andirk

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by andirk 4y ago
I use it for my degenerate sports gambling. I also give it as gifts for first borns. If you invest in gold, you won't be able to even gamble with it. In fact, you won't even have any gold at all. You'll have a certificate fro
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by andirk 4y ago
Send fiat overseas and let me know how that goes. Crypto has plenty of issues but calling people who use a decentralized form of currency as "idiots" doesn't paint you as the sharpest tool in the shed.
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by andirk 4y ago
Give the guy/gal $10,000 for the night. Their job, and as naturally it is to them, is to make "connections". It sounds petty but we all like our friends more than the general public lets be honest. And also TEDx doesn't
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by andirk 4y ago
Oh like 1st interview question is: "What's your password?". A few jobs ago I needed some IT help and the guy asked me that. I told him my very vulgar password loudly. Then went back to my desk and changed it.
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by andirk 4y ago
He gambled. Lost. Gambled more. Lost bad "even when times were good". My guess is he figured if he could borrow from Peter to pay Paul one more time... one more time that he would eventually be back in the black. I think he person
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by andirk 4y ago
> recent data implying immense trading losses even when times were good. I was torn whether the collapse was due to intentional or negligent handling of moneys and this makes it clear that it was intentional AND he was pretty bad at trad
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by andirk 4y ago
I was on a first date and forgot my wallet so the first place we went was the bank. I had to repeat all my info 3x. I leveled with them and pointed to my date and said I need $100. They gave me the $100.
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by andirk 4y ago
K. I linked to the literal definition. There is no way to know that I was or was not working period. Getting snarky on HN? Good on ya.
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by andirk 4y ago
Correct. I said "basically" and linked to the primary source for the detailed definition. It's not possible to know what a person is doing if they are not part of a program that follows them. For example, I have been unemploy
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by andirk 4y ago
Unemployment is measured basically only by # of people receiving unemployment benefits. It grossly undercounts. A less quantitative number but way more useful is "underemployment". I don't know what that # is, but looking at
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by andirk 4y ago
I think you're right in that there are more beefier implementations outside of the browser, but the point of creating an app that is in the browser is almost entirely for minimal barrier of entry.
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by andirk 4y ago
Worked at the popular [video game news website name redacted]. The Sales Dept head was a genius in their abilities: take last quarter's numbers, and ADD 10%! No forecasting or guidance, just more. That's it.
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by andirk 4y ago
Reminds me of people who mark every one of their emails on Microsoft Outlook with the "Urgent" flag. Or people who immediately want to speak to the manager. There's something psychotic about it all.
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by andirk 4y ago
Medium.com Quora.com Luckily both of those websites have almost no value to me. And what happened to BugMeNot [0] ?? Saved a lot of time. And Mailinator [1] email addresses are now blocked from so many websites. These types of demands have
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by andirk 4y ago
Yes, exactly. I disagree that it's a distraction. It is to point out that there are a plethora of issues with crypto but pointing out issues with faith-based currency doesn't separate crypto from fiat. As a fan of crypto I see the
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by andirk 4y ago
Good on them for cashing some of their winnings into fiat!... then showering 50 Cent with the money. Being humble, even in the face of new wealth, is a virtue. Spending it all at da club to prove one is a big man is pretty pathetic. Those M
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by andirk 4y ago
A fully decentralized internet accessible via ad hoc network connections that cannot be obstructed by any centralized entity. The main problem it solves is getting information to people under oppressive governments, and to people who don&#x
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by andirk 4y ago
Maybe, but the software we can build can multiply one's human abilities. One can feed a man a fish, or one can create a robot that finds the sustainable amount of fish to catch, cleans it with no harmful soaps, cooks it to a safely edi
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by andirk 4y ago
This is the correct answer. I believe VR is a large part of the future, but in the mean time, the GTA franchise has nothing even close to 2nd place to it.
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by andirk 4y ago
Put less important things at the bottom! It's that simple. Most text-heavy content should work without Javascript. Also helps search engines understand that your site isn't selling batches of cookies :)
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by andirk 4y ago
These comments lead me to believe that a lot of people don't realize fiat was invested by regular people. It wasn't all crypto bros playing with space cash. If that fact isn't understood, then it's pretty clear many of o
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by andirk 4y ago
I think the biggest victims are the people who held accounts that got drained. They were aware of the risk but they believed people smarter than them at least checked that the bank vault wasn't build on quicksand. VCs have access and a
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by andirk 4y ago
The VC money is nothing new. Throw money at a handful of possible game-changers and see what sticks. The customers did not simply buy crypto. They gambled it. That's a gamble on top of a gamble being run by a few people in the Bahamas.
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by andirk 4y ago
For a highly technical and intelligent group that is HN, being blanket negative on crypto is the battle cry, but pointing out how fiat is largely based on fiction as well ("faith" written next to a stone mason eye in a pyramid) is
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by andirk 4y ago
NFTs are collectors items. It's as stupid as collecting anything, including fine art, photography, baseball cards, rocks. I'll admit it seems more strange because it's uninteresting, but claiming collecting is idiotic is pret
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by andirk 4y ago
Why is headcount so important? Especially for internationally run (read: not Silicon Valley expensive) companies and with probably large customer service depts (read: not expensive), is the headcount number that easy to use as a metric?
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by andirk 4y ago
Incompetent people usually hire equally incompetent people as to not be found out. I have seen it done subconsciously and outright deliberately.
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by andirk 4y ago
Don't forget about "modernizing" the design. It needs to be modern. AKA it needs weeks of design people to copy what some popular website or app did that they personally think looks rad.
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by andirk 4y ago
> a small group of miners can amend the protocol You mean a large group of miners, right? And please don't negate what someone says with just "that's wrong". How is that helpful? I clearly said the literal definition
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by andirk 4y ago
When one says bitcoin is not inflationary, they mean that the supply does not inflate. You are accurate that bitcoin's purchasing power can wane aka deflate. In my opinion and many others it is moot because everything deflates. As far

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