Lordarminius

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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I'm interested in knowing:how is citizenship a legal fiction ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
5% per transaction or $299/mo don't seem like equal options to me. What am I missing ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
True, an error. Corrected.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
As a helpful aside, in my experience, there are only about a dozen or so Git commands you need to do ninety percent of your work. You don't need to become a git zen master right away. 1. git init: to start a new repository 2. git statu
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
You know little about either chess or bitcoin. The first enables self knowledge, molds character, and helps develop a mental model transferable to other pursuits; the second is the first iteration of computer money.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> I cannot stress enough how impossible it is for anyone as a late teen or older to decide to become a GM. It has never happened. I have been a serious chess amateur for the past 20 years. I am now stronger than I ever have been (mainly
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> Thus, to enforce the consequences of the license termination, we have filed a lawsuit... We believe we have the evidence, the financial means and the determination to bring this lawsuit to a successful end. The part about financial m
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> You can wind up in tutorial hell if you only read surface level small to medium sized posts. This.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I can't believe intelligent people still hold this view.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> BTC has nothing backing it whatsoever.... Bitcoin can be verified and cannot be forged or arbitrarily created. That is its backing. What is the backing of the US dollar at this point asides from threat of violence against challengers ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
They hate bitcoin here
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I am constantly amazed by the Luddite comments on hacker News everytime crypto comes up. Nobody with a modicum of opsec knowledge would even use Bitcoin for secure, secret transactions. There are better alternatives Get over your conservati
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Ask HN: Whats a loophole you know that exists and can be exploited?
3 points by Lordarminius 6y ago|2 comments
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Every wave of innovation is filled with loonies at inception. How crazy do you think the Wright brothers seemed, at least to some, in the early days of aviation ? Take a look at what is happening in defi space (yes, bitcoin is defi too). Th
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Historic and epic US dollar inflation. Global economic uncertainty. A rush to safe havens.
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
This ! I recently bought two new monitors and had to return them, swapping them in for a laserjet printer, because my ragged Acer (manufactured 2011) gave better FAR perfomance
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
There are a lot of things that cannot be explained in neurology like why salt on the tongue eases the pain of pepper in your eyes or how some people sleep with their eyes open. There are a lot of what I like to call 'cross-connections&
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
A HN for crypto would be a good idea. Unlike finance which can be a zero sum game certain knowledge confers advantage so should not be shared, a culture of openness ultimately benefits asset (price) discovery and so is beneficial to everyon
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
yes
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
The language is just becoming needlessly (?) complex. I'll stick to writing my code in --version 2.7 for the foreseeable future
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Its only one google search away but ... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... You're welcome.
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Mine certainly i, since I tend to visit the same ten sites over and over again
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Its possible to track the coins. I'm curious, if some innocent third party ends up buying all or part of the stolen coins what are the implications ?
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
I have had success on reddit and slack and discord.
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
> ...I'm 54, and I was financially wiped out at 51. I will not ever recover from this.... You need a fighting spirit to achieve great things. Many people have overcome far greater problems. Never give up you are only one transaction
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
> At this point, I think I have tried at least 3 times... I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you haven't fiddled with git enough times.
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Some of the advice in that book is difficult to implement in the age of electronic devices.
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Carlsen has done far more to popularize chess than Nakamura. He launched a chess app in 2014. He is the first world champion to regularly play online and accept challenges to blitz games. He has hosted online tournaments with record breakin
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
DEFI certainly
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by Lordarminius 6y ago
Any companies or organisations working on this ?

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