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Post by kuczmama »

koeng wrote: post #168

I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them. Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me! After almost a year of work…

That is very cool. I'm curious if you can share some of the things people are using this synthetic DNA for?

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Post by reaperman »

jawns wrote: post #75

You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…

I love the thought! Just a friendly warning - gift cards attract the fraud industry. This could result in a wide array of undesirable effects. Make sure you or someone on your team or someone you can call up and consult with knows the industry of gift card fraud really well. This will be very helpful in early planning and feasibility studies.

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Post by circafuturum »

I'm working on a tool for sharing things like API keys using encryption apis built into the browsers, https://www.oncer.io.

What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure - since the server delivers the code that does the encryption in the browser, users sort of have to trust the server anyway to deliver that code. I would like to at least somehow, maybe through a browser extension, assure the user that the version of the web app running in the browser is at least is the same as the build output for a given release in the repo on GitLab/GitHub/the like maybe... then it's sort of like 2FA in the reverse direction, 2 sources (https server connection + extension doing code check) confirm that the real web app has been delivered to the browser.

Appreciate any thoughts on this head scratcher! Maybe there's some way to assure the web app code integrity I just don't know about! :)

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Post by pkoird »

nitwit005 wrote: post #203
pkoird wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes). Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and roundabout methods like these) just, doesn't make sense to my third world brain is all I'm saying.

Many, meaning, not all. It's obviously a cultural thing. That red envelope idea is ancient. China and Vietnam that do the red envelope bit would be "second world" countries, incidentally, as they were part of the communist block under that old "three worlds" labeling.

Many countries in the Southeast Asia do it at least.

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Post by carabiner »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #151

I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path. Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown: Model - Return - Max drawdown S&P 500 (benchmark)…

Have you retired yet?

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

circafuturum wrote: post #215

I'm working on a tool for sharing things like API keys using encryption apis built into the browsers, https://www.oncer.io . What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure - since the server delivers the code that does the encryption in the browser, users sort of have to trust the server anyway to deliver that code. I would like to at least s…

> What I'm working on at the moment, and am sort of stuck on, on is how to make a web app doing in-browser encryption secure

You can't. End of story. Thankfully, most people don't care and will happily use it anyway.

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Post by jsra »

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