Shameless plug, I am fascinated by Monty Hall and I had a hard time proving it to my friends so I made this: https://kr1stjans.github.io/monty-hall/ :D feedback appriciated :)
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Remote: Yes, independent contractor
Willing to relocate: No, but can travel
Technologies (fullstack):
10 years in Java, Primefaces, MS SQL, Typescript/JS, Wildfly, HTML, SCSS
3 years in PHP, MySQL, Typescript/JS, React, HTML, SCSS
In between: Python, Redis, Git, Docker and platforms like Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Stripe, Braintree, Paypal
Resume/CV: on demand
Email: ksimphony@gmail.com
I am independent contractor looking for new challenges. We can easily start with part time job to minimize the risk for you and me and it may develop into a fulltime gig later on. I worked for 10 years in a coorporate Java ecosystem followed by being a technical cofounder in a Twitter-like social network. Beside programming I managed teams of up to 5 people, loved to work closely with UI and UX and got my BSC and MSC inbetween.
I would love to have a quick video call to see if there is a fit :)
- tennis ball to massage my back by leaning with it on the wall
- laptop stand, external keyboard and external trackpad; for better posture during standing and sitting; trackpad is more comfortable for me than mouse)
- vitamin D supplements for the winter
- smartwatch or smart band to keep basic track of sleep and fitness; I went with Xiaomi Mi Band 6
- smart weight to keep track of my weight and set goals; I went with Mi Body Composition Scale
In 2004, Sinclair, along with serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman, Christoph Westphal, Richard Aldrich, Richard Pops, and Paul Schimmel, founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals. Sirtris was focused on developing Sinclair's research into activators of sirtuins, work that began in the Guarente lab. The company was specifically focused on resveratrol formulations and derivatives as activators of the SIRT1 enzyme; Sinclair became known for making statements about resveratrol like: "(It's) as close to a miraculous molecule as you can find. ... One hundred years from now, people may be taking these molecules on a daily basis to prevent heart disease, stroke, and cancer." Most of the anti-aging field was more cautious, especially with regard to what else resveratrol might do in the body and its lack of bioavailability. The company's initial product was called SRT501, and was a formulation of resveratrol. Five years later, GSK shuttered the Sirtris program without successful drug development.
Sinclair broadly discusses his longevity practices on social media and includes them in his book. They include daily doses of NMN and resveratrol, which Sinclair says are activators of SIRT1.
Studies published in 2009 and early 2010 by scientists from Amgen and Pfizer cast doubt on whether SIRT1 was directly activated by resveratrol and showed that the apparent activity was actually due to a fluorescent reagent used in the experiments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Sinclair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirtris_Pharmaceuticals
The youtube link posted below is supposedly revealing irregularities with the audit, but the basic knowledge of how the blockchains work invalidates the irregularities. The claim is that the audit is missing a bunch of wallets and coins, but they don't understand that BSC, ETH and BTC wallets also hold other coins, not just BNB, ETH and BTC (e.g. ETH and BSC wallets can hold basically any coin and even BTC wallet can actually hold USDT/TETHER).
Unless you work at Binance and have access to all the financials, your guess is basically a coin flip wether they are solvent or not.
As an example, a few weeks ago crypto.com was said to be insolvent and there was a bank run [1] [2], however nothing collapsed. As always, be cautios, not your keys, not your coins, but I would definitely not bet (short) that they would collapse.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain
For fellow technological enthusiasts, an interesting innovation from Binance: they generated the merkle tree where any Binance user can independently self verify his assets within the platform [3].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33590579
[2] https://twitter.com/marionawfal/status/1591803227003129858
At the last company we had Docker, Java 8, Wildfly 10, Gradle 4 and I didn't manage to make it run locally on M1.
I was pleasently surprised with how smooth it was to connect to Ubuntu VM with Jetbrains Gateway. You use native Jetbrains app on your computer (Intellij Idea in my case), but everything is executed and compiled on the remote machine (Ubuntu VM). Another huge upside is that Docker is running on Ubuntu, which is a lot faster than on OSX. Downside is that your are dependant on the Internet ofcourse.
Officially the product is still in Beta, but it worked good enough for me.