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by mdip 9y ago
While the bloat of having to basically install a full version of Chrome just to get a UI makes a little part of me die inside, I'll second the 8+ hours a day in VSCode. I'm working on a python project right now and enjoying PyCh
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by mdip 9y ago
I laughed at this -- I believe Keybase is also electron and that's on my must-install list every time. Props to VS Code - that, along with the excellent Markdown Enhanced Preview and (less excellent, but usable) VSVim extension is my
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by mdip 9y ago
I keep a lot of notes (probably generating on the order of 10-15 pages on a good day[0]), so while some folks are knocking the whole "Yet Another Note Taking App Oh My Gosh!" sort of thing, I am thankful that folks are looking i
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by mdip 9y ago
Off topic to the discussion, but you hit on something that struck a nerve with me so I'm going to go with it . . . Oh good God, this happens to me every time one of my smoke alarm batteries starts to go. I have 6 smoke detectors and
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by mdip 9y ago
I've been a die-hard Firefox guy for a long time ... I stuck around while the browser was being surpassed in performance by Chrome[0]. I left briefly when developer edition was updated in a manner that prevented my most relied upo
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by mdip 9y ago
The law is a funny little thing. The thing I take more issue with is the concept of how audits are handled -- "guilty until proven innocent". I have a friend who runs a seasonal cash-only business who got audited about 5 years ag
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by mdip 9y ago
How did I miss that announcement?! And I just renewed for the year, ugh! Oh well, I'm cancelling it tomorrow and deleting my data. It's so inconvenient syncing up an encrypted container[0] with Drive, but the convenience of ha
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by mdip 9y ago
It looks like I'm not the only one who visits your blog almost daily in anticipation that a feature as cool as Keybase Filesystem or Encrypted Git gets announced. While this was an iteration, you nailed a feature I really need with ope
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by mdip 9y ago
Oh, man I love this product. I was an evangelist for it back when it required invites and was only useful for storing GPG keys and linking them to your social media accounts. Then keybase filesystem came along and I thought "well, su
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by mdip 9y ago
While I don't take issue with the spirit of your comment, and I tend to agree with it, I found myself thinking about it a little bit -- that is, the differences between the world of finance and the world of Cryptocurrency. The reality
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by mdip 9y ago
On my end, I made the assumption that the IRS was going to get this data, anyway. Though Coinbase doesn't fall under the same blanket as my bank, with the way they operate and what they do, it's only a matter of time before they&
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by mdip 9y ago
To each his own, I guess. In my case, I find advantages to both so much that I routinely switch between them. My main workstation is connected to a 55" Vizio HDTV (a model that supports Chroma 4:4:4 and represents text of various col
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by mdip 9y ago
On my end, I never actually stopped using Firefox after Chrome came out. I had Chrome installed and used it mostly for testing and validation of web code, but my day-to-day was Firefox. I had my extensions configured and setup in it and
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by mdip 9y ago
Thank God, no. And, of course, there are plenty of safe options for storing Bitcoin. I don't own any Bitcoin (what little cryptocurrency I do own is all ETH), and while I did look at some of the HSMs out there for myself, at the time
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by mdip 9y ago
As one of the other commentators mentioned (and has been called out a few times), in the case of other futures, you are actually settling them with the commodity in question, but in the case of this product, you are settling with cash. I t
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by mdip 9y ago
On a very basic level, I get most of that. But in the cases you mention, you're actually buying a contract based in the actual asset/security you're targeting. In this case, it sounds like you're buying an asset that i
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by mdip 9y ago
So you nailed down the specific part that I wasn't grasping in that paragraph: the "Bitcoin Reference Rate". Again, this is an area where I'm horribly naive and wouldn't imagine investing in (partly because I don&#
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm a little surprised you're getting downvoted so much, but I suspect it has to do with: > the entirety of the current bitcoin ecosystem is built on and around fraud. If we are to remove fraud and clearly currently defined as
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by mdip 9y ago
This is going to speak to my naivety around futures and how they work but if you're ending up with cash instead of bitcoin and there's no actual bitcoin wallets/bitcoins involved, what on earth are you actually buying when
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by mdip 9y ago
> Only fools keep substantial Bitcoin balances in exchange wallets. Or, "regular folks". My in-laws who have no idea what it actually is that they purchased use Coinbase and have no idea that doing so is not much b
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by mdip 9y ago
Heh, I get the sarcasm implied here, but I think the bigger issue is that a lot of "futures" are based on things that have reasons[0] for the price moving the way that it does. Oil futures, while unpredictable at times, have an e
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by mdip 9y ago
It's been fun watching Bitcoin as a whole and especially watching financial folks try to wrap their brains around Bitcoin, its price and seeing them try to define exactly "what it is". Even my in-laws are investing a small a
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by mdip 9y ago
My visudo had a specific line: Defaults !insults Well, that won't do. Now, that's an improvement.
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by mdip 9y ago
Have to agree with you, but with a little bit of additional context. I get why people started rejecting statically typed languages. I work with many different languages, but started with statically typed languages with various forms of s
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by mdip 9y ago
When you're dealing with such a small amount of money, my best advise would be to keep it as Bitcoin. The worst that could happen is it crashes and you're out $12. If it goes up in value, you're up whatever that ends up bei
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by mdip 9y ago
I might not be the only person who remembers this time fondly for the profits it gave me. During this time I was doing a lot of computer repair for family friends and other acquaintances that I volunteered with. Most of this work was unpai
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by mdip 9y ago
While I realize this article is focusing on the more traditional "bankers jobs", every time I read an article about jobs at banks, I think of things I've been told by a few close friends who worked in the industry (back when
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by mdip 9y ago
> I agree it's probably a bad idea to post it publicly. This. I completely agree with you here. I would take it a large step further and say it was a despicable idea, particularly in the manner it was published as "Best decis
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by mdip 9y ago
> That's like blaming someone for hiring an incompetent builder to build their house. Well, kinda, but kinda not, too. When people hire builders they often know little/nothing about building a house and have a limited understa
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by mdip 9y ago
There is a whole lot of anger directed at the company and management regarding this post, and while I agree that it is deserved, seeing the developer in this situation is not "at fault" is also the wrong way of looking at this. M

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