andirk

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by andirk 1y ago
5$bn may not buy a huge amount of voting power, but if there are close votes on important things then it could be enough to affect the company. Keeping ones enemies closer, regardless of voting, can also help overall.
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by andirk 1y ago
According to [0] it was a contractor working for both Apple and Microsoft. Not an ex-Apple employee but still an interesting read, if true. [0] https://thisdayintechhistory.com/12/06/apple-sues-over-quick...
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by andirk 1y ago
I invested in a shitcoin called USD in 2013 and now it's worth a lot less. I invested in BTC in 2016 and now it's worth a lot more. Positives and negatives to fiat and crypto and none are immune to having issues.
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by andirk 1y ago
Bitcoin may be better compared to gold bars: I give someone a couple gold bars and then realize it was a mistake. Those gold bars are gone unless the other party is willing to return them. Credit cards have a 3% charge on everything. That i
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by andirk 1y ago
Doing KYC is somewhat against the whole idea of like "no government involvement" but it doesn't negate that the government controls the currency. You lost all interest because Bitcoin became attractive to people who deal with
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by andirk 1y ago
Fun! How is it that such a long hash can be shown in a 5x6 grid with some 256^3 options per slot? I get 503,316,480 possibilities. But aren't those hashes supposed to be so numerous that there's basically no chance of collisions?
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by andirk 1y ago
USD 100k is an absurd amount for most people to invest all at once in anything whatsoever, not to mention the risk level involved. USD 10k is a lot but more reasonable. And that nets way less than USD 100k in this situation, which isn'
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by andirk 1y ago
In hindsight, I suggest GPUs and hardware that can handle both bitcoin _and_ ML, and oscillate between the two as demand oscillates.
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by andirk 1y ago
So fees being too high is bad for bitcoin, and fees too low is bad for bitcoin?
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by andirk 1y ago
Bitcoin and crypto in general has risks like any other investment, just a lot more of them. SHA-256 attack means everything's doomed though right? And 51% attack with the size of the network is some absolutely insane amount of GPU powe
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by andirk 1y ago
Can someone explain how a BTC tumbler can fail to obfuscate the history of a certain BTC wallet? Seems like such an easy way to basically blame everyone involved in the tumbler which is not how prosecution works. A defense counsel tactic si
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by andirk 1y ago
Prediction that has been right 100% of the time (so far): Bitcoin's value will be more in the future. Now that stonk people are in to BTC and it's worth is much higher, it's volatility is far less. It's still a speculati
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by andirk 1y ago
Been shilling crypto since 2016 and never heard "Bit" as a reference to bitcoin. Common are: Bitcoin, BTC, satoshis, sats, crypto, bitkorns, space cash.
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by andirk 1y ago
Through a lot of people agreeing on a standard.
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by andirk 1y ago
I see it as more of a hedge. Put 1% into the counterpoint to the rest of your portfolio. I'm personally heavily invested in crypto so I make sure to hold traditional stonks as kind of a hedge against all this space cash crashing to gro
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by andirk 1y ago
oh no
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by andirk 1y ago
I remember using the "Sliding Doors" technique. https://www.htmlgoodies.com/css/how-to-create-sliding-doors-...
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by andirk 1y ago
I too use my share of simplifications (Brave Browser, Ghostery, archive.is ) but the fact is until ~2008, web content was auxiliary to the main form of content ingestion via newspapers, magazines, TV, radio. Now that the Web is one of the m
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by andirk 1y ago
Any time I land on a webpage that has text that goes full width left-to-right with a white background and black text I feel there's a good chance it will be very useful content. I miss that.
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by andirk 1y ago
Example: Reddit is persistent on the user downloading the app when almost everything I digest from it is 95% plain text and basic images, and occasionally a video embed. There is zero use for an app when the World Wide Web was made for this
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by andirk 1y ago
When I have made custom video players, the key is to replicate all the expected behaviors (space bar pauses, etc) and then add bells n whistles from there. The <video> API is (I think) always the ultimate arbiter, so respect the user
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by andirk 1y ago
Cant find the OG quoter but "Wikipedia doesn't work in theory but does work IRL"
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by andirk 1y ago
I'm currently learning Python for my ML/Tensorflow online coirses. I thought bc I know C++ it'd be super easy but theres a lot of differences between them. Turns out an "easier" big boy language still has a bit of a
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by andirk 1y ago
Is Python especially popular because of its easier learning curve?
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by andirk 1y ago
I like how it doesn't work on default Brave browser! Does work on my default android Chrome. Assuming Brave blocks this web API for security reasons. Didn't ask me to allow it though
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by andirk 1y ago
Interesting point about wash trading being somewhat untraceable. How about a coin that connects a hash whatever to each chunk of the token as it moves around so every coin has a backstory written into the blockchain. And that sounds like cu
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by andirk 1y ago
You have put much doubt in my best guess thus far which is an Australian living in Japan, and now no longer with us. Due to the British-like tone, the Japanese-like pseudonym, and the timestamps that reflected a daytime in a western Atlanti
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by andirk 1y ago
"You wouldn't copyright a font"
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by andirk 1y ago
I remember AOL email to AOL email had an "unsend" feature for a while.
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by andirk 2y ago
> the world's most famous con artist is fully on board. Correlation does not imply causation. That con artist is also big on semiconductors. His being on board BTC means it has the ability to enrich the ultra rich more which also do

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