it now.

But wish I had stayed in the blissful ignorance of tech + gold a little longer and just now started getting the bug.

Hindsight’s 2020 and it’ll all work out over the long term but it’s been a painful YTD.

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@teslanaire21 @RealJimChanos He seemed to do pretty good this year shorting crypto treasury companies, not sure if he’s exited and taken profits.

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@shwoopies @RealJimChanos Yup, it’s a brutal sport.

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He’s setting external expectations to drive his teams forward at break neck speed.

Most every other company does the opposite; set external quarterly expectations they’re confident they’ll hit, and then higher internal goals that aren’t shared with the board.

The cost is short term volatility, but the long term results are outstanding.

It’s also not a very repeatable strategy outside of a hand full of established founders. Over promising and under delivering isn’t generally a recipe for success.

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@robinhanson Call me old school but nothing about this seems natural. Also seem to remember something about random mutation, but alas it’s outside my lane.

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@obeyguy Find some purpose my man. Financial independence != retirement. You still got a lot of value to give to the world and you’ll be better for it.

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@unusual_whales One of these is not like the rest. Hardware moats >>> software moats.

The people need a SpaceX ticker.

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@ubiquitousnewt I feel the opposite is true, I find it harder to take mid-life folks serious who haven’t had kids…. Until you become a parent, you’ve only ever been a child.

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@Lormif1 @mattyglesias 🤷‍♂️ - appreciate the exchange, I do agree these are “regulations” just not meaningful (original argument, reiterated throughout)

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It’s not, the point I’m trying to get across is that you can take all the inputs to make a house, measure inflation over time and you’ll still find that housing prices have increased at dramatically higher rates. Meaningful change comes from de-regulation + de-monetizing housing anything else is just splitting hairs.