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jasonlingx

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    Comment #45058090

    An alternative is using an eSIM with an “internet breakout” via another country. Esimdb is a good place to start.

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    Comment #43864375

    He could’ve skipped the intermediate steps and made it a one-liner by piping the sql dump over ssh right into the sqlite3 reconstruction command.

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    Comment #34334266

    Depends what you mean by “holding” USD. Is it under your mattress? Or in a bank? Is it a bank in Venezuela or Lebanon? Holding USDT is kind of holding USD. You just have Tether in …

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    Comment #34334095

    If Tether is insolvent then better to ban it earlier than later, before it becomes even “too bigger” to fail.

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    Comment #34334036

    The other stablecoins are unaffected though…

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    Comment #33972510

    So here’s where there might be some confusion, Binance consolidates a pool of different stable coins into 1 “BUSD” balance for its users[0]. Depositing any of these stablecoins int…

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    Comment #33171407

    Why not just use or alias ‘mv’ to trash?

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    Comment #32633389

    In the article, a Wizz Air rep explained it’s meant to charge bots and other automations for booking, but is catching users who use ad blockers as a false positive.

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    Comment #31859612

    Just send it to yourself first?

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    Comment #25816092

    This is it. Amount of energy spent = profits from mining / cost of energy. While price is the main factor affecting profits, fees/volume and the constantly decreasing block reward …

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    Comment #25740850

    > Maybe HFT is intellectually more interesting than day-trading but I don't believe it to be very gratifying at deeper level. HFT is automated day-trading in a way, so 1 meta level…

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    Comment #24026411

    > The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory. If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Face…

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    Comment #24025927

    The Brazilian Supreme Court is asking Facebook to block accounts globally, not only in Brazil.

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    Comment #23993061

    He’s probably saying these are free apps which Apple doesn’t take any money for, and the money the developers keep are from ads or fees from clients and so on.

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    Comment #23937103

    This one I made couple years ago (and haven’t checked in years) is still running for free thanks to Heroku and Cloudflare: https://github.com/jlxw/geoip

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    Comment #23881605

    Facebook had a free simple login service, over email and SMS as well. Until they shut it down.

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    Comment #23818879

    Of course, but that was my (and presumed common) use case for discrete graphics.

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    Comment #23818844

    I was pleasantly surprised to discover that iOS has “content blockers” built in. If you google “iOS ad blocker”, AdGuard should be the first result, just install the app and flip a…

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    Comment #23816206

    > How long till Apple GPUs can take the fight to discrete graphics? I already play Fortnite, Call of Duty, PUBG, etc at 60fps on my iPhone.

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    Comment #23799605

    Browsers can’t write, only read. So you would need another way to get client input into the db if that is the requirement.

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