JVillella

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Ask HN: Has anyone built a tax simulation environment?
6 points by JVillella 2y ago|3 comments
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The Greatest Legal Casino Heist in History [video](youtube.com)
1 points by JVillella 2y ago|0 comments
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by JVillella 3y ago
Congratulations guys! I met Josef an airport in Paris a few weeks ago and learned about your project (the YC sticker on your laptop was the ice-breaker). Best of luck on building a thriving business. :)
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by JVillella 3y ago
I really appreciate your personal experiences and how the availability of knowledge online changed your life. It did the same for me as well.
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by JVillella 3y ago
Model weights are a form of data compression. Have a look at variational autoencoders for example where this is made more explicit (its latent space is a compression). Your arguments regarding "transformative work" is what the dis
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by JVillella 3y ago
>What would you say the basis of all knowledge you know is? You are a collection of everything you have consumed and the stuff you create is all influenced by that. Surely you're not suggesting that there's no such thing as &qu
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by JVillella 3y ago
They say crypto is “regulatory arbitrage”, I say this AI co-pilot stuff is “copyright arbitrage”. Being a bit hand-wavy with it: It’s akin to torrenting music/movies. The torrented files are lossy compressed representations of the orig
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by JVillella 3y ago
Let me be more specific: why do the people speaking out about his "fortunate" past care so much? As long as it didn't come from something unethical, why does it matter to you? I don't want read between the lines, but it&
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by JVillella 3y ago
Who cares?
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by JVillella 4y ago
Yes, that's right. It's like USDC in that sense.
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by JVillella 4y ago
>How are people going to withdraw money and not put it into another bank? This guy is just saying ridiculous shit for attention, there’s no way he’s this stupid. Maybe it goes something like this: AIUI the act of pulling money out of the
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by JVillella 4y ago
Nevermind he just updated the thread. >Terms of the bet: ideally someone can set up a smart contract where BTC is worth >$1M in 90 days, then I win. If it's worth less than $1M in 90 days, then the counterparty gets the $1M in US
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by JVillella 4y ago
Wrong :) Look at the website.
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by JVillella 4y ago
That's not what I am saying. I am saying that BTC may be worth 100k, and the USD 500k and he still wins the bet (under the interpretation I mentioned above).
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by JVillella 4y ago
There's something called WBTC[1]. It's very popular. [1]: https://wbtc.network
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by JVillella 4y ago
I think he is saying if it hyper inflates (they need to agree upon exact criteria) then he gets his 1M back + 1BTC. I don't think he is saying 1BTC > 1M USD.
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Balaji bets $1M that USD will suffer hyperinflation within 90 days(twitter.com)
24 points by JVillella 4y ago|17 comments
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by JVillella 5y ago
Can you redirect traffic to anti-propaganda news articles :)
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by JVillella 5y ago
I would bet this causes more harm to innocent people than frustration to the Russian regime. Why not do something more targeted? E.g. take down domains that are related to the government, propaganda, etc. As can be seen in the HN community,
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Boreal helped 2k local shops get online customers in the last month of lockdown
5 points by JVillella 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I hate waiting on hold with the bank so I made an app that waits for me
4 points by JVillella 6y ago|2 comments
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by JVillella 6y ago
This is very common content marketing content. These articles are not intended to educate the reader, they're written to get high search rankings, and high click throughs.
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by JVillella 6y ago
This project looks interested as well https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
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by JVillella 6y ago
Can you fully lockdown your dependencies and look at the diffs whenever you attempt an update?
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by JVillella 6y ago
https://gather.town/ is another. Probably one of the most solid right now. We're trying to take it the direction of conferences/tech events with https://meetfromhome.io/ .
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Show HN: Client-side customer service callback system
1 points by JVillella 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What would the future of conferences look like if they go online?
1 points by JVillella 6y ago|0 comments
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Launch HN: Youcallme – Never “wait on hold” for customer support again
6 points by JVillella 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Socially-Beneficial Uses of DeepFakes
1 points by JVillella 7y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Applying modern portfolio theory to cryptocurrencies(mycryptofund.co)
2 points by JVillella 7y ago|0 comments

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