thelsdj

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by thelsdj 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the Bitcoin Core client supports Segregated Witness fine. I believe it will follow whatever the longest chain is (as long as its not larger than 1MB).
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by thelsdj 9y ago
Thinking about this even more, I feel like the composition could be represented as a series of transformations that go from simple to complex. So you start out with: * Track in C#Maj, 124BPM, 4/4 * Chord progression I–V–vi–IV ove
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by thelsdj 9y ago
I tend to mix (and do everything as I go) in Ableton. I just got a Push 2 so I've been building out some templates and racks to try to skip some of the tedium of trying to explore chord/melodic ideas quickly. I was reminded of thi
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by thelsdj 9y ago
I definitely think that current DAWs are terrible at the composition stage of things, but I wouldn't really want to give up the ease of arrangement / sound design / mixing that they provide. Something that could be used for c
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by thelsdj 10y ago
I'm not OP, but I'll answer. I care about my fellow human beings. I make more than most. I want them to have health care. I am willing to pay more taxes into a system that covers everyone so they can all have health care. I could
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by thelsdj 10y ago
The trick is that when a company turns out to have major issues, go looking for the people who predicted it. Go looking for the people who never gave them a pass. Go looking for those who have been critical of these companies from the start
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by thelsdj 11y ago
This is needed if only so I don't have to get sucked into a great first book like Wizard's First Rule to then have to deal with 100 page lectures on Objectivism if I want to find out what happens to the characters later in the ser
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by thelsdj 12y ago
So I currently have an VS Pro + MSDN subscription. I need MSDN for running Windows Server VMs (I dev on a Windows Server 2008 VM currently). Is there any cheaper version that gives me Windows licenses for my dev systems now that I don'
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by thelsdj 12y ago
They have yet to say that they aren't still removing all old pictures and changing domain names and thus breaking all tweets. All they've said is that they are acquired which doesn't actually clear up the problem.
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by thelsdj 12y ago
I had a modem that would disconnect if someone typed: ATH0++ in IRC.
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by thelsdj 12y ago
I spent 10-15 hours (mostly in Ledger) figuring out what my Bitcoin tax liability was. Not (mostly) Ledger's fault that it took so long. Now that I know what I'm doing, I should be able to do this year in just a few hours.
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by thelsdj 13y ago
I believe Coinbase holds the majority of their BTC in offline wallets distributed in multiple bank vault around the world. They are probably one of the groups with the best BTC storage security (while maintaining usability). So yes, if they
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by thelsdj 13y ago
That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
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by thelsdj 13y ago
There are already too many of these services that don't interoperate with each other, or sources of data in an open way. http://activitystrea.ms/ is a good first step in opening some of this stuff up for consumption. T
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by thelsdj 13y ago
I asked the author this very question and his response seemed to be that he has already been planning on writing the book for a long time and the goal is just a small compensation for doing something he loves. As you said, $3k doesn't