andirk

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by andirk 4y ago
On page A-287, it has a "DANGER SLEEP". Mod list #5: "When hungry is low enough to trigger sick counter, each sensor deducts two instead of one for each hit." He made it get sicker quicker when it was on its death bed??
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by andirk 4y ago
Thanks. I was going to go to sleep soon but now I will not. Why don't people relate bitcoin to Furbies? It's always tulips or Beanie Babies. Crypto is much more like furbies.
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by andirk 4y ago
And Java applets.
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by andirk 4y ago
iOS + iPhone + Safari is the new IE. Every other modern browser supports `MediaSource`, including iPad Safari [0], but not iPhone Safari. And there is not a peep about when it will be supported. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org&
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by andirk 4y ago
Replace "pyramid scheme" with "stock" and the argument still stands and is actually relevant to bitcoin. Can you please explain how bitcoin is a pyramid scheme? You can say Ponzi scheme or scam or just hate it because yo
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by andirk 4y ago
Finally! It took this many comments for someone to show, via the age-old tulip example, they know nothing about crypto except that there is hype around it. And thank you for adding the date to show you read the top of a Wikipedia article.
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by andirk 4y ago
Please do mansplain to everyone about "understanding economics or human behavior", two topics that are barely understood and have wildly unpredictable outcomes on any given day. Back to grown up talk: scarcity doesn't create
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by andirk 4y ago
You got a nice lil dvote from our HN friends because you spoke negatively about stonks (they like stonks a lot!) and neutral about bitcoin (they HATE bitcoin! Mostly out of jealousy). I don't think either is a pyramid scheme but both o
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by andirk 4y ago
Gold is by far mostly used as a store of value. Bitcoin is by far mostly used as a store of value. Next.
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by andirk 4y ago
We're not saying it is actually backed 1:1 by USD or another fiat or anything. We're saying that Tether _claims_ such.
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by andirk 4y ago
Except according to Tether, "All Tether tokens (USD₮) are pegged at 1-to-1 with a matching fiat currency and are backed 100% by Tether's reserves." [0] https://tether.to But other than that, yeah.
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by andirk 4y ago
What about grocery store ideas?
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by andirk 4y ago
Rags to riches to jail
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by andirk 4y ago
Loving all these funny URLs with their funny TLDs. No .com TLDs yet!
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by andirk 4y ago
Assange threatened the Military Industrial Complex, the most powerful arm of the US government which all other parts dare not impede on under any circumstances. Similarly but far more broadly, these admins mentioned things the Saudi Arabian
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by andirk 4y ago
The cheat code these days is either be a skilled technical worker or have generational wealth. The latter also offers positions that are given via nepotism. I know it sounds extreme, but consider that in the next couple of decades there may
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by andirk 4y ago
I try to never pay anyone more than I make with the exception of the 1 construction contractor, physician, and possibly a drug dealer.
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by andirk 4y ago
Email jobs often pay a bit more than that and half the time they can do Ticktok. If the person isn't passionate about a trade, tadesmanship is not an easy sell.
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by andirk 4y ago
So you mean i've been using vim this whole time?? Why didn't anyone tell me?
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by andirk 4y ago
I'm not promoting vi just that I never felt the need to move away from it. I'm sure I'm missing tons of goodies that would make me more productive
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by andirk 4y ago
Never bothered to learn the other ones. All I do is insert, find, find/replace, start/end of line, save, don't save. Only for when I'm on a server via cli. On my local, I use VSCode, PHPStorm.
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by andirk 4y ago
"Canadiens"
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by andirk 4y ago
Am I the only person on earth who uses plain vi?
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by andirk 4y ago
The legality, and even the exact definition, of IP is not black and white and comes up all the time in copyright discussions. If we want to say that the NDA states that your brain while at this company is ours and must be wiped if you leave
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by andirk 4y ago
I think it's safe to argue that every single thing in a contract is for the benefit of the employer and has zero to do with morality. And it is up to the employee to have their own internal contract that the employer must align to. It&
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by andirk 4y ago
Whenever asked why there's a gap in my resume, I take insult, laugh, and say I didn't feel like working. I am compensated handsomely for my skills and that offers me the opportunity to be away from FTE as I so desire. I also have
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by andirk 4y ago
To a lot of us, career growth and the knowledge thereof is a requirement; we seek to be onward and upward whether in skillset, enjoyment, pay, etc. I have learnt in recent HN thread that this is not as common as I thought [0]. Non-competes
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by andirk 4y ago
I have never had an engineering (or really any!) job where learning on company time was absent. A lot of people like to grow and a lot of people don't. And a lot of the latter realize their waning usefulness and how they're one al
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by andirk 4y ago
It's only one product that does one thing: shows videos. It's huge and great but I still think we should replace it with AirBnb, which also has high salaries, in the acronym.
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by andirk 4y ago
Your retort is that bad things have happened in the past therefore all things in the future are bad. Solid argument!

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