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by wtracy 3y ago
Microchipped arrowana are actually common these days, so you're on the right track. I don't know the full story, but the US has a blanket ban on any CITES-listed species.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I saw an Asian arrowana in a pet store in east San Jose about ten years ago. It had a back kink, so it wouldn't have been a very valuable animal, but I was still shocked to see it openly on display. The South Ameri
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by wtracy 3y ago
Axolotls are now illegal to trade in California, but that's only at the state level. Axolotls have a much longer history of being bred in captivity than arowana. They're actually regularly used as lab animals.
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by wtracy 3y ago
Online shopping has decimated brick-and-mortar retail over the last decade. The Internet had a large influence on the 2016 election in the USA, particularly in getting Trump the Republican presidential nomination. Misinformation about COVID
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by wtracy 3y ago
Interesting. The GOP has such a track record of being anti-regulation/pro-business that I find this conclusion counter-intuitive. When was the last time the GOP fought to ban automation? Although, then again, I could absolutely see so
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by wtracy 3y ago
> Just to be clear, I'm not a Bezos fan, and I think anyone who is fine with having accumulated that much wealth, should perhaps think a bit harder about, things, to say the least. I think it's always useful to treat a person&#
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by wtracy 3y ago
Jekca dabbles with this idea. They sell Lego-like parts that lock together with a tiny wrench: https://www.jekca.us/ At one point they sold a set around building toddler-sized furniture that could be disassembled and repurp
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by wtracy 3y ago
(EDIT: I just realized that parent already touched on some of this.) On the flip side, trailers spend more time parked at warehouses where they can charge leisurely. Eliminating the need for fast charging could extend battery life or even a
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by wtracy 4y ago
In the USA, sending a wire transfer is usually $15-$20, and some banks charge $20 to receive a wire transfer.
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by wtracy 4y ago
Also those borrowers were receiving inflationary Anchor tokens as rewards. When the value of Anchor would spike high enough, borrowers were actually paying negative interest rates. Anchor did a decent job of obfuscating the nature of the sc
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by wtracy 4y ago
That's why DAI isn't really an algorithmic stable coin. Overcollateralized stable coins really belong in their own category. That's not too say that DAI is safe, but any sort of algorithmic stable coin faces massive systemic
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by wtracy 4y ago
There's one cutely named Synthetix. If you look into the rabbit hole of "algorithmic stable coins", many of them use the same mechanism. What made Terra interesting to me is that Luna is usable for paying gas costs. All equiv
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by wtracy 5y ago
Sure the donation isn't taxed, but why wouldn't the original (fraudulent) sale be taxed? Selling an item at auction and buying it yourself isn't exactly a charitable contribution.
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by wtracy 5y ago
> I also find it useful as a low-fee way to transfer assets between exchanges, because it's one of the most widely supported coins across exchanges. Are you looking at a different set of exchanges than I am? Neither Blockfi, Coinbas
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by wtracy 5y ago
- you use the auction house hack to inflate the value of the painting from $1_000_000 USD to $20_000_000 USD buy buying it from yourself Isn't that a realization event right there? Obviously, the described scheme could still work if yo
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by wtracy 6y ago
From what I hear through the grapevine, the most successful 20% projects are contributions to existing products.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Both Google and Valve use stack ranking for performance reviews, which is a pretty brutal system. So the picture I get of Valve is that yes, you can pick whatever you want to work on, but choosing poorly will bite you in the ass.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I've never ever heard of that actually becoming a requirement. What happens is that some managers really don't buy into the 20% concept, and don't provide time for it. Employees in those teams determined to do it anyway end u
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by wtracy 6y ago
I would never try to judge a work environment by the recruiters (unless the recruiters are unusually bad, which could suggest a toxic management culture). If at all possible, talk to actual engineers. My two cents on Google and Amazon: Both
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by wtracy 6y ago
I think minerjoe is trying to emphasize that fossil has all the features of GitHub included in the VCS itself, eliminating the need for any of the tools you listed above. I haven't followed Fossil, so hearing that it includes things li
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by wtracy 6y ago
Soaking as someone who is completely unfamiliar with Pijul, the explanation on this page is pretty lackluster. "It is based on changes rather than snapshots" Well, every VCS I'm familiar with is based on changes/deltas.
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by wtracy 6y ago
This is more a limitation of smartphone hardware than of Android. In most phones, calls are entirely handled by the baseband processor, and the ARM chip never sees any of the audio data. Android doesn't expose it because the hardware d
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by wtracy 6y ago
What is a handheld device that can make phone calls that you recommend instead?
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by wtracy 6y ago
The author seems to use the word "workstation" specifically to refer to machines running a proprietary Unix variant, usually using a specialty (non-x86) CPU architecture. What you're describing are workstation-class PC-compat
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by wtracy 6y ago
That seems to more or less already exist: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-keyboard
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by wtracy 6y ago
Ok, how about the number that are actually production ready? Django CMS looks nice from what I've seen, I'll give you that. I hadn't encountered satchmo before. Their website seems to be down now, which is not encouraging. &g
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by wtracy 6y ago
I hadn't encountered saleor.io, thanks. Oscar, from what I've seen, is very difficult to get started with. The code and documentation are rather hostile to newcomers. I was left with the impression that the documentation is design
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by wtracy 6y ago
Facebook's codebase is overwhelmingly written in PHP. If the F in FAANG doesn't qualify, then I don't know what does.
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by wtracy 6y ago
> what's the argument for using it instead of another mature dynamic language like Ruby or Python? A massive body of existing code that you can leverage. I keep putting off picking up PHP, but when you look at the number of off-the-
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by wtracy 6y ago
Since so many posters can't seem to wrap their heads around what banana_giraffe is saying, let me try to put it in terms you can all understand: Imagine you go to a cocktail party, tell someone that you're a software developer, an

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