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Pretty crazy story of Tether !
It started as a scam (they didn't have the reserves they claimed to have), a money laundering machine and pretty much everything illegal you can imagine, and look at it now - there is a high probability they actually do have reserves now. Hell, the guy who helped them gain the access to the US financial system is now Secretary of Commerce !
It's very funny that people still take it seriously. They should add that they can also deliver anywhere on Mars, thanks to FSD. Optimus would take care on moving the cargo from Starship to trucks, once on Mars. Still TBD if it will be Tesla Semi, Cybetruck (made for Mars) or maybe Nikola trucks that rolls down the hill very well and the CEO seems to want to get back in this business (the business of selling promises).
US is becoming a joke. It still has a lead in a lot of areas, but much less than they think, and they seem more interested in selling narratives than real products.
Folks old enough to have been around in 2000 have seen this movie before.
If this was such a great business, money would be coming from outside and Nvidia would be using its profits to scale production. But they know it's not and once the bubble pops, they profit margin evaporates in months. So they keep the ball rolling - this is pretty much equivalent to buying the cards from ... themselves.
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I'm in the process of re-learning a lot of maths, with a goal to move to ML research in ~2 years, and after discovering Math Academy (on HN of course) I jumped right into it.
It is great, but after a month of ~1-2 hours / day, I feel like it's a bit shallow sometimes, and given the ...
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