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by andirk 3y ago
In California, if youre car is stolen and then found, the cops will give you a fat ticket and tow your car and then give you a ticket for it getting towed. Somehow getting the car towed is also a ticket.
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by andirk 3y ago
I love rsync. Used it to batch some few million image files for Sephora makeup company to a couple different servers.
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by andirk 3y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I have always been curious when a group works on an inferior (in terms of popularity!) product such as Ask Jeeves how they themselves work day to day in the workplace. So you worked for Microsoft and didn't u
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by andirk 3y ago
Real question: is this easier and more reliable than emailing to myself for the past 20 years?
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by andirk 3y ago
Windows XP was great. Windows 7 was best. The rest fall short of those two.
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by andirk 3y ago
It's how you get spacecash in a jam. Not exactly sure the real use case but I like seeing them at gunshot gas stations.
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by andirk 3y ago
> who have less options than them. So the humanities folks' priority is sculpting a union program to their specific needs. That also doesn't sound very "fight for the allowance of your peers". That's democracy th
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by andirk 3y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who measures money by drinks. I say "cocktails" like "I bet 4 cocktails on the Browns" but sometimes it's beer too. $20 around SF here is less than a couple cocktails.
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by andirk 3y ago
8 out of 10 is pretty darn good though right? Then again, a 9 year old is probably right 80% of the time, and a calculator 99%, so we need to compare to other similar tech. I don't know what to compare it to though. Maybe current produ
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by andirk 3y ago
'Well, according to the marketing designers, orange is “the color of success and wealth.” And while that may be true, it’s also important to note that orange is also associated with risk-taking and adventure.'
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by andirk 3y ago
Possibly, but it has 1.5-2x'd since the beginning of the year, so that's not quite "gone".
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by andirk 3y ago
Gotta love speculation.
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by andirk 3y ago
When's the last time bitcoin got your rocks off? It can be exchanged for goods and services.
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by andirk 3y ago
I use it as a currency kind of to encourage its use. I have several USD accounts to use depending on the merchant, and a couple BTC accounts as well, and I use the BTC whenever offered. My understanding is not many people use BTC as a purch
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by andirk 3y ago
Or selling weapons to rebels to try to topple Socialist leaning countries in hopes of being able to then bogart their resources for private profit. Or yeah tiny spy cam in a tux.
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by andirk 3y ago
But what about when people say it's a tulip or a beanie baby?
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by andirk 3y ago
I have bought domains with bitcoin when they offer. I heard someone used USD for a domain, and it turns out USD is used by scammers!
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by andirk 3y ago
> I am struggling to find a coherent point in what you have written. Obtuse? Deflationary money hasn't been proven to not work. Set amount of tokens has its advantages over fiat that is printed infinitelt by the govt that issues it.
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by andirk 3y ago
Yeah a memecoin is a shitcoin that gets pump n dumped.
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by andirk 3y ago
Try this, Einstein: > The bugs are self-imposed I can send BTC to an address and it is there instantly. If you want to be more sure, wait until other nodes have confirmed. Even more safe? Wait for 6 blocks to be written after the one you
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by andirk 3y ago
It's currently "sorted out" by the several layers deep you can choose to go: from more centralized and more easy to more decentralized and more complicated. One can lose paper money. No one out here is trying to solve that pr
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by andirk 3y ago
Neither of those companies netted me several hundred thousand USD. And I rarely use either, either.
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by andirk 3y ago
Good luck. OK Google just told me to put a "terabyte" of salt on my air fryer broccoli.
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by andirk 3y ago
Apples and oranges to an extent. 1) Knowledge is being derived from said energy use, and 2) nerds aren't extremely bitter that they didn't pick up that millionaire-making space cash when it was handed to them on a platter, before
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by andirk 3y ago
Does the confirm or cancel go on the left or the right? How is that not even accidentally standard at this point?
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by andirk 3y ago
?? sha256 the string and you are not going to be able to get back to the original from that output. Edit: The small amount of IP addresses makes it easy to brute force through all of them.
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by andirk 3y ago
The data is that of "I have a person who likes monkey paws" and then they can sell that to the monkey paw conglomerate. Next thing you know you're getting monkey paws in the mail!
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by andirk 3y ago
A password on a napkin that unlocks real fiat is actually very cool.
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by andirk 3y ago
I'm familiar with regularass auction houses and they take a fat cut up to 20% per transaction. That's crazy but there's much less incentive to sell+buy when 20% is lost in the transaction. The NFT auction houses could take a
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by andirk 3y ago
it says chat in the subdomain.

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