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by Casseres 10y ago
I'm a Monero supporter (and owner and future user once more widely adopted) because like cash, no one can tell how much money you have in your wallet or who you're buying things from. With Bitcoin, neither of those is true.
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by Casseres 10y ago
Those legal disclaimers in the email footers are not binding. (I am not a lawyer.)
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by Casseres 10y ago
> $1,000 worth ... 0.01 BTC It could very well reach 100,000 USD, but being snarky doesn't help your argument. Shapeshift is a very good service that will keep Bitcoin relevant, and I'm sure there will be more services in the
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by Casseres 10y ago
Bitcoin is only valuable because it has the first-mover advantage. If people start to value privacy and fungibility in crypto currencies, then Bitcoin won't stay valueable. I remember seeing the white paper for Bitcoin here on HN years
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by Casseres 10y ago
Always ask,"Is there anything else I can do to help?" Don't just ask once if you can help, everyone else does that. Be the person who asks again and again. People will take notice and tell others. It's the quickest wa
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by Casseres 10y ago
new ≠ different
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by Casseres 10y ago
I don't think a reasonable business person would see that hypothetical e-mail exchange as something to count on. I think the boss is just trying to guarantee he/she will have a good worker if the deal happens. An emotionally-inv
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by Casseres 10y ago
If you have to reply to the e-mail to acknowledge it, just say something along the lines of "Sounds great, thanks for letting me know!" You don't have to say you're applying elsewhere. Him asking you not to apply elsewh
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by Casseres 10y ago
Stress and laziness are not mutually exclusive. Mental and physical stress are two different things. Being uncertain of one's future can be very streessful, especially when it comes to money.
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by Casseres 10y ago
If you're already there, then why not send them yourself? I liked the adventure of finding postcards (when you're not in a touristy area) and then finding a post office. You get to see aspects of the country that hasn't bee
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by Casseres 10y ago
I just did a little research into the benefits of sauna use. I found a Reuters article published in 2015 which said, "men who spent time in a sauna seven times a week were less likely to die of heart problems or to die at all" [0
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by Casseres 10y ago
Try Target, the one in my area still has them on the shelf.
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Oceantop Living in a Seastead – Realistic, Sustainable, and Coming Soon(huffingtonpost.com)
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by Casseres 10y ago
A year ago, a university that I never even applied to sent me a letter saying that my Social Security Number was among the data that was stolen in a hack. (They offered a year of free "monitoring" and yes, I checked to see that i
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by Casseres 10y ago
Did anyone else use to read The Consumerist primarily for the comments? Back when The Consumerist had an open commenting system, tons of people would leave comments, often with good advice or interesting experiences. The commenting system
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by Casseres 10y ago
Then give a donation receipt for a charity that you both support for the cost of the diamond instead. At least that way the sacrificed money will support something you both believe in rather than the diamond industry.
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by Casseres 10y ago
Religion is a powerful driving force in many cultures. Comprehending that other people believe in a different religion as strongly as you believe in yours helps one's understanding of the world.
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by Casseres 10y ago
Real courage would be to admit that USB-C is better than Lightening, and to switch their new iPhones to USB-C.
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by Casseres 10y ago
Locality ≠ COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) Locality is to make a job's salary competitive with other job salaries in the local market, whereas COLA is exactly what it sounds like. Houston has a high locality rate because of all the hi
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by Casseres 10y ago
>And only $39 a pop for USB-C Lightning cables. >That's some balls, Apple. No, that's courage. /s Although I'm surprised they left the headphone jack if removing it is supposed to be "the future". There
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by Casseres 10y ago
ATC here, our Tech Ops people say 20k. They are 2048x2048.
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by Casseres 10y ago
I can buy the argument that services like AirBnB and Uber are growing the market instead of soley stealing customers from other companies. I've only used Uber twice, but in both cases, my alternative was asking a friend for a ride (ev
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by Casseres 10y ago
Sharing this further than BoingBoing may cause an early termination of the program if the influx of users is too high. I had bought into a similar "unlimited" 4G/LTE hotspot program that used Verizon's network about a ye
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by Casseres 10y ago
> Put "read three chapters of a book" on a status report and see how many levels of management show up at your desk to micromanage your time. Try something like "reviewed industry publications for new paradigms and optimiz
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by Casseres 10y ago
The slightly better gas mileage? Though now with CVTs that are computer-controlled, they get better gas mileage than cars with standard/maunual transmissions.
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by Casseres 10y ago
Paper books will never run out of power, be corrupted by a bad read/write, or be arbitrarily removed from my device (like Amazon did with copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four). Also, it's easier to flip back and forth through the pages,
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by Casseres 10y ago
"(T)his is a court of law and not a court of justice." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Associate Justice for the United States Supreme Court)
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by Casseres 10y ago
Maybe the AI will send them an email telling them their brake light is out, so you wouldn't have to put yourself in that position.
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by Casseres 10y ago
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136102/magic-spee...
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by Casseres 11y ago
Laws are like locks: they only keep honest people honest.

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