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Given your description, it is very likely that you actually only completed the act 1 of the game. The "jump scare" is not the end.

Isn't the first example (with the cartoon) in text mode?

The most important aspect of blockchain that is relevant here is that your counterparty half a world away and you both agree that you trust the state of this blockchain, and thus c…

MS Paint though is "either real or a Good Clone :)", because you can zoom to 12x by clicking one-pixel-wide line below 8x.

While I believe that the city should share the schema, and that the city is effectively argues for security through obscurity, I disagree with the main premise of the article: that…

Would help a lot if somewhere at the very top it explained what tree calculus is (may be extend the animation of the addition example to first show what the t is) It took me a whil…

There's an outstanding episode of Black Mirror called Crocodile, that explores this idea.

USS Calister is also a very good episode with the same premise.

Watch Black Mirror episode called Metalhead.

Who decides that the videos in Russia are factual, while the videos in the US are not?

I'm the first author of the paper, happy to answer any questions

If anyone used both rust and go, are there any big advantages of go over rust (besides simplicity)?

Exactly. Similarly, Google quality is in big part due to invaluable information of what URLs were clicked for what queries. If duckduckgo had access to that information, their qual…

The advise I give to all the YC companies is: prepare for the investor day as much as you prepare to the demo day. The investor day can save you a lot of time fundraising later if …

Love the "into the ether" pun

Since there's no barrier to start a startup, there will always be companies at which the growth will be slow. A good startup with strong engineering team and fast shipping cycle wi…

While P(Russian|ICPC Winner) is high, P(ICPC Winner|Russian) is still pretty low :) Also, Illia is Ukrainian, not Russian, but it's nitpicking. ICPC is a great way to start your ca…

"unlikely to cover what you would have made if you joined Google instead." refers to what you would have made if you joined Google few years ago, not at its early days

Congrats again on a stellar performance! My 2 cents: back in a day when I was going to Angelhacks frequently, we would show up early and go through all the sponsor booths. The idea…