As a shareholder, this is super fantastic.

What is the point of stablecoin holder to hold gold?

digital currency cannot be trusted on its own?

If you read the article, it's because Tether also issues a gold token called XAUT whose value is pegged to the price of gold:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether-gold/

Their whole market cap only equates to ~14 tons at current prices though… and article says they bought 26 tons in the quarter before this quarter where they bought 27 tons…

Step 1, people hand Tether real money at 0% interest.

Step 2, Tether invests in interest bearing assets.

Step 3, Repeat step 2 with profits from step 2.

The choice of gold is just diversification. Kind of odd timing though.

Real SRE? or low skilled sysadmin drowned in pagers calling themselves as SRE? Because the future is bleak if it’s the latter.

Google Books could have been a subscription service ala Netflix.

Then it would have been hella useful.

lol, whenever I am hacking intensely, I am lying down on my bed with laptop tilted with the perfect angle.

I guess this app won’t catch me slouching then.

Anyone can argue ICE vs EV all night long but there's only 1 metric I care about, in favor of EV:

When I am going to take my son to school, he doesn't have to smell the gas and the fumes from the exhaust in the garage.

I have another one: _I_ don't have to smell your gas and fumes when I bike behind you!

Most of the exhaust fumes your son smells near school is going to come from other people's cars though.

Very true, to the point that I am considering asking the city council to forbid ICE in a 1-km radius around places where children regularly use the sidewalks.

Even if the idea doesn't outright gain traction, enough insistence will shift the overton window.

I did daily (old station wagon in the rear facing seat), as well as school buses. Kindof liked the smell in moderation as a kid.

Still in favor of EVs, just a curiosity that this is so negative for you.

I suspect OP is considering health effects, not enjoyment.

Plenty of people like cigarettes and opium too, that doesn't mean you want your kid exposed to the smoke.

I live in Oslo, Norway, and it's insane how much more pleasant parking garages have become to use in the last 10 years.

How long are you running the car in your garage? A minute of idling isn't going to cause any problems.

The sky might as well rains toads before this happens.

Nobody ever gets promoted from fixing bugs, no matter how bad the bugs are. And this is true even in much smaller companies.

I thought you are talking about back pressure pipes in my housing complex.

I’ve been wondering why I can’t use it to generate electricity.