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by kfichter 4y ago
Presumably OCR on the Google Books scans then compare to some known text from a different source (Gutenberg or something)
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by kfichter 4y ago
Crypto bounties pay quite well; https://immunefi.com/
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by kfichter 4y ago
Ah yes, the very little backend power that cloudflare runs
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by kfichter 5y ago
Reminder to other readers: don't take legal advice from hn
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by kfichter 5y ago
Heyo, chiming in from the Optimism team here. You should be able to get non-ETH token transfers (ERC20 or ERC721) via the Etherscan CSV export feature. You may have to make a dummy ERC20/ERC721 transaction to get the page to show up. I
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by kfichter 5y ago
I find it very distracting when writing long-form documentation. Had to turn it off for markdown files.
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by kfichter 5y ago
The project I'm working on is doing something like this: https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/retroactive-public-good... We paid out $1m earlier this year in the first round of funding, preparing to do more rounds
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by kfichter 5y ago
I strongly prefer monorepo setups. We used to have a multi-repo setup but ended up transitioning to a monorepo and have been extremely happy with our decision. Multi-repo setups induce a lot of overhead, especially if you don't already
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by kfichter 5y ago
Hah, we dedicate the first 5 minutes (used to be 7 minutes, but the company grew) of our daily standup to non-work related subjects. After which someone makes an airhorn-like noise (think "pew pew pew") to mark the beginning of &q
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by kfichter 5y ago
This is a great treasure trove of deep Solidity trivia. Thanks for the link!
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by kfichter 5y ago
First place winner of last year's underhanded Solidity contest used exactly this trick: https://blog.soliditylang.org/2020/12/03/solidity-underhande...
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by kfichter 5y ago
Time to go invest in a few hamsters
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by kfichter 5y ago
> Software platform services will be provided by Shilling through its patent pending mobile and web software application configured to assist its clients in automatic investing / purchases of securities. my guess is they buy stocks
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by kfichter 5y ago
It was definitely lucrative (sort of, I never broke $100k/yr but I have plenty of friends who did) but it was never particularly satisfying. I'm a competitive person but I love the collaboration of open source software. I tried cr
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by kfichter 5y ago
> Bad spoofing detection harms legitimate users and is inefficient against capable actors. On a somewhat related note: I used to write sneaker buying bots and captcha was one of the best things to happen to the bot industry. Captcha was
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Pork-Cat Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kfichter 5y ago
I took (prescription) stimulants for about ~3 years. Outwardly, I was more "productive" during those years than at any other point in my life. Inwardly, I became a shell of myself. I was miserable. I was completely addicted and ha
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by kfichter 6y ago
20,000 gas for 32 bytes of data if you want it to be accessible by other smart contracts. 16 gas per non-zero byte (4 gas per zero byte) of "transaction input data," which is accessible to clients off-chain but is not accessible t
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by kfichter 6y ago
Would be interested in learning more about the FOIA request process. It seems quite nebulous to me, not sure how to request the "right" piece of information.
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by kfichter 6y ago
The general issue with this sort of oracle is the potential to create prediction markets based on someone's dead/alive state. I'm sure you can imagine why that could become problematic.
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by kfichter 6y ago
My favorite version of this is having a list of beneficiary addresses that can request to have access to the funds; you can cancel the request at any time within some time period. No fancy token required. I built a demo of this a while back
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by kfichter 6y ago
Updated about three minutes after your comment. Twitter too. > Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it.
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by kfichter 6y ago
Although your classification of the images presented above is incorrect, brutalism can actually be quite a beautiful architectural style. Except perhaps when attempted by American educational institutions.
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by kfichter 6y ago
"Depix Error: Please report on GitHub"
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by kfichter 6y ago
Eth2 is a Proof-of-Stake system and doesn't rely on the computationally heavy Proof-of-Work, so it's unlikely that Eth2 is a major contributor to a lack of supply.
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by kfichter 6y ago
Or, at the very least, know enough about the problem to leave a comment that properly explains why you're unable to fix the bug.
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by kfichter 6y ago
I tried tracking down the patent, the creator seems to have terminated their application in 2018: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB201703765D0/en
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by kfichter 6y ago
And the observation clearly placed a great weight on Fisher, Rest In Peace. Capitalist Realism is short, but very heavy. I highly recommend it to the HN community.
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by kfichter 6y ago
The invisible hand of the market sprinkles its fairy dust
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by kfichter 6y ago
> It was only the fifth documented fatal wild hog attack in the country since 1825. Welllllll those odds aren't terrible

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