Aaron Parecki

In Argentina’s black market traders are getting picky about different USD bills:

- Newer dollars trade at face value, 100%
- Bills from before 1996 with a “small face” trade at 97% value, and sometimes are not accepted because of the counterfeit risk

https://www.cronista.com/finanzas-mercados/dolar-cara-chica-vs-cara-grande-como-distinguir-el-viejo-diseno-del-nuevo/

We say that money should be fungible, but cash is often not fungible

For example, during coin shortages, coins are more valuable than bills. Laundromats can be “quarter-positive” or “quarter-negative”, causing headaches for owners.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/quarter-shortage-creates-a-two-bit-black-market-in-coin-operated-seattle/

⁦@aaronpk⁩ great live today.. it’s been a blast following your growth and how you have become a live stream master!

the unbelievable high of getting a “sorry, I’m running late!” text when you, yourself, are running late

Having been on both sides I can definitively say that working for other people sucks.

And a lot of what I thought was “security” was more of an illusion than anything.

Doesn’t mean full time YT is the answer, but your time is a very valuable thing to sell to others.

It amazes me how wrong this quote is but how unsurprising it is.

After a long time, a new way to login to websites was invented. Many other websites started using it. For a while it was called “OAuth” but now it’s called "OpenID Connect." It has other names too.

If you are into decentralized systems, then learn web 1.0 not web3

why do you need to create a central system to help everyone decentralize the thing we've been doing without central authority since the very early days of the internet

a "gas" is a way to make a cluster with thousands of computers that's slower and less useful than one single computer and also it's coin-operated where by coin i mean fifty dollar bill

Decentralized Woo Needs to enter our discourse. That’s what I’ve been observing but didn’t have the right words for. https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html

So, @theworstdev and I apologise for this in advance, but we accidentally created this today when talking about systems implementation:

Build
Deploy
Scale
Maintain

The OAuth 2.0 spec has become very popular. Boring companies like banks and insurance companies are using it too.

Many websites use the OAuth 2.0 standard to protect their information, and many other websites use it for other things.

so my wife and i have two cats, and because the cats are prolific content creators, two cat boxes. it just occurred to me that the cats' box selection habits very elegantly model a common problem in most federated social media platforms: load balancing