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by diego 8y ago
Assume an ordered list of the restaurants [0-19]. Let's use the hash of the first bitcoin block to be mined after (some time gmt) modulo 20 as index. Done.
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by diego 9y ago
And? The wealth created by the tech boom was immense and we have Google, Facebook and Amazon as some of the largest companies ever. You made my point.
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by diego 9y ago
With all due respect to Warren Buffett, I wouldn't listen to his opinion on Bitcoin. He doesn't even pretend to understand it. Who cares if Bitcoin does or doesn't have a shot at becoming a major global currency. There is a v
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by diego 9y ago
You don't want to store your private key unencrypted on a computer ever. If someone gets a hold of a private key, they control all the bitcoin under that address. However they acquire the private key doesn't matter.
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by diego 9y ago
That's plausible given that Fibertel is the #1 provider of free wifi in Argentina. It could well be that some IT guy had the idea, figured it was possible to make a few hundred bucks a month this way, under the radar. Completely not wo
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by diego 9y ago
But they most likely do. Voice corpora are extremely useful to train voice recognition systems, for one.
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by diego 9y ago
You can buy gift cards for lots of major retailers with bitcoin. You can even buy from amazon via purse.io.
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by diego 9y ago
Thanks. We tried our best to transition our customers to Searchify but not everyone wanted to go with a bootstrapped company. More funding is always reassuring, I agree.
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by diego 10y ago
That is the point. Simply by choosing which facts to mention and which to omit you can create an extremely biased news piece.
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by diego 10y ago
I really want to get one of these, but I can't get myself to. I have a 2015 Macbook and I hate the keyboard. I thought I'd get used to it but never did, the one in an older Air is so much more comfortable to me. I went to the Appl
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by diego 10y ago
The important part: the group was not banned for their beliefs or their speech. It was banned for violating the TOS, in particular for doxxing.
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by diego 10y ago
Right, I live in Oakland. This is a state exemption. In other parts of the state it may be meaningful, but if you (like me) bought property in the Bay Area in the current millennium then it's insignificant.
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by diego 10y ago
Interestingly California has a homestead exemption but it's a joke (capped at $70).
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by diego 10y ago
That is offset by the convenience of owning an autonomous car which can drive you anywhere on the spot, with all your stuff already in it. If I owned an autonomous car that acted as my personal chauffeur, I'd only consider services lik
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by diego 10y ago
Not far from Fremont, Piedmont is completely surrounded by Oakland. 1.6 square miles, 10k residents.
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Statwing (YC S12) Acquired by Qualtrics(blog.statwing.com)
1 points by diego 10y ago|0 comments
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by diego 11y ago
Cleanflight is one of many open-source flight controllers widely used in multirotors. Others are Open Pilot (formerly Ardupilot) and derivatives (most notably Tau Labs / Dronin), as well as Betaflight which is a fork of Cleanflight spe
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From Zero to Building and Flying Drones in a Month(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 11y ago|0 comments
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by diego 11y ago
Quality engineers and dead weight are not exclusive. Great people who are burnt out and unmotivated become dead weight to a company. When planning layoffs, it's normal to put people who are checked out, coasting, and/or clearly pl
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by diego 11y ago
Startup world? This is a public company with thousands of employees who can get rid of 336 of them. It's pretty far from the startup world. This is the corporate world, and it happens to companies with long histories when their envir
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by diego 11y ago
That is a non sequitur. He's talking about grouping countries by specific criteria. To make a code parallel, if you ran select from countries group by police_score; and select from countries group by freedom_of_press_index;
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Ask HN: What's a proud hack of yours?
16 points by diego 11y ago|9 comments
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by diego 11y ago
Nice post. As the author of the original snippet I'll admit it wasn't meant to be production-quality code, just a toy example in the context of a blog post. When I find code like that in a reasonably large production codebase I te
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by diego 11y ago
You missed my point: of course they will be more sophisticated, but if they increase the demand for road resources then there will be more cars out there. They will move efficiently but as slowly as people are able to tolerate before switch
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by diego 11y ago
Why would self-driving cars reduce traffic congestion? If my car drove itself, I'd be less incentivized to use public transportation. I'd probably be willing to put up with a slightly longer door-to-door time than if I used public
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Startups Compete Against Background Noise(diegobasch.com)
51 points by diego 11y ago|18 comments
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Startups Compete Against Background Noise(diegobasch.com)
1 points by diego 11y ago|0 comments
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by diego 11y ago
That is part of my point: I'm afraid of accidents, heart disease and cancer more than anything. I'm somewhat afraid of gun violence. Given that I live in a relatively safe neighborhood, I'm more afraid of swimming pools. I&#x
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Mass Shootings, Political Correctness, and Magical Thinking (2012)(diegobasch.com)
4 points by diego 11y ago|3 comments
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by diego 11y ago
A large software project is about communication more than anything else. Inside a company, a large codebase is often extremely hard to navigate. There will be different coding styles, redundant library usage, outdated comments, obsolete &#x

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