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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
It fluctuates drastically over time with a bias to the upside as time goes on. And I agree due to the fluctuations it really isn’t a currency but a store of value... assuming it never gets hacked or considered illegal by all countries lol.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
I highly recommend the book The Bitcoin Standard it dives into this question in depth. Gist is Bitcoin was the first to market, has the biggest decentralized network, has been around the longest, hasn’t been hacked, has no known owner with
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
couldn’t we contain it by having it on an air gapped system? Seems like a lot of work to properly implement in practice though; e.g if updates aren’t handled correctly could be another escape vector.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Build app on some sort of decentralized blockchain ... though it might be a hurdle to get the average person to use it
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Love the concept of reviewing your own code first. I’ve been doing that for the longest now and usually find something I missed when reviewing my own code. I think I have taken this for granted and assumed everyone does this.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Huh, great question; I’m curious about this myself. If it works that way then it would def be a lot less pricey.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
That would open a new vector of attack where an attacker would simply have to compromise any of your previous certs; not necessarily an easy feat but still a new vector
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
It’s actually the other way around surprisingly. The big fish tend to have resources to fight the IRS in court; which becomes expensive for the IRS. Hence the IRS goes after the not so rich since they rarely put up a fight. e.g. https:&#x2
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Lol I thought you misspelled Murphy’s Law until I clicked the link. Good to know. :)
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Keep in mind that lightsail charges you for inbound and outbound data transfer; whereas EC2 only charges for outbound ... so depending on your network usage the 4TB isn’t a guaranteed saving.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
great point. What I've done in the past is have a jenkins job that points at the latest release and trigger job manually when you know you want to upgrade to the latest version.
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
ffmpeg is absolutely phenomenal. I recently used it to combine multiple separate audio tracks from a webrtc session into a single file. For anyone that hates compiling ffmpeg from source, John Van Sickle does an amazing job of doing the wor
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by whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Run algorithms live, check results after X time has gone by.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite Golang books?
2 points by whoisjohnkid 6y ago|1 comments
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Yeah I keep hearing great things about vscode. Need to give it a shot one of these days.
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Goland - an IDE that specializes in Golang projects. The following features have saved me 100s of hours: - Being able to run tests/benchmarks directly in a test file via either clicking the play button or using a keyboard shortcut
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Lol I was thinking the same thing. Go FTW!
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Yeah it’s def tough to perfectly anticipate what the market will do next. What I’ve learned on my end is just simply be prepared for the following outcomes: 1. Market doing what you want 2. Market NOT doing what you want 3. Market volatilit
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Wow thanks for the response really appreciate it. I’m actually dabbling in trading atm, very familiar with bid ask spread and would def consider myself a practitioner, and not an economist/only thinking of things from a theoretical poi
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Agreed.
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
The financial system is rigged in the favor of bigger players; especially stock market. Big players with a lot of capital can easily add “insurance” to their investments via hedging strategies that a small investor would not be able to util
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Hope the security around this is air tight. Otherwise this will definitely be a new attack vector hackers will be using to get malicious binaries running on your phone.
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Not surprising. Crazy how zoom in the beginning of the crisis was hailed for helping folks get together, but now with all the highlighted security concerns they are receiving a ton backlash. Hopefully they can recover and learn from this.
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
Don’t like the direction YouTube and other social media companies are headed. This is pretty much censorship of free speech. I understand that he may be spewing garbage, but sheesh. At this rate YouTube will only have content it wants you t
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Ask HN: Would Asthma Inhalers have an impact on Covid-19?
2 points by whoisjohnkid 7y ago|0 comments
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by whoisjohnkid 7y ago
yeah this is great stuff!
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by whoisjohnkid 8y ago
If the vendor shares bare metal servers you’ll def want to keep this in mind: https://www.wired.com/story/dark-metal-cloud-computers-invis... - gist is they are some interesting attacks that can be ran on bare metal
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by whoisjohnkid 8y ago
I have quite a few: - The Structure of Magic - The Game by Neil Strauss - Antifragile - How to win friends and influence people - 48 Laws of Power - E-Myth - Field Guide To Lucid Dreaming - Turtle Trader by Michael Covel Structure of magic
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by whoisjohnkid 8y ago
Hey Fellow HNers, I built reboundrobots.com utilizing angular6, Spring Boot 2, http2, letsencrypt and websockets for multiplayer. It was a lot of fun building this game. Check it out and let me know what you think. It’s a great game to keep
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Show HN: ReboundRobots a game to keep you sharp(reboundrobots.com)
2 points by whoisjohnkid 8y ago|1 comments

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