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by andirk 4y ago
And Windows 9 got skipped because some Y2K-like software would see "Win9" as Windows 95, or because 9 is unlucky in Japan, or because of marketing, or to distance itself from the flop of Windows 8, or because we all like the numbe
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by andirk 4y ago
But how many hours does the person who lives in the RV down by the Aqua Park work? They don't need to pay for refuse dumping because they simply dump in the lake which now has Hepatitis fumes so it's not a good idea to jog around
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by andirk 4y ago
It depends on how one looks at it. For example, I didn't read it.
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by andirk 4y ago
Review your Pull Requests people!
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by andirk 4y ago
And the previous administration never prosecuted any financial crimes, especially not Elizabth Holmes, right? "In June 2018, Theranos announced that Holmes was stepping down as CEO. On the same day, the Department of Justice announced
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by andirk 4y ago
When Itchy & Scratchy teamed up for the war effort [0]? Documents on Prescott Bush, grandfather of Bush Jr, who happily sold steel to the Nazis and created the current Bush family pile [1]? [0] https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by andirk 4y ago
Seeing as the USA's ultra affluent crust is grossly crowded with generational wealth, I don't think they'd like the idea of removing any of their profits, however long ago and however void of any of their own toil, regardless
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by andirk 4y ago
I have fallen pretty hard a couple times and cracked my helmet. I was glad I was wearing it. Both on steep downhill residential acting a fool
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by andirk 4y ago
You can think and believe both with no hypocrisy. It takes some insanity to successfully build a bunch of rockets to Mars or whatever. This is like a more intelligent version of Kany West's breakdown from idiot to straight up mental pa
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by andirk 4y ago
I sure hope not. I'm an adult. I don't watch TikTok until it lands on Instagram or Twitter.
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by andirk 4y ago
Let me get this straight. Troll buys Twitter, says Twitter will promote "free speech". Re-instates scumbag accounts because people have the right to be scumbags. BUT you can't talk about 1) his jet, 2) other websites that are
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by andirk 4y ago
They had lots of FTT too.
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by andirk 4y ago
"Reputation is like a refrigerator. About 6 feet tall. 300 pounds. They make ice. And when if your refrigerator isn't running, you will get spoilage."
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by andirk 4y ago
I am quite confident that Satoshi Nakomoto was an Australian bloke(s) living in Japan when he/they/their wrote the Bitcoin Whitepaper. The code itself does suggest it was one person, but I still think it was a few people with one
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by andirk 4y ago
We talking pronouns? This/these? Who's Cramack? That quote from his letter sounds like someone who constantly overstepped their bounds.
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by andirk 4y ago
Apple c. 2010 disagrees [0]. They registered "There's an app for that" as a trademark. I lost my phone in an Uber yesterday so now I have no apps. [0] https://www.wired.com/2010/10/app-for-that/
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by andirk 4y ago
Is that considered one of the best quotes ever? Because I am using it but will likely botch it each time yet still get the point across.
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by andirk 4y ago
My previous gig has an onshore offshore team that I interfaced with. Then they would interface with the offshore team. And the offshore team had its own very offshore team (not sure which shores we're on). I felt lucky that most of the
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by andirk 4y ago
Budget your time in more specific buckets. I let all email and non-direct slack dings wait until I am in between tasks, such as when I get back from a beer lunch. In my previous job, I stopped checking email all together because it was most
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by andirk 4y ago
My previous contract ended abruptly but then a month later they needed me again because their current onshore offshore team was very large and growing by the day but incapable of non-trivial engineering tasks, all the way up to the engineer
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by andirk 4y ago
Forex is a very real very gigantic form of investment.
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by andirk 4y ago
It's common knowledge yet here we are arguing whether these social media outlets block useless content that happens to be embarrassing to the State when suggested to by the FBI. You seem to agree with this but frame it as a counterpoin
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Capitalism. It's even in the name of the ideology.
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"arm twisting" doesn't mean flat out forcing but strongly recommending with the idea that it may go further if their recommendation isn't followed. The laptop story being suppressed is now fact and admitted by both Twitt
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We learned before Taibbi's scoop that Twitter disallowed sharing of the story including in DMs. Blocking content in DMs was supposedly only used for illicit underage material until that story. Facebook's Zuck outright admitted in
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by andirk 4y ago
Now that it follows stonks and other traditional investments makes crypto less interesting to me, but that's just my gambling side. Its intrinsic value is that it is an avenue of transacting value outside of the reach of the exact gove
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There is literally zero functionality in bitcoin that states one gets richer from getting more people in. That's called supply and demand. I'm a big fan of crypto but I also see these huge peaks and valleys in valuation as a sign
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by andirk 4y ago
There are many avenues to transact moneys. Crypto is one of them. It has a handful of really good use cases. I agree that there are often (usually?) better ways, but cryptographic blockchains that house value to the tune of billions of USD
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by andirk 4y ago
I use bitcoin to buy things all the time. Full stop. I've made a bunch of money from that investment too. Full stop. Having a currency that is not bound to a state can very possibly be a good thing. Full stop. Scams exist in many indus
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by andirk 4y ago
The FBI's building is named after the guy who saw MLK Jr as the biggest national security threat and most likely had a strong hand in trying to silence and murder him. The FBI does plenty of heroic things daily, but they are also deepl

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