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JVillella

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    Ask HN: Has anyone built a tax simulation environment?

    Was curious if anyone had attempted such endeavour. The use case I see is you input your finances (eg. money spread over different investments, in a business, multiple incomes, etc…

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    Comment #37297311

    Congratulations guys! I met Josef an airport in Paris a few weeks ago and learned about your project (the YC sticker on your laptop was the ice-breaker). Best of luck on building a…

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    Comment #36282556

    I really appreciate your personal experiences and how the availability of knowledge online changed your life. It did the same for me as well.

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    Comment #36277253

    Model weights are a form of data compression. Have a look at variational autoencoders for example where this is made more explicit (its latent space is a compression). Your argumen…

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    Comment #36273494

    >What would you say the basis of all knowledge you know is? You are a collection of everything you have consumed and the stuff you create is all influenced by that. Surely you're n…

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    Comment #36272021

    They say crypto is “regulatory arbitrage”, I say this AI co-pilot stuff is “copyright arbitrage”. Being a bit hand-wavy with it: It’s akin to torrenting music/movies. The torrented…

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    Comment #35919523

    Let me be more specific: why do the people speaking out about his "fortunate" past care so much? As long as it didn't come from something unethical, why does it matter to you? I do…

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    Comment #35919430

    Who cares?

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    Comment #35202689

    Yes, that's right. It's like USDC in that sense.

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    Comment #35202681

    >How are people going to withdraw money and not put it into another bank? This guy is just saying ridiculous shit for attention, there’s no way he’s this stupid. Maybe it goes some…

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    Comment #35202562

    Nevermind he just updated the thread. >Terms of the bet: ideally someone can set up a smart contract where BTC is worth >$1M in 90 days, then I win. If it's worth less than $1M in …

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    Comment #35202519

    Wrong :) Look at the website.

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    Comment #35202505

    That's not what I am saying. I am saying that BTC may be worth 100k, and the USD 500k and he still wins the bet (under the interpretation I mentioned above).

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    Comment #35202333

    There's something called WBTC[1]. It's very popular. [1]: https://wbtc.network

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    Comment #35202040

    I think he is saying if it hyper inflates (they need to agree upon exact criteria) then he gets his 1M back + 1BTC. I don't think he is saying 1BTC > 1M USD.

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    Comment #30507749

    Can you redirect traffic to anti-propaganda news articles :)

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    Comment #30507726

    I would bet this causes more harm to innocent people than frustration to the Russian regime. Why not do something more targeted? E.g. take down domains that are related to the gove…

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    Boreal helped 2k local shops get online customers in the last month of lockdown

    Hi HN, sharing a tool we built to make it easy for people to make their everyday purchases from independent and local merchants: https://shopboreal.com We've only been out for a mo…

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    Show HN: I hate waiting on hold with the bank so I made an app that waits for me

    Hi HN! I've been dealing with banks, telehealth, and CRA a ton these days over the phone. I guess a lot of others have too since the hold times have been ridiculous. I built a litt…

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    Comment #25637313

    This is very common content marketing content. These articles are not intended to educate the reader, they're written to get high search rankings, and high click throughs.

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    Comment #24342786

    This project looks interested as well https://github.com/crev-dev/crev

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    Comment #24342777

    Can you fully lockdown your dependencies and look at the diffs whenever you attempt an update?

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    Comment #24111314

    https://gather.town/ is another. Probably one of the most solid right now. We're trying to take it the direction of conferences/tech events with https://meetfromhome.io/ .