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by xur17 4y ago
> The only real solution is an ad blocker. I worked at an ad tech company. We all ran ad blockers. The hypocrisy is through the roof. I used to run a website that made money off of ads, and specifically ran an adblocker to avoid being ba
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by xur17 4y ago
I just started doing the same (~ a month ago). Within a week of creating an account for bestbuy, I started receiving spam to that address. Do you do anything when you catch someone, or just note it to yourself, block the address, and move o
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Isn't that what humans do when they are studying something?
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> This was my understanding but some fact checking on Google proved the majority of income is from interest payments. Yeah, the data I have seen says that 2/3 of the income comes from interest payments, 1/3 from tx fees.
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And it's not just about the value of the Bitcoin they purchased. They also have presumably increased tourism and interest in their country at least some (their name is in the news more, and I know for a fact that Bitcoin fanatics have
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by xur17 4y ago
Alternatively, are there ways to train on consumer graphics cards, similar to SETI@Home or Folding@Home? I would personally be happy to donate gpu time, as I imagine many others would as well.
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Not if recaptcha is temporary and only on the login / signup pages.
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> Why do they use a walking motion, vs planting your feet while using the motors? It sounds like they're using walking speed as a control (walk faster, wheels move faster, walk slower, wheels move slower).
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by xur17 4y ago
Pretty much this. The "smart" features of a TV really don't cost much at all, and make a TV a LOT more marketable. Given that perspective, why would a TV manufacturer choose to remove the smart features from the TV? This woul
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by xur17 4y ago
Google Meet has the concept of "raising your hand" by clicking a button, which we've used in meetings at work with a fair amount of success. I've also had luck by literally raising my hand on the video (one of the reason
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That was my original thought as well, but reading the article again, it looks like they are talking about putting 5G "cells" on the actual airplanes. Given how much cheaper satellite broadband access has gotten, it actually makes
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> Last time I tried, Linux could not do proper fractional scaling. I use 4k 27" displays and wish to use 1.5x scaling. macOS does it perfectly, Windows does it perfectly. Linux does all kinds of shitty stuff. Never could get it work
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by xur17 4y ago
What setup / config do you use for your secondary MX? I host my mailserver at home, and would love to have a backup, ideally one that I can view the mail for via ssh when my primary is down.
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My current theory is that they are not fully backed, but they are backed enough for it to not really matter (ex: if they are 95% backed with highly liquid assets, it's very unlikely that they'll ever breach that). And given the cu
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Dell XPS 13?
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It's used by the vast majority of software engineers, so apparently it's "good enough".
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Zelle is a tire fire.
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Why do you hate git? I've been pretty happy with it for code, and wouldn't mind being able to use it for data repositories as well.
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by xur17 4y ago
This makes me wonder if there is a way to (legally) give ATM rebates as an ATM operator. Ex: User withdraws $50. Machine charges $5 fee, and gives a $2 in cashback as part of the withdrawal (cash or gift card?)
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> I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization. I agree. That said, I think the optimal move would be for them to leave it free (or at least provide a free option) to get people hooked on it. If pricing for this w
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by xur17 4y ago
> The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it. > People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ... Very true, and this thought definitely
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I experienced a somewhat similar issue yesterday on my network that I described in detail here [0]. Essentially one of the computers (running ubuntu) on my network started sending a VERY high volume (it measured 20gb for the day, and I thin
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> assets lacking any underlying collateral But what does this statement actually mean? What is "underlying collateral"? The US dollar doesn't have any physical assets backing it, but I'm pretty sure most lenders would
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This seems like a great way to handle it.
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> For lumber, there is an end user who wants the lumber to e.g. make a house. There might be some middlemen who buy it and then resell it, but they are also generally providing value in some way: storing it to smooth over demand variance
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I'll agree that crypto self-custody isn't really something the vast majority of folks can safely do. That said, self custody of crypto is different than self custody of fiat currencies. With fiat currency, you have to physically s
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Why did it happen overnight for the programmer that helped create Tornado cash then?
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https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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The equivalent of writing my seed phrase down and storing it in 1 location. With crypto I can: * lock my cash on a device behind a pin (with forced reset after a few attempts) * back it up in multiple physical locations, and require n of th
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by xur17 4y ago
> You have the option with Fiat too - you can get paper currency and store it yourself in a secure location. $10,000 can be stored in $100 bills in as little as c0.03 meters^3. That's really not the same though. With crypto I can st

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