Lordarminius

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by Lordarminius 4y ago
Hucksters. Ok.
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by Lordarminius 4y ago
>The intelligent people I know want nothing to do with it. Eric Schmidt is president of ChainLink Silvio Micali professor at MIT created Algorand Emin Gün Sirer creator of Avalanche is a professor at Cornell Nicholas Szabo holds a honora
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
You are misinformed.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
>Imagine you're a Russian political refugee. You don't want to fly over Russian airspace and have your plane forced to land by Russian MIGs. Like the US doesn't do the same or worse ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Most HN readers work for Web2 companies and are invested in the past. Nothing to see here
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
It was already wounded, he was a seasoned outdoors man and hunter, it was his lucky day. The combination of factors enabled him prevail.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Leopards feel pity ? That is absolute nonsense.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> Singapore is a one-party police state with zero press freedom and a poor track record of respecting human rights (being gay is still illegal). "Being gay" is largely a western obsession. Different cultures have their attitude
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Akash Network - https://akash.network/ A decentralized, censorship-resistant alternative to AWS and othe cloud providers. UnFederal Reserve - https://www.unfederalreserve.com/ Fund of funds that allows cryp
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Location:Lagos, Nigeria Remote:Yes Willing to relocate: Not at the moment, but the possibility is not ruled out Technologies: Rails, Ruby, Git, Minitest, Javascript ES6, SQL(Postgres) with ORM's, HTML/CSS, Tailwin
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Thanks for your kind comments! Can we connect and talk more about this ? (Lol @ICP )
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> I'm surprised so many people on Hacker News apparently still believe that you can "see all transactions" on every blockchain. Most have no knowledge of the state of the industry. Their opposition is based on knee jerk re
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> Cryptocurrencies are the ultimate example of this and are an absolute boon to tax collectors, forensic accountants and fraudsters. If it represents a boon to forensic accountants it cannot also be a godsend to fraudsters.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I building an app that helps crypto investors (traders will be added later), discover good projects. There are many projects of varying quality and the great ones frequently go under the radar until they have done multiple X's. My thes
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
The issue is not how many ineffective pro-forma controls banks have. It's whether they stop the activity. Even the Economist agrees that money laundering through the lagacy financial system is out of control. https://www.eco
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
If you want to hate on crypto, that's your prerogative but stop using the old, tired, false argument about money laundering. It is easier to launder money through the legacy financial system than through cryptocurrency. In fact, financ
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I read the previous version of this book and found it very good. Highly recommended.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> Fun project -- probably could have gone somewhere. Seeing how big WordPress has become, I think it would.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I'm building a Stocktwits-like platform but only for crypto.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> Write 2 technical articles. How do you monetize technical articles at the rate of $1k / article ? Most firms wont pay that much.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> ...And if you're outside of the US, set up a local LLC so that US-based companies can treat you like an independent contracting business.... This has to be one of the top ten best pieces of advice I have seen on HN.
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Ask HN: Are you happy with your productivity software?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> This is all about MAKE MONEY FAST. Which area of modern tech is not about "make money fast" ? Lol You're ngmi amigo
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> ...Chrome and Brave are spyware. I understand Chrome, but Brave ? Care to expatiate ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> The only real point of stable coins seems to be tax/sanctions evasion. Do you have any hands on experience with crypto ?
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
> In chess, if I study something, I might not encounter a situation where I can use that knowledge in game for a while. That's a problem everyone has :)
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
He was also the last world champion to have any occupation outside of chess.
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
I have been a serious chess player for over 20 years. Improvement in chess is not directly proportional to the number of games played - that is one factor. Amateur park players and hustlers rack up many hundreds of games per week, and thou
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by Lordarminius 5y ago
Is it ? The language is evolving very fast. Compare English from the 50's to what is spoken now, take into account the major dialects around the world... I don't see much stability.

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