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by qes 4y ago
Surely driving the vehicle in a manner that was certain to break the transmission within 4 months caused no other excessive wear in the vehicle, right? Sounds like a terrible idea, really.
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by qes 6y ago
Just an anecdote, but I've had multiple dexa scans in the 8-12% range spanning across years of bulking and cutting and I've never had better than what I consider mediocre abs - probably much better than the average adult male in t
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by qes 6y ago
Multiple felon software dev here. I make $250k in Minneapolis.
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by qes 6y ago
> Short-sellers are part of the free market Not when they get to simply turn off the half of the market moving against them they aren't.
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by qes 6y ago
Anecdotally, as someone who's work kept on trucking (surprisingly - we sell content for display in public spaces where people pass or congregate) - 2020 was a banner year for my family. We saved more than we ever have before and the pr
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by qes 6y ago
Researchers at UC Berkeley disagree https://voxeu.org/article/stable-coins-dont-inflate-crypto-m...
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by qes 6y ago
> Generally speaking, if your testicles don’t shrink, your production stays the same right? No, absolutely not. The size of your testicles is in no way indicative of your testosterone production. While a shorter period of use generally h
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by qes 6y ago
At 6'0", 215 lbs, and 10% body fat (via DEXA scans) I have a BMI of 29.2 - on the high end of "overweight" - almost "obese". I'm a fit, but not especially big, casual weightlifter with a desk job.
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by qes 6y ago
> Challenge there is that it doesn't fit the narrative that Tether give about the demand being from "institutional investors" Market makers and trading shops with 7-8 figure funds playing with riskier cryptos or trying to
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by qes 6y ago
> That alone should be a red flag. That's not the primary use (by dollar volume, it is also helpful to streamline participation in the entire crypto ecosphere regardless of local regulations). But Tether's for market making. Ar
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by qes 6y ago
2.5% is way too much. I pay 0.15% and the exchange has been around for a decade without ever losing funds. It's even now licensed as a bank in the U.S.
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by qes 6y ago
Depends somewhat where you live and what you plan to do with the Bitcoin (long term hold or actively trade).. but major exchanges in major countries are pretty trustworthy these days. Kraken, Gemini, and Coinbase are all quite trustworthy,
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by qes 6y ago
> It's smack in the middle of the voter demographic. Not just voters, large portions of our representatives are also from that demographic.
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by qes 6y ago
ETHE is backed by ETH. If ETHE gets sold, ETH gets sold - ~0.01 ETH per ETHE.
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by qes 6y ago
Market cap doesn't mean much at all in crypto. XRP's is high because the circulating supply is 45 billion XRP - 2500 times more than BTC, 400 times more than ETH, etc. I could create a blockchain and issue a quintillion coins and
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by qes 6y ago
I can't speak much to it, as I don't play - my girlfriend does, and finding a pad for her was difficult. There's just nothing out there. Couple of dead projects, the L-Tek, and some total junk pads. I ended up with the L-Tek
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by qes 6y ago
I think 2017 showed that it will be damned difficult politically to make any change that requires a hard fork to Bitcoin anymore. Pure proof of stake is fantasy. That's not "Bitcoin" and it never will be. My personal hope wou
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by qes 6y ago
It's a bit easier to chill and wait now that we've seen the same boom and bust cycle repeat a handful of times.
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by qes 6y ago
Eventually I'll spend it, like my index funds and 401k. Earlier than that, I might sell a little bit in the upcoming year to free up some cash for a home purchase.
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by qes 6y ago
> They had a few forks which split and degraded their community significantly. http://bitcoinclashic.org/ For those true to the _original_ Bitcoin Cash chain. lol
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by qes 6y ago
> There's definitely not a whole lot of them for something serving as the root of a worldwide movement / new financial system "A mile is so big that the entire planet is only 25,000 of them around. That's definitely n
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by qes 6y ago
I've been with the same company and mostly leading the same software system for the past 10 years. Feature work is such a smaller part of my individual contributions at this point - I do some here and there so I don't get too out
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by qes 6y ago
> old-hand developers have a "mental issue queue" that is enormous > a better solution isn't obvious. You can hand it to someone fresh, and after significant effort (on both of your parts) they agree with the inconsiste
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by qes 6y ago
> I could spend a lot of time on a Boyer Moore string matching algorithm Could you? It's like an hour to copy/paste a reference implementation and set up unit tests. Maybe an hour or two fine tuning the implementation for your
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by qes 6y ago
As long as you waited 4 years between storing value in Bitcoin and removing it you _always_ got more value out, no matter what point in time in Bitcoin's entire history you stored it. And not just a little bit more value.. Is an index
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by qes 6y ago
I have yet to this day to find a music player I like more than old school winamp with a good skin and visualizations. Curious to see if there are any recommendations in this thread.
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by qes 6y ago
> That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago. I would guess poster above doesn't yet have 30 years experience. Perhaps 10 or less. My experience ech
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by qes 6y ago
I'm in the first ring suburbs of Minneapolis and going back over 10 years (and for several years prior to that inside Mpls proper) my Comcast connection routinely outperforms my rated speed all hours of the day. My rated speed has also
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by qes 6y ago
> More like 3% here, 5% there and so on. Ten years working on a code base that serves near-StackOverflow levels of traffic and 5% would be a _huge_ win. I don't come across those, or even 3%, very often. Our app has dozens of routes
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by qes 6y ago
Probably the increase in dpi. 90's era inkjets didn't have nearly the troubles with disuse as later ones do.

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