mikekij

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by mikekij 1y ago
This post was either written entirely by chatGPT, or mostly. Multiple instances of "...this isn't just X - it's Y." "The contrast isn't just economic — it's philosophical." "family wealth isn&#x2
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by mikekij 1y ago
Love this. Definitely getting on the list.
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by mikekij 1y ago
Cybersecurity "expert" here. This seems to be under-hyped, if possible. If there were login attempts that even appeared to be coming from Russia using valid credentials that were created less than an hour before, it can really onl
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by mikekij 2y ago
https://archive.is/Rh3Di
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by mikekij 2y ago
[I'm attempting to ask this question in an apolitical way]. The consensus amongst economists appears to be that tariffs will have net negative impacts on our economy. Can someone explain the support amongst financially sophisticated pe
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by mikekij 3y ago
Listing some examples of rare earth metals in bullet form is classic LLM behavior.
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by mikekij 3y ago
This. happy to help.
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by mikekij 3y ago
"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."
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by mikekij 3y ago
As impressive as the number of Starlink satellites is, the service has become unusable for me in Southern California, particularly for video calls. I’ve been told that the bottleneck is land stations, not satellites. Either way, I’ve had to
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by mikekij 3y ago
I have minimal contact with YC these days, and have no particular motivation to artificially inflate the value of the program. YC was transformational for my company (MedCrypt). I have almost zero negative things to say about it, and would
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FDA submissions must prove that medical devices meet cybersecurity standards(fiercebiotech.com)
2 points by mikekij 3y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 4y ago
Incorrect. I have friends with $500k payroll deposits due at noon Monday. Fdic has made no guarantees that they’ll have access to a sufficiently large amount to cover.
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by mikekij 4y ago
The sentiment on Twitter seems to be “tough. You, Etsy seller, took a risk by selling on a platform that used a bank that made a bad investment. The tax payer shouldn’t bail out a bunch of rich pottery artists.” These sorts of effects (Etsy
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by mikekij 4y ago
To be clear, he likely has millions of shares of stock in SVB that are now worth exactly $0. He could end up being personally liable for SVB employee’s pay. In general, I too hate when the “rich people” win despite screwing up. This doesn’t
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by mikekij 4y ago
It appears as though he sold exactly the number of shares required to cover the cost of exercising options that were about to expire with his after-tax proceeds. This does not seem to me to be a nefarious transaction.
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by mikekij 4y ago
Hey, the design of your homepage is awesome. Who did the animations / visuals?
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by mikekij 4y ago
The only issue with the comparison of cryptocurrencies and sports trading cards is that trading cards will still provide some utility to the 1% of people trading them. The primary utility of cryptocurrencies is the anticipation of them goin
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by mikekij 4y ago
You have an excellent writing style. Top notch comment.
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MedCrypt (YC W19) lands $25M injection to secure vulnerable medical devices(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mikekij 4y ago|1 comments
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by mikekij 4y ago
"pH will drop to pH7.95 by 2045, and most marine life in our oceans dissolve." As someone who considers themselves an environmentalist, I find this sort of language to have a net-negative impact on our collective cause. The paper
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by mikekij 4y ago
Next up: Qualcomm launches 7G cell chips.
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Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-Based Decentralized WEB5(bitcoinmagazine.com)
3 points by mikekij 4y ago|1 comments
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MedCrypt (YC W19) Is Hiring(ycombinator.com)
1 points by mikekij 4y ago
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by mikekij 4y ago
Same. GoFundMe?
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by mikekij 4y ago
> For example, the FDA is generally agreed to have dropped the ball by dragging its feet on approving covid tests. I don't think profit motive or regulatory capture explain that. What does? I'm no fan of over-regulation, but th
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by mikekij 4y ago
The people inside will absolutely receive a larger radiation dose. A thin metal shell does not block a large percentage of cosmic radiation.
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by mikekij 5y ago
It is an interesting market, for sure. The fact that these vendors are reluctant to upgrade tech stacks actually creates a bunch of opportunities. (Although we wish they'd just upgrade their Windows version:)
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by mikekij 5y ago
@brnt It's great to see someone else from radiotherapy on HN. I'd love to chat if you're down. Shoot me an email.
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by mikekij 5y ago
Random question about PaulGraham.com: I noticed that the header of his blog posts are always images; not text. e.g. "fierce-nerds-1.gif". Does anyone have any idea why he renders the title as an image? And do we think this happens
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MedCrypt (YC W19) Is Hiring: AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer – Remote
1 points by mikekij 5y ago

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