aliakhtar

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by aliakhtar 10y ago
Given that this comes from a highly questionable source (bitcoin.com, run by Roger Ver, a guy convicted for sending explosives in the mail, a bitcoin investor, and libertarian who revoked his U.S citizenship so he wouldn't have to pay
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
What's being at YC like? And, any advice you can share on the application and how to get in?
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
source?
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
What did you guys do? If you don't mind sharing it.
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Ask HN: Maths book for software engineers who want to learn Machine Learning?
3 points by aliakhtar 10y ago|1 comments
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
No problem :) How can I reach you?
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
And I'm guessing the answer to my last question is no?
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
> the extraordinary ability and national interest waiver routes--are often very good options, and often overlooked because of a misunderstanding about the standards. Can you please clarify that, especially about the extraordinary ability
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
How would converting all your money into magic beans help in that situation? How would you pay for your groceries in magic beans in that country?
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
There is already a global currency which works great: USD. I live in Pakistan, and I regularly pay my AWS bill, IDE subscription, Netflix, VPN, and a lot of other things with USD.
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
You mean illegal transactions.
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
People don't use cars because they have a hard on for internal combustion engines. They use cars to go from one place to another, i.e their utility. The utility of bitcoin is its TPS rate.
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
> Steam/bitpay don't wait for transaction for put money into your steam wallet The guy who made the reddit announcement had to wait 1day+ because his txn didn't get the 6 confirmations. Compared to that, my visa txn took a
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
Please stop using us non americans as your justification for bitcoin. I live in Pakistan, and happily and easily use a visa debit card for buying steam games.
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
Because a lot of us understand the underlying tech, and how bullshit it is that a $100 cell phone has a higher TPS rate than the entire bitcoin network, which consumes more electricity than a small country (and all the CO2 emissions that go
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by aliakhtar 10y ago
In other news, I live in Pakistan, and I used a debit card to buy a steam game 3 days ago and it worked instantly + frictionlessly, without having to worry about confirmation times + exchange rates + getting scammed + getting on a governmen
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Any suggestions on any such frameworks for Ruby / Java?
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
I cannot agree more.
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Nah, they let the european champion lose 5-0.
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
The main feature seems to be that you're letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
I remember seeing a talk by Zuckerberg (or another early Facebook person) where they talked about clones of Facebook, and how they were racing to win over different colleges / universities before other social networks did.
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Dude. Pakistan is just next door...
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Funny side story: When I was 13, I flew from Pakistan to Australia by myself, changed the flights in transit, etc.
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
They should've at least implemented lazy loading, i.e only fetch the thumbs the user is looking at.
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How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
168 points by aliakhtar 11y ago|30 comments
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Check the usernames, lol
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
Try this one: http://www.stevenburgess.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Spam... ;)
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37p2gm/security_adviso... "[SECURITY ADVISORY] All addresses made with the Android Blockchain.info wallet application since 1 May 2014 are potentially compromis
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
So they were not using the 32 bytes of the 301 redirect message from random.org as the rng seed for all their wallets? > How exactly is wallet security any different from bank security? I don't need to start by installing a blank li
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by aliakhtar 11y ago
So, you are dumping tons of real CO2 into the atmosphere, to run an extremely inefficient ledger, which is largely used for illegal activities, because of some hypothetical dystopian future.

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