mech422

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by mech422 5y ago
I agree with the other comments - I wouldn't worry about it too much. If the projects were pertinent to the work your trying to get - throw them on your resume and call it good. Showing you have a passion for a field/tech. etc. w
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by mech422 5y ago
Hasn't the UK economy had enough 'transformation' lately?
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by mech422 5y ago
You crash it the same way you crash fiat... Give it to bankers :-P
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by mech422 5y ago
Cardano is still my long term fav.. Be interesting to see how it competes once the smart contract support is completed. Binance has gathered a lot of momentum in that space in a relatively short time.
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by mech422 5y ago
Perhaps I'm jaded... But I'm always skeptical of how people push coins that were just released. Look at the 'awesome' returns on ICP for instance :-P I'll give Solana a few weeks to stabilize before I even look at
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by mech422 5y ago
yeah - unfortunately, it gets harder to find native apps every year...
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by mech422 5y ago
I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but some seem to believe this. From what I've seen, its a losing game. You can kiss all the ass you want, socialize whatever. But when there is an opening in companies like that, it seems like
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by mech422 5y ago
yeah - been thru that once..twice..wait 3 times... lets see: india, china, russia... And yet, all the developers I know actually managed to stay employed/get jobs/etc. The world is full of doom-sayers...and someday they'll be
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by mech422 5y ago
I've been remote/WFH for the past 20 years, and it gets more common every year. For the past 4-5 years, I haven't even worked for companies in the same time zone/continent. Its never been an issue for me personally&#x2
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by mech422 5y ago
Yes! filecoin! Thank you! The requirements seemed a bit extreme to say the least...
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by mech422 5y ago
yeah - the phone scammers seem to like gift cards...
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - I know...I'm just pointing out that's not the only type of cybercrime. High value/High dollar hacks happened before crypto, and they'll happen after crypto... Probably the biggest factor in the recent ransomware
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by mech422 5y ago
I can't remember which coin it was, but we were looking at one the other day that required about $20K of hardware for a full node and 2 workers nodes to go with it... Just insane. Won't be playing with a lot of the new gen. coins
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by mech422 5y ago
>>If crypto disappeared from the world today, the only thing that would change is cybercrime would reduce by at least half...maybe more hehe Yeah - cuz no one hacked banks, cut fraudulent POs, or any of the other scams before crypto.
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by mech422 5y ago
Fair enough... My bank/brokerage doesn't take crypto. So Zelle is the next best thing given how slow and expensive wiretransfer/ACH is. (Wasn't wire transfer supposed to be 'fast', it generally seems slower the
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by mech422 5y ago
The key word there is 'supposed'... Theranos, B. Madoff, and others seemed to feel that was just a suggestion :-P Also, businesses are not required to buy their stock back from you, so they are not 'backed' any more then
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by mech422 5y ago
I was down until the on-prem thing.. Still, I wouldn't be surprised about insane wages for COBOL. You make money at the bleeding edge of tech, or way back on the tail end - scarcity breeds profit :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
That sounded great until the 'wealthy small business owners' part.. So the mega rich get off again... Aannd of course, govt's are already trying to carve out provisions for their local pet industries in the G7 15% corporate t
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by mech422 5y ago
I think for me it would probably be a Commodore 'Super Pet'.. What was it? like 5 languages in ROM? And a real monitor - not a wimpy lil 3" one like the kaypro's and osbornes had either! Back in my vic-20/c64 days,
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by mech422 5y ago
Heh..I actually did the long distance thing for BBSs with my lil C64 and a 300 baud modem. QuickMail with BlueWave offline reader, and TradeWarz2000! Heaven! :-) I don't remember having to call long distance for an ISP though - dial up
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by mech422 5y ago
This looks really neat! Congratulations :-) I haven't seen logo since the Apple ][, so it was kinda cool to see its compatible with the Apple logo !
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah... it's rather sad. It's like a kid kicking down a sand castle just out of spite...
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by mech422 5y ago
Wow - I specifically called out that most people don't write mortgages, presented what I thought was a relevant scenario for the 'average person' ... And you specifically go out of your way to pretend you didn't see it&#
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Breaking up the bells quickly resulted in dramatic price drops. I can't remember how different my bills were, but I do remember all the jokes about how breaking Bell up made things worse.
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by mech422 5y ago
Hmm - not sure I follow - the transfers were for more then 1 ADA, so wouldn't the utxo already be over 1 ADA? (and this was wallet to wallet, so I'd assume that would be a 'pure ada' transaction? Anyway - glad to hear it
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by mech422 5y ago
>>We are complaining about maintenance of old COBOL code but God be with the poor people who in 20 years will have to maintain the monstrosities we are creating today. I'm hoping for some major tax changes right before my retirem
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by mech422 5y ago
They literally threw the country into a recession? Also, the average person isn't writing mortgages. A better example might be the average investor in a company. The average investor loses everything if a company goes under. Some cre
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by mech422 5y ago
>>It's reasonable to ask just how useful It's totally reasonable to ask how useful something is for you. However, other people might have other answers to that question. For instance, if existing solutions suited everyone
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by mech422 5y ago
The mortgages were known to be essentially valueless, packaged up and resold anyway.. that's not what I'd consider having a 'real investment' at the heart of them. And the value of the real estate didn't cover the
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Because if you want people to switch from credit/debit/paypal to crypto, This seems to be the crux of our conversation. I _don't_ want people to switch unless they're ready to take the risks. Crypto is still in

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