bgibson

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Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?(old.reddit.com)
13 points by bgibson 2y ago|9 comments
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by bgibson 2y ago
Warp Dex | Generalist hackers and engineers | REMOTE | https://warp.io/ Warp is a new decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX), built entirely in an Ethereum smart contract, with no external dependencies. Its novel inno
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by bgibson 3y ago
What's the best Emacs-Vim hybrid now, with a Vim keybinds and modal editing interface to Emacs? Doom? Spacemacs? Or something new?
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by bgibson 3y ago
Reddit comment from a Notable employee: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPro/comments/18jbj32/does_an... TLDR: market conditions not conducive to their business at this time. (Ed: founding team probably
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by bgibson 5y ago
He's basically writing about discoverability in UI/UX. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=UI%2FUX+discoverability There's also the Calmtech movement, somewhat related to the post: https://calmtech.com&#x2F
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by bgibson 5y ago
> I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial system. There's an important side-effect to an anonymous financial system which doesn't get much atten
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by bgibson 7y ago
Sure, the two I had in mind in NYC are Kadena ( http://kadena.io ) and Jane St. ( https://www.janestreet.com ). Jane St. is more an OCaml shop but they like Haskell people. Kadena builds everything in Haskell.
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by bgibson 7y ago
Would you have any interest in doing Haskell full-time? I know several well-funded companies looking for folks with similar backgrounds to yours, in SF, NYC, and London. Happy to connect you if you’re looking for something more interesting
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by bgibson 8y ago
Clearmatics | London & Palo Alto | Theoretical Cryptographer | Onsite or Remote | Fulltime | https://www.clearmatics.com/ Clearmatics is developing a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) system for interbank settlements
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by bgibson 9y ago
True, but to nitpick it looks more like this: Raw materials + innovation + labor + capital + time = waste byproducts + new utility added to the world in the form of convenient personal transportation that is sometimes (hopefully all the tim
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by bgibson 9y ago
I have no connection of any sort to Stride (or any chat app for that matter, other than a few I use, which doesn't include Stride yet). This aspect of chat has just been a point for me for years. Looks like Stride and Twistapp are both
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by bgibson 9y ago
That looks like a big improvement too, thanks!
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by bgibson 9y ago
>It still expends resources, but does so in a non wasteful manner. And this is a flaw. There is a law of conservation at work here, whereby to create one source of value, another has to be destroyed. You can't destroy that first
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by bgibson 9y ago
Or one of my personal favorites, the Epistemology of Computer Simulations in Science: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simulations-science/#EpiC...
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by bgibson 9y ago
Haven't used Stride yet but as someone who hates always-on chat I could see myself really appreciating its deep work oriented features: mute notifications, allow others in the channel to mark things as "task", "decision
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by bgibson 9y ago
It's also interesting that the material is lighter than water. "Tactical" life vests and shark-resistant wetsuits come to mind as possible products too. If you could get the Navy SEALs to trial it, that could be a big win.
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by bgibson 9y ago
Cool project. It might be interesting, to the HN crowd at least, to see blog post or other writeup on the specific mods you made to Gecko and other standard browser components to create this.
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by bgibson 9y ago
Reducing interdependence in human society mitigates systemic risk. It absolutely is a virtue to be collectively working towards.
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by bgibson 9y ago
Hey mbrock, off-topic question, but I came across an interesting discussion you had here on HN a few months ago on formal verification of Solidity/EVM and some related work you were doing. I run a conference at Stanford in January on
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by bgibson 10y ago
Will do!
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by bgibson 10y ago
Hi buckie, first I've seen of Kadena but like your approach. Deterministic BFT, built in Haskell, what looks like a Lisp for contract language prioritizing safety. Good work. I'm helping organize a conference at Stanford in Janu
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by bgibson 10y ago
>What are ways this can be bet on since these are non-public companies? Mirror in SF is building a platform for that: https://mirror.co/ Disclaimer: I'm an advisor.
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by bgibson 11y ago
Interesting form of appeal-to-authority fallacy.
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by bgibson 11y ago
>True disruption does occur, when a fundamentally different and fundamentally better way of doing something comes along, Fwiw, Clayton's definition of disruption is something worse , not better, but just good enough and much chea
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by bgibson 11y ago
Asked a Chinese friend of mine about this once, she said the Chinese males with means will either find Chinese wives, or will exploit a (comparatively) strong yuan and "raid" neighboring Asian countries (Vietnam, Thailand, Phillip
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by bgibson 11y ago
Plenty Nexus 5's on Ebay, etc. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
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by bgibson 11y ago
/second. And also custom-assembled at places like http://xoticpc.com/
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by bgibson 11y ago
What do you like better about rpm vs deb?
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by bgibson 11y ago
>edit: Mind you both look awful due to HNs poor formatting ability. Honestly how did this website become so popular with tech people? The rudimentary formatting keeps away the high-noise/low-signal folks who need shiny bells and w
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by bgibson 11y ago
I was thinking that too. But I wonder if Apple sees an opportunity to become the Intel of ARM chips - mobile and desktop, at least.

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