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Fed’s Daily Tapering Increases by 23%- Tuesday’s Reverse Repo Removes $432 Billion from Market
25.5.2021
Since well before the onset of Covid-19, the U.S. Federal Reserve had initiated monetary easing policies and from then on, the M1 Money Stock supply skyrocketed to levels never-before-seen in history. This weekend reports disclosed that the Fed has started to taper quantitative easing (QE) when...
Fed Begins to Taper QE- US Central Bank Removes $351 Billion in Liquidity via Reverse Repos
22.5.2021
After pumping extreme amounts of liquidity into markets, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems to be tapering back monetary easing policy via reverse repos (RRP). Following this week’s published minutes report from the Fed’s April monetary policy meeting, it seemed as though members of...
Data Suggests Fed’s MBS Operations and Wall Street Investors Behind Inflated US Real Estate Market
22.5.2021
The Federal Reserve and America’s big banks have significantly inflated home prices across the U.S. according to a number of statistics. In many towns across the nation, home sales are facing bidding wars and certain regions are seeing property shortages. One report notes that homebuyers...
Lies Of P Is A (Checks Notes) Pinocchio Souls-Like
20.5.2021
Round8 Studio and Neowiz today announced Lies of P, an upcoming Souls-like based on the classic story of Pinocchio, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Just typing that out makes me feel a little like I’m losing my mind.Read more
Nigeria Stopping the Rejection of Old or Torn USD Notes Underlines Why Crypto Is a Better Reserve Currency
3.5.2021
In early April 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a circular warning Nigerian institutions to stop the practice of rejecting old or lower denomination USD notes. The CBN issued the warning after it became “inundated with complaints from members of the public on the rejection...
Exploring color-contrast() for the first time.
26.4.2021
I saw in the release notes for Safari Technical Preview 122 that it has support for a color-contrast() function in CSS. Safari is first out of the gate here. As far as I know, no other browser supports this yet …
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The Noid Is Back To [Checks Notes] Fight Crash Bandicoot and Self-Driving Cars
26.4.2021
The Noid, Domino’s annoying pizza-destroying mascot from the ‘80s, is coming back to stop self-driving pizza delivery cars, and also to fight Crash Bandicoot. That’s not a sentence you expected to read, and I didn’t expect to write it, but here we are. Welcome to whatever version of reality this...
Canaan to Ship 11,760 Next-Generation Bitcoin Miners to a US-Listed Firm, CAN Shares Jump 11%
22.4.2021
On April 21, the bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan announced the firm will be supplying 11,760 next-generation A1246 ASIC Avalonminers to a company called Mawson Infrastructure Group. The announcement notes that the mining units will be dispersed among Mawson’s bitcoin mining operations...
Epic vs. Apple - notes from a platform streetfight
12.4.2021
I read all 700 pages, so you didn't have to
Piper Sandler Survey Shows 9% of American Teens Have Traded Cryptocurrency
9.4.2021
The American independent investment bank and financial services company, Piper Sandler has published its latest “Taking Stock With Teens” survey which notes that 9% of U.S. teenagers have traded cryptocurrencies. 7,000 teenagers were polled and roughly 81% of those who have traded...
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently
6.4.2021
“Good news about display: contents and Chrome” — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem was that, say you had a parent div that is laid out as a grid
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This Web Site is a Tech Talk
31.3.2021
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I’m just taking notes on some on it here:
I have no idea how he pulled
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Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Gets Notes But Still No Release Date
29.3.2021
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has released patch notes for the game’s upcoming 1.2 patch, which was revealed in mid-March. CDPR did not provide a timeline for when the patch will go live in-game.Read more
Jamaica Plans to Pilot a Central Bank Crypto, CBDC to Work Alongside Notes and Coinage
26.3.2021
While a number of countries are working on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), on Tuesday, the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) announced it will soon be piloting a CBDC project. The BoJ is working with a firm called Ecurrency Mint Incorporated and plans to pilot the cryptocurrency in May. Jamaican CBDC...
How to Mine Ethereum
25.3.2021
Note: I expect a large number of people to object to cryptocurrency mining’s energy use and I totally understand. ...
Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital Registers With SEC to Launch a Bitcoin ETF
22.3.2021
Anthony Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital has filed an S-1 registration form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The prospectus for the “First Trust Skybridge Bitcoin ETF Trust” notes that the ETF aims to list common shares...
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap
18.3.2021
Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile:
[…] CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers’ rosy resource assumptions. If there is unambiguously good news on the tooling front,
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JP Morgan Launching Crypto Investment Product Tracking Public Company Stocks With Bitcoin Exposure
10.3.2021
JP Morgan is launching a structured investment product based on the performance of its “Cryptocurrency Exposure Basket,” which tracks stocks of publicly traded companies with exposure to cryptocurrencies. The weight of each stock is “determined based in part on exposure...
The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients
1.3.2021
Erik D. Kennedy notes an interesting phenomenon of color gradients. If you have a gradient between two colors where the line between them in the color space goes through the zero-saturation middle, you get this “gray dead zone” in …
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Ensuring the correct vertical position of large text
26.2.2021
Tobi Reif notes how the position of custom fonts set at very large font sizes can be super different, even in the same browser across operating systems. The solution? Well, you know how there are certain CSS properties that only …
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