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by AdamSC1 8y ago
Hey folks this is AdamSC1 the creator of BitBums and I wanted to tell you a little bit of background about the project and my journey with it. I love a good satire, and I love a good incremental PHP tick-based game (you know, the classics l
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Show HN: BitBums – a classic PHP tick based game and crypto themed satire(bitbums.co)
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
And only a few select cities in Canada.
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
It could be a great use of time to get the initial core nugget of info, but, unlike the Masterclass course itself you now have to find your own way to repeat and reinforce it. If you are the kind of person that can give yourself a structure
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
I used to fall into the camp of being frustrated at Gladwell's books. I would buy them, read them, learn from them, but be frustrated I spent that time and only really got one nugget from the book. Then I became an adjunct professor. T
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
The Canadian startup scene is brutal. We have all of the downsides of valley startups with very few of the benefits. About five years ago, during my last job search, I interviewed at a well funded (Series B) AI company that was looking for
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
Among other features DuckDuckGo's extension blocks third-party trackers on a website (duckduckgo.com/app) and gives each site a privacy grade. Unlike other vendors, there is no pay-to-play option. We aim to take a principled rules
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
There is a lot that can be said about Elon Musk, some good, some bad. But, one thing that I think is really valuable is that he seems to consistently put his money where his mouth is and that's admirable.
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by AdamSC1 8y ago
Love the map! Anyway to view a non-globe version?
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Most companies tend to have more than one employee - especially when they decide to buy an employee chat software.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
That's based on one current implementation of a gaming DApp. It's worth noting that you can achieve semi-privacy through either on-chain/off-chain hybrids, as well as some other emerging efforts. One example I've been pl
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
You tell them it was the title for a customer support role at the startup you worked at. Most of those people will likely end up at other startups anyway.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Yeah it's not like the good old days where I had to use my 'dial-up' 'modem' to connect to the 'world wide web' and go to AOL and use my 'keyword' to load a 'website' from their 's
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
No one has classified Bitcoin as a security. Per Wikipedia: >The U.S. Treasury classified bitcoin as a convertible decentralized virtual currency in 2013.[1] >The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC, classified bitcoin as a co
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
For passing strings between a contract you can return the string as Bytes32 and let the remote contract query a function to access that.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Example, I had a friend who was recently looking to start an wholesale business in Canada. Let's pretend for sake of the example that he was selling widgets. He found he could import 300 widgets from China and have them landed in Toron
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
It's not "punishing you" it's just the mechanics of the game. If you want a more casual game, play a more casual game. The guy is making a simulation based game, and is free to make it however he wants.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Got an email?
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
A non-profit is legal considered to be a type of business that simply gets a different tax treatment. A business is considered to be a type of entity (just like a person) that gets different tax treatment. Anyone who transfers money, by any
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
If you want to look at the nitty gritty we have a very simple and straight forward privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy We do not collect or share any information that can be used to personally identify you.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Hey Andy, Do you know what firewall system your work uses? We were blocked in a few of them but found that reaching out to those companies got it fixed. Would be happy to help investigate! Disclaimer: DDG staff.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Still advertisers. It's a nuanced but important difference. Case A - if you type in "Car" we show an ad about cars. Advertisers are paying to appear at the top of that page. They do not know who you are or what you previously
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
If you look at the most recently public posted qSearch report on Feb 2016[2] you'll notice it talks about "Explicit Core Search" and "Powered By Reporting." Powered By Reporting is listed as any search that is handl
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Our engineers have been working really hard on international results - I'm sure they will be happy to hear it's making a difference for our users! Disclaimer: DDG staff.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
DuckDuckGo uses multiple sources for our results, as well as our instant answers and bangs. But the most important feature is that DuckDuckGo is the search engine that doesn't track you. We don't store your personal information an
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Whenever you do a search you'll notice there is a "Feedback" button in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This allows you to lets you share your feedback about the site or specific results with us. Your personal informa
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Hey graphitezepp, We do have some of those tools, at DuckDuckGo they are called "Instant Answers." For example the query: "2 lb to kg" will bring you to this results page https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2+lb+to
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
If you'd like to go by searches rather than visits: At DuckDuckGo we are averaging roughly 17 million searches a day right now (duckduckgo.com/traffic.html) Google says they did 2 trillion searches last year[1], and while usually
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Email is a tough one, but I've been using FastMail. No advertising, strong privacy policy, based in Australia (a country with a decent privacy track record that we know of). It's $3/month which is a decent price for liberatin
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
DDG staff here - Instant Answers aren't going anywhere :)

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