kwikiel

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by kwikiel 9y ago
In this thread cryptocurrency community will rediscover banking and money. We have stablecoins or tethers (manny attempts to create something people want) - people want some form of money for peer to peer value transfer, that will allow arb
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Network effect - same thing for Facebook. The more valuable bitcoin is the more secure and more resilient. Thus purely by price appreciation bitcoin is doing hiperbitcoinization - once people realize that fundamental value of fiat currency
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by kwikiel 9y ago
Because the threat is real - by projects like https://neufund.org/ Ability to get access to liquidity and financing is game changer for some industries and separates startup hubs from other usual cities. Imagine that instea
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Polkadot – protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information [pdf](github.com)
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by kwikiel 9y ago
Project Euler is like weightlifting for your brain. And don't think that computer is so fats that you just bruteforce the answer. Some problems are computationally expensive so naive solution will take you too much time and you will ne
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by kwikiel 9y ago
"You promised me Mars Colonies. Instead, I got Facebook."
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by kwikiel 9y ago
Ethereum had an ICO, first bitcoins were aquired in mining, there was no ICO/premine
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Earrings made of top secret electronics are part of the Uber-Waymo lawsuit(technologyreview.com)
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Direct investing in ICO is major risk for investors. There is very little due diligence and investors don't have downside protection and it's unregulated. Instead of starting with complicated solution on blockchain, NeuFund is sta
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by kwikiel 10y ago
I am working on p2p reputation network in Ethereum. https://github.com/kwikiel/p2p-trust-network Often it's useful to be able to trust an online identity, i.e. for peer-to-peer lending sites, peer-to-peer home ex
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Imagine that you are born as a random person - and ask yourself if outcome will be better than your existing country/wealth
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Old pricing: $0/mo (freemium) $29–$249/mo (~8,600,000/month) $999+/mo (for unlimited events) It seems like step in right direction. 499$ plans were overkill for bootstraped startups (in general) I am using sentry myself
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Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth(holidayhole.com)
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https://sivers.org/how2hire This covers most of it. I would focus on giving some small pieces of work to see how collaboration works.
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Actually proof of stake can by hybrid one: You will need both mining power and staking. By having 2x coins you will have 4x voting power. That way you will reduce waste on mining while still having security coming from it.
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Javascipt on frontend is there to stay, and either backend js frameworks will mature like meteor or there will be always dominant backend language like python, java, go or elixir.
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by kwikiel 10y ago
I am measuring things that are displayed in ollertapp.com It's free and open source addition to Trello. I think that focusing on metrics that are synthetic can be misleading and do some bad things for a morale. Focus on providing valua
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Build Flask app for tracking using wifi beacons (backend)
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Tangentially related. I'm using rocket chat - it's open source (MIT) alternative to slack. And i think it would be easier/safe for companies to adopt self hosted solution or use already trusted company like Microsoft. Slack
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Thinkpads are supporting up to 64GB of ram. 4 slots, 16GB each
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Seems like facebook is really under pressure from snapchat. It seems like for the young people fb have very little cool factor now
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Site is down
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I would like to receive one
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by kwikiel 10y ago
There is a need to verify how good this device is. What is measurment error
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by kwikiel 10y ago
Anything scaffolded by rails.
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by kwikiel 10y ago
I love sentry and i like mitsuhiko projects: flask, jinja2 and werkzeug. Sentry substantially improved error handling and realiability in my startup
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by kwikiel 10y ago
That's called expected utility. Most people on HN knew about expected value but they don't know too much about expected utility. I suggested reading about it and St. Petersburg paradox
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"Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at loss to explain the reason, African and East European societies collapse and their dwindling populations migrate to England and other wealthy nations." Terri
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by kwikiel 10y ago
That's fair point. ""So I’ll start there, and imagine that there are semi-trusted ‘oracles’ that compete to be the most reliable and trustworthy verifiers of contracts. People involved in contracts choose N of them, and then

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