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by andirk 3y ago
Will the mascot be the fox or the dinosaur? Mozilla sent me a red dinosaur when I donated to them many years ago.
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by andirk 3y ago
I agree that USD, regardless of its waining value, is fairly universal. If I was going to start a country, I would start with USD as the currency instead of risking insane volatility. However, as discussed in the Bitcoin whitepaper, one of
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by andirk 3y ago
An update every Friday about the Gemini + Genesis + DCG legal proceedings can be followed here https://www.gemini.com/earn . TLDR: everything gets punted to the next month, although October 2023 might be when the action hea
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by andirk 3y ago
> I found one way the 10-day sprint definitely did harm JavaScript: Brendan Eich didn't have time to add a garbage collector, and later attempts to add that in added a bunch of security holes AKA: Don't ship hackday code! Discl
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by andirk 3y ago
I'm still very bullish on Airbnb mainly because it has always been an amazing and easy and often cheap alternative to hotels. I can stay in an actual home of the area I am in which is more authentic to me, whereas every hotel is identi
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by andirk 3y ago
Haha mild sports betting is my 2nd main use of bitcoin, other than store of value/wealth/whatever we call it when you buy something low and now it's worth a lot.
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by andirk 3y ago
A lot of the "genius" credit given to FTX, Alameda, Sam are all during a time when crypto was soaring, probably partially because people were home more and got free checks in the mail. The fact that a single person could absolutel
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by andirk 3y ago
> I'm looking for work. So is he now jobless because of his defunct config file that couldn't match the "speed of light"?
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by andirk 3y ago
It costs real world dollars to transact so it's not nothing. This argument can be made for stonks as well, right?
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by andirk 3y ago
To anyone who thinks even YOU, with no knowledge of wine, cannot tell bottom barrel gas station wine vs. wine made from experts who know what they're doing is a joke. I have personally had my friends BLIND taste test my favorite wines
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by andirk 3y ago
You, assuming you have no knowledge of wine, can absolutely tell the difference between truck stop $2.70 wine and a well made wine from a seasoned winemaker+vineyard+grapes+region. Yeah these awards are often hot air, but the claim that no
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by andirk 3y ago
I have used it as basic money for my degenerate online sports betting, buying hardware, and giving as gifts. First borns get 0.1 BTC! I also use it as a savings account. It's not nearly as interesting of an asset now that it tracks gen
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by andirk 3y ago
Isn't trauma often permanent? Even if it's that a kid got his red fire truck stolen from him in kindergarten and now he has attachment issues. Or someone deals with horrible things in their past. It can be ridiculous or completely
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by andirk 3y ago
In vi (which apparently is vim by default I was told?) I know open, save, quit, go to line, go to begin/end of line, find, insert, delete line. We used emacs in college and that was the last time I used any text editor serverside besid
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by andirk 3y ago
There are attempts to do exactly this where certain types of mosquitos are given something that makes them impotent after some number of generations. It can create other issues, though, in regards to the disruption of that part of the food
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by andirk 3y ago
When I went to Namibia recently, which had some new cases of malaria, I was given "Malarone", an oral pill taken a couple days before, and each day during, and a couple days after. Luckily, I didn't see any mosquitos at all,
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by andirk 3y ago
Is cracking a sha256(x) the same runtime as sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256((x)))))? I remember the first time I saw bitcoin's double use of sha256 like this, and I was confused as to whether there is a security benefit to this.
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by andirk 3y ago
I increased the salary ~23% (again, market rate for me doing basically all of the work) when I wanted to quit half way through #3 but they knew I did all the non-trivial work so they agreed.
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by andirk 3y ago
Anyone who was an advocate of web Accessibility from the early days is someone who knew that we are all God's (or whoever's) children. Rest in peace, Molly.
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by andirk 3y ago
1) I did an interview and got turned down because my salary expectations were normal. 2) They hired a couple of offshore people to do the job, and a couple months later that failed. 3) So they came back and signed me for my regular salary.
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by andirk 3y ago
In the movie Tron, a user is this worst thing a program can encounter. > Greetings, programs! Oh, what an occasion we have here before us. Because your rumors are true. We do indeed have in our midst a User! (Can't find the 1982 quo
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by andirk 3y ago
Square is a better name. Strip would have been the best name.
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by andirk 3y ago
And I find it hard to believe anyone ever asked where the name came from because it is so obvious. More interesting is how PayPal was supposed to be some stupid company X.com that did everything. That didn't stick nor did the premise n
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by andirk 3y ago
Web components can be used without a front-end JS framework (Vue, React, etc.) which I think is one of its best features. There is a mild complexity to it since it encompasses the javascript and HTML including creating the HTML element type
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by andirk 3y ago
Can we please use `example.com` for an example domain name instead of like `somedomain.com`? It can create accounts with emails that someone can actually intercept.
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by andirk 3y ago
Does this have any relation to https://jsonapi.org/ ?
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by andirk 3y ago
Back of the photo.
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by andirk 3y ago
Somewhat off topic but we have also moved noise into the ocean via commercial fleets which is very noisy ("which is louder even than a jet engine at take-off") for all the marine life who use sound to communicate [1] and I assume
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by andirk 3y ago
Good point that the starting point of the data in this case is publicly available APIs, but, and this will sound backwards, centralizing ones main firehose on a decentralized platform seems like a great way to reach the masses, including in
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by andirk 3y ago
> Musk is regarded as one of the crypto market’s biggest cheerleaders Odd because a few years ago he was interviewed saying that bitcoin is only useful for illegal activity. Then he pump n dumped Dogecoin. Then he said Tesla would accept

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