rburhum

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by rburhum 4y ago
If you showed the “leadership” map you just generated to the peruvian people, at least 50% would turn on you…
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by rburhum 4y ago
I worked on this product for a year back in the day. The cool thing about MS ESP was that we used the FSX Engine for the "1000 foot experience". Everything looked great from far above, but not close by. The solution to this was th
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by rburhum 4y ago
Just quit. Life is too short and as you get older, money is supposed to work for you, not the other way around.
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by rburhum 4y ago
I have only flown a plane once. Took off and landed it without a problem with an instructor next to me. He said I was really good and complemented me a lot because he thought I was a natural during the simulator class and the real Cessna fl
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by rburhum 5y ago
So... how would you go about monitoring to create this dataset with Twitter's API? Just plain searches triggered by a daily/weekly cron job and remember user ids? Or is there something more sophisticated?
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Opensea exploit in migration contract allowing users to grab any NFT from others(twitter.com)
14 points by rburhum 5y ago|2 comments
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Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite(dw.com)
6 points by rburhum 5y ago|4 comments
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by rburhum 5y ago
This is awesome! Is there a way to try different hardware to have a spectral range to [440nm - 2200nm]? Or am I too ambitious?
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by rburhum 5y ago
The Hawaii alert?
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by rburhum 5y ago
I wish I could upvote this more
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by rburhum 5y ago
1) VC action in this space is not just to create shitcoins. And they keep getting bigger because this stuff is being built now. https://fortune.com/2021/11/18/vc-crypto-funds-are-getting-b... 2) The example o
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by rburhum 5y ago
Don’t know of a resource that consolidates everything in an orderly fashion, sorry. Usually I just keep an eye on Coindesk news. Hope that helps.
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by rburhum 5y ago
If you are talking cross-border money transfer, in countries like the US you cannot just willy-nilly have an exchange that changes fiat for crypto and vice-versa. In order to sign up for Kraken/Coinbase/etc you have to pass throug
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by rburhum 5y ago
They don't even need to be NFTs per se. The idea of blockchain-backed ownership is starting to jump everywhere. There are already a few companies like this: https://fraction.co/
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by rburhum 5y ago
I keep hearing this (healthy) skepticism, but it does lose sight of what is happening in many countries. For a lot of folks (me included) Web3 is about using decentralized blockchains in a web context to reduce problems that arise with cont
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by rburhum 5y ago
SEC Comments about this report: https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-preside...
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SEC statement on stablecoin report by the working group(sec.gov)
7 points by rburhum 5y ago|0 comments
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President’s Working Group on FinMarkets Releases Recommendations on Stablecoins(home.treasury.gov)
7 points by rburhum 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HNs: Syncing multiple calendars from multiple domains
1 points by rburhum 5y ago|0 comments
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by rburhum 5y ago
Random related fact, too, the oldest university in the Americas is San Marcos (Lima, Perú) which was founded in May 12, 1551; 1 year after the history books mark the end of the Aztec civilization.
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by rburhum 5y ago
22 cats. Go with cats.
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by rburhum 5y ago
I understand that many give Robinhood crap because it is not "sophisticated enough" or because of the Gamestop fiasco. Although many startups like to claim that they are "democratizing [x]", I honestly believe they did i
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by rburhum 5y ago
The proposed autofree example uses the heap with (unnecessary) preprocesor directives... but the problem is that it is not portable as written, vs simply using the heap like a normal person.
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by rburhum 5y ago
Why would you overcomplicate your life and use something like the autofree example, that is not even portable, if you can use the heap which is simple to understand and do? I understand that if it is a hot function you may run into memory f
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by rburhum 5y ago
Peru is the country with the most deaths per capita in the world. It also had a government-sponsored program to give away free Ivermectin most of last year. The region/state with the highest death count in Peru you ask? Ica. The city w
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by rburhum 5y ago
Hi Nelson, maybe you can explain this to me: why so much hate towards what3words? Chris once came to our office to see if there was a fit for us to use their invention. We did not find that it solved a pain point for us, so nothing came out
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by rburhum 6y ago
> this site and its newsletter costs about $130 USD a month to run I have toy site that gets around 100k users a month, with background services like a postgres db... and it costs me under $20 to run. I do everything in CloudRun (serverl
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by rburhum 6y ago
This "marketing stunt" raised their stock price by 8.95% today because people ran to buy stock since it signaled a changed in strategy. It is not "market manipulation", but I hope somebody gets slapped in the wrist for t
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by rburhum 6y ago
Yes
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by rburhum 6y ago
Yes. For quick small things. When I need a to write a small web service, I usually just grab a python micro-framework and do the work. Not much complexity and not a lot of setup required. When I need to do something more elaborate that need

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