2023-03-02

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What Happened To Sweden’s Slot Car EV Road? | Hackaday
Depressed teens: Honestly, it's probably the phones - by Noah Smith
- HN comments
Matt Yglesias on depression and political ideology

you cannot understand the American public intellectual sphere without a grasp of the close connection between Left thinking and high neuroticism. I would add that incorporating gender expectations into Matt’s analysis would give it yet more explanatory power.
I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
Opinion: Gen Z is right to reject the false gospel of productivity

~ $75 Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi

The board can be powered at 24V and takes the pins count to the stellar and rather unique number of 76 (of which 12 analog, 13 PWM, 4 serial ports, 3 I2C, 2 SPI, 1 FDCAN, 1 SAI). But get this: it all fits in the same footprint as the Mega, because the layout is optimized with extra pins in the middle,
Europe pushing for lunar time zone | Hacker News

Binance Can’t Keep Its Story Straight on Misplaced $1.8B USDC
Regulation Kills Silvergate Exchange Network, Could Strangle Crypto Liquidity

Tradehilll struggled with Internet Archive Federal Credit Union’s antiquated technology. It couldn’t compete with the Coinbase-SVB partnership. Internet Archive Federal Credit Union eventually de-banked Tradehill due to a lack of regulatory clarity. The exchange, founded by Jered Kenna and Ryan Singer, shut down in 2013. This is where Silvergate Bank enters the picture, previously known mostly as a construction lender based in La Jolla, CA. Somewhere along the way, around 2015, Silicon Valley Bank decided it didn’t want Coinbase as a customer. Silvergate then took the mantle, brought on Coinbase, and was off to the races.
A theory on the mystery trader who took out Terra’s stablecoin