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mpva··on Flying microchips size of a sand grain could be used for population surveilance
Great, thats all I need to breathe in every day
mpva··on YouTube allowing scammers to place phishing ads on top of SERP
How is this youtube? am I missing something?
mpva··on Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
Looks like a great way to farm a list of commonly used passwords for users or just wifis.

I never trust anything online that generates anything with a password. I got burned from a crypto wallet scam once. but fool be twice...!!!

mpva··on Launch HN: Turing College (YC W21) – Online data science school
I'm confused.

The code you have on one of the quiz questions is:

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a = 1 b = 2 c = 3

def calculator(a,b,c): b = a - c a = 2 return a+b

x = calculator(c,b,a) print(x)

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This returns 4. But the only options you have are:

A. no output B. 0 C. 3

mpva··on Duolingo S-1 IPO
Thank you.
mpva··on Duolingo S-1 IPO
How do we buy into Duoloingo stocks?
mpva··on User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
Drat! it took em: 00:09:23. That bloody accept terms and those checkmarks at the end got me good. Nice game and great way to get people to want to apply. Kudos to the creators.
mpva··on U.S. Navy controls inventions that claim to change “fabric of reality”
Patents dont mean crap tho right? Companies that have any idea file hundreds of patents per year just incase it becomes a thing. I wouldnt put too much stock into this.
mpva··on Ask HN: Dev leads and managers: want me to build this?
There are tons of tools out there and just talking doesnt help anyone. Mock up a demo and show us then we'll decide if we wanna use it.
mpva··on The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
You should report this to google, its clearly a huge violation of terms of service.
mpva··on City roads – This website renders every single road within a city
This is really cool. Kudos
mpva··on Free PDF: Building Mobile apps at scale (see text for code)
Either "sonarsource", "bugsnag", "revenuecat", "bitrise", "touchlab", or "perfdev" (without the quotes)
mpva··on Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
I cant seem to edit my comment. I think my comment was misunderstood.

Firstly, I wanted to say that the writer seems biased, and due to this they disregarded the technology of blockchain. They mixed up bitcoin and blockchain and the use cases are completely different things

As for IOTA being a scam. I honestly do not know, I liked their use case but perhaps I am uneducated...If you have any papers or links to back up your claims then please provide them, i'm open to having my opinion changed.

mpva··on Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
This person clearly has a biased view about bitcoin ( as evident by their talk about and distain of the market and its "scammers", although we all hate scammers), so much so that they mix blockchain and bitcoin up. Blockchain technology has not failed in its task, and as to bitcoin failing, well I guess we will see.

It reads like someone just lost a lot of money in they recent dip and is venting.

For the record, There are other projects in the space that use less energy than bitcoin, like iota: https://howtobuyiota.co.uk/articles/how-energy-efficient-iot... - I read this article a while ago and full disclaimer, yes I invested.

mpva··on Ask HN: What would be your ideal co-working space?
Not over priced crap like WeWork.
mpva··on Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
What do you mean by: Nailing hard tasks beats quick convo over coffee almost everytime. ?
mpva··on Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
Thanks

Number eight is my fav :-p

mpva··on Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
Thanks for this +1

To also add,, I have been told meditation can help and I would also like to start that.

I find that I lack focus, memory and interest. My curiosity and desire to learn has been replaced with "CBA" for want of a better phrase.

I want to be better, smarter and able to understand situations better.

mpva··on A single ethereum is $4k
Ride those gainz
mpva··on Paternoster Lift
I was about to say the same.
mpva··on Ask HN: Do you read terms of service?
Never. :(

I know... I should.. but urgh..

Funny video of Michael McIntyre talking about this very thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FeZti1cjs

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mpva··on Ask HN: Solo developer, what's your recipe to start working?
My biggest key for this is to work on something you enjoy. Find something that you feel is wrong, or too difficult or too cumbersome and solve it technically.

For example:

Problem: There was too much street light at night to sleep coming through my window, so I bought black out blinds. Then I didn't have enough light to wake up in the morning and always felt sluggish.

Solution: I created an arduino sensor to detect morning light (depending on time of year) and then using a motor on the blind cord, it opens my blinds gradually so I have a nice natural wake up.

And it's powered by solar. I literally never need an alarm clock again. (All thought I still set one, good developers always have a plan b)

mpva··on US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations
It's fantastic that suicide rates are lower.

I do think the article has missed a very important factor as to why though. I'm not saying the "heroism" phenomenon or the access to tele-based help and support isn't a factor but I think it's also safe to assume that many people, especially those with anxiety would have faced less social stress because they were confined to their homes. Many people are bullied in life, work, home, school etc... and some people struggle to be outside because of being-judged or whatever their reason.

Also, because (in the UK at least) people are not forced to go to work and can get furlough or work remotely, they are no longer feeling forced to endure these things.

I also think the sleeping in probably helps :)

mpva··on Show HN: My personal website is a shell
Great! However, one issue.

If you click anyway, you can no longer type.