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gaara87··on Using Android Without a Google Account
It would be cool if there was a website where people could list apps that users want de-googled. I think the biggest decoupling programmatically might be dealing removing Google Play Services
gaara87··on Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
I was thinking the exact same thing. I even went back to some of his episodes to hear his messaging and I cannot see where these reporters are getting this from.

I'm thinking this is some kind of bias by these "journalists" who just want to tag on to whatever is trending right now. I really wonder how many of them actually listened to his episodes or the things he says, especially about alcohol.

gaara87··on Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
> but I think he sometimes acts as though he is a model of how to live a healthy

I think he more often tells listeners that x is the findings and suggests behavioral changes. Its hard to count the number of times his message comes across as "model your protocols after me".

gaara87··on Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?
Sapiens
gaara87··on Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
How did this get to front page?
gaara87··on WhatsApp addiction and BPD: A new therapeutic challenge
This is serious.

Sir,

gaara87··on Why Can't Computing at the Heart of Bitcoin Be More Useful?
> There are far less costly ways for the environment to achieve the same results.

I'd love to know what your top alternative is

gaara87··on Yamaha MOTOROiD
Shut up and take my money
gaara87··on Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

With that logic - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Bitcoin is meant to be purely a peer to peer electronic cash system. Money. This has nothing to do with what you are talking about where it is inherently bad

gaara87··on Bitcoin Is as Legitimate as Ice Cream
metal straws imo are most viable at this point if the cultural shift is ignored
gaara87··on Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
What societal services are being crippled by ransomware that's so called enabled by Bitcoin?

Please understand there's a difference between what the technology provides and what it's being used for. Malicious people using the technology is true of many many technologies. I keep getting phishing calls every other day to give my SSN, does that mean the social security program should be canceled for this very reason?

gaara87··on [dead]
Someone needs to make a doge equivalent for this
gaara87··on Indian bill proposes cryptocurrency ban, penalizing miners and traders
IMO, its going to be impossible for the country to enforce individuals from owning the coins in hardware wallets.

Its not like they can block the protocol across all internet usage in india.

What this truly hurts is fintech companies from innovating and thereby causing larger scale adoption.

gaara87··on VPN by Google One
> What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far.

can someone eli5 please?

gaara87··on Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app
I've been using notable for a few months now. Its really good for a basic note taking up but clearly theres a lot more in the pipeline that excites me :)
gaara87··on Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
If I can get a tiny home on wheels, I'd give that a shot.

If I can move with a community that wants to be nomadic I'd try that.

If not, Vegas, here I come :)

gaara87··on India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading
Interesting correlation pattern speculation :)
gaara87··on Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet
I'm very curious about lab grown meat how it'll change the balance of the arguments posed here.

Any chance, any of the readers here are researching on it actively?

gaara87··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
Doing anything on mobile?
gaara87··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
I see you've mentioned kotlin on your mobile team, but I don't see any app related postings on the website. I'm super interested given the fact that it's in the farming space :)
gaara87··on Flutter desktop shells
Coming from a decade of app development experience. Both iOS and android have the capability of inlining styles as well as abstracting it into reusable bits. Flutter certainly supports it very well
gaara87··on Flutter desktop shells
https://n8.to/ that's a brand new app still in development, but I think it's worth seeing what it's capable of
gaara87··on Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends
This comes in perfect time for my Europe trip planning with 3 friends from around the world!
gaara87··on Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends
Travelchime is collaborative, which google trips is not
gaara87··on Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent
Let alone illegal. If the country legalized assisted suicide then I'd agree with what you are saying
gaara87··on Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
I feel real good about my Fossil Sport :)

Impressive to see Google's aggressive push into the hardware market. Here's to hoping that a Pixel watch is good enough to set a bench mark like what the Nexus/Pixel phones have done.

gaara87··on Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool
Is there an open source underlying library as part of your service? Would love to start using it in smaller projects :) great job BTW
gaara87··on Flutter – The sky’s the limit
Just out of curiosity, I realize you aren't a fan but was there anything which made you aversed to it?
gaara87··on Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?
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I'm an Android Developer. 2 years in this job. Absolutely love it as over time I've expanded from just core coding all the way to being the bridge between design teams, business interests and server/backend/api teams.

I think biggest contribution to my happiness of the job are the people i'm working with. They make it a place to go with a smile in the morning.

gaara87··on Rs 500, Rs 1,000 cash ban: Indian government failed those without bank accounts
You are absolutely right, it succeeds in making the banking facilities a mandatory step to any sort of financial transaction that can be tracked and overlooked by the government. It sucks coz the banking sector is still quite backwards in many ways but everyone sees the good intention
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