zen_boy

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by zen_boy 10mo ago
Is the "thinking" dropdown option on gemini.google.com what the blog post refers to as Deep Think?
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Are you also from Finland? Would love to share stories and insights! You can find my contact info on alexhanh.com, if you are interested to talk. :)
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Great points. Ultimately, it seems to boil down to deferring tax to the future instead of the present resulting in higher gains for everybody, and having the freedom to choose on how to give back. Both of which seem like the obvious after f
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Comparing an educated crypto investment with a negative EV gambling game seems a bit too farfetched. I'm quite considerate and picky investor, and did extensive research beforehand. I do get what you are saying, but I think this is ove
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by zen_boy 10y ago
This is always a good reminder. Then again, had I not done that investment or cashed out earlier, that 20k€ would be nowhere near 1M€. There simply doesn't exist many ways to achieve 50x ROI in <5 years. Seems like majority of peopl
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Wow, this advice is very valuable. I'll definitely investigate. Thank you. Another interesting discussion is the ethical side of things. I do feel some obligation to pay back to my home country for things it has provided (free educatio
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by zen_boy 10y ago
I did some calculations about owning your own apartment vs renting. At least in Finland with the current housing prices and interest rates, the difference in a 25 year period between owning and renting was surprisingly small. Personally, I&
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Great advice, thank you. I'll prioritise increasing this amount in the near future.
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by zen_boy 10y ago
So easy to say in hindsight, right? I try not to be too hard on myself about past decisions. I bet you did the best decision you were capable of doing with the information you had at the time. Similar opportunities will come in the future.
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by zen_boy 10y ago
In Finland, the capital gains on cryptos are realised once you sell them for floating currencies (ie. USD or EUR). We pay 34% tax on the profit. For example, I'd pay (1M€ - 20k€) x 34% = 333k€ of taxes on capital gains. I'm not su
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by zen_boy 10y ago
I didn't have any magical crystal ball, like no one else did. The key transition point was moving the Bitcoins into the Ethereum. For me, Vitalik's early posts convinced me that Ethereum wasn't just another altcoin and it had
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Ethereum seems to have great potential to multiply its value in the next 12-24 months. I think the probability of ETH going from 1B$ -> 2-5B$ market cap is far greater than BTC going from 10B$ to 20-50B$ due to several factors. My line o
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Just turned 30. Invested most of my savings (20k€) into Bitcoin several years ago, and then converted everything to Ethereum in the pre-sale. Those 20k€ are worth roughly 1M€ pre-tax at the current rates. Started a fintech startup three yea
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by zen_boy 10y ago
Here's a backgammon bot implemented in practise https://github.com/alexhanh/Botting-Library for anybody interested. It also contains highly optimised Blackjack bot. PartyPoker had a beatable blackjack due to bonus
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Ask HN: Advice on selling your startup?
2 points by zen_boy 11y ago|0 comments
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Would love to hear your general thoughts on Modafinil. One of the things they say is that it has minor side-effects and that tolerance builds up really slow, if at all, in comparison. What's your take on it, empirically?
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by zen_boy 13y ago
The expected value for this bet is $1,000,000,000/4,294,967,296 ~= $0,23. Say, it takes 10 minutes to make the bet. That would compute to the average gain of 6*$0,23 = $1,38/hour. This disregarded the $100,000 paid to the top 20 a
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Great stuff! Seems like the store_accessor works with the :json column type out of the box as well. Throw in a JSON schema validator and we have full-blown validations for :hstore and :json!
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Care to expand how? Curious as a Rails developer myself.
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by zen_boy 13y ago
My girlfriend has Ankylosing spondylitis. The exact cause of the continued inflammation is unknown. It has been hypothesised that the cause is a gut bacteria feeding off of gluten/starch/sugar/etc. We are super excited about
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by zen_boy 13y ago
It took some time to get used to, but now I don't even notice it. Totally worth the adjustment period. New people always seem to comment how orange/warm my screen looks.
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. I was wondering why the version number on Mac still was 23.0 after the update.
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Up until now, how has the typical animations you see on landing pages been achieved? Is it all manual animation via code?
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Great plugin! Is there something similar for AngularJS that supports input limiting and formatting?
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by zen_boy 13y ago
How do you deal with something like SSL and canonical URLs with SEO in mind? Thanks!
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Ask HN: How to host websites consisting of static files only?
1 points by zen_boy 13y ago|5 comments
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by zen_boy 13y ago
This. Also, individuals react to and metabolize caffeine differently. YMMV. On related note, 23andme users can see which kind of caffeine metabolizers they are from the Drug Response section.
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by zen_boy 13y ago
How does Elixir/Erlang compare to Go?
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by zen_boy 13y ago
Are there any beginner friendly articles about Elixir? I've been mainly doing web programming with Ruby and want to understand how Elixir is useful and why I would choose it over something else.
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by zen_boy 14y ago
Someone proposed chewing gum as a way around this. This gives the jaw some exercise as well.

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