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Employer tax withholding is a scam(larrysalibra.com)
4 points by larrysalibra 3y ago|0 comments
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Chainhook: A Reorg-Aware Bitcoin Transaction Indexer Written in Rust(hiro.so)
2 points by larrysalibra 3y ago|0 comments
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
Ha! Nice riff on Seinfeld’s seedless watermelon bit! https://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
Only Facetime Audio calls are disabled. Normal Facetime calls with video work fine with mainland china purchased iphones....so you have to call people using those phones with video even if you just want to talk to them and not see them. I
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
7-Eleven seems to be doing well since it was acquired in 2005 by Japanese company Seven & I Holdings.
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
A bit over a decade ago, I met the founder of a company called EarPeace [1] that makes volume-reducing earplugs for music festivals in a bar in a suburb of Guangzhou. He gave me his pitch about the irony of how people who love music end up
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
Hong Konger here: Or four times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, and disposal price Hong Konger who rents here: Or five times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, moving price and disposal price
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
I've also used for dvorak for a long time...over 15 years. I've never changed keycaps. If you're looking at your fingers while typing qwerty, learning to type dvorak on a qwerty keyboard might just be useful in that it will f
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by larrysalibra 3y ago
Cool! I made an effort to study Cantonese about 10 years ago and wish I'd come across these sites! At the time, I heavily relied on another great Cantonese dictionary/resource site: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk&#x2F
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Same problem - blocked in Thailand. The site owner probably configured blocking by country.
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Yes, it does assume someone writes a client that enables this.
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
If you get kicked off a mastodon server, you lose your followers and posts unless you're able to move your account before you're kicked off - which requires the cooperation of the server that wants to kick you off. > If nobody
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
> If the problem which Nostr is trying to solve is being censorship-resistant and allow for dissemination of information which is actively being suppressed, relay safety considerations become important. Less safety means fewer relays, an
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
All this stuff might true, but from both a user and a developer perspective it actually works today and has a vibrant community of motivated, talented and interesting people building on it AND using it. There are ways to address all of thes
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
The relationship to bitcoin besides being created by bitcoiners is that it uses Schnorr Signatures for the secp256k1 curve - the same curve as bitcoin. https://bips.xyz/340 A Nostr account is identified by a public key, you
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
My favorite Nostr client (web or non-web) is Damus for iOS by jb55: https://damus.io It looks great, works well, the code well-written and super easy to hack on.
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
The best introduction to Nostr is on the Nostr protocol github: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#very-short-summary-o... >Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish some
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Bringing Names to Nostr(newinternetlabs.com)
1 points by larrysalibra 4y ago|0 comments
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Former American here...grew up in Ohio but haven't lived in the country for a while (2007). When did coffee shops in the US start asking for tips? It must be a relatively new thing. Never saw tips asked for at coffee shops when visitin
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
I did a road trip that passed through Serbia a few years ago and we couldn’t find any restaurant that wasn’t full of smoke besides McDonald’s so we just skipped eating meals until we got to a neighboring country that didn’t have this proble
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Nostrovia - a podcast about Nostr https://nostrovia.org
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Feel free to use MyBlockchain https://www.myblockchain.xyz/
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Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances(news.bloomberglaw.com)
333 points by larrysalibra 4y ago|189 comments
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Back in 2016, my name ended up on the physical menu in a restaurant in Shenzhen as the english translation for the dish 美式杂扒饭 - "American-style assorted grilled meats." https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status&
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by larrysalibra 4y ago
Apple knows what form of work is best for Apple. If it turns out they are wrong, they'll eventually suffer in the market as the result of making the wrong choice. That said, being remote or hybrid first seems like it would be a huge co
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Elizabeth Stark’s Lightning Labs Raises $70M to ‘Bitcoinize’ the U.S. Dollar(forbes.com)
8 points by larrysalibra 5y ago|1 comments
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by larrysalibra 5y ago
> “Sorry, you have citizenship from the High Risk Country list, accordingly I’m not allowed to open this account for you. This is a commercial decision of the bank and will not be reversed.” This sounds like what I heard from a lot of no
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by larrysalibra 5y ago
Or check out Moxie Marlinspike's old boat he fixed up in Florida with friends and sailed away in: https://vimeo.com/15351476
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by larrysalibra 5y ago
Carriers can also configure physical SIMs to only work with certain equipment.
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by larrysalibra 5y ago
Yes, you can usually pay inside. Also, just entering any 5 digit zip code will often work. Had no issues with random 5 digit zip codes and my UK and HK-issued cards at gas pumps in the USA.

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