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malmsteen··on “Pump-and-Dump” schemes in Telegram groups drive penny crypto coin prices up
There's no "application" of blockchain. You'd be rather thanking thoses schemes because they are feeding the hype of what would be seems as a useless techno otherwise.

I mean come on, anything can be done without it and using blockchain just bring unessential minor improvements like decentralization that no one cares about. Prove me wrong ...

malmsteen··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
I don't know if it's really specific to startup. In life in general no one cares about you and people tend to avoid you if it's going badly (except very close friends).
malmsteen··on Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
Well python is pretty much already well established but it should be wary of te famous "Embrace Extend Extinguish".
malmsteen··on How to Read Mathematics
So. much. Using simple examples, low dimensions and physical analogies is really a key to advanced math.
malmsteen··on Ask HN: I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised
Because there's more to life than being successful and earning money: being part of a team, having successful relationships with family/friends/lovers and other factors is 90% of your happiness..

So the problem is not probably the money, nor actually the diet / exercise, it won't make you happy because you are already disciplined enough in many ways so more discipline to you will not make you more happy. Instead you should focus on these other valuable aspects of life:

- Learning to have fun

- Learning to be crazy

- Deepening your relationships.

You're depressed because there's a lack of something and clearly it's not money so i would say it's relationships / feelings maybe.. or maybe a bit of craziness ? We (SWE/maths guys) live in a world of rule and order but it's not most of the essense of life. Life is messy and cahotic and we are made to embrace it somehow... (edit: even it looks hard or if there is a voice in your head saying 'this advice is stupid')

Finally a quote that i like: "sex is like water, it only becomes important when you don't lacking of".. it's actually not only sex the same for food, personal relationships, money, family. Life is pretty much about equilibrating a few of these "basic needs". Just find what is missing to you.

malmsteen··on Video tags reveal surprising details of blue whale feeding behavior
>Totally thought this was going to be about an algorithm that tags videos of whales with text, and and how they noticed a pattern by looking at the tags.

same!

malmsteen··on What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?
There is 0 reason not to experiment though. And Christianity is just one religion amongst 10 major other religions so there's no reason to think it has all the answers (especially considering the many mistakes it has done in the assessment of various scientific facts..)
malmsteen··on Wikileaks today published the source code HIVE – CIA malware control platforms
Well.. what's the possibility that this "leak" and "source code" is something coming from russia/kaspersky to pretend it's a CIA cover up, in order to cover themselves up?

I mean... personally i really don't care. But for people like you and others who seem to care so much... is it a realistic possibility ?

malmsteen··on WikiLeaks: CIA source code leak shows agency impersonating Kaspersky
How can you see the amount of downvotes ?
malmsteen··on A New Twist on Neural Networks
It's probably more than that otherwise that guy wouldn't waste his time.
malmsteen··on How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them
> work on inconsequential work (thinking Google hired so many to lure people clicking ads).

I'm not sure if it's what you meant but working to make people click ad is probably the most consequential work that has been done in SV in the past 40 years... It's the thing that enabled everything else.

malmsteen··on The Logic of Risk Taking
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malmsteen··on The Logic of Risk Taking
tl dr ?
malmsteen··on VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”
Et euh, pourquoi ne pas accepter et ten foutre car c'est open source donc qqun le forke ou tu le fais toi même ?

translate: why not accept and not care because opensource so someone fork or even yourself on the long term

malmsteen··on Uber says it's leaving Quebec if province insists on stricter rules
lol
malmsteen··on Launch HN: Peergrade (YC S17) – Student to Student Feedback
I've heard of a few other guys doing that... or maybe it was you already :-p.

Why are you better than the others ?

malmsteen··on iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested
Yeah it means that for the layman "great" is just "great" and "that's normal anyway technology always do great things". whereas as an expert you actually realize why it's hard to get to that point.

go explain to someone in high school why andrew wiles proof of fermat theorem is harder than galois theory... i'm bringin my pop corns

malmsteen··on Is Trump mulling Peter Thiel for a top intelligence advisory post?
> The UK is plowing ahead with a hard brexit with a 52% majority on a 72% turnout (38% of the electorate explicitly said they wanted to leave)

I hate this argument because you would just not count if brexit had been rejected as you wish it had been. You would just say "sigh it's normal, i'm happy people are not that stupid" and you wouldn't bother arguing with "stupid people".

Even if i wanted to argue on that level, you can say there was - 38% who explicitly said they wanted to leave - 37% who explicitly said they wanted to stay - 25% who had no opinion / didn't care

so it make absolute sense to leave in that case.

EDIT: To be clear i'm not pro-brexit, i just think "echo chamber blah blah biaised opinions" like this one are the reason people "can't understand" election such as brexit and trump and question the legitimacy...

malmsteen··on Ask HN: Am I addicted to HackerNews?
losing time doing something better. time is the most valuable ressource. so yeah it's detrimental
malmsteen··on Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
Stupid question: what about flying above the hurricane on the way back ? Possible ?
malmsteen··on Show HN: DeepSense – Know people better through AI-built profiles
It's the first one i tried too !
malmsteen··on Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
pretty sure they want to be further from seatlle on purpose (east coast ? south ?)
malmsteen··on At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated
r u kidding ? bush was largely more evil than trump.

trump is just randomly going from one to another mostly unconsequential decision.

bush went to war, purposefully let torture be instigated (while trump say ok for torture motsly to look tough) and promoted hugh oil conglomerates.. he's also the governor who order the most inmates to be sent to death row

Learn to see the difference between talk and action.

malmsteen··on Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
Nah it's just "survive and replicate". like every other species. Except that it's harder for us than other species, in particular, because a small human child is super fragile (more than like a giraffe baby) so you need a lot of care, and a lot of intelligence to do that care.
malmsteen··on You Can’t Block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook
"lol"

Honestly this is so unimportant i don't exactly see a better answer.

I mean seriously: the higest comment in this thread right now is discussing "social media has become mass scale social engineering"... are you for real?

It's just two guys and maybe it's not even intentional.. and maybe if it was then so what? it's still just two guys.

People feel threatened by anything these days..

malmsteen··on Court: Locating suspect via stingray requires a warrant
Really ?
malmsteen··on Show HN: The best time to visit any city
omg the metric one is so important. it should even be default 8-o
malmsteen··on Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?
poor little thing

#firstworldproblems

malmsteen··on Predict the future with Machine Learning
This... It's not like rocket science when u already know math. Just read cs229
malmsteen··on A note on programmer salaries
>> If you're good, and know how to work well remotely, contract work at 130-150€/hr is plentiful

What kind of work ? if you have a phd you can't have research work that way can you ?

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