Kenton Prescott

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From How Top-Performing College Grads Fall Into the ‘Prestige Career’ Trap by Indra Sofian

Most students look for the easiest opportunities with the lowest risk. And when these firms are quite literally wining and dining them, they might just miss the nonprofits and small startups doing quietly groundbreaking, meaningful work.

From How Top-Performing College Grads Fall Into the ‘Prestige Career’ Trap by Indra Sofian

Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth. They are dependent on companies coming into being and becoming big enough to hire them.

From No thank you, Mr. Pecker by Jeff Bezos

If we do not agree to affirmatively publicize that specific lie, they say they’ll publish the photos, and quickly. And there’s an associated threat: They’ll keep t…

From Satoshi Roundtable V Recap by Jameson Lopp

… at some point we may be coerced into handing over all of the data we have stored regarding a user. As such, “can’t be evil” is a stronger stance to take than “don’t be evil” because it’s not merely about our own intentions.

From An Honest Account of Fiat Money by Hasu

…t becomes obliged to bail out banks once they get into trouble from their risky lending activities. That drives the banks to even riskier behavior, knowing that more volatility can only increase their upside as potential losses are capped.

From An Honest Account of Fiat Money by Hasu

It also creates a severe disconnect between risk and reward for the financial sector. When gambling is allowed to take place on the same balance sheet as the payments system and other crucial parts of our financial infrastructure, the government becomes obliged to bail out banks once they get into trouble from their risky lending activities. That drives the banks to even riskier behavior, knowing that more volatility can only increase thei…

From Introducing the new CDP Portal for Single Collateral Dai by MakerDAO

…he creation of new proxy contracts, we now have a version we are proud to share with the community. Also, note that this is just a frontend to the smart contracts-based system and we encourage creation of alternative frontends.

From The Code is Ready by MakerDAO

eth send 0x2cb53ca7500d8d04888e0E348cB601C…10 MKR and 100 REP for you to play with the system. To claim your tokens use the following command: seth send 0x2cb53ca7500d8d04888e0E348cB601CB9abe395D ‘gimme()’

From The Simple Truth Behind Reading 200 Books a Year by Charles Chu

Books gave me the courage to travel. Books gave me the conviction to quit my job. Books gave me role models and heroes and meaning in a world where I had none.

From Everything You Wanted To Know About package-lock.json by James Quigley

d patch versions respectively. An example would be 1.2.3, or major version 1, minor version 2, patch 3. A change in patch represents a bugfi…sion is made up of three parts: X,Y,Z where those are major, minor and patch versions respectively. An example would be 1.2.3, or major version 1, minor version 2, patch 3. A change in patch represents a bugfix that doesn’t break anything. A change in minor version represents a new functionality that doesn’t break anything. A change in major version represents a large change that breaks compatibility. If users don’t adapt to a major version change, stuff won’t work.