andirk

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by andirk 4y ago
We talking Dandong, city at the border of China and North Korea? They built everything including a giant bridge, high-rise apartments, shopping centers, parks, and a ferris wheel. But there's no people and it's been ~10 years now.
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by andirk 4y ago
Figuring out which problems to solve before they happen and ignoring the ones that probably won't happen is the cosmic dance of software development. The Serenity Prayer states "... accept the things I cannot change, courage to ch
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by andirk 4y ago
This is one of the best threads yet! - Guy says he turned down a bunch of money for work/life balance reasons - Nah - Guy has to respond to dozens of nay-sayers telling them he was perfectly happy with his current dump truck of money t
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by andirk 4y ago
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. Then again, I'm only a solid B+ (grading scale, not language) engineer and I'm happy with that. I'll let the gunners take the target-on-back jobs. Btw, can Netflix please put some of that ca
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by andirk 4y ago
I think it's safe to say that software development drains the brain fairly quickly. We've all slept under our desks a couple times and worked crazy hours for a few weeks, but anything beyond that doesn't sound humane or even
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by andirk 4y ago
Wright is quite a piece of shit at least in the way he acts. Kind of odd that such a secretive person(s) who dodged the limelight intentionally for so long turns out to be this loudmouth bitch who claims it's all his coins. I don'
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by andirk 4y ago
Lol TED talks are a joke [0]. But depending on where one lives, better air quality may be inside or outside. The cleanest air I can breathe locally is in my grow room that is completely sealed except for a HEPA intake w/ same size exha
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by andirk 4y ago
> it's exciting to see Twitter introducing new features This is literally the removal of a feature.
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by andirk 4y ago
Why not just throttle third parties usage rather than charge for all of it? Are there other popular APIs that charge for _any_ use of it? What a joke. I hope there's light at the end of this tunnel, unlike his solution to California tr
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by andirk 4y ago
For me it's lack of smog requirements reminds me of traveling in Mexico as a wee lad. And these friends were from San Jose and went camping very close to Calaveras county haha.
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by andirk 4y ago
My friend and his friends unknowingly burned a bunch while camping. They all had to go to the ICU the next day. Everyone was fine but it sounded painful and scary.
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by andirk 4y ago
The mistake I made was allowing my ivy'd clothes to touch seat cushions and especially my bed sheets. I was touching fabrics that had the oils on it over and over and even sleeping in it. Wash everything that was involved in the incide
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by andirk 4y ago
It wasn't as nefarious as it seemed at first, but the fact is the systems of investment currently in place do not allow for plebs to manipulate it in their favor. I was only an observer rooting for the common man, but I still have a di
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by andirk 4y ago
Agreed. The 2020 CARES Act was ~1/3 of 1 month's rent for the peasants and some innumerable amount of money, yes, printed for a secret list of then-Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's choosing. Plus plenty of good provisions. And in
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by andirk 4y ago
The low market cap of BTC, albeit some 100's of billions of $, compared to the huge indexes, of course makes price manipulation easier. But as a fan of the technology and future use cases for crypto in general, I do think most of the f
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by andirk 4y ago
"We tortured some folks" [0] sounds better than "your tax dollars went to extrajudicial torture of human beings". [0] The quote is either Bush, Jr. or Obama.
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by andirk 4y ago
Letting people in to your store means they can steal stuff. Things that you sell can break. Windows are a hazard in your saloon. I have seen 1 single counterfeit USD in my life and i've worked plenty a register. I have seen innumerable
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by andirk 4y ago
Does everyone need a payment channel written directly onto the btc blockchain?
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by andirk 4y ago
Upon some light internet diving (backstroking), it appears that the company cannot deduct the customer's donation, according to a couple random websites. There's a beer here in the SF Bay Area that words its charitable claim like
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by andirk 4y ago
Capping? Like how if an ER was run the way software is maintained, then, on a slow day, the doctor would order all the nurses to go in to the waiting room and bust everyone's knee caps.
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by andirk 4y ago
Edge has a store?
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by andirk 4y ago
When I had a jobs (I always have more than one, it's a good idea), I liked it because I respected their paying me and I respected the product, and they respected me making their product more money than they give me. It's a match m
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by andirk 4y ago
Income $1 and then give away that $1 is a net negative, so I assume it's more like: I give you, the company, $1 as a "gift", which I'm allowed to gift you some hundreds of dollars per year without an extra tax form. You
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by andirk 4y ago
I frequent taco trucks and places that prefer cash and almost no places that don't so I have ~$40 in my gym bag and neither of my 2 heavily used credit cards. I will have maids coming over tomorrow for the first time in a millennia and
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by andirk 4y ago
Easily? Tracking a credit card transaction is probably by far the easiest way to track money. And cash being the most difficult. And crypto being both easy and difficult depending on how it's used.
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by andirk 4y ago
I use Bitpay for some small-ish things. For small transactions, though, cash or credit card works best. Lol the simple mention, and not even favourably, of crypto in an extremely relevant context gets a DVote. It's like mentioning Joe
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by andirk 4y ago
A few companies around town here in SF Bay Area started doing cashless and the community saw it as a red flag as it clearly disadvantages certain groups in our community. A couple of those places I frequented took back cashless from said pu
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by andirk 4y ago
OK but it is an issue. How about solve that decades old problem before turning people away and insisting that whatever payment processor take some 2-5% of your purchase. It's a complete digression of technology.
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by andirk 4y ago
I prefer paying cash. It is also elitist to not accept cash because it means I need a credit card or an expensive phone, neither of which I have on me while jogging. I also don't jog, but you get the point. At my gym I had a keychain b
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by andirk 4y ago
I try to almost always tip in cash which means I mark 0% tip, and I never give star reviews. One exception for a review is the smiley face vs sad face at airport restrooms. I've never marked sad face yet but if there was an issue I wou

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