Shatnerz

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by Shatnerz 2mo ago
Checking git history is one of the first things I do when I find unfamiliar code or when I'm debugging something. Git history contains a lot of context that helps speed up the rest of the process
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by Shatnerz 5mo ago
Job req on Lever says that this is hybrid and not remote.
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by Shatnerz 5mo ago
Is that email still working as expecting? I had my message bounce back to me.
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by Shatnerz 1y ago
> When I was younger, I was into video games because they gave me a sense of accomplishment and progress compared to high school, which I found relatively meaningless. I called it progress quest. Well do I have a game for you: https:&#x
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by Shatnerz 1y ago
> I still don't understand how anyone expects "sanctioned lists" to actually work. Well one of the problems here was the sanctioning of a technology, which AFAIK has never happened previously. Exchanges have the means to w
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by Shatnerz 1y ago
until someone runs their funds through TornadoCash and dusts your wallet, thus putting it on many sanctioned lists and making it impossible to offloads funds into fiat by legal means.
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by Shatnerz 1y ago
Bitcoin may not be the best example because it does have a lot of limitation and somewhat failed as a currency and instead turned into a speculative store of value. Block time on Bitcoin is ~10 min. For small purchases, you would probably b
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
Sounds interesting, but I really don't want to open an and deal with another account just to apply, which is unfortunate.
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
Perhaps this is because supply isn't being artificially restricted?
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that was directly adapted from the anecdotes of Harry Nyquist at Bell Labs [1]. """ After crunching a lot of data, they found that the only thing the productive employees had in common (other t
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
> This is called "layering" I believe it is actually "structuring". Layering is a step in money laundering where layers of legitimacy are added as money moves around. Structuring is breaking larger transactions into s
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
Inflammatory? "My Negative Views on X" is pretty far from inflammatory. It is exactly what the post was, with some positivity sprinkled in as well.
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
You should consider updating the header here to specify North America only
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
3/4 billion = 750 million, no?
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
Buffalo and Bison are often interchangeable in American English. I know in Polish, "żubr", which is the European Bison, is often translated as buffalo and the American Bison is known as "bizon" which is understandably tr
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by Shatnerz 2y ago
> Anonymous online / digital payments seems to exclusively facilitate crime, but doesn’t seem to be relevant to regular ‘normal’ people. How so and is there anything to back that up or is that just a gut feeling? I pay for my VPN su
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
Familiarity and library support would be the two obvious reasons.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
Link for the lazy: https://xkcd.com/936/ I came here to post essentially the same thing.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
Of course. We haven't even finished January yet.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
I completely missed the context. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
When you find yourself asking this question, the truth is that you probably should have left a few month earlier. Things rarely improve. Take care of your finances and never put yourself in a position where you are dependent on a job if it
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
The quote from George Carlin, a comedian, is about the general population. The quote itself is from "Doin' It Again / Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" a special in 1990 and predates Google.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
In a normal distribution, like lets say a large population, the mean, median, and mode are all equal. I don't see a problem with the quote.
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
Wouldn't it have to have happened after the plant shutdown in order for it to coincide? If it happened prior, then it would have been clearly unrelated. If you shut down a power plant and run into power issues down the road, a connecti
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
> Is my cash compensation adequate? A down-round can make stock grants worth almost zero unless there's a huge rebound. Most startups fail and options and equity become worthless regardless. In my experience, the biggest changes wil
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
> They are currently worth $200,000 According to whom? Is there a secondary market or is this just the FMV from the last valuation? If there is no liquidity, they might be "worth" $200k for tax purposes, but as with most startu
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
There are also plenty of annual cicadas in North America, which I assume you are talking about NA with the 13 and 17 year brood cycles. While not nearly as loud as the broods, annual cicadas have always been a sure sign of the seasons. I ha
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
The transfer of value is pretty nice. International transfers via crypto are often cheaper than wire fees. Domestic transfers can be faster via cryptocurrency depending on where you are at. ACH is painfully slow. SEPA is a a bit better. Tha
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by Shatnerz 3y ago
Can any financial system exist without financial crimes? Just look at HSBC. Nearly all of Binance's failures also happened at HSBC which continues to operate within the law simply by paying fines as the cost of business every so often.

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