brendanw

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Let the Birdmen Fly(piratewires.com)
2 points by brendanw 2y ago|1 comments
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by brendanw 2y ago
Americans testing the laws of physics with wingsuits are continuing to be criminally prosecuted by a national park service that turns a blind eye to the malfeasance of its own staff
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by brendanw 6y ago
I run a small site/app where wingsuit pilots upload gps tracks for analysis. 180mph is fast but can be achieved/sustained without a jet. In practice that is difficult to do on most BASE jumps as you need to sustain a steep angle f
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by brendanw 6y ago
It's also been the summer where DeFi 10x'd, so no surprise BTC has gone up a bit now that folks can earn interest on their BTC by providing wrapped BTC liquidity on Ethereum.
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by brendanw 6y ago
I use USD-C and DAI to give out grants to a team of international volunteers. Could not get payments to a guy in Turkey through venmo, paypal, square cash, or transferwise. Now we just send everything via stablecoins.
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by brendanw 7y ago
Negative thought spiral. Life is rough for the OP right now; negative thoughts are begetting negative thoughts. I think most folks have been there, with variance in magnitude.
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by brendanw 7y ago
Gilbert Strang got me through the more difficult of the two linear algebra gatekeeper classes in University. I didn't go to class once after the first week. I sent him a thank you email and he wrote a nice reply.
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Ask HN: Looking for link to JVM performance tech talk by an Irish guy
1 points by brendanw 7y ago|0 comments
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by brendanw 7y ago
I've wonder if this + optimizing for sticky labor while meeting legal requirements. A person who has contributed to impressive open source ticks both checkboxes but will not pass FANG interview.
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by brendanw 7y ago
In my last cycle of interviewing in SF, I ran into two folks I had interviewed in the past. Both very strong interviewers in that I could sense they were putting their full energy into collaborating with me. I remember thinking I really hop
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by brendanw 7y ago
There does not have to be a trade-off between trees and new construction; see the new transbay terminal in San Francisco as an example, or the Changi airport in Singapore. The poop in SF is from growing rates of homelessness, not from densi
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by brendanw 7y ago
For folks looking for a good primer on the terminology and history of cooperative vs preemptive multi tasking, I took a pause on reading this thread to look for an article https://dev.to/nestedsoftware/is-cooperative-co
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by brendanw 7y ago
As someone who loves kotlin on android, I have been searching for companies experimenting with kotlin jvm or kotlin node backends and have been surprised to see that companies are not making the jump. Swift is remarkably similar to kotlin.
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by brendanw 7y ago
I think most companies I've worked at opportunistically looked for standout candidates by always having job postings even when there were no openings. This creates a feedback loop.
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by brendanw 7y ago
It would be great if companies would allow you to bypass the code challenge if you grant them read git access to a relevant project that you have ownership of.
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by brendanw 7y ago
There was solid episode of Odd Lots on cryptocurrency usage in Venezuela. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/here-s-ho...
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by brendanw 7y ago
I vaguely recall reading a few articles about how firehouses are less necessary as we have less fires today, but we struggle to reduce their numbers as they are heavily unionized. This is the narrative I at least have floating in my mind.
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by brendanw 7y ago
Yup, I am seeing double as well.
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by brendanw 7y ago
https://www.shahit.biz/eng/ Here is a database of over 5000 video testimonials by people who have had family members disappeared into Chinese "re-education camps". You can spit the database file out as a .xls
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by brendanw 7y ago
Not to mention the shady business practices of many gyms. Search "Planet Fitness requiring direct withdrawals" on reddit.
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by brendanw 7y ago
How about the Presidio for riding? I am not a cyclist. I incurred a foot injury recently, and have been thinking of ways I can exercise without impacting my feet too much. I've thought riding a bicycle around the Presidio could be pret
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by brendanw 7y ago
A few years ago a Chinese man on the BART tried asking me for directions. His english was poor. With the aid of google translate we were able to do some basic communication. Over the course of 10 minutes I learned he was trying to visit the
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by brendanw 8y ago
Lyft is consistently 30% or more more expensive for my apt-to-work route in SF. A few of my friends observe similar. Perhaps you have to look at things on a route-by-route basis.
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Human Flies with Back to Ground Guided by Another Pilot a Few Meters Above(facebook.com)
1 points by brendanw 8y ago|0 comments
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by brendanw 9y ago
I am excited about the technology. I had taken a light look at the space 4-5 years ago and did not form a strong impression. I didn't take a look at the technology again until last September. One of the topics I enjoyed deep diving on
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by brendanw 9y ago
Why do you have such a strong emotionally negative response to cryptocurrencies? It is pretty clear you are communicating disingenuously. The reasons for ending BTC support for many merchants and platforms were high fees and long tx confirm
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by brendanw 9y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=raiblocks https://www.statista.com/statistics/268225/countries-with-th... You do not see it because you likely fall outside of the demographic of cr
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by brendanw 9y ago
Anyone who has read both whitepapers at a minimum, or audited either code base, knows they are far different technologies.
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by brendanw 9y ago
If we had a token either strictly or loosely tied to real-world identity, then I too would criticize the initial distribution. I would call for an airdrop that provides an equal allocation of a new currency to every identity token. I don&#x
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by brendanw 9y ago
It exists. It is called nano: no fees and instant transactions through the block lattice. https://nano.org/en/whitepaper I am surprised more folks on HN are not familiar with nano considering it is one of the few teams

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