Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — CryptoGhost

CryptoGhost

HN member
Joined
Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 2:26 AM UTC
HN karma
48
Public activity
44 items

About CryptoGhost

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #26655438

    It's not even SEO. Youtube / Google personally partners with certain businesses and injects them into seemingly organic video feeds. For example, there is an invite only advertisem…

  2. comment
    Comment #26655395

    It's often an issue with how to and DIY videos. A big offender is Howcast. They have good search results because of their early presence on the platform but a lot of their videos a…

  3. comment
    Comment #26280887

    Skim through some Handmade Hero: https://www.youtube.com/c/MollyRocket/videos Large breadth of content with lots of esoteric and domain specific knowledge sprinkled throughout. The…

  4. comment
    Comment #26275280

    >but isn't it irresponsible to not even ask oneself why financial markets are regulated in the first place? That's an entirely political question that has nothing to do with effica…

  5. comment
    Comment #26266141

    You are talking about a barrier to entry (in the sense that it used to be easier) for a person who is new to general purpose computing to get on boarded while the person you are re…

  6. comment
    Comment #26196057

    Mackay's account of inexplicable mania was unchallenged, and mostly unexamined, until the 1980s.[51] Research into tulip mania since then, especially by proponents of the efficient…

  7. comment
    Comment #26182831

    Understood but Nvidia is justifying the changes by saying "we’re taking an important step to help ensure GeForce GPUs end up in the hands of gamers."

  8. comment
    Comment #26182147

    Nvidia should partner with Steam. Steam has enough meta-data on user accounts to be able to offer a level of certainty about how accurate and authentic a given account and it's use…

  9. comment
    Comment #26101331

    >perhaps some day one will replace the USD USD is fiat currency. Fiat simply means by decree. USD is a currency by decree of the US Govt. It's highly unlikely Bitcoin would ever be…

  10. comment
    Comment #26101187

    That doesn't jive on a historical basis when and where enlightenment era thinking and classical liberalism were much higher then they are today. Unless I am misreading your comment…

  11. comment
    Comment #26047790

    Article is pay walled, does it add anything on top of: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html ?

  12. comment
    Comment #26038603

    Land use (especially in regards public access property) and homelessness go hand in hand. Most people don't care if someone can check off a box that says they have a home address, …

  13. comment
    Comment #26036826

    Maybe trying to maintain a free beer web browser is not the best path forward (given all the requirements for a web browser in 2021). Perhaps the best solution is a paid applicatio…

  14. comment
    Comment #26036029

    >No one wants to live in a tent under the bridge when it is rainy and cold. Not to deride from the rest of your comment which I thought was solid commentary but this particular lin…

  15. comment
    Comment #26028921

    The author doesn't make a good case for "The main value of a software company is the mapping of source code and problem space in the developer’s heads" being a universal truth. The…

  16. comment
    Comment #26021511

    >Once people can price a coin in terms of real-world assets like storage, it becomes easy to see when the coin is overvalued. Prices work in the opposite manner, it's the sum inter…

  17. comment
    Comment #26009587

    They sent the email to literally everyone, even people without amazon email accounts through the employment website but yeah you are right. There is a caste system within Amazon th…

  18. comment
    Comment #26008475

    Isn't this the programmer equivalent of one of those old stories "just go talk to the manager and give him a firm handshake." All the recent research in hiring seems to point to tr…

  19. comment
    Comment #25969822

    SO suffers from it's own version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

  20. comment
    Comment #25969781

    I am wrong. For me using a dependency that can't be bothered to create proper documentation or uses SO as customer support is a non-starter.

  21. comment
    Comment #25969140

    None. Most of the content on Stack Overflow is just people repeating what they heard from a more authoritative source looking for some internet points. (and often when it gets repe…

  22. comment
    Comment #25965229

    Piracy (as we know it today) is only really an issue because of lack of political will. Pirates find refuge in jurisdictions where there is little effort shown against them. There …

  23. comment
    Comment #25965101

    In my studies in college we did not do anything with the Windows API (or any other OS for that matter). While I can appreciate the concept of basically just using standard librarie…

  24. comment
    Comment #25888030

    People who anthropomorphize the Earth and make strong ethical decisions about it are interesting characters. The more I study natural sciences the less I see Earth as metaphor for …

  25. comment
    Comment #25885939

    Your point is accurate that true borrowing isn't really an apt description since they just alter the effective supply of money but technically they do need to borrow because they d…