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by marcell 11y ago
Do you have any pointers at all on picking a dentist? I'm currently trying to find one, and aside from Yelp (not very helpful) I have no way to make heads or tails of anyone...
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by marcell 11y ago
Historical data [1] shows 25GB annual growth, and currently the blockchain is around 50GB, so that gives us an expected 3 years. Current max theoretical is ~50GB annual, if every block is the max 1MB. There is an ongoing debate about whethe
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by marcell 11y ago
Tongue in cheek: I believe this attitude proves grand parent. Of course, only if Bitcoin actually succeeds :)
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by marcell 11y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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by marcell 11y ago
> we'd only read it in academic papers, like Google has done with its core technologies Nit: Google has been pretty generous in supporting developers outside the company. Eg., see Golang, Kubernetes, JS closure library, protofubf, b
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by marcell 11y ago
I'm familiar with the Instacart model in the US, where they do shopping and delivery but do not have any warehouses. Did you consider this model? Why did you decide to own the warehouses as well?
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by marcell 11y ago
Yes, I remember this spreadsheet. It listed pay by SWE (software engineer) level and geography. Google has ~10 levels for SWE's. Most people are either SWE II, SWE II, or Senior SWE, and about 10% are higher than Senior SWE. In the Bay
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by marcell 11y ago
> In the SF bay area, Hacker Dojo and Workshop Cafe got rid of theirs Nit: as of a few days ago when I was there, the one at Hacker Dojo is still there.
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Ask HN: Would you use a trial work jobs site?
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Instacart shoppers can now choose to be real employees(wired.com)
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Ask HN: How does your company hire software engineers?
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by marcell 11y ago
Yes, in fact that is exactly what happens. Many of the people at Google who are level 3/4 SWE's (about 70% of engineers are at that rank, it is considered a junior level) feel that they are under-utilized, and there is a lot of an
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by marcell 11y ago
I used to do interviews at Google, and most likely, the interview process just failed in this case. Typically a candidate will do 5 technical interviews, where the Google engineers can ask basically anything they want to (eg. invert a binar
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by marcell 11y ago
I recently left Google and I think your characterization of those two groups is accurate. There is a large group of engineers at lower levels working on mundane products who are not especially excited or empowered. I wouldn't recommend
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by marcell 12y ago
Can anyone explain to me how the p2p network determines which files to persist, given a limited amount of storage available?
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by marcell 12y ago
From the video: - That you can compress ECDSA public keys from 64 to 33 bytes - Compression techniques that can be applied to the bitcoin protocol, such as inverted bloom lookup tables - SNARKS - Fully homomorphic encryption - Various bugs
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by marcell 12y ago
Hey, I'm working on a new site to make it easier to find freelancing work. I'd love to get feedback from experienced freelancers like yourself, and see if it can make your life much easier :). If you have some time to spare, pleas
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by marcell 12y ago
Suggestion: add an endpoint on the piñata that proves it has the private key. You can do this using Bitcoin's sign message method.
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by marcell 12y ago
I have an idea for unionizing Uber drivers via a smartphone app. It would work around the problem you mentioned, which is that Uber can quickly replace workers who strike for 1 week or more at a time. Basically, do "flash strikes"
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by marcell 12y ago
The tone/editing takes away from this video's credibility, but if you look past that and watch with healthy skepticism (for lack of a better word), there is a lot to be learned.
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by marcell 12y ago
> The overall environment matters more than the teacher. We've mentioned it here not too long ago as well. For an exploration of this idea, I recommend "Lives on the Boundary" by Mike Rose: http://www.amazon.com
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by marcell 12y ago
I don't know about Apple or Facebook, but at Google, on-campus recruiting is limited by employees. Employees can volunteer to go to a career fair at a university, which is typically their alma mater. If no one volunteers to go to a par
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by marcell 12y ago
> You could even pay only $500k/y to these excellent guys but no startup does that because they're not sure In some cases, equity does provide this level of pay. The problem is there is no way to know which startup will get to
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by marcell 12y ago
Can you spell out the specific attack that you think could take place? In practice, I don't think a large scale double spend would work. Someone with 51% of the network (as you say, costing $100M+ of mining equipment currently) could e
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by marcell 12y ago
> Bitcoin has rarity and speculation only. The implied point here (I think) is that bitcoin is a bad store of value because it has rarity and speculation only, not real value. This is incorrect though: consider the counterexample of gold
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by marcell 12y ago
> The erratic price prevents it from being a store of value Not true in itself. Consider the stock market: it's value has been unstable for the past two decades, yet it is still one of America's most popular stores of value. Co
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by marcell 12y ago
It is great that you are able to do this, but not that your situation is not the one described in the article. The article discusses men who only qualify for low/no skill jobs paying $10-15/hr. That is markedly different from a te
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by marcell 12y ago
Quoting the article: "I don't know if this is legally feasible, but my inclination would be to allow Lyft here a long time before Uber," the commissioner of Portland's Bureau of Transportation, told the Times. "Lyft
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by marcell 12y ago
> For example, the currently highest-voted comment on /r/bitcoin for the story [0] says "I disagree with him [mitsuhiko]". Not true (anymore?). The top 3 comments are now: - "I think [mitsuhiko] complaint is 120%
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by marcell 12y ago
> You tap into your wallet and it says 'You are in Forever 33, 88th street' you type the amount of payment or the cashier number and that's it. I don't get it. This sounds more cumbersome than Apple Pay.

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