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Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world(dw.com)
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Milton Friedman on the rise of trustless ecash (1999)(youtube.com)
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
You can read why I strongly believe in cryptocurrencies based on my life experience (which has nothing do to with crypto): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197475 I think HN went pretty much to the left, if not far-le
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I don’t live in US. While I understand what’s real offense (including disrespectful jokes), I have concern about “guilty till proven innocent”. If I’m attracted to someone and I want to date. How you can ask to go out without risk of being
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning DAI. I mentioned DAI today in comment and essentially got banned for doing it. In comment I provided link to interview with Olaf on blog.ycombinator.com where MakerDAO was mentioned. So I got banned as spammer in HN fo
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Ask HN: Why Hacker News readers are so against cryptocurrencies?
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
As tensions with USDT rise, my prediction is that MakerDAO decentralized stablecoin will take over the market in 2019. You can see how issued DAI market cap pumping up steadily all year long almost with no break: https://mkr.tool
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Usually, people who trade smarter than those who vote. So stock market is constant voting machine for expected future earnings, it's fair to say that indexes provide pretty accurate overview of economy. With that in mind, if you look a
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I watched EU debt crisis since 2012. In 2015, I watched this animation about EU debt crisis on Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_tyEl84IQ Since 2016, I spoke with many greeks, spanish and it looks to me that vas
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I acknowledge that Sweden has number of advantages and benevolent government with no corruption. It's certainly one of the top countries in the world in terms of development. My guess is that Sweden might be popular choice among people
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
"as to enforce equality of income". This is what puts me off of Europe! I don't mind if group of people voluntarily decide to live in communism and share with each other everything they earn. Like hippies who lived in сom
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I think educational microcomputers should be reintroduced in modern schools, so kids would have easier time to imagine all path from programming language to hardware. By the way, your username reminds me of great game on ZX Spectrum called
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Are you asking about what I mean by "It was tough decision for me"? You can read my post dated 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8692961 In short, I was very upset by political situation in Russia and I f
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I was born in Uzbekistan. I lived 22 years in Uzbekistan. My parents had no money but in 1994, my father bought me russian clone of ZX Spectrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum https://ru.wikipedia
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Europe will not win race for ambitious people. I lived in Sweden for almost one year as an expat (I'm a software engineer). Now, I live in the Netherlands for more than two years. I can say for sure that Europe is nowhere near Silico
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
A year ago, I watched YC lecture for raising capital where Sam Altman or somebody else recommended startup founders NOT raise any capital from unaccredited investors because it may create problems with raising next rounds. In other words, c
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
> only scammers did ICOs This is absolutely incorrect. One of many examples - Tezos.
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
In the eyes of SEC, ICOs are nothing more than equity crowdfunding. It means that SEC doesn't like any sale of unlisted assets to unaccredited investors. By SEC definition accredited investor is an investor who has either $1M of liquid
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
The scary thing is that while living in Russia, I've encountered many people with similar views (face to face). I know it's hard to believe for western people but there are lots of people in Russia who completely obsessed with ide
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
In 2014-2015, I've spent great amount of energy to get out of Russia. Since I left Russia in 2015, the situation with internet freedom became much worse. Especially this year when Russia blocked millions and millions of IP-addresses in
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
For someone who is into old games, I would also recommend book "It's behind you" which covers a story of porting R-Type to ZX-Spectrum: http://www.bizzley.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I was always puzzled by human's experience of "seeing". When you "see redness" for example. It was very hard for me to explain it to other people before I found that there is special term called "qualia":
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned LeetCode. You can start solving 100 most popular interview questions (sort them by difficulty first): https://leetcode.com/problemset/top-100-liked-questions/ If you've nev
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
A bit off-topic. I've noticed that P/E ratio (Price / Earnings) is pretty decent for Apple and it doesn't change much. In fact, since 2009 till today P/E stays in corridor between ~10 and ~20. What it means is that
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Location: Netherlands (but I'm Russian citizen) Remote: Possible, if job is very interesting Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably: [Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Zurich] Technologies: C++11/14, Linux Résumé/CV: https:/&
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Rwanda seems to be first country which imposed complete ban on plastic bags. It looks they've been successful on that: http://www.dw.com/en/ten-years-on-rwandas-plastic-ban/av-428...
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
Here are my advices on how to train yourself for algorithm/data structures interviews: 1. Others already recommended to practice solving problems on LeetCode; 2. While solving these problems don't spend too much time if you got st
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I watched all of these lectures online. It's truly insightful! I'm too poor to be angel investor but I do like to listen angel investors and venture capitalists because they can give me insights about how to find brilliant ideas a
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
I think this may be relevant to leave it here. There is also an open-source re-implementation of the classic Tomb Raider engine: https://github.com/opentomb/OpenTomb
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by hal9000xp 8y ago
My first ever programming book was "Usborne Guide to Understanding the Micro: How It Works and What It Can Do" written in 1982: https://www.amazon.com/Usborne-Guide-Understanding-Micro-Ele... It's introductio

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