andirk

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by andirk 2y ago
> “If the U.S. doesn’t get its debt under control, if deficits keep ballooning, America risks losing that position to digital assets like Bitcoin.” Keyword "like". To me, means something other than USD and not necessarily Bitco
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by andirk 2y ago
He coulda just said "Cuz stonks".
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by andirk 2y ago
Interesting scenario. If a government can tie a specific person to a specific wallet, they don't need the keys to go forward with whatever they want to do with that info. I wonder if the FBI can proclaim a certain wallet is yours and y
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by andirk 2y ago
Yup. Because we agreed to that up front to "transfer ownership" or some jargon. Otherwise yes it is yours.
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by andirk 2y ago
I was literally compiling a list of "agent" synonyms at lunch today. My favorite and most accurate so far is "doer".
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by andirk 2y ago
Just watched the whole thing. Thanks! I can't get in to my Masters CS: AI program at UC Berkeley because I'm dumb, but seeing this 1st day of a Probability class kinda felt like I was beginning that program haha. I will add a grea
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by andirk 2y ago
Wow obvious good point. Even if it was "preying mantis", plenty of creatures prey on prey without coital cannibalism. Other spiders, insects, and even snakes do similar but lack the name to warn the male of his danger.
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by andirk 2y ago
paywall. Sounds interesting though.
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by andirk 2y ago
With preying mantis and black widow it seemed, as their names suggest, very common for the female to eat the male after being boinked. However, it turns out that in the lab setting with a small closed environment, probably lots of lights an
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by andirk 2y ago
Everything ends eventually. From your other comments, it appears your singular idea is that bitcoin will go down in value. Consider adding it to the list [0]. Bitterness at not getting in on something does not equal any sort of truth though
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by andirk 2y ago
I am personally fine with advertisements curated to me. I intentionally interact with Instagram ads that I like to affect the algorithm, even if I don't care for the product at that moment. However, with request fingerprinting [0] and
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by andirk 2y ago
Imagine every website had a widget on the side giving an EXAMPLE of how your data will be used. Like "You have been marked with liking chocolate velvet cakes. This data can and will be used against you in the court of the next website
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by andirk 2y ago
I'm sure it's true, but is this considering 401k? Where the person has little to do with the individual stonks. > "Wealth inequality is only getting worse in this country and frankly I’m not sure what stops this train.&quo
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by andirk 2y ago
The act of scrolling is only noticeable by the browser + Javascript per whatever cycle it's on; it's not always watched except for at certain checkpoints. To more accurately be affected by quick scrolls, save the last known y-axis
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by andirk 2y ago
A guy falling that just keeps eating shiit.
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by andirk 2y ago
Waiting for the repo link. I will add a fork where the hamster's parachute doesn't redeploy if scrolling to fast and then the user "loses". Discourages scrolling. Might be helpful?
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by andirk 2y ago
All current bitcoin in current existence is max $2 to $3 trillion USD. I don't think we consider all currency on the planet to equal $81 trillion USD or even half that.
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by andirk 2y ago
In conclusion, USA is within the higher end of average of the past few decades?
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by andirk 2y ago
Thanks. Looks hideous. @function --light-dark(--light, --dark) { result: var(--light); @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { result: var(--dark); } }
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by andirk 2y ago
Brave is my favorite so far. You can run an HTTP monitor like Charles Proxy or Fiddler in your OS if you think your browser is snooping on you. I do Brave + Ghostery and works great.
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by andirk 2y ago
Brave has a couple crypto features in the UI but that's about it. I'm big on crypto but I don't use any of the browser's crypto features. Just a browser that cuts most of the bullshit out.
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by andirk 2y ago
I am curious as to whether this update would need a hard fork or soft fork. Soft = backwards compatible, meaning nodes on the old code still talk to the network as before, and new nodes have extra features (I think?). This update is adding
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by andirk 2y ago
"Take, for example, the simple case of a linear congruential generator (LCG), which is the typical textbook introduction to PRNG implementations. LCGs are to PRNG what ROT13 is to encryption and “1234” is to secure passwords. Despite t
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by andirk 2y ago
SQL database is mutable, right? One of the biggest features of blockchain tech is that it's almost completely immutable. Something happens and it happens forever and ever.
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by andirk 2y ago
You own a part of a finite pie that people want to have a stake in. So that's not nothing, however speculative it clearly is.
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by andirk 2y ago
Seems like a lot of HN is bitter about not buying a tech-centric in-their-face asset when it first started that they thought about but didn't grab a bag and could have changed their lives from great to giant multi-millionaire. Stonks a
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by andirk 2y ago
All valid points, but let's remember that most other stonks trade at some 40x of the value of the company.
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by andirk 2y ago
I'm no blockchain forensics...icist, but coins were moved from let's say one main Silk Road wallet to many other people's wallets legitimately, or as legit as a illicit drug transaction can be. Silk Road wallet A transfers co
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by andirk 2y ago
I haven't looked into the case(s) for years, but prosecutors don't often just drop charges because other charges were found guilty. People get charged even after life sentences have been handed down.
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by andirk 2y ago
Case law obsessively cites other case law. So yeah, that's how it works. His trial was a farce and was meant to send a message to others to not, um, do drugs online or something.

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