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mnemotronic
7y ago
I don't mean the bank accounts on either end of the EFT; I mean the actual EFT itself. My thinking is that an end-to-end transfer of asset value via bitcoin is essentially the same thing as doing it via EFT; while the sum to be transf
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mnemotronic
7y ago
Does an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) qualify as using a "virtual currency"? ‘virtual currency’ means a digital representation of value that is used as a medium of exchange and is not otherwise currency under section 988.
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mnemotronic
7y ago
To catch a drone, or drone operator, use another drone. Any chance the drone activity is related to Kim Jong-un's promised Christmas present? NE Colorado has, or had at one time, a few Atlas or Minuteman missile silos.
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7y ago
The Roy Holorbison backup singers sounded so bad I thought they were intentionally trying to show what a bad idea this is.
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7y ago
So if earthquakes do generate "electric field lines", can we tap into that and generate electricity from those field lines? And, if so, since that would be "stealing" energy from the quake, could it diminish the quake i
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7y ago
* Regular expressions. The most valuable "not a language" that I know. * SQL. For me, it was a trip coming from a procedural language background. I kept trying to figure out how to do loops. * Command line - DOS and unix *
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mnemotronic
8y ago
Does electricity at this level -- electrons moving in a corkscrew motion down a wire -- generate an electromagnetic field? If so, how does this field differ from electron motion in a normal conductor?
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8y ago
I think that knowing frequencies and hearing frequencies still leaves one a long way from being able to tweak a string to match that frequency. Question for piano tuners: Does tuning the piano require multiple iterations? When re-tuning my
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8y ago
Not chronological order .... Peer pressure. --- "What? You DONT know regular expressions?!?! I thought an ace like you would be all over those". Not enough official work. --- "I think I'll try learning Java. Maybe u
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8y ago
Nice article. Some people, like Hansen, think outside the box into which many of us have placed ourselves.
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8y ago
I'm a software guy. Most of that sheet is a foreign language to me.
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8y ago
I think what I had was called a Body Guardian. It consisted of a bunch of sticky strips (photo here: https://imgur.com/I9cXw1V ) that had 4 skin contact pads on the sticky side and 4 snap connectors on the other side. I
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8y ago
What is "single lead" device? Is that a single electrical contact patch? How can that detect anything? I've used a single patch with 4 electrical contacts for a 30 day Holter test, plus the standard 24 hour Holter monitor w
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Unfair Advantage: How Amazon uses it's immense power to pressure sellers
(thesunmagazine.org)
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8y ago
At some point, I loaned out Vols 1 & 3 of my 1981 edition to a co-worker then forgot about it. Adios! Same thing happened to my DVD set of "The Prisoner" series with Patrick McGoohan. Let that be a lesson: If you loan someth
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8y ago
My wife really needs this. Morton's neuroma, botched endometriosis surgery, and fibromyalgia. I don't know about the FM - that's so global I think it would be hard to target a specific nerve ending.
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8y ago
{quote} ... I connected it to a pair of 30-year-old, three-way Panasonic speakers, which I frequently use for testing.{/quote} Ummmm. I'm tempted to dismiss the author's entire project based on that. Why not use a pair of d
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8y ago
Wow. Haven't gone near C++ for 12+ years. It done got weird.
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8y ago
<quote> ... a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel d
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8y ago
I know some local artists and a gas station that tack on an extra fee if customer pays with a CC. They're just trying to cover the costs imposed by Amex, Visa etc. Does this decision make that illegal?
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9y ago
Flashback to fabled seafloor manganese nodules [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule ] and the Hughes Glomar Explorer [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian ]
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9y ago
note: I don't know linux... Is it possible to get the GPU to copy kernel / system memory to the framebuffer, then read that back with user space app? I.e. can we convince the GPU or framebuffer to give us the contents of protecte
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9y ago
Not related to http://leokottke.com/
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I do glassblowing as a hobby. I'd like to replicate some of the patterns in those pics in glass. Might have to deviate from the color spectrum in the pictures. The reds I use are nowhere near as intense.
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9y ago
keywords: REMOTE, CLEARANCE -- OPM Background Investigators -- http://www.caci.com/job/opm_job_opps.shtml keywords: ONSITE, REMOTE -- The full list -- http://careers.caci.com/page/show/fea
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9y ago
We don't do benchmarks. Our network security team verifies VPN transaction performance and ensures packet security using general purpose scripts that, strangely, look like they're doing basic db operations on different servers a
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9y ago
Thanks for the requirements and use case. How about a Gofundme to start on development? I also see a group providing drone attack services along the lines of booter/stresser DDoS providers (distributed denial of services). On the oth
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Yea! A whole new attack surface. A hacked AST file could cause memory corruption and other faults in the browser-side binary expander.
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I'm fjnorked. I wonder if McDonalds needs a whopper-flopper or cashier with 40 years of s/w development experience.
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10y ago
I would like an on-line version that can generate mp3 from supplied text. In English using a British accent. Female. I have my reasons.
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