andirk

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by andirk 4y ago
I assume the main point of asking for charities at the POS system is to, in no order, a) give to that charity, and/or b) to get the tax deduction as if the company gave that charity. Ex: $1 charity = some $0.35 discount on company taxe
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by andirk 4y ago
There was Google Glass but it got laughed out of town for being made for dorks. Seemed like perfectly good tech.
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by andirk 4y ago
That's so nice of them to give me 8% on electronic purchases then. According to "Amazon profit margin", that means they're losing money because of me.
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by andirk 4y ago
Says "looks much into if what they do with the money". Corruption means doing bad things with the money, which is what most people don't look much into. Sentences.
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by andirk 4y ago
Brand names are probably identical regardless of middleman. Seems a difference between not wanting to go to the store. So much funny shit happens at Walgreens. Tip your delivery person sometimes.
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by andirk 4y ago
People are completely addicted to Amazon. Some of my friends and neighbors get things from them literally daily without thinking twice about where to shop. I do not get the allure of cheap Chinese product on my doorstep in 2 days nor do I u
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by andirk 4y ago
> I get that Amazon's retail profit margins are terrible Why do you think that? I get some 2-8% of the purchase amount via their Amazon Affiliate Program. Furthermore, their "Amazon Choice" or whatever it's called whe
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by andirk 4y ago
Why is that disturbing? There are a lot of "non-profit" "charities" that are corrupt.
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by andirk 4y ago
I saw that too and I highly doubt Google bought the company for their SuperPoke routine but rather for their suite of products like the Pets and the data that comes along with it. Those 3 API calls may have put them on the map but that&#x27
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by andirk 4y ago
Good point! No encryption shows zero issue. Your mention of us all using LetsEncrypt and similar is beyond my understanding of cryptography but why do they need to be signed by a central authority exactly?
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by andirk 4y ago
Someone should have told Slide, "the creators of SuperPoke!" Besides that tagline about making a useless Facebook add-on feature that already existed, their recruiters never did explain what they did beyond like 3 Facebook API cal
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by andirk 4y ago
I hope you are right about quality winning out because it looks like a nosedive at this point. The popular content online is becoming very short clips of the stupidest shit I've ever seen. It's like listening to looping House musi
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by andirk 4y ago
I haven't found much agreement, or at least to the extent I believe it, that Javascript and HTML and CSS have all been shoehorned and built upon completely beyond their original specs.
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by andirk 4y ago
Because of smoking?
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by andirk 4y ago
Same goes with music. Since maybe the late 1990's, the safe bet has been the way to go for labels. No more risking an alternative artist that doesn't check the right boxes. Stick with a repeat of what worked before with a small tw
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by andirk 4y ago
The search functionality on these services is abysmal and I believe it is on purpose; the streaming service wants you to watch the things at the top of the list they made for you, and now almost all of which is produced by that streaming se
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by andirk 4y ago
I thought the super hero movies had the movie theaters cornered for the past 10 years. And now there are popular films that aren't a super hero fighting another super hero in a melee battle despite the fact they have superpowers. That
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by andirk 4y ago
First I saw of constant over-saturation was MTV shows where people fight in a house and talk to the camera. I'd walk by my college roommates' rooms and the neon colors were always BEAMING! Also emotion-leading music every scene. I
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by andirk 4y ago
Mine's still around altho it looks like I turned it from a The Simpsons fan page in to one sentence https://bartzone.tripod.com/ . And with allowing all scripts, it's >1,000 requests, >10MB of data. These ad
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by andirk 4y ago
> The whole selling point of Bitcoin is that nobody can do that. It is absolutely possible but not practical. The selling point of bitcoin in this regard is that the work needed to take over the network is relative to the size of the net
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by andirk 4y ago
Isn't it that the less miners, the lower the difficulty therefore each miner that continues to mine will win the block reward more often because of less competition? The security issue with less miners is the whole 51% attack, but even
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by andirk 4y ago
It is possible that there can be divided in to 2 groups the people in this world: 1 who's first thought given this opportunity is to rick roll the eff outa the situation, and another group that for some reason wouldn't.
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by andirk 4y ago
While we were waiting for our friend in the ER (she's fine), one of us downloaded an app that was a giant red button like that one and that's all it played, TURN DOWN FOR WHAT! And you could press it a bunch so it's like &quo
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by andirk 4y ago
I thought you meant "wage" like "wager" meaning betting on and leaning the AI in a direction. And that could be interesting.
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by andirk 4y ago
What about that one time tho? [0] [0] https://www.aninews.in/news/world/others/the-ship-isnt-movin...
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by andirk 4y ago
Isn't it spelled filippx now? The 'x' signifies 'no'.
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by andirk 4y ago
Enter stage left: some weird email I got from Facebook about the messages will be melded with Instagram or some horrible idea like that. I'm sure bookface has plenty of good uses, but it has become the least interesting of all of the s
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by andirk 4y ago
I too align with his critique of capitalism, but why does every article start with a picture of his head?
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by andirk 4y ago
I think non-technical people are ok with the abuse because everything on their computer abuses them. And if something goes awry, they figure it's their own fault for using their trackball mouse incorrectly [0]. https://en.wi
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by andirk 4y ago
Similar to when a couple people move out of San Francisco and they call it an "exodus" and there are handfuls of articles making up these stupid claims based on a couple interviews of people moving to Austin or Portland or, in mor

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