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Entangled··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Worldwide, all 200 countries wherever there is internet.

Regarding regulations we are studying two possible scenarios, comply with all or simply Uberize the model and let people sell money for a fee. For the former we need tons of money, attorneys and on/off ramps with the banking world. For the latter we only would be the messaging transport and people would buy and sell money informally, that's the long tail of the unbanked and informal merchants.

Entangled··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Paysapp, a worldwide payment system that allows you to send money as simple as texting a message like "pay 100 to George", available right now in Whatsapp, Telegram, Keybase, Matrix, Discord, Slack and Twitter, just add the Paysapp bot to your chats and type 'help' to start.

We're at a very early stage and looking for investors.

Entangled··on Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
Washer-sized nuclear reactors for home use under $10k.
Entangled··on Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
The WhatsApp Commerce Policy states that businesses may not transact in the sale of real, virtual, or fake currency. Keyword: sale.

Does that discard the creation of remittance apps? That's not selling, that's just sending money between parties. I was thinking on sending money around the world using WhatsApp, is that allowed?

Entangled··on Adblocking: How about Nah?
Show me just one ad per page, no scripts, no movement, no tracking and I'll be fine with that.
Entangled··on Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
Can we have schools for the unvaccinated?
Entangled··on DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
Software is perfectible, skinware is not. As long as corruptible human beings are in charge, there will be room for fraud.
Entangled··on The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan
God's number is zero and no matter what we do that sum will always be above zero. As we are programmed in our DNAs to survive, sustain and multiply, the average outcome will always be positive no matter how many bad apples. If to the contrary, we were programmed to self destroy, we would've been gone long time ago.
Entangled··on The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan
> The cardinality of the rationals is the same as the integers.

If you combine N as all possible numerators with N as denominators you get that cardinality of Q = N * N

Also, I don't accept the diagonal argument as proof. Given all possible combinations of numbers, any given number will occur in that set no matter what. If you add special rules of course it falls apart and Cantor's argument is just a special rule.

If we use fruits as an example, taking a diagonal from their letters won't form a fruit either.

    1. [A]PPLE
    2. O[R]ANGE
    3. MA[N]GO
    4. CHE[R]RY
    :
    N. ARNR ?
Entangled··on The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan
"Suppose there is a mapping from the natural numbers onto the decimals."

Infinity is a tricky subject.

There are infinite naturals, fractions and decimals but they are different kinds of infinities. If we define natural positives as N and both positive and negatives as the same infinities N * 2 (with a minus sign), we can safely say that decimals are simply all naturals multiplied by infinity N * N * N * 2 or N ^ 3 * 2 where for every single integer like 0, 1 or 2 there will be infinite decimals after the point prefixed by infinite zeroes too like .1 .01 .001 .0001 and even if N * 2 or N ^ 3 are equal to infinity (infinity because we can't measure it or at least not know its final boundary) both infinities are different.

And guessable, we're out of hell someday.

Entangled··on Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
I built some warehousing apps in VFP 20 years ago and they're still running fine. Every time I go ship something the owner asks me to prune and reindex the DB and that's it, another year running smooth.
Entangled··on 12.1T Digits of Pi
What would it be the most repeating digit and at what position? Just curious.
Entangled··on Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
I've been combing the web for new pics but have found nothing. Anything new?
Entangled··on Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
Apple needs balls. They need to show the world they can innovate where nobody has gone before. An Apple TV with screen and game controllers for $2k would sell like hot cakes. A stackable 'Mac Nano' the size of current Apple TV 4k for under $500. An 'iPhone Y' aimed at the lower end for under $300 so everybody can use Apple Pay, Facetime, etc and get immersed in the Apple ecosystem.

You can't survive in a competitive world with just 10% of the market share since interconnectedness is crucial for the dominance of any platform and that's why you need cheaper macs and phones without losing the appeal of high end products for those who have the money in times of economic duress like the ones to come.

Entangled··on WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
This is perfect for writing compact and portable web apps. I built a basic chrome that runs an index.html page and everything linkable after that and all I have to do is inspect myweb.app file and change whatever html, css or js I want. Simpler impossible. And with a little help from Swift I can have all the power of macOS in my hands.

It is neither a hammer nor a nail, it just works for some specific purposes.

Entangled··on Thelio – System76
"...to the solar system at the time of the Unix Epoch, Thelio embodies the character of our company and community."

Nice detail.

Entangled··on The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar
I built and android app just like this that marks ten hours, ten minutes, ten seconds and ten ticks being each tick 0.864 ancient seconds. Midnight starts at 000 and noon at 500.
Entangled··on The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar
I wonder why we haven't thought of a decimal calendar synced with the seasons like:

          W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9
    SPR 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    SUM 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    AUT 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    WIN 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 [1]
So we only have four months (seasons) and each has nine weeks of ten days each. Each season starts with a neutral day (equinox and solstice) then follow the weeks with ten days each. At the end of the year there is a universal holiday and an extra holiday for leap year.

We could also name all days of the week after the eight planets and the sun as initially intended (including moonday). We could have seven working days and three days off or three working days then two off then three more working days then two off per week.

Whatever, just wanted to leave a stinky brainfart in this room for posterity.

Entangled··on Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin
Why did you pick Ethereum instead of Ripple or Stellar? They have lower transaction fees and almost instant transfers in the seconds while their token contracts are way easier to setup and maintain if you are thinking on adding EUR, GBP, YEN, etc in the future. The only real advantage of Ethereum is their user base which is important but not the only decisive factor.
Entangled··on The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
We have a room filled with one foot of iron, one foot of sand, one foot of water, one foot of air, and some empty space filled with god knows what needs to be filled in order to balance the gravity equations. There is one group of people looking for particles less dense than air to fill the rest of the room. I am in the group that's looking at the other end for particles denser than iron, and I firmly believe they are contained in black stars (wrongly named black holes).
Entangled··on A tale of the unending hunt for dark matter
So, how dense you think the black hole at the center of the milky way is? Twice the whole galaxy at least? Or just a tiny fraction?
Entangled··on A tale of the unending hunt for dark matter
Forgive my utter ignorance but, what if black holes are not "holes" but solid spheres of massive density? There you may have your dark matter to boot.
Entangled··on Show HN: SAN – a Safe and Nice TOML/YAML Alternative
Try Dixy :)

https://github.com/kuyawa/dixy

Entangled··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
"For a New Liberty" by Murray Rothbard, not only solidified my understanding of power, politics and the state already explained in "Anatomy of the State" by the same Rothbard, but also opened my mind about the eternal struggle between power and liberty, aggression and defense, the essential traits of life in the whole universe.
Entangled··on Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943)
Or Venezuela.
Entangled··on Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
Wake me up when I can get an electric two-seater like this [1] or this [2] for under ten grand. No A/C, no windows, no nothing, just a cool buggy to run errands and cruise all day in sunny Florida.

https://i.imgur.com/gQDPqOn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tCXxiRm.jpg

Entangled··on Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?
Pick an easy language like python, then teach him in order:

    print, print, print
    print, input, print
    print, input, if print, else print
    print, input, for print
    func, print func
These are the basic building blocks of all computer programs in the universe, if he can master them and gets his curiosity in overdrive then he'll be a great programmer, a good skill to have even if he picks another career path.
Entangled··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
Make it a money remmitance platform and allow one billion people to send a trillion dollars a year charging just one percent in fees (ten billions in revenue) while providing merchants with extra apps and features for a premium.

A couple of days ago I was ordering a pizza by phone and they told me they had a whatsapp channel to take orders so I thought paying using whatsapp would be perfect. No need for annoying ads or invasive data collection.

Entangled··on U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
So, BTC created 16 million coins from air and nobody complained. Ripple created 100 billion coins from air and nobody complained. Tron, Stellar, Cardano, Iota, all in the billions. The top 1000 coins were created from air and nobody complained (most are scams).

Why creating Tethers from thin air is now a cause of concern? That's a coin just like every coin out there, like Tron, Verge, EOS, they're created from nothing by a program, they have the value the market decides it has and the creator has all the right to print all the coins they want just like everybody else.

And the market has decided USDT has more value than all other coins combined as it is number two in volume just behind BTC.

People use USDT as a safe harbor when markets collapse, it has its use, a very valuable use. Of course they will print trillions if they could, everybody would print trillions of their shitty coins and cash out tanking the market if they could, that's the nature of cryptocurrencies.

I fail to see why people complain about Tether (highly valuable) and not about the rest of the scam coins that are draining the market from stupid money.

Entangled··on German Supreme court: Adblocking and taxing advertisers for unblocking, legal
I wonder if adblockers can charge advertisers for unblocking and give half of that money to users who opt-in respecting those who don't.

That's a billion dollar market waiting for disruption.

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