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togilvie

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About togilvie

Crypto, AI, data. Working on Hokusai (hokus.ai). Founder of Staked - sold to Kraken. Previously Think Gaming (YC S14), AdBuyer.com (sold to Mediaocean).

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    It's an ad tracker. It's loading in ads that people see, but isn't the source website generating the traffic.

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    Comment #28844418

    This is a really bad take, with a limited understanding of how Ethereum nodes and smart contracts operate. I clicked hoping for more...

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    Comment #28158333

    If you are a market maker / arbitrageur working across multiple exchanges, US dollars can take days to settle and wire/withdrawal capacity is limited. USDT offers instant transfers…

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    Comment #12000306

    I think you've answered your own question. Taking outside money will make life busier, increase pressure, and create investor expectations that may be different from your own. Brin…

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    Comment #10458230

    It sounds strange, but there are lots of potential explanations: 1) The pre-k program is "teaching to the test", focusing on higher scores but not the core skills that matter by th…

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    Comment #10346054

    All this fancy architecture doesn't change the fact that....I CALLED TOP FIRST!

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    Comment #8553994

    This was cool - very scary! One suggestion: On my first view, I ended up looking "backwards" for ~75% of the movie. I might have hit something at the beginning, but my forward-faci…

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    Comment #6740030

    Cool - will check out the series. You could be right, but I think the seed is a lot more interesting. If you simply wanted to generate the level, you could use a random number gene…

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    Comment #6739721

    Awesome breakdown. I wrote a blog post in late September - based on some industry rumors - that speculated on whether Candy Crush was "cheating" by varying the random seed to gener…

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    Comment #35075

    This is a nice analysis and good thinking, though it's worth noting that liquidation preference makes the VC equation less favorable. I'm not sure how Y Combinator works, but prefe…