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by aphextim 7y ago
One thing IBM has been working on is trying to solve the issue of worldwide remittances and global payments by using Stellar (XLM) and their block-chain solution to bridge various assets and fiat currencies. https://www.ibm.com&#
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by aphextim 7y ago
I work at a construction company where they may have 15-30 projects active at any time ranging from 1 month to 3 years. On these projects the site superintendent is responsible for taking a minimum of 10 photos a day. It was my job to take
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by aphextim 7y ago
If you do not have a Facebook account, or you quit / deactivated your account 4 years ago, how would one go about erasing the history without reactivating/creating an account?
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by aphextim 7y ago
The thing is that 96 bitcoin could be thrown through a mixer of sorts. Take the 96 bitcoin, split it into 96 different addresses with 1 bitcoin, then mix those 96 individual addresses to multiple new addresses and then reassemble them elsew
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by aphextim 7y ago
Our company pilot uses his iPad and foreflight all the time. I am pretty sure flying a plane is real work too.
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by aphextim 7y ago
When I was toying around with mining some alt coins with GPUs a few years back I had the thought when joining a mining pool on say supernova, what is to prevent someone from doing an attack and convincing the pool to send my coins to them i
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by aphextim 7y ago
I am not sure if the following is true or one of those stories that gets recycled. While I was working at Best Buy - the Geek squad told us a story of an older Lady who brought in a computer wrapped entirety in plastic saran wrap, to preven
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by aphextim 7y ago
Fun Fact: The N64 Logo has exactly 64 faces and 64 vertices
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by aphextim 7y ago
Thank you for this!
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by aphextim 7y ago
I bounce between DDG and Qwant. I usually can find what I am looking for from one of those two options. https://www.qwant.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/
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by aphextim 7y ago
From the article >Nearly 1 billion consumers currently use the Apple lightning port. Bearing that in mind, replacing a billion chargers in a short space of time would overload the electronic waste sector, defeating the motive of the dire
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by aphextim 7y ago
That works from what I've observed at my company for jobs on a timetable < 6 months, or a shutdown/repair industrial type job. Once you start getting into 5 phase, 2.5 year long projects it helps having a dedicated PM overseein
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by aphextim 7y ago
This is why my partner and I have taken up XC skiing in our area vs downhill. We can pay something like $35 a year when we register our vehicle, and we then have unfettered access to the State's national parks, which contain a lot of s
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by aphextim 7y ago
I live in Upper Michigan and have noticed that our area seems to be less effected than others. If you like data here is some information regarding snowfall in the U.P. http://funintheup.com/snowfall/upper-peninsula-snow
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by aphextim 7y ago
My area has been getting more snow over the last 10 years, more similar to what I had when I was younger. I did notice that years 2000-2010 it appeared that every year was getting warmer/less snow but lately in the short term at least
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by aphextim 7y ago
Noted and updated to remove.
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by aphextim 7y ago
Dispersed was the word I was looking for. Nothing was added to the fuel to dilute. I incorrectly use Diluted probably because I had an old roommate was in water tech always use the phrase jokingly, "The solution to pollution is dilutio
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by aphextim 7y ago
Very true, I shouldn't have said standard practice and should have phrased it differently as I'm sure they would rather keep the fuel than waste it as you describe.
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by aphextim 7y ago
Pretty sure that dumping fuel can be quite common when there is a critical malfunction before they return to land. As someone pointed out they would prefer to keep the fuel because it is expensive and they really don't want to dump ove
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by aphextim 7y ago
At a construction company I worked for, every time they were done with a computer they took the hard drive out and ran a drill press through it a few times. Not sure how one would recover that data though. Otherwise a program to 'shred
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by aphextim 7y ago
>One of the arsonists caught was a firefighter, who's presumably plenty educated on the risks of starting a fire. It is my personal belief that this person intended to start the fire and managed to become a firefighter in order to t
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by aphextim 7y ago
>The ignition source is really not relevant, that's the final step in a long chain and will happen naturally at some point. I feel like it is relevant because even if Arson is responsible for 2% of the fires, it would be advantageou
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by aphextim 7y ago
I came in here expecting to see a joke about the day in Alaska that is almost 24 hours. >On June 21, Anchorage gets 22 hours of functional daylight. https://www.anchorage.net/plan-your-trip/hours-of-daylight/
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by aphextim 7y ago
I have a wonderful partner who takes care a lot of the budgeting/payments etc. I make 2/3 of the household income and I let her have free reign to save/pay things as I personally have a hard time saving money. What I notice s
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by aphextim 7y ago
>Though arson has been tried and called for before as a tool of terror, the Australian fires seem to result from the actions of unconnected individuals who are either disturbed or reckless. "Seem to result" I personally would
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by aphextim 7y ago
I wish the Senate Democrats would try to do something productive rather than keep wasting taxpayers money on stuff that is not getting anything done. I personally think that society would benefit more as a whole if they were able to lay som
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by aphextim 7y ago
Not OP however I remember a Paradox of "Diverse Community" a while back. Googled it and found the old article. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/11/paradox-diverse-commu... Also one more > In l
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by aphextim 7y ago
So if someone robs a bank, uses a cell phone to contact a driver who is in a getaway car.... Can the bank sue the gun manufacturer the robber used? Can the bank sue the cell phone company the robber used to contact his driver? Can the bank
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by aphextim 7y ago
I've never "lost control" with LSD or seen anyone do the same. Typically it is like a magic eye book where you can dial yourself back to reality. DMT on the other hand, when someone blasts off they are gone for a good 10-15 m
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by aphextim 7y ago
One time this 'guru' told me, "That is what happens when you try to put a 6 cylinder drug into a 4 cylinder mind." when referring to someone at a festival who lost their shit. Granted it could have been a bad dose, but w

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