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NwmG

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Degree in computer engineering, minors in mathematics and economics. Passionate about blockchain tech., finance, and a bunch of other stuff. Currently work in the cryptocurrency space as it is a melding of technological and financial interests.
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NwmG··on Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees
They can indeed censor, I think what the prior poster was saying is that if they choose to censor, their regulation changes.
NwmG··on Amazon Sued for Saying You've 'Bought' Movies That It Can Take Away from You
I don't think it says games owned, it just says games... Maybe a recent change?
NwmG··on Ask HN: Any good resources, case studies about bootstrapped Hardware startups?
May not be exactly what your looking for but bolt VC posts some really interesting content around starting hardware companies. https://blog.bolt.io

Theres a whole series on the hardware process: https://blog.bolt.io/ideation/ https://blog.bolt.io/design/ https://blog.bolt.io/engineering/ https://blog.bolt.io/validation/

They also have a bunch of great posts on strategy and business models.

NwmG··on Magic: A Key-Based Authentication System for Self-Sovereign Identity
Super interesting.

I have a question on the main product - doesn't pushing the link to email just pass the password breach potential to the email provider?

definitely understand the reduction of attack vectors but does it not consolidate the risk?

NwmG··on 'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast
if anyone is interested in this topic of how these things happen and the general lawlessness of the seas due to tragedy of the commons I highly recommend Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
NwmG··on Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
You might want to note that you can test it on the testnet. It looks like it works, i did it using ropsten testnet but the verbiage in the posting says mainnet regardless of if it is actually the mainnet.
NwmG··on Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
why can you put in negative numbers as the amount?
NwmG··on Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS
this exists - localbitcoins.com
NwmG··on 68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system
I would say it is not actually a mixer. The point you are making actually points more towards them being temp addresses for exchanges. More people entering the market on exchanges, higher volume in exchanges, higher volume in this tempwallet "mixer"
NwmG··on 68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system
Yeah, this was my thought as well. 67% of all ETH transaction volume in a mixer seems pretty high, particularly when you consider the volume traded on each of the exchanges
NwmG··on The Army, the Inventor and the Surprising Uses of a Batman Machine
>the U.S. Army approached MIT with a request: Can somebody build a powered device that can pull somebody up a rope, like Batman does?

does the gov't publish these requests?

NwmG··on Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
I am a big fan of the bolt blog.

https://blog.bolt.io/

Its a hardware/hardware startup blog written by what looks like a full(ish) stack hardware VC.

NwmG··on Show HN: Retail Store that runs on Ethereum
Check out openbazaar
NwmG··on How I Stole a User's Siacoin
i was going to ask the same thing, you can search the bytes in hex for 01 03 6B 65 79 41 04
NwmG··on Coinbase Support on Hacked Accounts
Hey, sent you a note. Any help would be very much appreciated. The support team keeps telling me to just create a new account.
NwmG··on US Senate bill on “any digital exchanger or tumbler of digital currency”
Thank you very much for this description. I did not understand the implications or effect the change had. My question is - as a number of exchanges operating in the US (polo, kraken, GDAX) require Id's or some form of verification, what changes are really required? New AML/Compliance departments?

Also will individuals P2P transmitting cryptocurrency have to perform these same checks?

NwmG··on Coinbase is down
Same thing happened to me. I tried to log in, but the number on my account had been changed. Support has simply said to create a new account... But what about my holdings and bank account connection?

seriously coinbase?

NwmG··on Coinbase is down
My coinbase account was hacked, phone number changed (2FA). It has my bank account hooked to it... Their resolution so far was to simply create a new account...
NwmG··on Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel
NYC is in the united states and has one of the best subway systems in the world. Also culturally the subway has be come part of all New Yorkers day, from CEO's to yes homeless people.
NwmG··on Is Trump Getting His News from Reddit?
quote from article - " more likely, White House social-media director Dan Scavino — happen to see the news on Reddit’s infamous /r/The_Donald"
NwmG··on Smartphones can be fooled by fake, digitally composed fingerprints
Thanks for the link! Yes there are many ways, I always thought minutiae was most common/simplest. There are some interesting advancements also occuring in the optical tomography. [1]

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7110228/?reload=true

NwmG··on Smartphones can be fooled by fake, digitally composed fingerprints
Yeah, pretty much. It compares the minutiae[1] from the new scan against that from one, or multiple saved scans from registration.

[1]https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Minutiae

NwmG··on Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)
Likely has something to do with scale. In particular they are able to keep a low or nonexistent administrative overhead.
NwmG··on Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?
A bit more expensive than what you are looking for, but I got the DIY (not built) 3D Robotics Y6 for $600 which runs the PX4/Ardupilot stack. I have been able to use it with ROS.
NwmG··on Ask HN: Is there any point of asking about hobbies in interviews?
I think it would help the most in employee retention
NwmG··on Introducing “Zero,” a new app to help you fast
this is really interesting, do you have a source?
NwmG··on MacBook Pro
>There seems to be some discontinuity between the Macbook and iPhone lines.

I wouldn't say that, the use case is different. I think wireless makes significantly more sense on mobile.

Laptops are "mobile" but in a different way. they are not meant to be used while on the subway or working out, you sit down pull out your laptop, and if you want to listen to music you can plug in headphones. having to walk away from the laptop while listening to music isn't as important

NwmG··on Lotteries: America's $70B Shame
Semantics. I believe it was a slight hyperbole but it reads as such.
NwmG··on On the unreasonable reality of “junior” developer interviews
I think it is correct that it breaks down the candidates confidence. This exactly happened to me, I have a computer engineering degree, was a very competent programmer as far as my courses were concerned. I ended up taking a job in Product because of how difficult some of the interviews were, I wasn't sure my programming skills were up to snuff. I have been working on personal projects in my free time to keep my skills and think I might give it another try at some point.
NwmG··on Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast from Parks and Recreation
I tried three pictures of Nick Offerman, and it only got one.
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