synicalx

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by synicalx 9y ago
Monitors don't come in 65" and 75" sizes though. I've tried using a 42" "monitor" in my living room but due to the rather odd shape of the room (very long) I could barely see it, couldn't even make ou
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'm waiting for the Facebook reviews; "I ordered non-dairy, gluten free, fair trade, ethical, lactose free, halal, sanctified, low salt, low carb, kosher rice but instead I just got a plain bag of white rice and no certificates. L
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by synicalx 9y ago
Africa has a wide selection of such places, but there is a fairly high chance any 'adventures' may be interrupted by child soldiers.
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by synicalx 9y ago
So lets get some high-level steps here; 1. Cut all ties and move to either an Amish settlement or a country with no or little access to electricity. 2. Locate the local stand-up of disillusioned 10x'ers. 3. Romp and play among the tree
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by synicalx 9y ago
Is that unexpected?
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by synicalx 9y ago
I've always hated my jobs, but I keep doing them because I'm good at what I do, and I get paid well for it (at least I do now anyway). For me, work is just a means to an end - I earn money so I can spend it on the stuff I actually
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by synicalx 9y ago
How do the sailors go missing? They're either on the boat, in which case they're not missing because that's where they should be, or they're in the water in which case they'll be very close by. Am I missing somethin
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by synicalx 9y ago
Ok, then who has the money now?
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by synicalx 9y ago
Some famous quotes from the author: "Ok honey, now type in gcloud compute instances create my-vm --zone us-central1-b --preemptible . But don't forget the --preemptible otherwise the bank will take our house." "You do
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by synicalx 9y ago
But can you use this forked version, and normal BTC interchangeably?
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'm sure the parties involved in transferring $160M via an anonymous and untraceable currency had perfectly legitimate reasons for doing so /s.
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by synicalx 9y ago
Three days in Australia, and that's enforced by ASIC not the bank. Moving money is instant though, unless it's to a credit union which can take around 24 hours or so.
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by synicalx 9y ago
It would be more accurate to say, that a recent transaction sent $160M worth of Bitcoin . Tomorrow that might only be worth $150M, who knows?
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by synicalx 9y ago
Nice try, Chris
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by synicalx 9y ago
Well, it's never been used outside of testing scenarios and it's actual stats/capabilities are not really public knowledge. Very early testing was a disaster, it missed every target it engaged. But I think about a year (maybe
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by synicalx 9y ago
On the contrary, acting tough is working - in the last month China has actually tried reigning Kim in. Even as recently as last night they (quite surprisingly) sided with the UN and killed about a third of North Korea's trade income. A
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by synicalx 9y ago
You're describing a counselor there I believe, you'd really be wasting your money by going to a psychologist just to talk things over or vent. Psychologist would be a good choice if you have a specific issue (preferably on the ref
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by synicalx 9y ago
Is there an incentive to buy it though, beyond pure speculation? Maybe as a buy and hold investment I suppose? At the moment it has very limited use as a practical currency - I can't buy my groceries with Bitcoin, I can't put fuel
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by synicalx 9y ago
Nothing with BTC ever makes sense. If you've ever seen American Beauty, just think of BTC like that plastic bag caught in the wind - of little real value, and flying around all over the place in an uncontrolled and unpredictable manner
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by synicalx 9y ago
Maybe that person is actually asking an honest question, as their comment alludes to?
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by synicalx 9y ago
Not knowing everything there is to know about Bitcoin is verbotten on HN. So is having a differing opinion apparently, as I re-discover every few weeks.
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by synicalx 9y ago
I can't of any one single business where the day-to-day news fluctuates between "Oh no! It's worth nothing!" and "NEW RECORD HIGH". Basically, BTC fluctuating wildly because of [current event] is not new s it&#
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by synicalx 9y ago
I'm hanging on until I can officially pad my resume with all the office-move stuff (network redesign being a big one), but the second another job comes up after that I'm out there.
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by synicalx 9y ago
We're going one step better at my work with our new/future office, "Activity Based Working". All the trappings of "open plan" but with even more features to make Government work more soul-crushing and complicat
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by synicalx 9y ago
Hindsight is 20/20 I guess. At the time, the threat of using nukes was probably quite a sound and rational decision - after all, by that point millions were dead and wounded on both sides and if the war continued there could very well
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by synicalx 9y ago
If the US doesn't get involved in policing this, then who would? Surely you can't say that a nuclear North Korea is a good thing?
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by synicalx 9y ago
It's really a terrible situation, and I agree there's no way this is going to end well. Nuking NK will mean at best, an environmental and humanitarian disaster on scale we can't even comprehend, and at worse a full on nuclear
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by synicalx 9y ago
The problem is, any sort of strike against the North is unfathomably risky - they've basically got some 25 million South Koreans hostage, with their obscene number of conventional artillery pieces within spitting distance of the DMZ. I
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by synicalx 9y ago
Been a bit of a running joke between my partner and I that if you want to get a discount on something from Etsy, reverse image search it and buy it off Aliexpress for 50 cents.
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by synicalx 9y ago
Good lord people, if you don't like it then don't buy it. I swear to god this exact same reaction occurs every time something old starts getting replaced by something new. Same thing happened with the iPhone 7, even though it came

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