silentsea90

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by silentsea90 4y ago
Bear Stearns collapsed on March 16, 2008. Lehman Brothers on Sept 15, 2008. It took 6 months from the first major one to widespread carnage and bailouts. I can't tell what will be but I wouldn't assume we're out of the woods
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Show HN: One Click Tourist Visa Applications(easyfly.webflow.io)
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Saying absolutely nothing new here, but your work is so damn inspiring! I wish I had such a natural connect to my work, an ability to distill complex concepts down to the fundamentals, and such inventiveness! I took your CS231N class at Sta
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Hi! I was wondering what your experience has been with applying for tourist visas especially if you aren't from a country with a powerful passport? I wonder if it makes sense to build to solve this problem! Your feedback here as well a
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Hi! I was wondering what your experience has been with applying for tourist visas especially if you aren't from a country with a powerful passport? Wondering if it makes sense to build to solve this problem! Your feedback here as well
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I've read Company X develops Hydrogen car for decades now. Not an expert on feasibility, but I doubt any of these cos. have the guts to start a new category like this, and will wait for somebody else to prove value first. This is how T
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Just as the other commenter says, types are half the testing done for free which is a massive improvement.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I used mypy in 2019, and it felt like duct tape on python at best.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Building a company in Python feels like a bet against yourself ie the company/codebase will never get big enough that using Python (lack of static typing etc) will ever be a problem
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Centralized coordination complexity v/s decentralized FF rollout complexity. The bigger the team contributing to a deploy, the better the latter gets because engineers rolling out their FF have all the context they need.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Edited.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
How about use Feature flags and ship daily? Decouple your release-schedule/deployments from your product iteration/launch timeline.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I wonder if as part of the rollout, they selectively routed non-rfc compliant connections to nginx and get 90% of the way there with their changes while they added more support
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Funnier still was a comparison between Indian Mars Orbital Mission ($73 M) and the budgets for Gravity ($100M), The Martian ($108M), Interstellar ($165M). ISRO (India's space agency) engineers missions to Mars for the price it takes Ho
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Show HN: Do you need a Tourist Visa to travel to Europe?(schengen-sigma.vercel.app)
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by silentsea90 4y ago
As somebody who's worked at startups aplenty, this is ok advice for the first X years of your career, where X might be ~2-5. Beyond that, if you're still joining startups to found one eventually, you have to question what you&#x27
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I am in the same boat as an employee who left a cushy job at G to join a startup with the motivation to start my company, but I feel there's a limit to "preparation" and one needs to be honest and take the plunge. Else, I am
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Is this effectively part time employment?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Very cool. I think one doesn't need to join a startup for such experience nowadays. Simply joining YC/XYZ accelerator might help get a structure around the million things that are now institutional knowledge so you can focus on wh
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Similar to the HN'er who dismissed dropbox as an ftp clone (iirc), some geeks live so close to the tech that they can see how a product is simply an iteration on what they understand/own etc. and miss the marvel of the entire pack
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Believe it or not, you might have very specific interests :)
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Agreed. The jury isn't out on Austrian v/s Keynesian economics. We've not had the former play out organically in recent history without Govt. intervention transforming it into the latter. I remain hopeful that there is change
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I don't question the law's ability to do this, but believe that the ideal human societal state is one where money isn't controlled by centralized actors, and that the law would change in time to comply with what's best f
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by silentsea90 4y ago
It's true that it's not backed, and that's a pro (we'll get to that), but Bitcoin is better than Fiat for many reasons: 1) impossible to confiscate 2) fixed supply and issuance rate - can't just print it away when t
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Sanctions don't stem from the existence of Fiat currency (at least directly), and may still exist depending on power dynamics. The move is on the way and will continue. It will be disruptive but I'm not sure exactly how it'll
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I expect all parties to act in their own best interests. I do in fact expect more scams from private bodies, but the government conducts a much larger scam in printing without accountability a currency unbacked by anything and not bound to
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I'm not sure it's that much work if there's something of tangible current value being held from their rightful owners, esp when they keep adding all sorts of coins. There should at least be a way to extract them even if the e
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by silentsea90 4y ago
+1 two different systems with their own pros and cons. So far PoW seems more resilient, but that may also have to do with Bitcoin treating nation states and centralized entities as adversaries from the start.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Exchanges refused to give customers forked coins? Why?!
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by silentsea90 4y ago
You present a problem with Proof of Stake as an inevitable run in with the law and/or some folly of the crypto community. That's not very sound logic. I personally believe in apolitical decentralized money winning against fiat whi

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